(b Tomsk, 13 Dec 1910). Russian architect. He worked from 1929 to 1935 as a geodesist and draughtsman at the Metallurgical Combine, Kuznetsk, while studying at the Study Combine of Kuznetskstroy, where he graduated in 1933 as a civil engineer. In 1933 he moved to Moscow where he worked in the studio of Aleksey Shchusev and studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute, from which he graduated in 1938. He formed a partnership in Moscow with Ashot Mndoyants (1909–66), which continued until the latter’s death. Their early projects in Moscow include the reconstruction (1943–5) of the Moscow Council Building on Gor’ky Street (now Tver’ Street), a project headed by Dmitry Chechulin, and the reconstruction (1943–5) of the administrative block on Frunze Street (now Znamenka Street), with its heavy and pompous Neo-classical composition. They also worked on the multi-storey residential block (1948–54) on Vosstaniya Square (now Kudrinskaya Square), Moscow, a terraced composition that mounts towards a central tower crowned with a tent-shaped spire.

• Posokhin, Mikhail (Vasil'yevich)
  • collaboration
    • Pokrovsky, Igor’
  • works
    • Acoustics, §2(v)(b): Concert halls: 20th century
    • Moscow, §I, 3: History and urban development, after 1917
    • Moscow, §IV, 1(i): The Kremlin: Introduction
    • Russia, §III, 3(ii): Architecture, after c 1945