Background
Irina Aleksandrovna Melentyeva was born on 23 March 1916 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation.
Irina Aleksandrovna Melentyeva was born on 23 March 1916 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation.
Irina Aleksandrovna Melentyeva graduated from the architectural faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering (now Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering) (1941).
Irina Aleksandrovna worked as an engineer-architect in the city of Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation (1942-1946), a chief architect of Vitebsk (1947-1949), a deputy chief architect of Minsk (1949-1951), a senior architect of the department of expertise at the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR (1951-1952), a senior architect of the regional department of architecture at the Voronezh Regional Executive Committee (1952-1955), a senior, chief architect of projects, a head of the architectural groups of "Voronezh Oblproyekt" and "Voronezhgrazhdanproyekt" (1955-1971). She is an author of numerous projects of buildings in Voronezh. She led the development of the city overall plan (1970). Since 1971 Irina Aleksandrovna lived in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg).