Tatyana Lomova

Architect

Elina Amann, translated and edited by Alla Vronskaya

Name:

RUM: Tatyana Lomova

ENG: Tatyana (Tetyana) Lomova

RUS: Татьяна Анфиногеновна Ломова 

UKR: Тетяна Анфіногенівна Ломова

Life Dates:

*1927

Employers:

Moldgiprostroy

Field of expertise:

Architectural Design

Education:

Lviv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine (1953)

Biography and Work

Born in 1927, Tatyana Lomova studied architecture at Lviv Polytechnic Institute in western Ukraine, graduating in 1953. Upon graduation, she received a position in Moldgiprostroy institute in Chişinău, Moldova. In the 1950s, she designed the club of Chişinău thermal plant station (1953-1955), the green (open-air) theater in Valea Morilor Park (1957), and school Nr. 56, all in Chişinău. Her most celebrated building was the modernist Palace of Culture of Railway Workers (opened in 1980), which she designed with Semyon Shoykhet and Abram Vaysbeyn.

Fig. 1: The Palace of Culture of Railway Workers, Tatyana Lomova, Semyon Shoykhet and Abram Vaysbeyn, Chişinău, 1980. Photograph by Gikü. Creative Commons license.

Sources

Mariana Șlapac, “Contribution of Women Architects to the Architectural-urban Development of Chișinău,” DIALOGICA. Cultural Studies and Literature Scientific Journal, Vol. 11(Nr. 2/2022), 47–57. Available online: https://zenodo.org/record/7033806#.Y-VgY62ZNPZ. (last accessed 09.02.2023)

Anatoly Kotovkin, Iosif Eltman, Gay Pedash, Arkhitektura Sovetskoy Moldavii (Moscow: Stroiizdat, 1973).

http://romd.socialistmodernism.com/index.php/2018/08/21/palatul-de-cultura-al-feroviarilor-chisinau/ (last accessed on 17.03.2023)

(More pictures: https://sovietmodernism.com/2017/08/13/culture-palace-of-railway-workers-chisinau-moldova/) (last accessed on 17.03.2023)

https://www.itinari.com/de/valea-morilor-park-where-the-mammoths-once-lived-pmp0 (last accessed on 17.03.2023)

http://oldchisinau.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1221 (last accessed on 17.03.2023)

Illustration credits

Fig. 1: Photograph by Gikü. Creative Commons license. Source: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:MD.C.C_-_Palatul_de_Cultur%C4%83_al_Feroviarilor_-_jun_2020_01.jpg (last accessed on 17.03.2023)

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