Joseph Karakis
| Joseph Yulievich Karakis Иосиф Юльевич Каракис |
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29 May 1902 Balta, Russian Empire |
| Died | 23 February 1988 (aged 85) Kiev, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Architect |
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National Historical Museum of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine), Central Museum of Armed Forces of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine), Restaurant "Dynamo" (Kiev, Ukraine), Jewish Theater (Kiev, Ukraine) |
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Joseph Karakis (or Iosif Karakys; Russian: Иосиф Юльевич Каракис; 29 May 1902 - 23 February 1988) - Soviet architect, urban planner, painter and teacher, one of the most prolific Kiev architects.
Author of dozens building that are now considered architectural landmarks, more than two-thousand schools were built in the Soviet Union from designs created by Karakis, and overall there were more than four thousand buildings built from his designs.
Joseph Karakis was born on 29 May 1902 in the town of Balta, Ukraine, to Julius Borisovich Karakis (1879–1943), co-owner and a worker of a sugar factory in Turbin and Karakis (maiden name Geybtman) Frida Jakovlevna (1882–1968). Joseph was the oldest child and had a younger brother David Julevich Karakis (1904–1970) who has chosen to become a doctor, and was a colonel and chief of medical squadron during World War II.
From 1909 till 1917 Joseph Karakis studied at Vinnytsia realschule, while attending evening drawing classes of Abraham Cherkassky. In 1918, he worked as a painter decorator in Vinnytsia theater at Matthew Drak for the troupe of Gnat Yura, Ambrose Buchma and Marian Krushelnitskiy. In the year of 1919 he has joined the Red Army as a volunteer where he served as an artist for the agitation train. Since 1921 he worked as an artist for the Vinnytsia Commission on Monuments and art of antiquity. He was responsible for the formation of the city museum's gallery and library from the collection of Princess Branitskaya's mansion in Nemyriv.
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