Irma Yosypivna Karakis (4 November 1930 - 1 February 2022) was a Ukrainian Soviet architect, interior and furniture designer, candidate of architecture, winner of the gold medals of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy of the USSR.
In 1968, Karakis successfully defended her dissertation "Architectural and planning solutions and new types of wardrobe equipment in different school buildings" in Kyiv in 1968 at the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture.
From 1954 to 1957, Karakis was an architect at the Promenergoproekt Design Institute in Kyiv, and from 1957 to 1994, she was an architect and head of the interior and equipment sector at the Academy of Civil Engineering and Equipment of the Ukrainian SSR.
[4] Karakis is the author of many construction projects, master plans for housing construction, and sets of mass-produced furniture, interiors, and equipment for schools, hotels, and restaurants.
[4] Karakis is also an author of several books on interior design and numerous projects of built-in furniture.