Anatoly Polyansky Explained

Anatoly Trofimovich Polyansky (ru|Анатолий Трофимович Полянский; 29 January 1928, Avdiivka  - 7 June 1993, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian architect.

Work

Polyansky gained prominence from his design of the USSR's pavilion at the International World Fair in Brussels in 1958.^[1] He also designed Artek in Crimea, the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, the Yalta Hotel Complex and the USSR embassy buildings in Greece, Sweden and Egypt.

Awards and honors

• USSR State Prize (1967)
• Order of the October Revolution (1976)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978)
• People's Architect of the USSR (1980)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996, posthumous)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

External links

• l’Architecture d’aujourd’hui № 147. Paris, 1968.
• New world review, Vol. 33, page 49 // N.W.R. Publications, 1965

Notes and References

1. Book: Mariotti . Jasna . Leetmaa . Kadri . Urban Planning During Socialism: Views from the Periphery . 2024 . . 24 . 10.4324/9781003327592 . Urbanising the Virgin Lands: At the frontier of Soviet socialist planning . Gianni Talamini.