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Perhaps the most successful woman in Ukrainian architecture, Chmutina held the title of “people’s architect of Ukraine”, was a full professor at Kyiv Art Institute, and designer of several landmarks of Ukrainian modernism.
Afzamendinova was the chief architect of the Dipromisto Institute, one of the leading research and design institutes for urban and territorial planning in Ukraine. In 1978, she was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize.
Kyiv-based architect who worked at Ukrniiproekt and other institutions. Among her projects are Akademmistechko in Kyiv and Komsomolskaya square in Donetsk.
Alinauskene worked on restoration projects in Ukraine and Lithuania. Among her projects are restorations of the Pomoriany Castle and of the Church of John the Baptist in Lviv.
A Kyiv architect, during the 1960s and 70s, Anishchenko specialized in designing large domed buildings. She was awarded the State Prize and named a distinguished architect of Ukraine.
Belyaeva worked as urban planner during the 1960s and as architect of resort buildings during the 1970s and 1980s. Her project of sanatorium Chayka in Alushta, Crimea, was awarded with the State Prize of the USSR.
Before WWII, Budyanska was a member of the all-women “Komsomol brigade” at Ukrtsivilbudproekt (Ukrainian Civil Construction Design) institute in Kyiv. Later, she dedicated herself to historical research.
A Kyiv-based historic preservation architect, Bykova worked at Ukrproektrestavratsiya, where she headed the work on the reconstruction of multiple early-modern and modern buildings between the 1950s and 1980s.
An architect and planner, Butova was instrumental in guiding the reconstruction of Sevastopol, Crimea, in the 1950s and 60s, and the planning of Staryi Oskol, Russia, in the 1970s.
Perhaps the most successful woman in Ukrainian architecture, Chmutina held the title of “people’s architect of Ukraine”, was a full professor at Kyiv Art Institute, and designer of several landmarks of Ukrainian modernism.
A Kyiv preservationist, Dykhovichna worked on multiple projects in Ukraine, most notably, leading the award-winning conservation program of Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater during the 2000s.
Active in Kyiv during the 1950s-1970s, Eligulashvili worked on a variety of commissions, including the masterplan for Bucha, and projects for interior design, residential buildings, and subway station design.
Kharkiv-based architect and urban planner, whose work focused on high-rise residential buildings.
A Kyiv-based architect, Hrachova designed buildings for hospitality, education, transportations, and beyond. She was a recipient of the Taras Shevchenko Prize in architecture in 1984.
Ukrainian preservationist who specialized in the preservation of 18th- and 19th-century architecture; recipient of Taras Shevchenko prize (1981).
An architect and urban planner who designed typified housing for urban and rural areas, masterplans for villages and parks in Zhitomir, Kyiv, Kherson, and other parts of Ukraine.
Based at USNRPU (later UkrNDIproiektrestavratsia), Iryna Ivanenko was one of the leading figures in historic preservation in Ukraine. She was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize in 1983.
The daughter of academician Joseph Karakis, Irma Karakis was a prolific architect and author, whose work focused on the design of power stations and on interior design of residential and educational buildings.
A Kyiv-based architect, historian, and popularizer, Klymenko worked at KyivZNDIEP before founding her own office, A-Klass.
Portrait: ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНИ (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE), Клименко Наталія Леонідівна, Ю. М. Набок, https://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=7729
Lviv-based architect, preservationist, scholar, and educator, Konsulova is mostly remembered as a professor at Lviv Polytechnic and the designer of two buildings on its campus.
Based at Ukrmistobudproekt, Korenchuk designed buildings and microdistrict masterplans for cities in southern and central Ukraine, including Mariupol, and taught at Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Construction.
Korneeva was a Kyiv-based preservationist who specialized in ecclesiastical architecture. Among her projects are churches and cathedrals in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Berdychiv, and other parts of Ukraine.
Based in Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi), Kreytor was one of the few women who became a city chief architect. Later, she became the first Kirovohrad architect to be awarded the title of the distinguished architect of Ukraine.
Kutna worked at Lviv Oblproekt/Mistoproekt institute as architect, urban planner, and head of projects, receiving the State Prize of Ukraine in architecture in 1999.
Portrait: ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНИ (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE), Кутна Лідія Василівна, М. П. Кошло, https://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=52174
![Manucharova, N. D., “Komsomolki-arkhitektorki Ukrtsivil’proektu” [“Komsomol female architects of Ukrtsivilproekt”], Arkhitektura Radyanskoi Ukrainy [Architecture of Soviet Ukraine], 1940, No. 6: 35-36.](http://womenbuildingsocialism.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WBS_UKRAINE_KyrychenkoPortrait.png "WBS_UKRAINE_KyrychenkoPortrait")
Ukrainian and Russian architect and planner active in the 1930s, Kyrychenko designed a factory-kitchen in Kyiv before becoming the head of the Design Department of Kamchatka Joint-Stock Company in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia.
Loboda was an architect at Kyivproekt institute, where she headed departments of unification and standardization of design solutions, and of the typification of interior design.
Portrait: ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНИ (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE), Лобода Аріадна Миколаївна, С. К. Кілессо, В. М. Воротинцев, https://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=56017
Between 1946 and 1996, Lopushynska was a preservationist at UkrNDIproiektrestavratsia institute in Kyiv, where she worked on the preservation of pre-modern and early-modern buildings in Crimea, Kyiv, and beyond .
Born in Odesa, Lozynska worked as an architect in Moscow and Kyiv. Her most celebrated project was the Universytet station of Kyiv subway (1960, with Lydia Semenyuk and Tamara Eligulashvili).
