Oltarzhevsky Vyacheslav Konstantinovich
Architect, specialist in high-rise construction, chief architect of the city of Vorkuta (1939-1942)
Born in 1880 in Moscow, into a civil servant's family; graduated from a commercial school, studied at the Academy of Arts in Vienna, and graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZhVZ) in 1908.
In 1904-1908 he participated in the design of the Moscow Ring Railway structures, and in 1909 he erected independent buildings. In 1918-1921 he served in the Red Army as the head of the military engineering department. In 1922-1923 he was deputy chief architect of the Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow (on the territory of today's Gorky Park of Culture). In 1924 he was sent to the United States to study modern architecture, worked in a large construction company in New York; he specialized in the design and construction of hotels. He passed external exams for the course of the architectural department of New York University. 1935 returned to the USSR. Appointed chief architect of the Moscow branch of the Promstroiproekt Institute, chief architect of the construction of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. In 1939 arrested, sent to the Vorkuta camps. Worked as the head of the construction department of Vorkutstroy, chief architect of the city of Vorkuta. Released in 1943, returned to Moscow.
Documents (2)
Fund 08 / Inventory 1 / Case Маркова (Иванова) Елена Владимировна
1. Interview with E.V. Markova, recorded by I. Suslova on 10/14/2010.
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Люлько (Люлька) Александр Авксентьевич
4. Letter from Lyulko A.A. dated 12.02.1943 from Vorkuta to Lyulko's son V.A. in Vologda about concerns about his pneumonia and about news at work and about acquaintances; envelope (No. 83) with the stamp "Reviewed by military censor. City of Syktyvkar. 49" (p/w 15.02.1943/absence).
