Valentyna Maevska

Architect

Alla Vronskaya

Name:

Valentyna Maevska (Валентина Григорівна Маєвська)

Life Dates:

1929 – 2015

Country:

Ukraine

Positions:

Dipromisto

Field of expertise:

Landscape architecture and urban planning

Education:

Awards:

Kyiv Institute of Engineering and Construction (1955)

Distinguished architect of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1981

Short Biography

Maevska was born in Kyiv in the family of an engineer; her father died in the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1955, she studied architecture at Kyiv Institute of Engineering and Construction. Upon graduation, she became an architect at the Dipromisto (State Scientific-Research Institute of Urban Design), where she rose to senior architect, team leader, and chief project architect. In 1973 she defended a Ph.D. dissertation “Composition of Park Landscapes in the Arid Conditions of the Steppe Zone of Ukraine.” In the course of her career, she designed over a hundred master plans and detailed plans for cities and parks.

She was awarded as a distinguished architect of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1981.

Work

Among her projects are master plans for the cities of Dnipro (1964, coauthor) and Pereyaslav, Kyiv region (1973), Askania-Nova Arboretum (1967), Oleksandriyskyi park in Ordzhonikidze, Dnepropetrovsk region (1971), park of the Glory of Partisans in Kyiv (1978).

Bibliography

Maevska, V. H., Okhorona teritorialnykh resursiv mistobudivnytstva [Protection of territorial resources of urban planning]. Kyiv, 1986.

Maevska, V. H., Landshaftna arkhitektura–korotkyi dovidnyk arkhitektora [Landscape architecture – a brief guide to the architect]. S.p., s.a.

Sources

Hanna Holubkina, “Vnesok u rozvitok rekreatsijnogo prostoru arkhitektorok Valentyny Maevs’koi ta Tamary Panchenko (zo dokumentamy fondiv osobovogo pokhodzhennia TsDNTA Ukrainy). 14 June 2020. Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi naukovo-tekhnichnyi arkhiv Ukrainy [Central State Science and Technology Archive of Ukraine].

https://cdnta.archives.gov.ua/index.php/uk/exhibitions-uk/592-exhibitions-2020-05-14

Valentyna Maevska collection at the Central State Science and Technology Archive of Ukraine. F. R-223, 41 od.zb., 1964-1992

https://cdnta.archives.gov.ua/images/opis/CDNTAU_P-223_1.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20120402234103/http://archive.gov.ua/ukr/category/Maevskayavalentina.html

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%94%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0

Illustration credits

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Fig. 1 – Fig. 4: Hanna Holubkina, “Vnesok u rozvitok rekreatsijnogo prostoru arkhitektorok Valentyny Maevs’koi ta Tamary Panchenko (zo dokumentamy fondiv osobovogo pokhodzhennia TsDNTA Ukrainy). 14 June 2020. Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi naukovo-tekhnichnyi arkhiv Ukrainy [Central State Science and Technology Archive of Ukraine].

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