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(2) Igor’ (Ivanovich) Fomin
(b Moscow, 3 Feb (NS) 1904). Son of (1) Ivan Fomin. From 1920 to 1924 he studied architecture at the Polytechnical Institute and from 1924 to 1926 at the Academy of Arts, Leningrad (now St Petersburg), under Andrey Belogrud and Vladimir Shchuko. His works in the late 1920s followed Constructivist principles: the Narvsky dispensary for textile workers (1927–30; with Lev Rudnev) and the school (1930), both on Stachek Prospekt, Leningrad. The House of Soviets of the Moscow District (1930–35; with V. G. Daugel), Leningrad, an asymmetrical composition, is dominated by a powerful cylindrical building housing the reception rooms. The latter are linked by tiers of galleries that encircle a small yard roofed with a glazed skylight. From 1929 to 1941 Fomin worked with Yevgeny Levinson in Leningrad, developing an original version of modernized ‘reinforced-concrete classicism’, close in spirit to the works of Auguste Perret. Their joint works include the Lensovet House apartment block (1931–4) on the embankment of the River Kaprovka and the classicist residential block (1931–9) on Petrovskaya Embankment. In the post-war years he continued the revival of St Petersburg classicism in such buildings as the administrative block (1946; with G. I. Aleksandrov), Surovsky Prospekt, and the Ploshchad’ Vosstaniya metro station (1951–5), with V. V. Gankevich (1914–81) and B. N. Zhuravlyov (1910–71). In the 1970s he directed the planning of Leningrad State University, Petrodvorets (now Peterhof). From 1935 he taught in the architectural faculty of the I. E. Repin Institute, Leningrad.
Part of the Fomin family
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