Elena Ovsyannikova is an architect and architectural historian who has a Candidate of Architecture degree and is an adviser to the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction. In 1972, she graduated with distinction from Moscow Architectural Institute (MARKHI) and in 1978 received her postgraduate degree there for the dissertation entitled Preservation of Heritage Buildings in Moscow in the Initial Postrevolutionary Period. She has taught at MARKHI since 1985 and in 2004 she became a professor in the department of Soviet and contemporary foreign architecture. Between 2008 and 2010, she headed the Russian group of lecturers and students from MARKHI that took part in the European Commission project Moskonstrukt (MARKHI and Sapienza University of Rome). In 2010, she was an expert on the European Commission project RKM-Save Urban Heritage (MARKHI, Kyiv Architecture and Construction University, and Sapienza University of Rome). She is a member of the board of the Russian section of Docomomo (an international organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings of the modern movement). She has lectured at architectural faculties in universities in Europe, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Paris. She is the author of over 100 academic works, published as articles, monographs, and textbooks on the art and architecture of the Russian avant-garde and Soviet architecture.
Nikolai Vasiliev is an architectural historian and photographer who has a Candidate of Art History degree and is an adviser to the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction. In 2004, he graduated the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry with a degree in art history. In 2012, he defended his dissertation on the theme Collage in Architecture and Design in the West, 1960–1990s. From 2005 to 2009, he was deputy director of the Urban Research Laboratory at Moscow Architectural Institute (MARKHI) and from 2008 to 2010, he was a researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Atts (Moscow). From 2008 to 2010, he was coordinator of the Russian group of lecturers and students from MARKHI that took part in the European Commission project Moskonstrukt (MARKHI and Sapienza University of Rome) and an expert on the European Commission project RKM-Save Urban Heritage (MARKHI, Kyiv Architecture and Construction University, and Sapienza University of Rome). Since 2011, he has been curator at Moscow Museum of Design, the author and curator of the exhibition and education project Kurortgrad (with Alexei Komov and Andrei Yagubsky), and curator of architectural exhibitions, including the Crimea pavilion at the international festival Zodchestvo-14 (with Alexei Komov). He is the author and presenter of project seminars and Europe, in particular in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Rome, Kyiv, and Minsk. Since 2017, he has been assistant professor in the Architecture and Fundamentals of Architecture and Artistic Communication departments at the Moscow State Construction University. Since 2020, he has been a professor in the Architecture department of Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute. He is the author of over 60 articles and monographs, including textbooks on the history of contemporary architecture, design, and city planning.
