Background
CHERNYSHEV, Sergey was born on October 16, 1881.
CHERNYSHEV, Sergey was born on October 16, 1881.
1901 graduate Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, under L. N. Benua. Advanced studies in Greece and Italy.
1910-1917 redesigned “Gorenki” estate near Moscow. 1915 designed Moscow Lit. Arts Circle Center; 1924-1927 designed buildings of Lenin Institute on “Sovetskaya ploshchad”, now the MarxEngels-Lenin Institute.
1927-1928 designed Industry Academy, Moscow “Dinamo” building and second House of Soviets, Moscow. Helped design: 1930 Magnitogorsk. 1931-1932 Zeleny Gorod.
1934-1941 general reconstruction of Moscow. 1949-1953 buildings of Moscow University. 1939-1956 full member, USSR Academy, of Architecture.
1950-1955 Executive Secretary, USSR Union of Architects. 1951 member, Editorial Board, symposium “Sovetskaya arkhitektura” (Soviet Architecture). 1953 headed Soviet architects’ delegation Finland.
1910-1917 housing construction architect in Moscow. 1933 headed Moscow’s first Planning Studio. 1934-1941 Chief Architect, Moscow City Planning Department.
1939 Chief Architect in construction of All-Union Agriculture Exhibition, Moscow. 1944-1948 Director, Architectural and Planning Board, Executive Committee, Moscow City Soviet. 1950-1955 V.-President, USSR Academy of Architecture.
Honorary member, USSR Academy of Construction and Architecture from 1956.