Valentin Terekhov Biography

Reprinted from the site: "Russian emigration", developed by the Center for the Study of the Russian Abroad of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Valentin Semenovich Terekhov was born in the year in the village of Volchikha, who spread out in the foothills of the West Altai, in the family of local intellectuals, his mother was a teacher, and his father was a clergyman.

Back in school, Valentine showed a tendency and ability to draw. In the year, after graduation, he fulfilled his cherished dream - he passed the exams at the architectural department of the Novosibirsk Engineering Institute. In the year, in the midst of the Stalinist repressions, his parents were arrested and declared enemies of the people. Valentina, in order to survive, had to publicly renounce them - so many did then.

However, his beliefs did not allow him to break in this unequal confrontation, for which he was immediately excluded from the institute and from the Komsomol with the wording of the unusual enemy of the people. His own arrest was almost inevitable. Fortunately, some suspension of repression in the year and the famous demagogic Stalinist statement that his son was not responsible for his father, allowed such daredevils as Valentine to avoid arrest.

In the year, he was restored at the institute, having passed the exams for the missed year by the exterior. In the year, he graduated with honors from the institute. The defense of the diploma took place on the second day after the announcement of the war. The young architect without hesitation rushed to the military enlistment office to join the army to protect his homeland.

But it turned out that the stigma of the enemy of the people was still not removed from him and he was not allowed to the front line. He worked as war years in Novosibirsk. In the year, he was admitted to the Union of Architects and entered the graduate school of the Novosibirsk Engineering Institute. In the year, Valentin Semenovich moved in Pulkovo near Leningrad with his young family - his wife, his former classmate, Lydia Mikhailovna Wojciechovskaya, and his son born in the year.

The famous Pulkovo observatory lay in the ruins after the fascist invasion, and Valentin Semenovich participated in its restoration, working at first the foreman, and then the chief engineer of construction. In the year, he moved to Leningrad and took up the project work, which allowed his architectural talent and organizational abilities to fully turn around. For thirty years he worked at the largest Leningrad Project Institute of Lenpromstroyproekt as the chief architect and the head of the department.

Not many people manage to leave such a visible mark on Earth as Valentin Semenovich - objects of his tireless work, materialized in iron and concrete, are now scattered at many ends of Leningrad and its environs. All these years, Valentin Semenovich did not leave his scientific work, overseeing young scientific personnel at his institute and preparing for defense the dissertation architecture of super -use buildings.

In total, they wrote about 50 scientific and technical articles. His dissertation on the novelty of ideas and the scope of research could essentially be a doctoral, giving the highest scientific degree in the Soviet Union, but Valentin Semenovich decided to first protect it in Leningrad as a candidate. After defending the dissertation in the year, he was sent to Moscow to the highest courses of the State Construction of the USSR for senior workers, after which he could take a large leadership position in the Gosstroy system.

He also continued to work on a doctoral dissertation, and the defense day was already close when the Valentin Semenovich family made a decision that turned their life abruptly. In the year, together with his wife, he left Russia to reunite with his son, who had left him before Australia. The path here was long and difficult, in Europe they had to wait for an Australian visa for more than a year.

Valentin Semenovich used his stay here surrendering to his long -standing hobby - making numerous architectural sketches from nature. Now, in his archive, more than two thousand drawings made in many European countries, as well as in Russia, the Baltic states, Transcaucasia, Uzbekistan. In the year, the Terekhov family settled in Melbourne. Valentin Semenovich, although he became a pensioner, did not remain idle and found an excellent application of his knowledge and abilities in this new country.

In the Russian House in Melbourne, in the clubs of pensioners, at the meetings of the Russian representative office and in the subservational halls, he constantly makes reports on Russian art with the show of slides, exhibitions of drawings and illustrations. His lectures for the flying of the Baptism of Rus' were greatly successful. In total, they read more reports. At the efforts of our compatriot, the English -language reader also got acquainted with the rich history of Russian architecture: the book of Russian national architecture was written and lovingly illustrated by V.

Terekhov. The album of drawings with the text, published in the year in Melbourne in the publishing house of sowing in Russian and English. He also prepared and propagated by a small edition of brochures about art and albums of drawings, compiled lists of commemorative dates in Russian culture. Terekhov’s books of verses of the Australian Russian poets I.

Smolyaninov, A. Karel, Z.Keminskaya and Avtamonov. Its light flying feather can also be found on numerous cards, calendars, letters, posters, invitation tickets. In general, the technique used by it. In total, they performed about two thousand studio graphic works and illustrations. His works were exhibited at ten exhibitions in Australia. Now this indefatigable enthusiast of Russian culture is preparing for the publication of the pamphlet the facts of the Russian Orthodox-national revival.

In Australia, to eight medals received by B. Terekhov for his merits to Russia, two more Australian ones were added - a medal from the Australian Committee for the celebration of the Baptism of Rus' and the medal from the Russian ethnic representation of the state Victoria for the service of Russian society here, in Australia, it was found by the Russian medal of 50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War, noting it.

Labor contribution to the victory over fascist Germany. About modern icon painters L. Russian Chronicle. It turned out that the Terekhova family has another architect and artist: this is his wife Lidia Mikhailovna Voitskhovskaya. Lidia Mikhailovna was born on December 18 in the small city of Arkhara in the Ussuri Territory. Her family often moved from place to place, because her father was a builder.

Lidia Mikhailovna graduated from school in the city of Staro-Kuznetsk, the West Siberian Territory and then the Engineering Institute in Novosibirsk. Having studied the almost full course at the geodetic department of the Faculty of Cartographic, Lidia Mikhailovna, on the advice of her friends, filed a petition for transfer to the architectural faculty. Her petition caused laughter at the directorate and at the dean of the university: the architectural faculty was crowded and from there the weakest students were transferred to other faculties, and 23 days remained before the start of spring exams.

However, the following answer came from the dean’s office: if during this period it prepares for exams in the programs of faculties there was a big difference, especially in the field of mathematics and pass 12 large drawings and watercolors and a number of small exercises, it will be translated. Having sent all her energy to the training, Lidia Mikhailovna passed everything on time and, without having lost the year, switched to the architectural faculty, which she graduated from the year.

For the first 5 years, she worked as an engineer, and then 25 years as an architect, designing civilians, industrial plants and plants. For her activities, she received two civil medals: for valiant work in the Great Patriotic War and the flight of Leningrad, which was given to those who restored Leningrad after the war. In the year, she retired and began to engage in painting, constantly visited museums and galleries of St.

Petersburg, sometimes twice a week. It is about this city that Lidia Mikhailovna recalls with longing and love. In the year, she and V. Terekhov received an invitation from her son and daughter -in -law to come to them in Australia and engage in the upbringing of her grandson. On the way to Australia, they lived a year and a half in Austria, where Lidia Mikhailovna was engaged in the restoration of ancient painting and icons from three Viennese galleries.

She restored near old Russian icons with varying degrees of damage. Here she herself began to write icons. From the end of the year, having arrived in Australia, she continues to engage in painting: she writes icons, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, black varnishes. To celebrate the flight of Orthodoxy in Rus', she even took up painting wooden testicles for gifts.

In Melbourne and in other cities, exhibitions of her works were arranged: icons and paintings. Currently, Lidia Mikhailovna has finished work on the icon of the Savior of the non -missed for the church on the pediment, the icon has already been consecrated and installed. From the editors: Obviously, Archimandrite Methodius was the first Russian icon painter in Australia, but, of course, not the only one.

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