Career
The main creative aspirations of Korol, as an architect and an artist, were directed to town planning. Already in 1946, in collaboration with architects S.Speransky and N.Trakhtenberg, he developed the project of planning and construction of the Central district of Minsk, which was presented as a unified system of architectural ensembles along a three-kilometre section of the Sovietskaya Street (present-day Independence Avenue). Further projects, worked out by other working groups, took into account and developed basic rational ideas, incorporated in the 1946 project, which had been developed with the participation of Korol.
He took an active part in planning and constructing the second part of the Avenue (from the Victory Circus to the exit to Moscow highway). In 1968, the group of architects, that had planned the ensemble of the main thoroughfare of Minsk, was awarded the State Prize of the Belorussian SSR in architecture. Korol was one of its recipients. High architectural and artistic qualities of the main avenue are well known abroad; they have been thoroughly studied and described extensively in literature.
In 1964, Korol participated in designing the new plan of Minsk together with plans of its suburban area. The plan paid special attention to the problems of controlling the population increase in Minsk, of irrigation and planting trees and gardens.
His works include the Central Post Office in Minsk (1954), an administrative building in Polatsk, the building of the Regional Court in Minsk.These projects reflect vividly the architect's style, distinguished byoriginality and particular attention to artistic expressiveness of architectural forms.
During all his creative life, Korol turned repeatedly to national themes in architecture, addressing the subject from various aspects of his creative and administrative position.
From 1950, Korol was a member of the USSR Union of Architects, in 1957, he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR. He was awarded the Order of Lenin (1958), the Order of Sign of Honour (1949), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966), the Medal for the Defence of Leningrad (1945).