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Dokuchayev, Nikolay (Vasil’yevich)
(b Moscow, 29 April 1891; d 2 June 1944). Russian architect, urban planner, theorist and teacher. He graduated from the College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow, in 1916, and took a further year’s course at the Academy of Arts in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). Returning to Moscow after the Revolution, he worked from 1918 to 1924 in the Mossoviet architectural studio, headed by Aleksey Shchusev, on the first plan for reconstructing Moscow as the Soviet capital. In the same period he began teaching at his former school, which was formed initially into the State Free Art Studios (Rus. Svomas) and, from 1920, the VKHUTEMAS. During 1921 he became involved in the formal and spatial researches of the six-man Working Group of Architects of INKHUK (Rus.: Institute of artistic culture), Moscow. With two of his colleagues in the group, Nikolay Ladovsky and Vladimir Krinsky, who were fellow teachers, he devised curricula for the Vkhutemas, firstly that of the school’s General Studio, set up in opposition to historicists, and then of the Basic Course through which all new students of the institute passed.
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