Apyshkov V.P. (1871-1939), engineer

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APYSHKOV VLADIMIR PETROVICH (1871-1939, Leningrad), engineer, architect, architectural theorist. Graduated from the Nikolaevskaya Engineer Academy (1901), from 1905 lectured there. The author of the book The Rational in the Very Latest Architecture (St. Petersburg., 1905) - a rationalist manifesto, devoted to the analysis of architecture development at the turn of 19th-20th centuries. The first considerable work was the mansion of Chaev (9 Rontgen Street, 1906-1907) that embodied the innovation of Art Nouveau. One of the authors of the project of the Emperor Peter the Great Bridge - the first bridge across the Neva River, a suspension-type with an opening central span (see Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge), its architectural decor is typical of the Art Nouveau. Likewise (but with five spans) Finlyandsky Railway Bridge across the Neva was constructed. Later Apyshkov turned to Neoclassicism: the complex of Central Scientific and Technical Laboratories of Military Department (8/3 Paradnaya Street, 1912-1916), second mansion of S.N. Chaev (16 Malaya Nevka River Embankment, 1913-1915), Quarters of Cavalry Guards (5 Konnogvardeisky Lane, 1914). After October of 1917, Apyshkin lectured at the Military Engineering Academy of RKKA (Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) (from 1922, Dean of the Construction Department), wrote a number of textbooks on architecture and construction; took part in the planning Svirstroy and Volkhovstroy construction organisations, buildings of the Military Department in Moscow and Leningrad. In 1932-1936, he worked in Moscow. In the 1930s, lived at 8 Third Iyulya Street (today Sadovaya Street).

References: Нащокина М. В. Сто архитекторов московского модерна: Творч. портр. М., 2000. С. 26-29.

B. М. Kirikov. Apyshkov Vladimir Petrovich
Chaev Sergey Nikolaevich
Kirikov Boris Mikhailovich
Peter I, Emperor
Konnogvardeisky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Malaya Nevka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Paradnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8/3
Rentgena St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Нащокина М. В. Сто архитекторов московского модерна: Творч. портр. М., 2000 Chaev Mansion
Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge
Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy