Moisei Ginsburg, 54-year-old Jewish architect who was born in Minak and studied in France and in Italy, has been appointed chief of the Soviet commission which is to rebuild the city of Sevastopol which the Nazis devested prior to their retreat, it was announced today in the Moscow press.
A member of the Academy of Art of the U.S.S.R., Ginsburg was entrusted with the task of working out a plan for the rebuilding of Sevastopol as soon as the Germans occupied the city. The Moscow Government was so certain of an eventual German defeat, that it released the Jewish architect from all other work and kept him busy for more than a year planning the reconstruction of the historic city, where a new square will commemorate the two great sieges of Sevastopol – 1854 and 1941-2.
Ginsburg is reported to have had “wide experience in city planning and excellent artistic taste.” He was a student at a high school in Minsk under the Czarist regime, but was prevented by Czarist restrictions from receiving a higher education. He, therefore, left for France, where he studied in Toulouse and completed his studies in Wilan. He returned to Russia after the fall of the Czar and later settled in the Crimea where he gained nation-wide fame as an architect.
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