Sergei Borisovich Speransky

Sergei Borisovich Speransky was born in 1914 in Kazan. He grew up and graduated from school in Sverdlovsk. He moved to Leningrad in 1932. He failed the entrance exams to the Academy of Arts. He went to the Workers’ Faculty of the Institute, and later got a job as a driver at the construction site of the Leningrad Meat Processing Plant. Two years later, he entered the institute and studied under N. A. Trotsky. Speransky was injured twice while fighting in the Great Patriotic War. He began his teaching career in 1942 and went on to work as an architect in Minsk until 1947. In Minsk, he designed many buildings in the style that became known as the Stalinist Empire style. He returned to Leningrad in 1947 and died there in 1983.