Катонин Евгений Иванович / Katonin Evgeny Ivanovich

Katonin Evgeny Ivanovich (March 24 [April 5] 1889, Odessa - February 27, 1984, Kyiv) - Soviet architect. Member of the Union of Architects (1933), Professor (1937), Doctor of Architecture (1945), full member of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR (1956), Honored Architect of the Ukrainian SSR (1975).

Born in the family of Ivan Grigoryevich Katonin, a native of Bessarabia, a builder, the owner of a cement pipe manufacturing plant in Odessa. Mother - Anna Antonovna, ethnic Greek[1]. In 1918 he graduated from the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts (workshop of L. N. Benois). Thesis: "Palace of Justice".

Until 1948 he worked in Leningrad. As part of a team of authors headed by I. A. Fomin, he worked on drawing up the general plan of Leningrad (1919-1923). Participated in the implementation of the Leninist plan for monumental propaganda, in the restoration of a number of historical buildings (the Winter Palace, the Stock Exchange, the Kunstkamera, etc.). Received first prize at the competition to perpetuate the place of Pushkin's duel (1925), organized by the "Old Petersburg" society together with the Pushkin House. [2].

In the 1920s–1930s participated in the development of the General Plan for the Development of Leningrad, in the creation of well-known architectural objects, such as the Central Park of Culture and Culture, the Dynamo stadium on Krestovsky Island. He took part in the formation of the development of Moskovsky Prospekt, being a member of the author's teams of projects for the Frunzensky department store (1933–1938), the ensemble of Moscow Square (1938–1940), etc. After the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45. was one of the authors of the projects of the Moscow Victory Park (1945) and the reconstruction of the square on Arts Square (1946) [2].

Since 1948 he moved to Kyiv, taught at the Kiev State Art Institute. He headed a group of Kyiv architects who won the competition for the construction of the Kyiv station - the ring of the Moscow Metro (1953–1954) [2].