Alexander Semenovich Plotnikov

Background

Alexander Semenovich Plotnikov was born on September 27,1911 in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Education

In 1936 Alexander Plotnikov graduated from the faculty of residential and public buildings of the Moscow Architectural Institute.

Career

In 1936-1940 Alexander Plotnikov worked as architect in the design organizations in Moscow. He worked as chief architect of Ashgabat, Irkutsk, Voronezh. He head of the Stalingrad regional department of architecture, chief architect of the Stalingradgrazhdanproekt institute. Lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the Voronezh Institute of Civil Engineering. Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Construction and Graphics of the Voronezh State University of Engineering Technology. In 1955-1960 he led the Voronezh branch of the Union of Architects.

Achievements

• Alexander Plotnikov took part in the designing of buildings of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1934-1936), USSR pavilion at the Paris International Exposition (1937), Government House in Kiev (1938), theaters in Kirov (1937) and Ulan-Ude, the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in Moscow (1938).
  
  Under the leadership of Plotnikov, in 1940-1941 a master plan for Ashgabat was developed. In 1946 together with the architectural academician V.N. Simbirtsev he worked on built-up projects for the city center of Stalingrad. They developed such objects as: the Defence Square (1952), the Pavlov’s House (1948), the railway station (1950).

Membership

• Union of Architects