[8(21).8.1906, Petersburg ‒ 21.6.1965, Moscow], Soviet architect. Member of the CPSU since 1948. Studied in Leningrad later (1923-1929) by I. A. Fomin. He taught at the Moscow architectural Institute (1945-65) and the Moscow higher art-industrial school (1958-1965). Was the chief architect of Sevastopol (1948-50), the chief architect of the Institute "Hydroproject" (1958-65). Carried away by the diversity front-decorative and constructive solutions to their buildings, Item sometimes neglected by the functional requirements. Work: houses on the Arbat and in Spiridonievsky pereulok (both 1933-35), metro station "Kurskaya" (1938), "October" (1949; State prize, 1950), Arbatskaya (1953), the hotel "Leningrad" (1949-53) ‒ all in Moscow, the project of building of the Nakhimov Avenue in Sebastopol (1948-51), architectural design structures of the Volga-don ship canal. V. I. Lenin (1952). Awarded the order of Lenin, 2 other orders and medals.
