Evgenii Adolfovich Levinson

Evgenii Adolfovich Levinson was born in 1894 in Odessa. At the age of ten he was sent to a special high school in St. Petersburg. In 1915-16 he studied at the Institute of Civil Engineers. After the Bolshevik Revolution, he worked as a theater designer in Odessa. In 1924 (at the age of 30), he began studies at the Academy of Arts under the tutelage of the prominent architect Igor Fomin. By the 1930s, Levinson had become one of the leading architects of Leningrad. His many awards included the Stalin Prize (1951). He died in Leningrad in 1968.

FIRST LENSOVET APARTMENT BUILDING, KARPOVKA RIVER EMBANKMENT 13

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Date of construction: 1931-1934 ; Date of photograph: May 29, 1997