Igor Vayner
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Igor Vayner, (real name Zinoviy Arnoldovich Vayner.[1] Ukrainian: Iгор Вайнер, Вайнер Зіновій Арнольдович;) (14 February 1902 – 3 November 1937, Ukraine), nicknamed “Igorqa” (Ukrainian: "Iгорка") was a Ukrainian architect, counter-revolutionary activist. He is known for sabotage of Soviet expansion to the Western Ukraine region, specifically Vinnytsia.
Helped writers and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s to hide from Stalin’s totalitarian regime. Was a close friend of Mykola Zerov, a neoclassical poet, and shared his ideas of national identity survival. Died during the Great Terror campaign among other representatives of Executed Renaissance.[2]
Brief biography
He studied architecture at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Chernivtsi, Vinnitsya region. During 1920, he wrote academic research under the lead of a professor of the Kyiv Architectural Institute, Mykola Zerov, and later they became close friends. During his work, he met well-known artists and poets and started to actively participate in the debates on contemporary politics.[1] From 1924 to 1928, he worked as a town architect for a Chernivtsi reconstruction initiative, restoring the Novoselitsa Synagogue[3] and a number of other historical buildings, and struggled against the populist and propagandistic impulses of the Soviet regime. In the early 1930s, he used his sabbatical leave to visit the USA, California, for studying contemporary architecture at Pacific Union College. Upon his return to Ukraine a year later, he continued to organize poets' meetings.[4]
The cultural activities in which he participated together with Mykola eventually ended fatally. During mass executions of the local cultural community, he used his knowledge of old Chernivtsi buildings to hide artists from repressions.[4] His initiative was successful for six years, but at some point, NKVD troika intelligence uncovered his role.[5]
Together with his friend Mykola Zerov, Vayner was arrested in Vinnitsya[2] by the NKVD in April 1935 and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment at Solovki special camp. A special NKVD squad of the Leningrad Region sentenced him to death on 9 October 1937. Vayner was shot on November 3, 1937, in Sandarmokh, Karelia.[6]
Memory
Part of I. Vayner’s blueprints were used during the construction of the small hall of the National Palace of Arts "Ukraina” in Kyiv; he was listed among the architects.
A street was named after Vayner in Vinnitsya.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Лавріненко Ю. А. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917—1933: Поезія — проза — драма — есей / Підгот. тексту, фахове редагування і передм. проф. Наєнка М. К. — К.: Вид. центр "Просвіта", 2001. — 794 с. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "List of repressed persons, archival investigation files which are stored in the State Archive of the Vinnytsia region" (PDF). State Archive of the Ukraine. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Boris Khaimovich, Novoselitsa Synagogue (Kiev, 2016), p. 48. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Простір свободи. Україна на шпальтах паризької "Культури". Підготувала Богуміла Бердиховська. К.: Критика — 2005 р., 528 с. Search this book on
- ↑ О.С. Рубльов. Енциклопедія історії України: у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін.; Інститут історії України НАН України. — К.: Наук. думка, 2012. — Т. 9: Прил — С. — С. 265. ISBN 978-966-00-1290-5. Search this book on
- ↑ "These horrible words: Solovki, Sandormokh& V., 21.05.2000, Ovsienko, Kyiv". Unknown parameter
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