Noi Abramovich Trotsky

Noi Abramovich Trotsky was born in 1895 in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1920. He is famous for his Constructivist work in the 1930s, namely the Kirov District Administration building of 1938. Trotsky’s “House of Soviets” building in St. Petersburg was completed after his death and was the largest office building in St. Petersburg at the time. In 1936, the regional parliament of St. Petersburg decided to move the city’s administration to a new location and Trotsky’s design was chosen over ten other projects. From 1929 to 1939, Trotsky was a professor at the Academy of Arts. In 1939, he began teaching at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. He died in 1940 in Leningrad.