Konstantin
Trofimovich Babykin

Russia • 1880−1960

Biography and information

The author of the building project of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, the railway Administration, one of the authors of the main project of the corps of Ural Polytechnic Institute. He was the founder of the Department of architecture UPI, which then grew Sverdlovsk architectural Institute (now the Ural state architectural and art Academy). Babykin with his second wife lived in a civil marriage, officially, it was considered his home Secretary. His first wife lived in the red brick house at the beginning of the current Krasnoarmeyskaya str., near the hotel "Big Ural", was once the daughter of the industrialist-millionaire, died in the thirties, children have been... Before the revolution, he saw Rasputin, which is something he was asked in the spirit: "That is not afraid of me, huh?" In his youth he was the leader of the graduation project even more then young architect V. Semenova project of the Ekaterinburg Opera and ballet theatre. In Soviet times, Konstantin Trofimovich monthly nearly half of its fees and salaries of professors were transferred to orphanages and boarding schools, etc.