Famous Belarusian Architect, Who Designed Kamarouski Market And Frunzenski Department Store, Died

Valmen Aladau died at the age of 92.

Famous Belarusian architect Valmen Aladau died at the age of 92. This was reported by the Belarusian Union of Architects.

"The recent death of his wife, architect Ninel Aladava, has shaken this nice man," his colleagues wrote in the obituary.

Valmen Aladau was born on February 12, 1930, in Minsk. His father was composer Mikalai Aladau, who headed the Belarusian Conservatory; his mother, Alena Aladava, headed the National Art Museum for many years and actually formed its collection after the Great Patriotic War.

Valmen Aladau graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute and has been working in the Belarusian capital ever since.

He wrote more than 100 scientific papers and 6 monographs on architecture. He educated 7 candidates of architecture. He also designed more than 100 buildings, structures and architectural ensembles.

Among them (including those created together with the team of authors) are the ensemble of residential buildings on the corner of Independence Avenue and Kazlou Street with the "Ocean" store, the "Frunzenski", "Serabranka" and "Tsentralny" department stores, the Kamarouski market, the Olympic Sports Complex and the museum of folk art in Raubichy, the studio-museum of sculptor Zair Azhur and many others.

According to the methodology developed by him, several thousand canteens of a new type with the so-called "effect" food distribution line were built at industrial enterprises and educational institutions in Belarus and in many cities of the former Soviet Union. He also developed a food system for construction workers, which was widely used in the republic.

In 1965, on Valmen Aladau's initiative, the republican design institute "Belhospraekt" was created, and he headed it for 15 years.