Biography of Viktor Kulakov

Kulakov Viktor Evgenievich-an architect-restorer, art historian, creator and many years of director of the state historical, cultural and natural museum of the reserve A. Griboedov “Khmelita”. Honorary citizen of the city of Vyazma. Kulakov Viktor Evgenievich was born on June 8 in the city of Andijan of the Uzbek SSR. In the year in Moscow he graduated from high school, and in the road and road college.

He intended to do a completely different matter, but the meeting of the young auto mechanic Viktor Kulakov with the famous Russian restorer Peter Dmitrievich Baranovsky turned his whole life. Love for domestic history, constant pain for the destructive monuments led Viktor Evgenievich to restoration. The second education, which brought him closer to his beloved work, he received, having graduated from the Institute of Painting, Graphics, Architecture and Sculpture by him I.

from to gg. Grabar, at the Institute "Rosrestration". He went from the draftsman to the chief architect of the project. Of the 19 projects, 11 Kulakov’s creative work, 11 are related to Smolensk, mainly with hops. In the year, Viktor Evgenievich, along with P. Baranovsky, arrived in Khmelita. We examined the sad ruins, bare walls. And for the rest of his life, Viktor Kulakov devoted to the revival of the Griboedovo estate.

He was dangled between Moscow, Smolensk and Vyazma, besieged the offices of the authorities, knocked out money, building materials for hops, and looked for workers. In the city of Kulakov, as a director, he headed the museum of A. Griboedov he created “Khmelita” within the walls of the Palace and Park ensemble restored according to his project in the style of Elizabethan Baroque.

Viktor Kulakov became its director. Currently, this is the only state historical, cultural and natural museum-reserve of A. Griboedov “Khmelita”, which is the scientific center for the study of the life and work of A., by the works of V. Kulakov, the main house-winner, a gallery, outbuilding, service buildings, a fence, and many monuments in the vicinity of Khmelita were restored from the ruins.

In January, the service was resumed in the church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, restored from the ruins and internally equipped V. The organizer of the first Museum of the Great Navy, a native of the Vyazemsky land, P. Nakhimov Kulakov, conducted a great work on organizing the Military Historical Memorial Complex "The Bogoroditsky Field". In the year, the memorial to the memory of the warriors of the Western and reserve fronts, dedicated to the tragedy of the year near Vyazma, was created.

Victor Evgenievich Kulakov retired in the year. Member of the Union of Architects of Moscow, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in the year V. Kulakov by the decision of the Vyazem Council of People's Deputies from Kulakov V. But the student P. Baranovsky, the restorer, the museum and public figure did not live to the solemn ceremony. Victor Evgenievich died on July 16.

Buried in the hops. A performance at a conference dedicated to the flying of the birth of P. Kulakov, V. Kulakov, was talked by E. Askerko Papkova. Preface to the book N.