{{Infobox architect | name = Viktor Vesnin | image = File:Viktor Vesnin portrait by unknown.jpg | birth_date = April 9, 1882 | birth_place = Yuryevets, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = September 17, 1950 | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | practice = Vesnin Brothers, NKTP Architectural Board | significant_buildings = DnieproGES | significant_projects = Palace of Soviets, NKTP Building on Red Square | awards = | birth_name = Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin }} '''Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin''' ({{langx|ru|Виктор Александрович Веснин}}; April 9, 1882 – September 17, 1950), was a Russian and Soviet architect. His early works (1909–1915) follow the canon of Neoclassicist Revival; in the 1920s, he and his brothers Leonid (1880–1933) and Alexander (1883–1959) emerged as leaders of Constructivist architecture, the ''Vesnin brothers''. After the crackdown on Constructivism in 1931-32 and until his death, Viktor Vesnin was the highest-ranked architect in Soviet system, heading the Union of Soviet Architects and Academy of Architecture. As a lead architect for heavy construction, he supervised many industrial projects, but his own visionary drafts of this period never materialized.<ref>{{archINFORM|arch|8971}}</ref><ref>[http://www.utopia.ru/english/item.phtml?id=191&type=graphics&sortby=view&start=0 www.utopia.ru]</ref>
==Selected work== 250px|thumb|Stamps of Azerbaijan, 2017 250px|thumb|right|Mostorg department store, 1928 *1934 People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry Project *1927-1932 DnieproGES, with Nikolai Kolli *1930 Palace of Culture of the Proletarsky district, Moscow *1928 House of Film Actors, Moscow *1926 Mostorg department store, Moscow *1924 Leningradskaya Pravda project *1922-23 Palace of Labor project *1915 Sirotkin House, Nizhny Novgorod *1914 Mantashev Stables, Moscow Racetrack (with A.G.Izmirov, Alexander Vesnin) <ref>Russian:Памятники архитектуры Москвы, Окрестности старой Москвы, М., 2004, cтр.133, {{ISBN|5-98051-011-7}}</ref>
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