Iosif Langbard

Belarusian architect

Iosif Langbard

Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (6 January 1882 in Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate – 3 January 1951 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).

Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk.[1][2] Langbard also worked on buildings in Kyiv after it became the Ukrainian capital,[3] such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

## Works

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* Monument to Taras Shevchenko

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* Foreign Ministry, Kyiv

* Officers' House, Minsk

* Oblispolkom, Mogilev

* Government House, Minsk

* Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Minsk

* Officer's House, Minsk

* Government House, Minsk

* Government House, Minsk

* National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk

## References

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1. ^ Great Soviet Encyclopedia Langbard, Iosif Grigor’evich
2. ^ Centropa: a journal of central European architecture and related arts:4 2004 "Almost all these buildings were designed by the architect Iosiph Langbard. The light grey facades of the mostly simple ground-plans of the buildings are remarkable examples of architecture representing a cross between Russian ..."
3. ^ Kiev Ancient and Modern City Mykola Fedorovych Kotliar, "After the Ukrainian capital was moved to Kiev construction started on the central government square over the Dnieper Hills (architect IG Langbard). "

## External links

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* Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 2. Soviet Avant-garde: 1917–1933. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2021. P. 162 ISBN 978-3-933713-63-6
* Архитектор Иосиф Григорьевич Лангбард (1882—1951). К 125- летию со дня рождения (in Russian)
* Биографическая статья в журнале «Мишпоха» (in Russian)
* Творчество архитектора И. Г. Лангбарда (in Russian)
* Архитектор Иосиф Лангбард[usurped] (in Russian)
* ТРУДОВАЯ КНИЖКА ИОСИФА ЛАНГБАРДА, ИЛИ ИСТОРИЯ О ТОМ, КАК В МИНСК ВЕРНУЛСЯ АРХИВ ЛЕГЕНДАРНОГО ЗОДЧЕГО (in Russian)
* Дом офицеров в Минске. История и настоящее Archived 2010-07-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

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