Name Iosif Langbard | Role Architect | |
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Иосиф Лангбард: почему человек, подаривший архитектурное лицо Минску, был изгнан из города
Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate January 6, 1882 - Leningrad, January 3, 1951) was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).
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Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk including the Government Building of the BSSR (be:Дом урада, Мінск 1930–33), the Minsk Officers’ House (1934–39), the Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet (1935–38), and the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (1935–39). Langbard also worked on buildings in Kiev after it became the Ukrainian capital, such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukraine.