SHISHKO Lev Petrovich (1872-1943, Lakhta settlement, by Leningrad), architect, teacher. Graduated from the Institute of Civil Engineering (1896). In the 1900s, was appointed architect to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, built the New Vestry, a hotel, gates, an apartment house at 153 Nevsky Prospect. In 1908-14, a number of academic institutions (gymnasia and schools): 18 Rybatsky Avenue; 27 Kazanskaya Street; 12 Solyanoy Lane; 3 Vyborgskaya Street. The designer of the first indoor swimming pool with a gym ever built in Russia (presently 11 Pravdy Street, 1914-16). The residential house at 44 Zagorodny Avenue (1902-03) represents a typical example of the Art Nouveau. In 1917-20, was appointed Rector of the Technological Institute, constructed several laboratory facilities there (1903, 1911-13). After the revolution, completed the construction of the Academy of Sciences Library on Vasilievsky Island, engaged in the building of the Bolshoy House, production facilities of the Krasnoe Znamya Factory. Died during a bombardment, buried at Lakhta.
Reference: Исаченко В. Г. Лев Шишко // Зодчие Санкт-Петербурга, XIX - начало XX века. СПб., 1998. С. 816-825.
V. G. Isachenko.
