Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (; – 8 October 1933) was a Russian and Soviet architect. He was the eldest of the Vesnin brothers, who were influential in developing Constructivist architecture.
Biography Leonid Aleksandrovich was born on in a merchant family in Nizhny Novgorod. He went to Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences from 1890 to 1899. In 1900 he got into Imperial Academy of Arts and was a student of Leon Benois until he graduated in 1909.
Selected work
1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project 1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarskie district, Moscow 1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow 1926 Mostorg Department store, Moscow 1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project 1922–23 Palace of Labor projectRussian Utopia: a depository at www.utopia.ru
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External links
Leonid Alexandrovich Vesnin, photographs, Canadian Centre for Architecture (digitized items)