1. Joseph Karakis was a Ukrainian Soviet architect, urban planner, painter and teacher, and one of the most prolific Kiev architects, designing many buildings that are now considered architectural landmarks.
10 Facts About Joseph Karakis
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Joseph Karakis was born on 29 May 1902 in the town of Balta, to Julius Borisovich Karakis, co-owner and a worker of a sugar factory in Turbin and Karakis Frida Jakovlevna.
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Joseph was the oldest child and had a younger brother David Julevich Karakis who has chosen to become a doctor, and was a colonel and chief of medical squadron during World War II.
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From 1909 till 1917 Joseph Karakis studied at Vinnytsia Realschule, while attending evening drawing classes of Abraham Cherkassky.
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Joseph Karakis was responsible for the formation of the city museum's gallery and library from the collection of Princess Branitskaya's mansion in Nemyriv.
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From 1942 to 1944 Joseph Karakis worked as a chief architect of the Farkhad Dam, where he has designed the dam, diversion channels, machinery room as well as various housing projects.
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Since 1952 Joseph Karakis worked in the Giprograd on the model design.
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Joseph Karakis was buried at Baikove Cemetery beside his mother.
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One of Joseph Karakis's students was his daughter Irma Karakis, who later earned a PhD in architecture and became a senior researcher.
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Irma Joseph Karakis worked as head of an interior sector of KievZNIIEP.