[2] After graduation, he began working in the construction section of the Supreme Economic Council of the RSFSR,[2] and in the mid-1930s he moved to the architectural and design workshop No.
At the same time, the young architect designed the first houses in the capital - the residential development of Kotelnicheskaya and Goncharnaya embankments (1934–1937).
[2] Since 1944, he again began designing civil buildings and in 1946 headed the Architectural and Construction Workshop of the Moscow City Council.
At that time, "Seven Sisters with their vertical composition were recognized as a standard, a symbol of the "emancipation of the mighty forces" of the country.
[8] It was in the second half of the 1950s that the design of individual buildings was abandoned; the microdistrict became the main unit of urban development.
[10] Another feature of mass development was the limitation of the height of residential premises to 2.5 m. In one private conversation, the architect admitted that small apartments in "dull boxes" are only part of the problem.
In his opinion, houses with load-bearing partitions and walls made of thin vibrating panels should have collapsed within 20 years.
[12] In 1957–1959, he took part in two closed competitions for the design of the Palace of the Soviets, which was planned to be built in the south-west, not far from the Main building of Moscow State University.
The jury criticized the compositional solution: according to the judges, in such an orientation the Palace looked "turned away" from Moscow and the university.
In the second round of the competition, the architect put forward a project that reflected the ideas of his predecessor Aleksandr Vlasov.
Instead, he made the "Hall of Peoples" the center of the composition, a forum-amphitheater where public meetings and festivities were supposed to be held.
[2] In parallel, since the 1960s, Soviet architects returned to the idea of functionalism: the external form of a building was a reflection of the processes for which it was intended.
The Yerevan Cinema was built according to this principle, the project of which was developed by the architect together with Nikolai Gaigarov and Vsevolod Talkovsky in 1970.