Tamara Katsenelenbogen
Tamara Davydovna Katsenelenbogen was a Soviet constructivist architect and urban planner.
Biography
Tamara Davydovna Katsenelenbogen was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire. Her brother, Nikolay Katzenellenbogen, was also a famous Jewish architect of the late 19th century. In 1911, Tamara Davydovna entered, and in 1916 graduated from the department of architecture of the Women's Polytechnic Institute - the first higher technical educational institution for women in the Russian Empire.In 1923 she graduated from the Architecture Faculty of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. She designed and built a number of buildings in Leningrad and other cities of the Soviet Union.
Selected projects
- Competition design of the Palace of Labor.
- Project development area TEZHE in the city of Kaluga
- Project planning and development of the center of the city of Murmansk
- Sanatorium " New Sochi "
- Residential buildings on the street Smolyachkova, 14–16, St. Petersburg
- Baburin residential development, Lesnaya Avenue, St. Petersburg
- Bateninsky residential development, Woodland Avenue, St. Petersburg
- Vyborg department store as part Batenenskogo residential development
Literature
- Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 2. Soviet Avant-garde: 1917–1933. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2021. P. 58.