Ninel Kuzmina
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Ninel Nikolayevna Kuzmina (Нинель Николаевна Кузьмина ; 19 September 1937 Svirstroy, - 31 May 2020 ) was a Soviet and Russian architect and restorer.
She was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation.[1][2]
Life
Kusmina studied at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering .[3]
From 1955 to 2010, Kusmina worked in Novgorod. There, she restored approximately 30 historic buildings, most notably the Volotovo Church wihose frescoes (350 m² ), which had been completely destroyed during the World War II. [4] The Church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List . In August 1993, Novgorod restorers began the restoration work on the fresco fragments. In 2001, the restoration of the Church of the Assumption began as part of a jointly funded German-Russian project. In 2002, an image of a sailboat with three warriors in chainmail was found on an unfired brick dating from 1352. On August 28, 2003, the church was officially reopened. The 1.7 million fresco fragments were taken to the Novgorod restoration workshop Fresko . In the summer of 2008, the first restored fresco was reinstalled in its original place in the church. [4]
She died on 31 May 2020.[5] She was buried in the Western Cemetery of Veliky Novgorod.[citation needed]
Personal life
Kusmina was married and had children and grandchildren.