Wladimir Fedoroff

Architect, engineer

Between 1906 and 1916, W. A. Fedoroff (发特落夫), created more than 200 buildings in Vladivostok and vicinity. His commissions were made possible by the patronage of his father-in-law, a renowned Russian architect Nicolay Dmitrieff. Fedoroff’s wife Eudokia divorced him in 1914 to marry the Hungarian architect C. H. Gonda. The couple moved to Shanghai together with Fedoroff’s two sons, adopted by Gonda. Fedoroff, too, eventually made his way to Shanghai.

At one point, Fedoroff joined Calatroni & Hsieh. Besides being the creators of Sun Court and Apartments on Weihaiwei Road, the company was responsible for the Burlington Court at Tsongchow Road (1934), Jubilee Court and Apartments between Avenue Joffre and Rue Lafayette (1935), foreign residences on Route Vallon, a three-story foreign residence on Medhurst Road, and other buildings.

In 1934, W. A. Fedoroff designed Dufour Apartments, on Route Dufour, for Asia Realty Co.. The six-story building had ten 3-, 4- and 5-room apartments and one “bungalow studio apartment situated on the roof”. The apartment house cost 90,000 taels to build and was marketed for foreign families wishing to be in the vicinity of the American School.

In 1935–1936, Fedoroff worked as an architect at Hall & Hall ("Engineers, architects, land and estate agents"). He was on the supervising committee for the construction of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral (1936). In 1940 he was an architect at G. A. Kirlian's real estate firm.