Category:Mikhail Minkus

**Mikhail Adolʹfovich Minkus**
	Soviet architect (1905-1963)
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Date of birth	12 December 1905 (in Julian calendar); Odesa
Date of death	31 August 1963; Turku
Place of burial	Novodevichy Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	Russian Empire; Ukrainian People's Republic; Soviet Union;
Educated at	Vkhutein (1925–1930);
Occupation	architect;
Movement	Stalinist Empire style; neoclassicism;
Father	Adolf Minkus;
Sibling	Q65032028;
Work location	Moscow;
Award received	State Stalin Prize, 1st degree;
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English: Minkus Mikhail Adolfovich (Dec. 12 (25), 1905 - Aug. 31, 1963 ).

Son of the architect A.B. Minkus. He studied at the architectural department of the Odessa Institute of Fine Arts (1923-1925), then at the Art Academy in Leningrad (1925-1930). From 1930 he worked in Moscow, the first in a workshop V. A. Shuko and I. A. Fomin, then P. A. Golosov. During World War II was engaged in construction of fortifications around Moscow.

The most significant buildings: the Great Stone Bridge, a six-story garage on the street Presnensky Val (1936-1941), metro stations "Botanic Garden" (now "Prospect Mira"), high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square (1953, V. G. Helfreich); participated in the reconstruction of the Pushkin Square (1947), Planning and Development Smolenskaya Square, the streets and the waterfront (1953-1963).

Among the graphic works of distinguished architectural sketches of the old Moscow (1934-1941). State Prize (1949). He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.