Iosif Langbard
life
Iosif Grigor'evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate January 6, 1882 - Leningrad, January 3, 1951) was a Soviet Belarus architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR since 1934.
Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of the most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk .
Langbard also worked on buildings in Kiev after it became the Ukrainian capital.
Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of the most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk .
Langbard also worked on buildings in Kiev after it became the Ukrainian capital.