19 Notable alumni of
St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
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The St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering is 1457th in the world, 504th in Europe, and 52nd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sergei Eisenstein
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Studied in 1915
- Occupations
- photographerfilm directorteacherdraftspersonfilm editor
- Biography
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine Sight & Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 11th-greatest film of all time.
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Sergey Shnurov
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- double-bassistfilm score composerpaintersingerpoet
- Biography
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Sergey Vladimirovich Shnurov is a Russian musician and songwriter, best known as Shnur (lit. cord), of the ska-punk band Leningrad which he formed in 1997. The group disbanded between 2008 and 2010, during which time Shnur formed Rubl with other members of Leningrad.
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Alexander Beglov
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander Dmitriyevich Beglov is a Russian politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He was appointed acting Governor of Saint Petersburg on 3 October 2018. In the 2019 Saint Petersburg gubernatorial election, Beglov won with 64.43% of the votes.
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Sergei Polonsky
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Sergei Yurievich Polonsky is a Russian businessman. He is the owner and head of one of the largest real estate companies in Russia, Mirax Group (2004–2011). He was one of the richest men in Russia before the 2007–2008 financial crisis with a net worth of $5 billion and projects in 11 counties in the world. Now, he is a shareholder and investor in a number of commercial structures incorporated by the holding company Potok
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Yevgeny Nesterenko
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- opinion journalistsongwriteropera singermusic educator
- Biography
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Yevgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko was a Soviet and Russian operatic bass. He made an international career, based at the Bolshoi Theatre. He performed a vast repertoire of 50 leading roles, and was known for the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. He was active in concert, and composers wrote music for him such as Suite on Verses of Michelangelo by Dmitri Shostakovich. He was a teacher at Moscow Conservatory and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
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Lev Kekushev
- Occupations
- teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Lev Nikolayevich Kekushev was a Russian architect, notable for his Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, built in the 1890s and early 1900s in the original, Franco-Belgian variety of this style. Kekushev's buildings are notable for his skillful use of metal ornaments and his signature with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture.
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Eduard Gurvits
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eduard Yosypovych Hurvits is a Ukrainian politician who served as the 71st mayor of Odesa on two occasions; first from July 1994 to 26 May 1998, and then from 5 April 2005 to 6 November 2010. He also served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on two occasions, from 27 March 1994 to 26 March 2006 and from 28 October 2012 to 26 October 2014.
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Jan Zachwatowicz
- Occupations
- restoreruniversity teacherconservatorart historianarchitect
- Biography
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Jan Zachwatowicz was a Polish architect, architectural historian, and restorer. He is notable for being the creator of the Blue Shield cultural heritage symbol.
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Lazar Khidekel
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- university teacherdraftspersonpainterarchitect
- Biography
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Lazar Markovich Khidekel was an artist, designer, architect and theoretician, who is noted for realizing the abstract, avant-garde Suprematist movement through architecture.
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Alexander Vesnin
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- draftspersonlecturerscenographeruniversity teachervisual artist
- Biography
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Alexander Aleksandrovich Vesnin, together with his brothers Leonid and Viktor, was a leading light of Constructivist architecture. He is best known for his meticulous perspectival drawings such as Leningrad Pravda of 1924.
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Viktor Vesnin
- Occupations
- architectpolitician
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Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin, was a Russian and Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers Leonid (1880–1933) and Alexander (1883–1959) emerged as leaders of Constructivist architecture, the Vesnin brothers. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet Architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.
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Artur Kirilenko
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Artur Vladimirovich Kirilenko, a Russian entrepreneur, between 1994 and 2010 was owner and director of Stroymontazh, one of the largest property development companies in St Petersburg, Russia. Honorary Builder of Russia.
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Alexander Zelenko
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Alexander Ustinovich Zelenko, was a Russian and Soviet architect and educator, a pioneer in settlement movement and vocational education. Originally a practitioner of provincial Art Nouveau in Samara and Moscow, he later joined the camp of rationalists and focused on perfecting school and museum designs.
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Illarion Ivanov-Schitz
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- architect
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Illarion Aleksandrovich Ivanov-Schitz was a Russian architect, notable for developing a unique personal style, blending the Vienna Secession school of Otto Wagner with Greek Revival features. His career peaked in 1902-1912 with several Moscow buildings including the Morozov Hospital, the Merchant Club (now the Lenkom Theatre), Moscow Savings Bank, and the public buildings in Miusskaya Square. He was one of the few architects born in the 1860s who integrated into the Soviet establishment, earning the Order of Lenin for various resort projects and for redesigning the interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace in the 1930s.
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Vladimir Fyodorov
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- statespersonpolitician
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fedorov is a Russian politician who served as a senator from the Republic of Karelia from 2003 to 2016.
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Gavriil Ter-Mikelov
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Gabriel Mikhaylovich Ter-Mikelov was a prominent architect of Armenian descent.
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Alexander Eichenwald
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Alexander Alexandrovich Eichenwald was a Russian experimental physicist who worked on electrodynamics. He conducted experiments on electromagnetism, electrical fields, and on the construction of instruments to measure magnetic fields. His most famous experiment, following those of Wilhelm Röntgen, examined the predictions of James Clerk Maxwell. Named after them as the Röntgen-Eichenwald experiment, this demonstrated that the movement of static charges was no different from electric currents in that they produced an electromagnetic field.
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Arkady Melua
- Occupations
- publisher
- Biography
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Arkady Ivanovich Melua is the general director and editor-in-chief of the scientific publishing house, Humanistica.
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Mikhail Ikonnikov
- Years
- 1818-1897 (aged 79)
- Enrolled in the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Studied in 1835-1840
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Mikhail Stepanovich Ikonnikov was a Kyiv Guberniya architect, once famous among Kyiv city residents.
