Vkhutemas, the Glossary

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1. 73 relations: Acronym, Aesthetics, Aleksandr Drevin, Aleksandra Ekster, Aleksei Gan, Alexander Osmerkin, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexey Shchusev, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Alvar Aalto, Amshey Nurenberg, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Bauhaus, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Color, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Constructivism (art), El Lissitzky, Electrotyping, First five-year plan, Futurism, Geometry, Getty Research Institute, Gustav Klutsis, Hammer and sickle, Hannes Meyer, Hinnerk Scheper, Inessa Armand, International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Ivan Kliun, Ivan Leonidov, Kazimir Malevich, Konstantin Melnikov, LEF (journal), Lenin's Mausoleum, Lesley Jackson, Lyubov Popova, Marcel Breuer, Marxism, MIT Press, Moscow, Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Museum of Modern Art, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Penelope Curtis, Plastic arts, Polymath, Postconstructivism, ... Expand index (23 more) »

2. Architecture schools in Russia
3. Art schools in Russia
4. Education in Moscow
5. Educational institutions disestablished in 1930
6. Modernist architecture in Russia

Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Aleksandr Drevin

Aleksandr Davydovich Drevin (Александр Давыдович Древин, Aleksandrs Rūdolfs Drēviņš, 3 July 1889 – 26 February 1938) was a Latvian-Russian painter.

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Aleksandra Ekster

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (née Grigorovich) (Алекса́ндра Алекса́ндровна Эксте́р, Олекса́ндра Олекса́ндрівна Е́кстер; 18 January 1882 – 17 March 1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a Russian and French painter and designer. Vkhutemas and Aleksandra Ekster are Russian avant-garde.

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Aleksei Gan

Aleksei Mikhailovich Gan (Russian: Алексей Михайлович Ган; born Imberkh; 1887 or 1893 – 8 September, 1942) was a Russian anarchist and later Marxist avant-garde artist, art theorist and graphic designer. Vkhutemas and Aleksei Gan are constructivism (art).

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Alexander Osmerkin

Alexander Alexandrovich Osmerkin (Александр Александрович Осмеркин; – June 25, 1953) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, stage designer, and art teacher.

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Alexander Rodchenko

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко; – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. Vkhutemas and Alexander Rodchenko are constructivism (art) and Russian avant-garde.

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Alexey Shchusev

Alexey Victorovich Shchusev (Алексей Викторович Щусев; – 24 May 1949) was a Russian and Soviet architect who was successful during three consecutive epochs of Russian architecture – Art Nouveau (broadly construed), Constructivism, and Stalinist architecture, being one of the few Russian architects to be celebrated under both the Romanovs and the communists, becoming the most decorated architect in terms of Stalin prizes awarded.

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Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. (January 28, 1902 – August 15, 1981) was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

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Amshey Nurenberg

Amshey Markovich Nurenberg (April 17, 1887 – 10 January 1979) was a Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, art critic, and memoirist.

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Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (28 August 1879 – 15 November 1933), (sometimes called Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann), was a French furniture designer and interior decorator, who was one of the most important figures in the Art Deco movement.

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Bauhaus

The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.

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Canadian Centre for Architecture

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the highest organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between two congresses.

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Color

Color (American English) or colour (British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Constructivism (art)

Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Vkhutemas and Constructivism (art) are Russian avant-garde.

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El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий,; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лиси́цкий; על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. Vkhutemas and El Lissitzky are constructivism (art) and Russian avant-garde.

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Electrotyping

Electrotyping (also galvanoplasty) is a chemical method for forming metal parts that exactly reproduce a model.

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First five-year plan

The first five-year plan (I пятилетний план, первая пятилетка) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, implemented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of socialism in one country.

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Futurism

Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century.

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Geometry

Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.

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Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

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Gustav Klutsis

Gustav Gustavovich Klutsis (Gustavs Klucis, Густав Густавович Клуцис; 4 January 1895 – 26 February 1938) was a pioneering Latvian photographer and major member of the Constructivist avant-garde in the early 20th century. Vkhutemas and Gustav Klutsis are constructivism (art).

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Hammer and sickle

The hammer and sickle (Unicode) is a communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers.

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Hannes Meyer

Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.

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Hinnerk Scheper

Hinnerk Scheper, (born 6 September 1897 in Wulften (Badbergen); district of Bersenbrück/Osnabrück), as 'Gerhard Hermann Heinrich Scheper; died 5 February 1957 in Berlin) was a German colour designer, mural painter, architectural colorist, non-fiction author, photographer, monument conservator, restorer, state curator, and urban planner.

