SERGEY CHERNYSHEV. ARCHITECT OF THE NEW MOSCOW 1881

Sergey Chernyshev (18811963), one of the founders of Soviet urban planning, deservedly occupies a special place among the leading R ussian archi tects of the twentieth century. Already a respected architect before the Russian Revolution, his talent also gained rec ognition in the Soviet era. Chernyshevs largescale designs attracted widespread attention from the 1935 Master Plan for the Recon struction of Moscow to his work on the restoration of cities such as Kiev, Leningrad, Warsaw, and Berlin. Chernyshevs designs have achieved glob...[Read more]