Iosif Langbard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet Belarus architect
Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1882
Place of Birth: Bielsk Podlaski, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 03-Jan-1951
Profession: architect
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Iosif Langbard
- Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (January 6, 1882 in Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate – January 3, 1951 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Belarusian 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.
- Langbard also worked on buildings in Kyiv after it became the Ukrainian capital, such as the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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