Name Evgenij Sviatchenko Died 2004 | Children Sergei Sviatchenko | |
Grandchildren Erik Sviatchenko, Philip Sviatchenko | ||
Evgenij Adrianovich Sviatchenko (1924–2003) was born in 1924 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 1951, he graduated from the architecture department of the Institute of engineering and architecture in Kharkiv.
He belongs to the generation of Ukrainian teachers and architects, trained in the tradition of the Ukrainian architecture school. From teachers at the university and from artists he learned to be loyal to the realistic tradition in architecture and art.
He took part in World War II and fought in the Red Army from Kharkiv to Budapest in Hungary.
Kharkiv was hit hard by the war and from 1951 the young architect took part in the rebuilding and reconstruction of the city.
Examples of this are the gate to the huge recreational area in the city: The Gorkij Park, the memorial for Maksim Gorkij and the sports arena Spartak.
Together with the architect B.G.Klejn he reconstructed the Shevchenko Theatre in Kharkiv, and he took part in the reconstruction of road monuments, residential areas and new housing projects.
In 1955, his scientific and educational career at the Kharkiv Institute for city planning began. He started as assistant in the department projecting and ended as professor.
In 1962, he defended his Ph.D. with the paper “The characteristics of element building”. Through the years he published more than 65 articles on architecture and city planning, and a number of books for students in architecture and city planning.
From 1986-1989, he published “The architectural possibilities in element building” 1986 and “The social foundation for architectural projects and the architectural typology of buildings” 1989.
He took part in constructing several monuments for the casualties in World War II , several buildings at his own institute and creating the physical framework for the institute.
In 1993 he was appointed professor by the department for architectural projecting and drawing. In 1993 he became a member of the Ukrainian Academy for architecture. And he was a board member of the association of architects in Khrakov.
For his participation in World War II , Sviatchenko was awarded several medals and the order “ The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” of the third grade.