Iosif Langbard

Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate January 6, 1882 - Leningrad, January 3, 1951) was a Soviet Belarus architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934).

Langbard studied architecture at the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1901 and then St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1907-1914), and later returned there to teach becoming a professor from 1939-1950. He was the architect of many of most important Soviet-era buildings in Minsk including the Government Building of the BSSR ( 1930–33), the Minsk Officers’ House (1934–39), the Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet (1935–38), and the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (1935–39). Langbard also worked on buildings in Kiev after it became the Ukrainian capital, such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukraine.

Foreign Ministry, Kiev

Officers' House, Minsk

Oblispolkom, Mogilev

Government House, Minsk

Belarus Academy of Sciences, Minsk

Officer's House, Minsk

Government House, Minsk

National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk