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, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 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, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Construction and Architecture.