Gavriil Vasilyevich Baranovsky June 1920 160 was a Russian architect, civil engineer, art historian and publisher, who worked primarily in Saint Petersburg for the Elisseeff family, but also practiced in Moscow and produced the first town plan for Murmansk .
He was born in Odessa to attorney Vasili Ivanovit Baranovsky and his wife Rosalia Malinovska Gavriil Baranovsky. Baranovsky trained at Saint Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers , graduating with an honorary silver medal. He began his architectural career as an assistant to Paul Susor between 1883 and 1885. His first commission was a statefinanced Main Palace Chancellery in 18851888, Baranovsky worked on numerous apartment buildings in Saint Petersburg. After 1888 he became staff architect for the Baltic Shipyards.
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