I.F.Milinis

Ingnaty Milinis was born in 1899 in a Spasskoe village in Siberia, which is now part of the Novosibirskaya Region. From 1921-1924 he studied in Kiev, and in 1925 he designed a project for the Palace of Labour in Rostov-on-Don. In 1927 he moved to Moscow and studied under Moisei Ginzburg at VKhUTEIN (the Highter Artistic-Technical Institute) until 1929. In his first building, a worker's club for the Hammer and Sickle factory (1927-1930) he showed himself to be a dedicated Constructivist and talented architect, able to find suitable aesthetic forms for the fulfilment of functional requirements. According to draftsman Kirill Afanasev who worked on the plans of Narkomfin, Milinis didn't simply comply with the will of his teacher Ginzburg on this project, but was very much its co-author. Their creative partnership continued when they worked together on another big project– the Parliament building in Alma-Ata (1929-1931). Ingnaty Milinis died in Moscow in 1974.

Clementine Cecil