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Tamara Katsenelenbogen

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Tamara Katsenelenbogen
Born1894
Dvinsk, Russian Empire
Died1976
Leningrad, Soviet Union
OccupationArchitect

Tamara Davydovna Katsenelenbogen (Russian: Тамара Давыдовна Каценеленбоген; 1894−1976) was a Soviet constructivist architect and urban planner.

Biography

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Tamara Davydovna Katsenelenbogen was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). Her brother, Nikolay Katzenellenbogen, was also a famous Jewish architect of the late 19th century. In 1911, Tamara Davydovna entered, and in 1916 graduated from the department of architecture of the Women's Polytechnic Institute - the first higher technical educational institution for women in the Russian Empire.[1]

In 1923 she graduated from the Architecture Faculty of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. She designed and built a number of buildings in Leningrad and other cities of the Soviet Union.[1]

Selected projects

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Bateninsky residential development, Woodland Avenue, St. Petersburg
  • Competition design of the Palace of Labor (1923).
  • Project development area TEZHE in the city of Kaluga (1930)
  • Project planning and development of the center of the city of Murmansk (1930)
  • Sanatorium " New Sochi " (1955)
  • Residential buildings on the street Smolyachkova, 14–16, St. Petersburg (with G.A. Simonov and V.A. Zhukovsky)
  • Baburin residential development, Lesnaya Avenue, St. Petersburg (with G.A. Simonov and V.A. Zhukovsky, 1927–1930)
  • Bateninsky residential development, Woodland Avenue, St. Petersburg (with G.A. Simonov, B. R. Rubanenko, P. Stepanov and V.A. Zhukovsky, 1927–1934)
  • Vyborg department store as part Batenenskogo residential development

References

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  1. ^ a b Fernandez Garcia et al. 2016, pp. 94–95.
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Literature

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  • Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 2. Soviet Avant-garde: 1917–1933. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2021. P. 58. ISBN 978-3-933713-63-6
  • Fernandez Garcia, Ana; Seražin, Helena; Garda, Emilia Maria; Franchini, Caterina, eds. (2016). MoMoWo. 100 projects in 100 years. European Women in Architecture and Design. 1918-2018. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. ISBN 978-961-05-0377-4.
  • Isachenko, Valery (2000). Зодчие Санкт–Петербурга. ХХ век [Architects of St.Petersburg. 20th Century] (in Russian). Cham: Лениздат. p. 661. ISBN 5-289-01928-6.