Dmitri Mikhailovich Iofan

Dmitri Mikhailovich Iofan was born in 1885 in Odessa. After graduating from the Odessa Art School in 1901, he entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, from which he graduated in 1911. Iofan found success early in his career: he won the competition for the building of the Main Treasury on Fontanka Embankment and received a contract to design and construct the Burmistrova apartment building on Bolshaya Dvoryanskaya. He sat on the House of the Central Executive Committee and Council of People’s Commissars. From 1928 to 1933, together with his brother, Boris, he worked on the House on the Embankment. Iofan died in 1961 in Moscow.

G.A. BURMISTROV APARTMENT HOUSE, KUIBYSHEV STREET 5

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Date of construction: 1912-1914 ; Date of photograph: July 4, 2007