Sergei Nicolayevich Balandin’s Contribution in Researching and Preservation of Architects Boris Gordeev, Sergei Turgenev and Engineer Nikolay Nikitin’s Professional Heritage
Architects B.A. Gordeev and S.P. Turgenev and engineer N.V. Nikitin were among outstanding architects of Novosibirsk in 1920s - 1930s. Historian of Siberian architecture, Professor of S.N. Balandin played a significant role in researching and preservation of the architects’ professional heritage. Balandin took part in architectural measurements of the buildings, collected plans and photos, collaborated with architects and professional organizations while searching information about these authors. However the main merit of S.N. Balandin was his own attitude to these three specialists’ heritage - he considered it as a part of common social and cultural heritage. That’s why Balandin made a collection of historical materials open to everyone in his books or in exhibitions of Balandin’s Museum of Siberian Architectural History in Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts (the museum which Balandin had founded himself).