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Ivan Fomin

1872 - 1936

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Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin (Russian: Иван Александрович Фомин; 3 February [O.S. 22 January] 1872 – 12 June 1936) was a Russian architect and educator. He began his career in 1899 in Moscow, working in the Art Nouveau style. After relocating to Saint Petersburg in 1905, he became an established master of the Neoclassical Revival movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Fomin has received more than 41,381 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ivan Fomin is the 459th most popular architect (down from 435th in 2019), the 2,082nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,927th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Ivan Fomin ranks 459 out of 518Before him are Ferdinand Boberg, Nikolay Lvov, Anastasios Metaxas, Andrei Stackenschneider, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, and Alexander Wittek. After him are Nicholas Hawksmoor, Kenneth Frampton, Kolyu Ficheto, Gunnar Birkerts, Suad Amiry, and Max Taut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Ivan Fomin ranks 165Before him are Maurice Larrouy, John Arthur Jarvis, Nikolai Panin, Forest Ray Moulton, José María Orellana, and Herbert Baddeley. After him are Julia Morgan, Jonas Vileišis, Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Julio Acosta García, Leonid Sobinov, and Wivi Lönn. Among people deceased in 1936, Ivan Fomin ranks 171Before him are Hermann Hirt, Teresa de la Parra, Gunnar Höjer, Arthur Amundsen, Prudencia Ayala, and Carlos José Solórzano. After him are Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh, Jacques Sautereau, Domenico Mezzadri, J. Slauerhoff, Billy Mitchell, and Eugène Dabit.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Fomin ranks 2,082 out of 3,761Before him are Tamara Bykova (1958), Gregory Ratoff (1897), Gennadi Volnov (1939), Stanislav Smirnov (1970), Aleksei Serebryakov (1964), and Peter Lesgaft (1837). After him are Sergey Tereshchenko (1951), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Artur Chilingarov (1939), Nikolai Lugansky (1972), Vladimir Andreyev (1930), and Alexandr Romankov (1953).

Among ARCHITECTS In Russia

Among architects born in Russia, Ivan Fomin ranks 14Before him are Vasily Stasov (1769), Andrey Voronikhin (1759), Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Leon Benois (1856), Matvey Kazakov (1738), and Nikolay Lvov (1753). After him are Max Taut (1884), Mikhail Zemtsov (1688), Einari Teräsvirta (1914), and Alexander Zelenko (1871).