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Ivan
Ivanovich Varakin

Russia • 1889−1972

Was born in Vologda. After graduating from Vologda gymnasium from 1907 to 1913 he studied at the architectural Department of the Munich Polytechnic. During the civil war he led the trench construction and laying of military roads of the 6th red Army of the Northern front. In 1919, his project was built the first radio station in Vologda. From 1920 to 1927 he worked as the chief architect of Vologda and at the same time the chief artist of the Vologda branch of Gosstatistiki. Later he took an active part in the construction of the Gorky automobile plant and the Svir power plant. Worked as a chief architect of the Leningrad art Fund (1937-1941), he participated in expeditions, which brought architectural measurements and sketches of unique monuments of Northern architecture.

I. I. Varakin is one of the oldest masters of printmaking. Widely known for his series of linocuts "Old Vologda" (1922), color prints-Suite "Russkaya Starina" (1937-1962), albums "Oranienbaum", "Leningrad. On the banks of the Neva" (1945-1957), prints "Temple of Spasa Nereditsa in Novgorod" (1946) and Achimovskoe the many wooden Church near Vytegra (1961).

During the great Patriotic war he worked as an architect in Vologda. From 1946 to 1972 he lived and worked in Leningrad.

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