{"id":808124,"date":"2006-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?page_id=808124"},"modified":"2006-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T00:00:00","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/welcome-to-the-archives-of-belarus-website\/subject-guides-to-archival-records\/culture\/architect-korol-creative-heritage\/overview","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\nList of archival documents<\/a><\/div>\r\n

Overview<\/h2>\r\n

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Vladimir Adamovich Korol (b. 27.12.1912 – d. 28.05.1980) was born in the town of\r\nCherven, Minsk Region. After completing his studies at the Vitebsk Art School in 1931, he\r\nworked as a school teacher and principal in the town of Dzerzhinsk, Minsk Region. In 1934,\r\nhe entered the Russian Academy of Arts to study architecture, later successfully defended\r\nhis diploma project and entered postgraduate studies. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

In July 1941, V. Korol joined the people’s volunteer army and took part in the defense\r\nof the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) as a military engineer assistant for the\r\ndivision. In November 1941, he was commissioned from the front to work at the Russian\r\nAcademy of Arts. In 1942 Korol, together with a group of the academy’s scholars and\r\nstudents, was evacuated to Central Asia. In 1945, Vladimir Korol moved to the Belarusian\r\ncapital Minsk, which had been badly damaged in WWII by the Nazi occupiers. He was\r\nappointed head of the architectural workshop at the Belgosproekt Design Institute in\r\nMinsk, which was in charge of the postwar town reconstruction, producing designs for the\r\nexpansion of the city center. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

In 1946, Vladimir Korol in collaboration with architects S. Speranski and N.\r\nTrakhtenberg, executed a project for the central part of Minsk designed as a complex of\r\narchitectural ensembles. At the competition for the best design of the capital’s center,\r\n\u00a0 the project produced by V. Korol, G. Badanov, M. Osmolovski and M. Parusnikov was\r\njudged one of the best. V. Korol also took part in the design of the second line of Lenin\r\nAvenue (now Independence Avenue) – from Victory Square to Kalinin Square. In 1968, a group\r\nof architects, V. Korol among them, was awarded the State Prize of the BSSR for the\r\ncreation of the\u00a0 architectural ensemble of Lenin Avenue. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

Vladimir Korol was also engaged in the development of many civil buildings and public\r\nstructures. The General Post Office on Skorina Avenue and the Central Telegraph Office on\r\nOctober Square in Minsk, both designed by V. Korol in collaboration with A. Dukhan, are\r\ndistinctive Belarusian architectural monuments of the 1930s – 1940s. Also noteworthy is\r\nthe apartment block for the personnel of the fine-cloths factory on Miasnikov Street in\r\nMinsk and numerous residential buildings in Gomel, Polotsk and other Belarusian towns. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

In 1950, an open competition was announced in the Soviet Union to create in Minsk the\r\nmonument to the Soviet Army soldiers and partisans who perished in WWII. The project\r\nproposed by V. Korol and G. Zaborski was judged the best. The monument was mounted in the\r\ncenter of Minsk on July 3, 1954 marking 10 years since Belarus’ liberation from the Nazi\r\ninvaders, and became a symbol of the restored Belarusian capital. Vladimir Korol is also\r\none of the authors of the Memorial Complex Brest Fortress – the fortress garrison was one\r\nof the first to engage with the German troops on June 22, 1941 and heroically defended the\r\ncity of Brest for almost one month. In 1955, Korol became head of the State Committee for\r\nConstruction under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR. As a representative of Belarus,\r\nhe also participated in the Committee for Housing, Construction and Town Engineering\r\nwithin the UN European Economic Commission.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Since 1947, Korol had been working as a teacher and later a head of the town\r\nengineering department at the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute. Korol’s scholarly views\r\nare represented in his numerous articles, reports, recommendations and fundemental works\r\non town engeneering. In 1970, Vladimir Korol was awarded the title of the People’s\r\nArchitect of the USSR.
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\r\nThe Belarusian State Archives of Scientific and Technical Documentation (BGANTD) holds 1\r\n011 documents from Korol’s personal fond 51, related to his life, service and social\r\nactivities: manuscripts of his articles, speeches, reports, photographs, and personal\r\npapers, in all 325 files from the period 1925-1980. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

Information on Vladimir Korol and the survey of documents from his personal fond, was\r\nprepared by G. I. Shostak, leading research assistant at the BGANTD. <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"List of archival documents Overview Vladimir Adamovich Korol (b. 27.12.1912 – d. 28.05.1980) was born in the town of Cherven, Minsk Region. After completing his studies at the Vitebsk Art…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":521188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-808124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808124\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}