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| Born | Nikolai Dzhemsovich Kolli 17 August [O.S. 5 August] 1894 |
| Died | 3 December 1966(1966-12-03) (aged 72) Moscow,Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Vkhutemas |
| Occupation | Architect |
Nikolai Dzhemsovich (Yakovlevich) Kolli (Russian:Николай Джемсович (Яковлевич) Колли; 17 August [O.S. 5 August] 1894 – 3 December 1966) was a Soviet and Russian architectural functionary, andcity planner in theSoviet Union. Initially a Modernist—Constructivist architect, he later adoptedsocialist realism.[1]
Kolli (Coley) was born in Moscow in to a family of Scottish origin, and studied at the ImperialMoscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then at the LeninistVKhUTEMAS in Moscow.[1]
He first came to attention with a 1918 proposal for a monument celebrating the victory of theRed Army over TzaristGeneral Krasnov, in the form of a red wedge cleaving a block of white stone. It became an image that artistEl Lissitzky subsequently appropriated in "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge."
Nikolai Kolli studied underIvan Zholtovsky as one of his "Twelve Disciples." In the late 1920s became a member of both the SovietOSA Group (Union of Contemporary Architects), and a delegate to the internationalCIAM (Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne) architectural group.
From 1928 to 1932 he lived part-time in Paris, assistingLe Corbusier in that architect's only built work in Moscow, theTsentrosoyuz building (Central Cooperative Alliance offices).[2][1]
Kolli taught at the N. E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School from 1920 to 1941, and at the Moscow Institute of Architecture from 1931 to 1941.[1]
From 1935 to 1951 he headed the Moscow branch of the Soviet Union of Architects.Nikolai Kolli is buried in theVvedenskoye Cemetery.[3]
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