Mikhail Ikonnikov

Mikhail Stepanovich Ikonnikov (Russian: Михаил Степанович Иконников; Ukrainian: Михайло Степанович Іконніков, Mykhailo Stepanovych Ikonnikov) (1818 – 9 July [21] 1897) was a Kyiv Guberniya architect, once famous among Kyiv city residents.

He then worked in Kiev in the Governorate Construction Commission as a senior engineer, later as an architect.

In 1854-57 together with academician Ivan Shtrom [ru] and architect K.Skarzhynsky, he built the government building on Sofia Square in Kyiv.

In architecture, he preferred forms of Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic and Neo-Russian styles.

Ikonnikov used the Eclectic style for the chapel (1869) and tombstone of Aleksandr Bezak and his wife located in the Kyiv Caves Monastery.