Aloshyn, Pavlo

Aloshyn, Pavlo [Альошин, Павло; Al'ošyn], b 28 February 1881 in Kyiv, d 7 October 1961 in Kyiv. Architect and pedagogue. In 1904 Aloshyn graduated from the Kyiv Civil-Engineering Institute and in 1917 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Petrograd. In 1918 he was appointed chief architect of Kyiv. He taught at the Kyiv Architecture Institute and later, in 1923–30, was professor at the Kyiv State Art Institute. He was a full member of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR in 1945–58 and an honorary member of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR from 1958. Aloshyn designed a number of prominent buildings in Kyiv: the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum built in 1909–13, which in 1917–19 housed the Central Rada; the Saint Olha Gymnasium in 1914–27, today the main building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; the Doctors’ Building in 1927; and the buildings of the Myronivka Institute of Wheat Selection and Seed Cultivation in 1923, which display characteristics of the style of Ukrainian folk architecture. He also designed the Kharkiv Tractor Plant in 1931 and other buildings and prepared numerous projects for other cities. Aloshyn was very active in the postwar reconstruction of Kyiv. He was a functionalist who used modern forms and techniques. In his last years, however, Aloshyn was forced to adhere to Soviet classicist styles. He wrote articles on aspects of Ukrainian architecture. The monograph Kyïvs'kyi zodchyi P.F. Al'oshyn (The Kyivan Builder P.F. Aloshyn) by V. Yasiievych was published in Kyiv in 1966.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]