Vladimir Bessonov

Vladimir Ivanovich Bessonov was born on October 5, 1949, in the village of Baklushi, Novosibirsk oblast, and died on October 5, 2021, in Pskov. He graduated from the architecture faculty of the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute in 1972.

He worked in Chișinău (Kishinev) from 1977. A Pskov library biography lists Liberation Square, the complex of the construction institute, the history museum and the Budești housing district among his projects there. He moved to Pskov in 1990, became chief architect of the Pskovgrazhdanproekt institute and was named Honored Architect of the Russian Federation.

The 1987 member list of the Union of Architects of the MSSR includes Vladimir Ivanovich Bessonov, born in 1949, which matches the V. Bessonov credited with the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (1980).