Lenina Mironava

Architect, educator

Alla Vronskaya, last edited on 28.04.2022

Name:

Lenina Mironava / Bel: Леніна Мікалаеўна Міронава

Life Dates:

b. 1931

Country:

Employers:

Mingarpraekt

Belarusian Institute of Theater and the Arts

Field of expertise:

Architectural design, color theory, art history

Education:

Kyiv Institute of Engineering and Construction (1954)

Short Biography and Work

Mironava was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1931. She graduated from Kyiv Institute of Engineering and Construction in 1954. Upon graduation, she moved to Minsk, where she was a senior architect in Mingarpraekt between 1954 and 1957. She studied at the doctoral program of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus in 1957-1960, receiving her doctorate in architecture in 1963. 

In 1961-1968 Mironava worked at the Institute of Construction and Architecture of the Ministry of Construction of Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. Between 1961 and 1965, she was a board member at the Union of Architects of Belarus and at the Union of Soviet Architects. 

In 1968, she moved to Belarusian Institute of Theater and the Arts, where she remained for forty years, teaching color theory and other subjects. She became a professor at the institute in 2003, retiring in 2009.

Fig. 1: Cover of Lenina Mironova, Tsvet v izobrazitel’nom iskusstve [Color in the Fine Arts]. Minsk: Vysshaya shkola, 2011 (4th edition)

Bibliography and Sources

Personal website of Lenina Mironava, devoted to color theory, the history of its use in art, and to teaching color theory. Contains pedagogical material and research articles on color theory and the history of art (in Russian): http://www.mironovacolor.org/

Mironova, L. N., Koloristika [Color Science], 1974

________, Tsvetovedenie [Color Theory]. Minsk: Vysshaya shkola, 1983.

________, Uchenie o tsvete [Study of Color]. Minsk: Vysshaya shkola, 1993.

________, Tsvet v izobrazitel’nom iskusstve [Color in the Fine Arts]. Minsk: Vysshaya shkola, 2002.

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Illustration credits

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