Ivan Fyodorovich Neyman (11 June 1899 — 21 May 1968) was a Soviet architect who worked mainly in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). Member of the Union of Architects of the USSR from 1935.[1]
Education and early career
Neyman graduated from the architecture faculty of the F. E. Dzerzhinsky Siberian Institute of Technology in Tomsk in 1928. From 1929 to 1933 he worked in the architecture and construction department of Uralproekt in Sverdlovsk; one of his works from this period was the drama theatre in Sverdlovsk (1934).[1]
Work in Gorky
From 1934 to 1941 Neyman served in the architectural workshop of the city council in Gorky, and from 1942 to 1956 at Oblproekt. At the same time, from 1944 to 1946, he taught at the Gorky Construction Technical School.[1]
Among the buildings he erected in Gorky are the Krasnoye Sormovo Plant (1937) and Upper Volga Embankment (1939). Together with A. Z. Grinberg, Neyman designed the building of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute. He is also credited with the so-called Sormovo skyscrapers — two 80-apartment four-storey brick buildings with white pylons Comintern Street (buildings No. 179 and No. 181 in the Sormovsky district).[1]
Burial
Ivan Fyodorovich Neyman Mar'ina Roscha Cemetery in Nizhny Novgorod.[1]
Sources
- web.archive.org — Nizhny Novgorod Necropolis — Neyman I.F. (archive)