1 March] 1885 – 19 November 1956) was a Soviet architect, and a leading practitioner of Stalinist architecture.

At the Academy he studied painting under Leon Benois and architecture under Ivan Fomin.

[1] After the end of the Second World War, Lev Rudnev took active part in reconstructing the ruined cities of Voronezh, Stalingrad, Riga and Moscow.

Rudnev's most remarkable architectural work is the ensemble of the Lomonosov Moscow State University on Sparrow Hills, then known as Lenin Hills (1948–1953, co-designed with S. Chernyshyov, P. Abrosimov, A. Khryakov, and engineer V. Nasonov).

His Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland (1952–1955) resembles the markedly sculptural style of the MSU ensemble.