(b Moscow, 15 Oct 1900; d Moscow, 7 May 1957). Russian architect. He was born into a family of architects and in 1918 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1920 he entered the VKHUTEMAS into which the school had been absorbed and there he worked in the studio of Aleksandr Vesnin. Several pavilions of the Moscow Agriculture and Craft Fair were built to Burov’s designs, as were a garden square near the Kremlin and ship’s cabins for the Leningrad–London line. He became known for his schemes using modern technology, in particular the railway station that he designed as a student in 1925. In the same year he became an assistant lecturer at the Vkhutemas and joined the ranks of the Constructivists, among whom, however, he remained a solitary figure. He became widely known with the temporary agricultural buildings that he produced in 1926–7 for Sergey Eisenstein’s film The Old and the New, later retitled The General Line, where the forms of a battery of American grain silos are associated with those of Le Corbusier’s villas. When Le Corbusier visited Moscow in 1928, Burov took him round the city and introduced him into avant-garde circles.

• Burov, Andrey (Konstantinovich)
  • Russia, §III, 3(i): Architecture, 1917–c 1945