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Inessa Armand

Inessa Fyodorovna Armand (born Elisabeth-Inès Stéphane d'Herbenville; 8 May 1874 – 24 September 1920) was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist who spent most of her life in Russia.

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International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes) was a specialized exhibition held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925.

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Ivan Kliun

Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, or Klyun, born Klyunkov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Клюн; 1 September 1873, in Bolshiye Gorky, Petushinsky District – 13 December 1943, in Moscow) was a Russian Avant-Garde painter, sculptor and art theorist, associated with the Suprematist movement.

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Ivan Leonidov

Ivan Ilyich Leonidov (Иван Ильич Леонидов; 9 February 1902 – 6 November 1959) was a Soviet constructivist architect, urban planner, painter and teacher. Vkhutemas and Ivan Leonidov are modernist architecture in Russia and Russian avant-garde.

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Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (// ЦГИАК Украины, ф. 1268, оп. 1, д. 26, л. 13об—14. – 15 May 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing influenced the development of abstract art in the 20th century. Vkhutemas and Kazimir Malevich are Russian avant-garde.

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Konstantin Melnikov

Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (Russian: Константин Степанович Мельников; – November 28, 1974) was a Russian architect and painter. Vkhutemas and Konstantin Melnikov are modernist architecture in Russia and Russian avant-garde.

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LEF (journal)

LEF ("ЛЕФ") was the journal of the Left Front of the Arts ("Левый фронт искусств""Levy Front Iskusstv"), a widely ranging association of avant-garde writers, photographers, critics and designers in the Soviet Union. Vkhutemas and LEF (journal) are constructivism (art) and Russian avant-garde.

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Lenin's Mausoleum

Lenin's Mausoleum (from 1953 to 1961 Lenin's and Stalin's Mausoleum) (p), also known as Lenin's Tomb, is a mausoleum located at Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

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Lesley Jackson

Lesley Jackson is a curator, historian, and author specialising in twentieth century design.

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Lyubov Popova

Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (Любо́вь Серге́евна Попо́ва; April 24, 1889 – May 25, 1924) was a Russian-Soviet avant-garde artist, painter and designer.

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Marcel Breuer

Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow Architectural Institute

Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) - MArchI (Московский Архитектурный Институт (Государственная Академия) - МАрхИ) is a famous architecture school located in Moscow, Russia. Vkhutemas and Moscow Architectural Institute are architecture schools in Russia.

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Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, МУЖВЗ), also known by the acronym MUZHVZ, was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Nadezhda Udaltsova

Nadezhda Andreevna Udaltsova (29 December 1885 – 25 January 1961) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist), painter and teacher. Vkhutemas and Nadezhda Udaltsova are Russian avant-garde.

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Penelope Curtis

Penelope Curtis (born 1961) is a British art historian and curator.

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Plastic arts

Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium, such as clay, wax, paint or even plastic in the modern sense of the word (a ductile polymer) to create works of art.

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Polymath

A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Postconstructivism

Postconstructivism was a transitional architectural style that existed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, typical of early Stalinist architecture before World War II.

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Proletariat

The proletariat is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work).

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Rationalism (architecture)

In architecture, Rationalism (razionalismo) is an architectural current which mostly developed from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Russian avant-garde

The Russian avant-garde was a large, influential wave of avant-garde modern art that flourished in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, approximately from 1890 to 1930—although some have placed its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960.

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Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts.

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Space

Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions.

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Stalinist architecture

Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is the architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933 (when Boris Iofan's draft for the Palace of the Soviets was officially approved) and 1955 (when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture).

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Stephen Bann

Stephen Bann CBE, FBA (born 1 August 1942 in Manchester, England) is the Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol.

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Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry

Russian State Stroganov University of Industry and Applied Arts (Российский государственный художественно-промышленный университет имени С.) informally named Stroganovka (Строгановка) is one of the oldest Russian schools for the industrial, monumental and decorative art and design. Vkhutemas and Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry are architecture schools in Russia, art schools in Russia and education in Moscow.

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Suprematism

Suprematism (супремати́зм) is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles), painted in a limited range of colors. Vkhutemas and Suprematism are Russian avant-garde.

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Svomas

Svomas or SVOMAS (Свомас or СВОМАС), an abbreviation for Svobodnye gosudarstvennye khudozhestvennye masterskiye (Свободные Государственные художественные мастерские) (Free State Art Studios), was the name of a series of art schools founded in several Russian cities after the October Revolution. Vkhutemas and Svomas are art schools in Russia, Russian avant-garde and Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union.

