Background
Andrei Obolensky was born on April 26, 1957 in Lenino village of Lenin district of Moscow region (now South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow).
Andrei Obolensky was born on April 26, 1957 in Lenino village of Lenin district of Moscow region (now South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow).
In 1970, having received primary education at the school number №704 in Moscow and art school "on Kropotkinskaya street" he entered the Moscow Secondary School of Art attached to the Institute of V.I. Surikov. In 1975 he became a student of Moscow Architectural Institute. He graduated in 1981 with a degree in architecture of residential and public buildings and structures, and was allocated to work in Design Institute Giprokauchuk, where he took part in the development of a project of the pumping shop of the synthetic rubber plant in the city of Sterlitamak.
In April 1982, Andrei Nikolayevich Obolensky was conscripted into the army. He performed his military service in the Higher Military School of Finance in Yaroslavl and headquarters of the Military District of Moscow as an architect. Being transferred to reserve in 1984, he joined the administration of Mosproekt-2, particularly the workshop № 12 occupied with engineering the "Victory Monument" on Poklonnaya Hill, where he conducted designing of the part of zone A (The Picture Gallery).
In 1990, having completed the main design works on the Victory Monument, he retired from “Mosproekt-2” and created the Center of Architecture and Art of Moscow Patriarchate’s Arkhkhram (Arkhkhram AKhTs), creative director of which he is today.
Andrei Nikolayevich Obolensky took part in the development of more than 50 projects for the new construction and restoration of monuments of church and environmental architecture in Moscow, Moscow region and other regions of Russia.
With the direct participation of Andrei Nikolayevich Obolensky theoretical sector of AKhTs Arkhkhram (leaded by M.Y. Kesler) for the first time developed a Code of Norms and Rules for the design of religious Orthodox buildings.
Right after the decision was made to reconstruct the complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the project of the wooden church-chapel of the Sovereign Icon of the Mother of God was designed and implemented by AKhTs Arkhkhram. It became a spiritual dominant in construction for several years. After the completion of works on the Lower Transfiguration Church of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Obolensky was appointed head of the integrated workshop for the engineering of the complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior of the administration of “Mosproekt-2”. In addition, he manages the reconstruction and restoration of the complex of buildings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and continues to be the creative director of AKhTs Arkhkhram.
