Vitaly Pavlovich Lagutenko[1] (Russian: Виталий Павлович Лагутенко, 1904, Mogilev – 26 December 1968, Moscow) was a Soviet architect and engineer.
[2] Lagutenko came to Moscow in 1921 at the age of 17 and found a job at the construction site of Kazansky Rail Terminal where he met Alexey Shchusev.
He was not alone; parallel projects were tackled by traditional architects (Ivan Zholtovsky) and technologists (Rosenfeld and Pomazanov's blocks on Peschanaya Street).
His first project (1947–1950, architectural design by Mikhail Posokhin), an 8-story block south from Rosenfeld's, used a frame structure made with prefab concrete beams and mixed concrete-masonry filling of external walls.
By the time Khrushchev finally disposed with Stalin's architectural legacy (November 1955 decree on "stripping redundancies"), plant technology was already in place and could be copied to any big city.