Ivan I. Shaposhnikov

Born in St. Petersburg, Ivan Ivanovich Shaposhnikov trained at the St. Petersburg Commercial School, and later at the Academy of Arts, where he became an architect and eventually a professor. Shaposhnikov, who was not Jewish, held a post with the Technical Committee of the engineering department of the Russian Empire’s Ministry of War while designing residential, civic, and religious buildings. In addition to the Grand Choral Synagogue developed with Leon Bakhman, Shaposhnikov designed the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery’s synagogue and operations building (1873).