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Architect, planner, and landscape architect
Alla Vronskaya
Name:
Lydia Huseva (Лідія Олександрівна Гу́сєва)
Life Dates:
1918 – 2008
Country:
Ukraine
Positions:
Architect at Kyiv Region Military Construction Department
Dipromisto and Diprobud (state institutes of urban design and construction respectively), 1952 – 1963
Chief architect and a workshop head at Dipromisto (State Scientific-Research Institute of Urban Design), 1963
Field of expertise:
Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning
Education:
Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute
Huseva was born in Klintsy, Chernihiv region (today Bryansk region, Russia), and studied architecture at Kyiv Institute of Engineering and Construction in 1935-1941. Since 1943 (after Kyiv was retaken by the Soviet Union), she was employed as an architect at the Military Construction Department of Kyiv Region. Beginning in 1952, she worked at Dipromisto and Diprobud (state institutes of urban design and construction respectively). In 1963, she became a head architect and workshop head at Dipromisto.
Huseva was married to architect Borys Zhezherin, their son Vadim Zhezherin also became an architect.
Huseva worked on projects of typified housing for urban and rural areas, planning of villages and parks, and buildings. Among her works are the masterplan for Zhitomir (1946, in coauthorship), they layout of park Metallurg, Zaporizhzhia (1950), cinema in the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv (1960), a microdistrict in Kherson (1961), several residential buildings in Kyiv, sport palace Meteor in Dnipro (1983), maternity hospital complex and Mir Hotel in Rivne (1984), “Dnipro” sanatorium in Yevpatoria (1985).
Slovnik khudozhnikiv Ukraini. Ed. by M. P. Bazhan. Kyiv: Ukrainska Radyanska Entsiklopediya, 1973, 69.
Main image: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D1%94%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D1%94%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%9B._%D0%9E.jpg (last accessed on 13.03.2022)
Fig. 1: http://wikimapia.org/189621/ru/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0-%C2%AB%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%80%C2%BB#/photo/5091519 (last accessed on 13.03.2022)
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