Mikhail Posokhin

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Russian architect (1910-1989)

ArchitectsLived 1910 to 1989 · aged 78

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Fame44.4

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Languages9

In century#85,810

Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Awards 12

Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

USSR State Prize

Order of Lenin

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Badge of Honour

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Lenin Prize

People's Architect of the USSR

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

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About this person

Mikhail Vasilyevich Posokhin was a Soviet, Russian architect and teacher. People's Architect of the USSR (1970). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1962), State Prize of the USSR (1980) and Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949). He is mostly known for being Chief Architect of Moscow (1960-1980). Among his main completed projects are a high-rise residential building on Kudrinskaya Square and the development of New Arbat Avenue in Moscow. He served as a member of the Union of Architects of the USSR. Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1979), member of the Presidium, academician-secretary of the Department of Architecture and Monumental Art of the USSR Academy of Arts (1979). Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Architecture (1950-1955), Academy of Construction and Architecture (1956-1963).