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Yakov Belopolsky

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Yakov Borisovich Belopolsky
Яков Борисович Белопольский
Яків Борисович Білопільський
Born(1916-04-23)23 April 1916
Died5 May 1993(1993-05-05) (aged 77)
OccupationArchitect
AwardsPeople's Architect of the USSR (1988)
Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin.

Yakov Borisovich Belopolski (Russian: Яков Борисович Белопольский; Ukrainian: Яків Борисович Білопільський, romanizedYakiv Borysovych Bilopilskyi) was a Soviet architect.[1]

Among other work, he was responsible for the design of the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin.[2] He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1950, and was granted the title of People's Architect of the USSR in 1988.

Literature

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  • Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 4. Modernized Socialist Realism: 1955–1991. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2022 ISBN 978-3-933713-65-0.

References

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  1. ^ Ikonnikov, A. V. (2003). "Belopol'sky, Yakov". Grove Art Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t007739. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. ^ Kowal, Rebekah J.; Siegmund, Gerald; Martin, Randy (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics. Oxford University Press. p. 604. ISBN 978-0-19-992818-7.