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Nikolay
Pavlovich Grishin

Russia • 1921−1989

Biography and information

Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

A graduate of the Moscow architectural Institute in 1947, he worked at the Moscow higher art-industrial school in 1956, Professor in the Department of the interior.

Over the years the work of Nicholas Pavlovich was completed a number of major project works. He has participated in the preparation of technical documentation for construction of the library. V. I. Lenin, of the government House in Alma-ATA, and was one of the authors of houses in Minsk, the pavilion of Young naturalists on the Supreme economic Council, the monument to Chernyshevsky in Saratov.

Nicholas conducted the installation of Soviet exhibitions (which he was) in 1958 in Belgium, in 1959 in the United States and Turkey, in 1960 Romania, 1961 Sweden, and Guinea, in 1962 in the Polish people's Republic, in 1964 in Switzerland, in 1967 in Britain and the Czechoslovak socialist Republic, in 1968 in France, in 1969 in Syria. For participation in the design of the exposition of the Soviet pavilion at the International exhibition of 1958 in Brussels, Nikolay Pavlovich Grishin was awarded the gold medal of the Grand Prix.

Nicholas has also participated in many architectural competitions. Together with other architects and sculptors received awards for the project of the monument to Vladimir Lenin in Moscow – second prize for the project of the monument of the Victory in Moscow – the third prize.

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