Sergei Ginger

Kolobov House

Sergei Grigoryevich Ginger (Russian: Сергей Григорьевич Гингер) (1870 - 1937) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet architect born in what is now Moldova. He designed several buildings in his native Chișinău and in Saint Petersburg, where he was a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Architects. His work is representative of the Art Nouveau and neoclassical styles.^[1] Ginger was noted in particular for his residential buildings that occupy important sectors in the historic center of St. Petersburg and its suburbs, including Kolobov House and 53 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue, although in his younger years he designed a number of major buildings in Chișinău, including the Kostyuzhenskoy Psychiatric Hospital (1894), and what is now Lyubavicheskaya Synagogue (1898).

In 1934, during the Great Purge, Ginger was sent to exile to Tomsk, where he was subsequently arrested and executed in 1937.^[2]

References

1. "Historical and Architectural Development of a Resort Zone on the seaside of the Finland Gulf on the Karelian Isthmus (1900-2010) with the example of the resort town Sestroretsk" (PDF). Tourism.jurmala.lv. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
2. Кудрявцева, Елена (7 November 2012). "Жил в Кишиневе архитектор..." (in Russian). Chișinău: Free Time. Retrieved 14 May 2015.