Artist

1899-1948

graphic artist, architect

Yakov Rubanchik was born into a photographer's family in the city of Taganrog in 1899. 

Graduated from Petrograd-based Vhutein (Higher Art and Technical Institute) in 1928.[1] In summer of 1929 Rubanchik came to his home city Taganrog to make sketches of buildings in historical downtown.

In early 1930s, Rubanchik was part of the Leningrad-based ASNOVA (Russian: АСНОВА; abbreviation for Ассоциация новых архитекторов, "Association of New Architects"), an Avant-Garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'.

Designed several projects of factory-kitchen buildings, such as the factory-kitchen of the Vyborg District of Leningrad. In 1933-1941 was director of Workshop 1 of the Leningrad-based State Institute of Urban Design [ru] (GIPROGOR).

 

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