Ninel Kuzmina
Ninel Nikolayevna Kuzmina (Нинель Николаевна Кузьмина ; 19 September 1937 – 31 May 2020 ) was a Soviet and Russian architect and restorer. She was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation.[1][2]
Earl life
[edit]Kusmina was born on 19 September 1937 in Svirstroy, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. She studied at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering .[3]
Career
[edit]From 1955 to 2010, Kusmina worked in Novgorod. There, she restored approximately 30 historic buildings, most notably the Volotovo Church wihose frescoes (350 m² ), which had been completely destroyed during the World War II. [4] The Church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List . In August 1993, Novgorod restorers began the restoration work on the fresco fragments. In 2001, the restoration of the Church of the Assumption began as part of a jointly funded German-Russian project. In 2002, an image of a sailboat with three warriors in chainmail was found on an unfired brick dating from 1352. On August 28, 2003, the church was officially reopened. The 1.7 million fresco fragments were taken to the Novgorod restoration workshop Fresko . In the summer of 2008, the first restored fresco was reinstalled in its original place in the church. [4]
Personal life
[edit]Kusmina was married and had children. She died on 31 May 2020.[5] She was buried in the Western Cemetery of Veliky Novgorod.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 04.08.1995 г. № 812". Президент России (in Russian). Retrieved 2026-05-26.
- ↑ "Кузьмина Нинель Николаевна — Пантеон России" (in Russian). Retrieved 2026-05-26.
- ↑ "Газета Новгородские Ведомости - Женский лик зодчества". novved.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-08-24. Retrieved 2026-05-26.
- 1 2 "Юбилей отметит Почетный гражданин Великого Новгорода Кузьмина Нинель Николаевна". Новгород.ру (in Russian). 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2026-05-26.
- ↑ "Кузьмина Нинель Николаевна". Городской округ Великий Новгород (in Russian). Retrieved 2026-05-26.