D. V. Pylypenko

Architect, planner

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D. V. Pylypenko

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Architectural design, planning

Short Biography and Work

Ukrainian architect and planner, who worked in Ukraine and Moldova in the 1930s. Her first name and subsequent life and activity remains unknown.

In 1930, Pylypenko joined the newly created Moldavian APU (Department of Architecture and Planning), where she headed the work on the masterplan for Tiraspol in Transdnistria, then the capital of Soviet Moldova in collaboration with Kyiv APU. The masterplan included Theater and Railway Station squares (both damaged during the Second World War and subsequently reconstructed), widening of streets, the layout of parks and green spaces.

Sources

https://studbooks.net/739109/istoriya/arhitektura

Yu. P. Zorya, “Tvorchi peremogi kyivskikh planuval’nits” [“Creative victories of Kyiv women-planners], Arkhitektura Radyanskoi Ukrainy [Architecture of Soviet Ukraine], 1940, No. 6: 33-35.

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