Iosif Langbard

{{Short description|Belarusian architect}}

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Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (6 January 1882 in Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate – 3 January 1951 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).

Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk.Great Soviet Encyclopedia Langbard, Iosif Grigor’evichCentropa: a journal of central European architecture and related arts:4 2004 "Almost all these buildings were designed by the architect Iosiph Langbard. The light grey facades of the mostly simple ground-plans of the buildings are remarkable examples of architecture representing a cross between Russian ..." Langbard also worked on buildings in Kyiv after it became the Ukrainian capital,Kiev Ancient and Modern City Mykola Fedorovych Kotliar, "After the Ukrainian capital was moved to Kiev construction started on the central government square over the Dnieper Hills (architect IG Langbard). " such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Works

= Gallery =

File:Foreign Ministery.jpg|Foreign Ministry, Kyiv

File:Belarus-Minsk-Army Palace and Tank Monument.jpg|Officers' House, Minsk

File:Магілёў. Дом урада.JPG|Oblispolkom, Mogilev

File:Belarus-Minsk-House of Government and Vladimir Lenin Monument-1.jpg|Government House, Minsk

File:Belarus-Minsk-Academy of Sciences-2.jpg|Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk

File:Belarus-Minsk-Army Palace and Tank Monument-2.jpg|Officer's House, Minsk

File:Belarus-Minsk-House of Government-1.jpg|Government House, Minsk

File:House of Government in Minsk.jpg|Government House, Minsk

File:Theatre opera&ballet, Minsk.JPG|National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk

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