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Architect
Elina Amann, last edited 11.07.2022
Name:
Olha Alyoshina (Ольга Павлівна Альошина)
Life Dates:
1911 – 1984
Country:
Positions:
Architect, senior architect and head of a group at the Ministry of the Shipbuilding Industry
Head project architect at the design and research institute Ukrniiproekt
Field of expertise:
Architecture
Education:
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUSA), Kyiv
Alyoshina was born in Kyiv in the family of architect Pavel Alyoshin. She studied at Kyiv Institute of Engineering and Construction in 1929-1934. Upon graduation, she worked as an architect at an architectural design workshop (1935-37), making a career rise from architect to senior architect and finally the head of a group at the Ministry of the Shipbuilding Industry in 1937-41 and in 1946-52. During the Second World War, she joined the Soviet army, receiving several medals. Between 1953 and 1964, Alyoshina was head project architect at the design and research institute Ukrniiproekt. In 1965-74 she headed a design workshop.
Among Alyoshina’s projects in Kyiv, which remained at the focus of her work, are the reconstruction of the Institute of Physics (1936) and “Akademmistechko” (Academicians’ Town), a district where the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was located (with R. B. Dobrovinsky and K. F. Ezhova, 1960-62). Outside of Kyiv, Alyoshina designed the layout of Komsomolskaya Square in Donetsk and the public park (“Park of Culture and Leisure”) in Gorlovka (1954-1957). In 1971, she designed the building of the Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR in Moscow.
Fig. 1: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%83%D1%82_%D1%84%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%9D%D0%90%D0%9D_%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Institute_of_Physics_Kyiv_Ukraine_Building1.jpg (last accessed on 25.03.2022)
Fig. 2: Image courtesy Svyatoshin Istorychnyi, https://m.facebook.com/svyatoshinhistory/photos/a.111661383767595/189528389314227/?type=3&_rdr (last accessed on 25.03.2022)
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