Ninel Aladova

Architect, interior designer, pedagogue

Alla Vronskaya

Name:

Ninel Aladova / Bel: Нінэль Іванаўна Аладава / Rus: Нинель Ивановна Аладова

Life Dates:

1934-2021

Country:

Employers:

Belarusian State Institute of Theater and the Arts

Field of expertise:

Architectural design, furniture design

Education:

Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (1958)

Awards:

Distinguished furniture designer of Belarus (2008)

Short Biography and Work

Aladova was born in Minsk in 1934. She graduated from Belarusian Polytechnic Institute in 1958 with the first cohort of its architecture graduates. After a brief period at Dziprasel’bud institute, she moved to Beldzyarzhpraekt, where she remained between 1959 and 1969, rising from regular architect to the head of design unit. Her work at the institute focused on buildings for Minsk and Minsk region, including the institute of the protection of plants in Priluki, Minsk district (1960), the expansion of the main building of Belarusian Academy of Sciences (1965), the interiors of the Lenin Library in Minsk (1965), the main building of Krynitsa sanatorium in Minsk region (1966), the Central Children Sports Center in Minsk (1968).

In 1969, she started the doctoral program of the Institute of Construction and Architecture under the Ministry of Construction of Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, defending her dissertation in 1972. Since 1971, she taught at the chair of interior design of Belarusian State Institute of Theater and the Arts, where she moved from lecturer to professor. She authored several books and multiple articles. Aladova was a member of Belarusian Academy of Architecture and was awarded the title “distinguished furniture designer of Belarus” in 2008.

Aladova was married to architect Valmen Aladov, with whom she had two sons, one of whom became an artist.

Fig.1: Krynitsa sanatorium in Zhdanovichy, Minsk region (1966)
Fig. 2: Page from E. S. Agranovich-Ponomareva, N. I. Aladova, Inter’er i predmetnyi dizayn zhilykh zdaniy [Interior and Object Design of Residential Buildings]. Rostov-on-Don: Feniks, 2006

Bibliography and Sources

N. A. Aladova, Rekomendatsii po organizatsii torgovykh zalov magazinov [Recommendations on the Organization of Sales Rooms of Stores]. Minsk: Polymya, 1971.

_______, Nasha kvartira [Our Apartment]. Minsk/Rostov-on-Don: Meg-Feniks, 1999.

_______, Istoriia inter’era i mebeli [History of Interior and Furniture Design]. Minsk: Tekhnoprint, 2002.

E. S. Agranovich-Ponomareva, N. I. Aladova, Inter’er i predmetnyi dizayn zhilykh zdaniy [Interior and Object Design of Residential Buildings]. Rostov-on-Don: Feniks, 2006.

V. I. Anikin et al., “Aladova Ninel Ivanovna,” Arkhitektory Sovetskoy Belorussii: Biogr. spravochnik. Minsk: Belarus, 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninel_Aladova

Ninel Aladova’s obituary by the Belarusian Union of Architects: http://www.bsa.by/news/doings/pravlenie-belorusskogo-soyuza-arhitektorov-s-glubokim-priskorbiem-soobschaet-18-sentyabrya-2021-g-ushla-iz-jizni-ninel-ivanovna-aladova

Illustration credits

Main image: Image in public domain. Image source: http://www.bsa.by/news/doings/pravlenie-belorusskogo-soyuza-arhitektorov-s-glubokim-priskorbiem-soobschaet-18-sentyabrya-2021-g-ushla-iz-jizni-ninel-ivanovna-aladova (last accessed on 28.04.2022)

Fig. 1: https://sozvezdie-tour.ru/hotel/sanatorij-krinica-minskaya-oblast (last accessed on 28.04.2022)

Fig. 2: https://www.studmed.ru/view/agranovich-ponomareva-es-aladova-ni-interer-i-predmetnyy-dizayn-zhilyh-zdaniy_5fd151b0f22.html?page=29 (last accessed on 28.04.2022)

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