Vyacheslav Ivanovich Gayn

Background

Vyacheslav Gayn was born in August 21, 1876.

Education

He graduated from the non-classical secondary school in Voronezh (1896), the Institute of Civil Engineers (St. Petersburg, 1901), the Moscow Archaeological Institute (1918).

Career

Engineer-architect of the department of urban and rural construction of the provincial Council of National Economy. He taught geometry at the Voronezh Practical Institute (1920-1922), construction, industrial and railway technical colleges. Since 1930 he worked at the Voronezh Engineering and Construction Institute. Assistant Professor (1934), Head of the Department of Geometry (1934-1938), from 1938 until the evacuation from Voronezh in the summer of 1942, Associate Professor of the Department of Geometry at Voronezh State University.

Achievements

• According to the Gayn’s projects were built the Kazan church in the village Otrozhka (1903-1911, Suvorova street, 79), secondary mechanic-technical school (1909-1910, the Revolution avenue, 8) and its dormitory (not preserved), the technical college named by A.V. Shpolsky (1912-1913, Volodarskogo Street, 60). He took part in the construction of the Vladimir Cathedral (1896-1909). Gayn was the first architect-restorer in Voronezh. He restored the house of I.A. Potapov and adaptated to the provincial museum (1912-1914, Revolution Avenue, 18), and the House Museum of the poet I.S. Nikitin (1923-1924, Nikitinskaya Street, 19). He was interested in the history of Voronezh architecture, was a member of the Voronezh Provincial Statistical Committee and the Voronezh Academic Archive Commission.

Works

• article

  • On the Ancient Architecture of the City of Voronezh

    1921

Membership

• Voronezh Provincial Statistical Committee , Voronezh

• Voronezh Academic Archive Commission , Voronezh

Personality

Philistinism

Interests

• history of Voronezh architecture