Architectural and artistic features of the reconstruction projects of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks building in Novosibirsk

Abstract

The article presents the history of designing the reconstruction of the building of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in Novosibirsk. The object of analysis is the architectural and artistic solutions of the projects of the superstructure of the building and extension to it. The original building for the departments of Sibrevkom was built in 1926 according to the project of the Siberian architect A.D. Kryachkov and made in the style of rationalist modern. He also proposed a project for the superstructure of the building in 1936 in the Art Deco style with neoclassical elements and richly sculpted facades. In 1945–1949 Promstroyproekt Institute completed the project for the extension of a house along Sverdlov Street. Its authors — architects S.P. Skoblikov and V.I. Nuzhdin decided on the architectural design of the building in the style of Soviet neoclassicism — the state architectural style of that time. In the project, the facade with the main entrance from Sverdlov Street is decorated with ledges with Doric columns, in niches between which sculptures of Soviet people are placed, and on the crowning attic the coat of arms of the USSR with flags. Some of the sources used are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.