Rimma Aldonina

Rimma Petrovna Aldonina
Portrait of Rimma Aldonina, 1972
Born	(1928-03-07) March 7, 1928 Moscow, USSR
Alma mater	Moscow Architectural Institute
Occupation	Architect
Spouse	Grigory Grigoryevich Lysenko
Children	Olga Grigoryevna Sazonova
Awards	Order of the Badge of Honour
Buildings	Elbrus Movie theater, ZiL House of Culture (reconstruction)
Projects	Nagatinskaya embankment

Rimma Petrovna Aldonina (Римма Петровна Алдонина; born March 7, 1928, in Moscow) is a Russian architect and children's poet.

Biography

Aldonina was born in Moscow to a working family. Her father was Pyotr Fadeyevich Aldonin (1894–1944), who worked as an accountant before World War II. In 1941, he became the Reserve Officer and was mobilized into the working army, dying in December 1944 in Odessa. Her mother was Mariya Ivanovna Aldonina (1902–1994), a nurse.

Career

Aldonina is an Honorable architect of the Russian Federation, a Member of the Soviet Architects Organization and a Member of the Soviet Writers Organization. She has mostly known for her design of the Elbrus Movie theater (1969) and the reconstruction project of the ZiL House of Culture (1966-1976). She is a participant, soloist, and member of the Collective of Satire Writers ensemble Moscow architects "Kohinor and Reishinka," head of "Reishinski." For her activeness in this, she received a medal and the Irina Arkhipova Foundation prize.

She is one of the writers for the Central Theater of Dolls "Govorit i Pokazivaet GCTK" and "Novosele".

Literature

• Sokolina, Anna, ed. (2021). The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. Routledge. ISBN 9780367232344.