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Tate Modern

Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, defined as from after 1900, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.

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Tatlin's Tower

Tatlinʼs Tower, or the project for the Monument to the Third International (1919–20),Honour, H. and Fleming, J. (2009) A World History of Art. Vkhutemas and Tatlin's Tower are constructivist architecture and Russian avant-garde.

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The Architectural Review

The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine.

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Timothy Colton

Timothy James Colton (born July 14, 1947) is a Canadian-American political scientist and historian currently serving as the chair of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, housed at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

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UNOVIS

UNOVIS (also known as MOLPOSNOVIS and POSNOVIS) was a short-lived but influential group of artists, founded and led by Kazimir Malevich at the Vitebsk Art School in 1919. Vkhutemas and UNOVIS are Russian avant-garde.

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Varvara Stepanova

Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova (Варва́ра Фёдоровна Степа́нова; – May 20, 1958) was a Russian artist. Vkhutemas and Varvara Stepanova are Russian avant-garde.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné

Vladimir Davidovich Baranov-Rossiné, also spelled Baranoff-Rossiné (Владимир Давидович Баранов-Россине; 13 January 1888, Velyka Lepetykha – January 1944, Auschwitz), born Shulim Wolf Leib Baranov, was a painter and sculptor active in Russia and France. Vkhutemas and Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné are Russian avant-garde.

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Vladimir Favorsky

Vladimir Andreyevich Favorsky (Владимир Андреевич Фаворский; March 14, 1886 – December 29, 1964) was a Soviet graphic artist, woodcut illustrator, painter, art critic, muralist, and teacher.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Workshop

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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See also

Architecture schools in Russia

• Moscow Architectural Institute
• Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Novosibirsk State University of Architecture, Design and Arts
• Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• Strelka Institute
• Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
• Tomsk State University of Architecture and Construction
• Vkhutemas

Art schools in Russia

• College of Printing Arts
• Imperial Academy of Arts
• Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts
• Kazan Art School
• Leningrad Secondary Art School
• Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts
• Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
• Saint Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts
• Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
• Strelka Institute
• Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
• Svomas
• Tavricheskaya Art School
• Ufa State Institute of Arts
• Vkhutemas

Education in Moscow

• Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute
• College of Printing Arts
• Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
• Devichye Pole
• Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
• Institute of Asian and African Countries
• Institute of Conjuncture
• Lyceum 1533 (LIT)
• MSU Department of Materials Science
• MSU Faculty of Biology
• MSU Faculty of Chemistry
• MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
• MSU Faculty of Economics
• MSU Faculty of Fundamental Medicine
• MSU Faculty of Geography
• MSU Faculty of History
• MSU Faculty of Journalism
• MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
• MSU Faculty of Psychology
• MSU Graduate School of Business Administration
• Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of the Russian Federation
• Moscow National Guard Presidential Cadets School
• Moscow National Pensions Schoolgirls' Cadet School
• Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
• Moscow State Academy of Choreography
• Moscow State University Faculty of Physics
• Moscow Suvorov Military School
• Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
• Moscow children's ecological and biological center
• Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
• Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
• Russian State Library
• Steklov Institute of Mathematics
• Strelka Institute
• Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
• Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
• Vkhutemas

Educational institutions disestablished in 1930

• Bangas Gymnasium
• Burleson College
• Dawson School
• Ivanovo-Voznesensk Polytechnic Institute
• Little Rock College
• Lombard College
• Missouri Wesleyan College
• Teachers College of Indianapolis
• Uckfield School
• Vkhutemas

Modernist architecture in Russia

• Alexander Vesnin
• Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
• Constructivist architecture
• Hermitage-Vyborg Center
• Ivan Leonidov
• Kauchuk Factory Club
• Konstantin Melnikov
• Le Corbusier in the USSR
• Moisei Ginzburg
• Moscow Pavilion
• Narkomfin building
• Nikolai Kolli
• Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage
• Pikul House
• Red Banner Textile Factory
• Rusakov Workers' Club
• Svoboda Factory Club
• Vkhutemas
• Vladimir Shukhov
• Vyborg Library
• Yakov Chernikhov
• Zuev Workers' Club

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vkhutemas

Also known as Vkhutein.

, Proletariat, Rationalism (architecture), Russian avant-garde, Socialist realism, Space, Stalinist architecture, Stephen Bann, Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, Suprematism, Svomas, Tate Modern, Tatlin's Tower, The Architectural Review, Timothy Colton, UNOVIS, Varvara Stepanova, Vitebsk, Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné, Vladimir Favorsky, Vladimir Lenin, Walker Art Center, Workshop, Yale University Press.