Leonid Vesnin
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{{Infobox architect
| name = Leonid Vesnin
| image = File:Portrait of Leonid Vesnin.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin
| birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|10 December|1880|28 November}}
| birth_place = Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire
| death_date = 8 October 1933
| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union
| nationality = Russian
| alma_mater = Imperial Academy of Arts
| practice = Vesnin brothers
| significant_buildings = ZIL Palace of culture
Mostorg Department store
| significant_projects = Leningradskaya Pravda
Narkomtyazhprom
| parents = Vesnin Alexander Alexandrovich, Vesnina (Ermolaeva) Elizaveta Alekseevna
}}Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin ({{langx|ru|Леони́д Александрович Веснин}}; {{OldStyleDate|10 December|1880|28 November}} – 8 October 1933), was a Russian and Soviet architect. The oldest of Vesnin brothers, who were influential in developing Constructivist architecture.
Biography
Leonid Aleksandrovich was born on {{OldStyleDate|10 December|1880|28 November}} in a merchant family in Nizhny Novgorod.{{Cite news|title=Metricheskaya kniga povedala o Vesninykh|last=Polyakova|first=L. L.|date=May 1, 1984|work=Gazeta "Volga" №52}} He went to Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences from 1890 to 1899. In 1900 he got into Imperial Academy of Arts and was a student of Leon Benois until he graduated in 1909.{{Cite book|title=Leontiy Benua|last=Lisovskiy|first=V. G.|year=2003|location=SPb}}
Selected work
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- 1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project
- 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarskie district, Moscow
- 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow
- 1926 Mostorg Department store, Moscow
- 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project
- 1922-23 Palace of Labor project[http://www.utopia.ru/english/item.phtml?id=191&type=graphics&sortby=view&start=0 Russian Utopia: a depository] at www.utopia.ru
Notes
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External links
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- [https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search?query=leonid%20vesnin&filters=%7B%22forms_collection_library_bookstore%22%3A%5B%22photographs%22%5D%7D Leonid Alexandrovich Vesnin, photographs], Canadian Centre for Architecture ([https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/search?query=leonid%20vesnin&filters=%7B%22forms_collection_library_bookstore%22%3A%5B%22photographs%22%5D%7D&img_filter=1 digitized items])
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Category:Academic staff of Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Category:Architects from the Russian Empire
Category:Constructivist architects
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