22.08.1901 – 29.10.1981

Dmitry Chechulin’s name is hardly widely known to Voronezh, but the building, or rather what was left of it after the war, once created by the architect’s design, is familiar to every citizen. It’s about the legendary Rotunda, part of the therapeutic building of the regional clinical hospital. The large-scale hospital project was completed with a round dome part, in which there was an entrance hall and a spacious lecture hall on the second floor, today only this part, preserved as a memorial of the war years, remained.
Already in 1931 the name D.Chechulin became widely known in architectural circles – on the second round of the All-Union competition for the best project of the Palace of Soviets in Moscow, Chechulin and Zhukov, the long-standing assistant Shchusev, received the first prize, along with two other groups – Alabian and Simbirtsev, Doditsa and Dushkin. Despite the fact that this project was not destined to materialize, Chechulin’s career went up. Already in the postwar years 1945 – 1949 years. Dmitry Chechulin is the chief architect of Moscow. It is the capital that owes it to the existence of seven high-rise buildings, he was actively engaged in the reconstruction of urban highways, the planting of large areas of the city, his contribution to the current appearance of Moscow is invaluable. After leaving the post of chief architect, Dmitry Chechulin supervised the workshop No. 20 Mosproject-1 until his death in 1981.

The author of the project, Dmitry Chechulin, was born on August 22, 1901 in Shostka, Chernigov region. His path to architecture was quite long – at the age of 16, after the lowing of the parish school and primary school, he worked in his native city at a powder factory, while also taking part in the chemical department of a polytechnic technical school. But during the service in the ranks of the Workers ‘and Peasants’ Red Army, where Dmitry Chechulin joined the volunteer in 1921, he actively displayed his creative abilities and was sent in 1923 to study at VHUTEMAS (Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops). Only in 1929 Chechulin graduated from the Architecture Department of the Higher Art and Technical Institute, working under the guidance of the famous teacher and architect A.V. Shchusev, whose influence can be seen in many of the already independent projects of Chechulin.