Vladimir
Aleksandrovich Pokrovsky

After graduating from Petersburg. AH (1898), from 1912 taught there and in St. Petersburg.. (leningr.) universities. The author of the projects of the Bank's buildings.-Novgorod (1913), loan offices in Moscow (1914, B. M. Nilus), built in the spirit of modernity in the forms of Russian architecture of the XVII century, and other buildings. Party design Volkhov hydroelectric power plant (completed in 1926).

Arrived in N. Novgorod for development of the project of the complex of buildings of the State Bank in 1910. He was already an academician (1907), member of the Board of the Academy of arts (1909). In 1911 laid the foundations of the main Bank building (street Sverdlova,26), by the end of the construction season, the masonry of its walls was completed. Cash room on the second floor (800 sq. m.) was covered by a very boldly - no internal poles one set for concreted steel suspension mesh construction. In 1912 was vozvedenie residential two-storey house Bank employees, yards and stables and kitchen, and a brick fence. The following year was built the "chasozvonya" with signs of the zodiac on the dial. In 1914 intercession at the request of "millionaires" Rukavishnikova and Givievich develops the project of the Church complex of buildings in the old believer cemetery. Their construction was completed in 1916. Then intercession is developing a complex of buildings translated. Novgorod from Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. But due to economic difficulties in the country, this project was not implemented.