Yakov Osipovich Rubanchik | |
Nationality: | Russian |
Birth Date: | June 29, 1899 |
Birth Place: | Taganrog |
Death Place: | Leningrad |
Yakov Osipovich Rubanchik (June 29, 1899 - December 20, 1948) was a Soviet Russian architect and artist.
Yakov Rubanchik was born into a photographer's family in the city of Taganrog in 1899. Studied at the Taganrog Boys Gymnasium.
Graduated from Petrograd-based Vhutein (Higher Art and Technical Institute) in 1928.[1] In summer of 1929 Rubanchik came to his home city Taganrog to make sketches of buildings in historical downtown.[2]
In early 1930s, Rubanchik was part of the Leningrad-based ASNOVA (Russian: АСНОВА; abbreviation for Ассоциация новых архитекторов, "Association of New Architects"), an Avant-Garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'. Designed several projects of factory-kitchen buildings, such as the factory-kitchen of the Vyborg District of Leningrad. In 1933-1941 was director of Workshop 1 of the Leningrad-based Russian State Research and Design Institute of Urbanism (GIPROGOR).
In 1935 Yakov Rubanchik released a project of reconstruction of Taganrog.[3]