Siberian Building Engineers in the Urals: To the History of the Sverdlovsk Group of OSA
The article deals with the activity of Siberian Technological Institute (STI) alumni in the Urals during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Building engineers who graduated from STI participated in the formation of the Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) group of OSA (the Organization of Contemporary Architects). STI alumni and graduate students made up the majority of the Sverdlovsk OSA members. Later they took key posts in the OSA management. Some of the graduate students (Paramonov V.P.) focused on topics connected with Uralian town planning, already during the studying. They defended ideas of Constructivism and played a major role in bringing this avant-garde architectural style to the Urals.