Biography and information
(November 19, 1863, Tobolsk — 1936, Alma-ATA) — Russian Soviet architect.
He was born in 1863 in the family of architect P. M. Zenkov. In 1867 the family moved to a military Fort of Vernyi (now Alma-ATA), where his father became one of the developers of the first development plan. The fate of the son was also closely associated with this city.
At the end of three classes of a secondary school in the Right was determined in the Siberian military school (cadet school) in Omsk. Ending it with commendable sheet has received a proposal to enter the Nikolaev engineering school in St. Petersburg. In 1884 returned to Faithful with the rank of Lieutenant for service in the 8th West-Siberian line battalion.
In 1893 he graduated with honors from the Nikolaev military engineering Academy, after which he was sent to the Omsk military district, was engaged in the civil construction. In 1898 he returned to Semirechye, where in 1900 was acting regional engineer and head of the construction Department.
A. P. Zenkov has become one of the founders of earthquake engineering. They built buildings, including the ascension Cathedral stood during the strongest earthquake in 1911.
In Soviet times was head of building control at the Council of people's Commissars of the Kazakh ASSR, participated in the building of the administrative center of Almaty. He was buried at the Central cemetery of Alma-ATA. The grave is preserved.
(Source: Wikipedia)
