(b Buki, nr Zhytomyr, 19 May 1910; d 1988). Ukrainian architect and urban planner. He graduated from the architectural faculty of the Engineering Construction Institute, Kiev, in 1934. In the late 1930s he built a clubhouse with a 400-seat hall in the village of Leski, near Chernihiv, in Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). After submitting competition designs (1944–6) for the reconstruction of the centre of Kiev, he worked on the plan (1947–9) for the redevelopment of the Khreshchatyk, Kiev’s main street, with Aleksandr Vlasov, A. I. Zavarov (b 1917), Viktor Yelizarov and Boris Priymak (b 1909). The street was treated as a linear chain of squares with gaps between the buildings opening up perspectives across the city. The colour scheme is dominated by the use of ceramic facings, and the buildings, essentially Neo-classical in structure, are heavily decorated with Ukrainian motifs. Dobrovol’s’ky’s buildings on the Khreshchatyk include a multistorey tower block (1954; with others), with a semicircular pediment and belvedere with spires, and the Moskva Hotel (1954–61), where he worked with V. A. Sozansky, Boris Priymak, A. M. Miletsky (b 1918) and A. Y. Kosenko (b 1915). His modest residential buildings (1949–51) in the Darnytsya district of Kiev are sparsely decorated, with a complex version of Ukrainian Baroque restricted to the pediments.

• Dobrovol's'ky, Anatoli (Volodymyrovych)
  • Yelizarov, Viktor