Lyubomilova was a Kharkiv architect who had worked at different institutions in the city on residential, administrative, and public buildings as well as on buildings’ reconstructions.
Kyiv-based landscape architect and urban planner, Maevska was a co-author of the masterplan of Dnipro (1964) and the designer of Askania-Nova Arboretum (1967).
Kyiv architect and preservationist, Malakova worked on the historic preservation of numerous, mostly 18th- and 19th-century, buildings in Ukraine.
One of the few female academicians at the Academy of Architecture of Ukrainian republic in the 1950s, she worked as an architect in Kharkiv and Kyiv before turning her attention to vernacular design and interior design.
Portrait: ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНИ (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE), Манучарова Ніна Давидівна, Б. Г. Старіковський, Т. І. Іокова, https://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=63507
One of the three women who were awarded the title “people’s architect of Ukraine,” Marynchenko worked on the reconstruction of war-destroyed buildings in Kyiv before turning to modernism.
A Kharkiv landscape architect, Mayak shaped the post-war reconstruction of the city by designing green spaces during the 1950s and 1960s. Later, she worked on hydropower stations in Ukraine and taught urban planning at Kharkiv Institute of Infrastructure Engineering.
Source: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BA_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0.jpg (last accessed on 19.08.2022)
Maya Melik-Parsadanova spent her professional life in Crimea, working on the post-war reconstruction of Sevastopol and the urban development of Simferopol.
Highly successful in scholarship, administration, and education, Moiseenko was a long-term deputy head of the Union of Architects of Ukraine; a board member at the Union of Soviet Architects, and full professor at Kyiv Art Institute.
Montlevych was a Kharkiv architect and pedagogue, who designed projects and masterplans for Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, and other places in Ukraine and taught at Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Construction.
Moreva was a Kharkiv-based urban planner, who worked on masterplans for residential neighborhoods (microdisricts) in the city between the 1950s and the 1980s.
![Yu. P. Zorya, “Tvorchi peremogi kyivskikh planuval’nits” [“Creative victories of Kyiv women-planners], Arkhitektura Radyanskoi Ukrainy [Architecture of Soviet Ukraine], 1940, No. 6: 33-35.](http://womenbuildingsocialism.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WBS_UKRAINE_MyronovichPortrait.png "WBS_UKRAINE_MyronovichPortrait")
An architect and urban planner, Myronovych worked at Kyiv APU during the 1930s, designing multiple buildings and urban spaces in the city.
Born into a Crimean Tatar family in Tashkent, Nagaeva became an architect and educator in Uzbekistan, before relocating to Crimea, where she continues working in design and education.
A Lviv architect and planner based at the Lviv branch of Dipromisto, Nivina was awarded the Taras Shevchenko prize in 1980 for the planning of Sriblyasty microdistrict in the city.
Novakivska is a Lviv preservationist, who worked on many projects in the city. She holds the title of a distinguished architect of Ukraine (1999).
Novakova was based in Vinnytsia, where she became the chief city architect in 1960. Throughout her career between the early 1950s and the 1970s, she designed multiple buildings in the city, including those for hospitality, recreation, healthcare, and education.
Born into a Polysh family in Ukraine, Irena Orlova-Stroganova worked in Baku from the 1950s on, contributing to the design of both such architectural icons as the Pearl cafe and standardized housing.
One of the three women ever awarded the title of “people’s architect”, Panchenko specializes in the planning of resorts and tourist zones. She was a professor at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture.
Portrait: Image in public domain. Image source: http://www.archive.gov.ua/ukr/category/Panchenkotamara.html (last accessed on 09.03.2022)
A Ukrainian construction engineer, Petrova worked at Kyiv Dipromstio institute between the 1950s and the 1990s. She was a recipient of the Taras Shevchenko Prize in architecture in 1981.
A construction engineer, Pukhova was the head of the engineering construction team that participated in the design of the award-winning building of the Republican Scientific-Methodological Center of the Protection of Mother and Child Health in Kyiv (1984).
Working at Kyiv and Moldavian APU, D. V. Pylypenko was active in Ukraine and Moldova in the 1930s, participating in the design of the masterplan for Tiraspol, then the capital of Soviet Moldova.
A Kyiv architect, Semenyuk worked on a variety of projects in the region, including award-winning designs for Universytet subway station and the model village Kodaki. She was a frequent collaborator of Olga Lozinska and Tamara Eligulashvili.
Coming from the south of Russia, where she worked on planning villages alongside the Volga-Don canal during the 1950s, Sherbinina spent most of her life in Crimea, designing masterplans for cities and villages on the peninsula.
One of the leading Ukrainian preservationists, between the late 1950s and the 1990s, Shevchenko worked on a variety of projects in Kyiv and beyond, including Holy Trinity Cathedral in Hluchiv and Kyiv Podol district.
Based in Kharkiv, Ella Shur designed masterplans for residential quarters around newly-built power stations before moving to work on the design of new residential districts in the city.
Working in Lviv during the 1960s, and in Kyiv from the 1970s on, Skoryk designed a number of buildings and urban masterplans for these and other cities. Since the 1980s, she was also a politician, who supported the ideal of a multi-cultural Ukraine.
Portrait: Author: Marat Hakobyan ; https://analitika.at.ua/news/2008-07-07-1090 (last accessed on 16.03.2022)
Stetsenko was a construction engineer based in the city of Cherkasy, where she headed one of the workshops of the local branch Diprotsivilproektbud. She was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize in architecture in 1987.
Tselikovska was a Kyiv-based architect who specialized in the design of transportation infrastructure, predominantly subway stations. Throughout her career, which spanned five decades between the 1960s and 2010s, she participated in the design of 30 stations of Kyiv metro.
