Yakov Belopolsky

Yakov Borisovich Belopolski (Russian: Яков Борисович Белопольский; Ukrainian: Яків Борисович Білопільський, romanized: Yakiv Borysovych Bilopilskyi) was a Soviet architect.^[1]

Yakov Borisovich Belopolsky
Яков Борисович Белопольский Яків Борисович Білопільський
Born	(1916-04-23)23 April 1916 Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Died	5 May 1993(1993-05-05) (aged 77) Moscow, Russian Federation
Occupation	Architect
Awards	People's Architect of the USSR (1988)

Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin.

Among other work, he was responsible for the design of the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin.^[2] He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1950, and was granted the title of People's Architect of the USSR in 1988.

Literature

• Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 4. Modernized Socialist Realism: 1955–1991. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2022 ISBN 978-3-933713-65-0.