(b Minsk, 24 Nov 1909). Belarusian architect. He studied (1933–9) at the Academy of Arts, Leningrad (now St Petersburg), and from 1940 worked in Minsk. From 1942 he worked on proposals for the restoration of war-damaged parts of the city. These included the reconstruction of Lenin Square (1947–60; now the Square of Independence) and participation in the design of the central part of Lenin Prospect (1949–55; now Skorima Prospect). He devised the general plan for the development of Polotsk (1946–9) and also built there the neo-classical Regional Soviet Building (1949–54) with a courtyard behind a double colonnade. In Minsk he also designed a series of prominent neo-classical buildings: the city’s first airport (1948–56), with Aleksandr Voinov (b 1902); the Pedagogical Institute (1951–2); and the Central Committee Building of the Belorussian Komsomol (1952–3). He also devised the layout of the circular Pobeda Square in Minsk, placing at its centre a monumental obelisk (1954), designed with Vladimir Korol’ (1912–50). In the late 1950s Zaborsky turned his attention to the layout and general development of rural communities, striving to achieve a unity between architecture and the natural environment. In these he combined the methods of rationalist architecture with the characteristic forms of Belorussian vernacular, for example complex silhouettes in public buildings and high roofs with wide eaves and sometimes ornamental motifs and symbols. In the 1960s and 1970s he built the large village of Vertelishki, with small brick houses and an asymmetric ensemble of civic centre and shopping centre. He also built the central areas in the villages of Sorochi (1977) near Minsk and Mishkovichi (1978) near Mogilev.