Pavlo Vigderhaus
architect
Pavlo Isaakovich Vigderhaus (Ukrainian: Павло Ісаакович Вігдергауз, Russian: Павел Исаакович Вигдергауз, September 7, 1925 – February 11, 2013) was a Soviet and Ukrainian architect, recipient of the USSR State Prize (1978) and Honoured Architect of Ukraine (2009).
Biography
Vigderhaus was born to a Jewish family on September 7, 1925, in Artemivsk, in the Donetsk region in the family of a journalist. Since his father was working in different cities of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, the family had to move permanently. The war found them in Makeyevka. In October 1941, Vigderhaus with his mother were evacuated to Kizel, Perm Krai, Russia. In Kizel Vigderhaus worked as a turner at the munitions factory, that was evacuated from Kiev.
In January 1943 he was called up to the Soviet Army and sent for training to the military infantry school. After six months of training, Vigderhaus was referred to the Guards 349 at 105th Guards Vienna Airborne Division, that was fighting in Hungary and Austria within 3rd Ukrainian Front. He was wounded in one of the battles for Vienna and discharged after treatment.
Vigderhaus dreamt of becoming an architect from the time that he was a schoolboy; shortly upon demobilization, he was walking through Stalino destroyed during the war, and saw an officer, who was drawing sketches of ruins.
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