Background
ABROSIMOV, Pavel was born in 1900. Son of a worker.
ABROSIMOV, Pavel was born in 1900. Son of a worker.
Graduated Academy, of Fine Arts, Leningrad.
1928-1935 helped design housing in Leningrad and draft designs for Palace of Soviets in Moscow. 1935-1938, together with Academy I.A. Fomin, built Government House in Kiev. 1941-1945 contributed to construction of defense installations and erection of industry plants in Urals.
1945-1955 member, USSR State Construction Committee. And chairman of its Council of Experts. Simultaneously helped design Moscow’s Lomonosov State University and helped direct reconstruction, to his own design, of war-damaged Vakhtangov Theater.
Member, Executive Committee, International Union of Architects. 1958 president, 5th Congress of International Union of Architects in Moscow.
Member, USSR Academy of Construction and Architecture.