J. L. Slaschov 

Яков Львович Слащев (1892–1957). Русский текст – внизу страницы

Architect, engineer

Born in Tomsk on December 22, 1892. Wife Eugenia Alexandrovna Petroff, b. 1901; son Jacob, b. 1927 in Pogranichnaya, daughters Olga, b. 1929, and Emilia, b. 1930, in Shanghai.

Slaschov graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute in 1912 and from Irkutsk Military College in 1915. He fought in the First World War as part of the Finnish Corps and achieved the rank of Captain. Having participated in the White Movement he ended up in Shanghai in 1925. Between 1925 and 1929 he worked at Anderson and Meyer and A. Corritt. 

In 1929 he joined L. E. Hudec’s architecture studio as a Draftsman. Slashchov (斯拉斯科夫) was the chief draftsman during the construction of the Park Hotel (1934), Shanghai’s tallest and most prestigious skyscraper.

In December 1939, the architect J. L. Slaschov submitted a plan proposing to build a three-story small apartment with one household on each floor on the irregular lot on Route Delastre. That plan was not realized and Delastre Apartments was erected on that lot instead, designed by Ilarion Tomashevsky and Vladimir Dronnikoff.

In October 1949, Slaschov and his three children resettled in Australia by way of the Philippines; his profession was indicated as “mechanic”. Slaschov died in 1957 in New South Wales. His children ended up in the US, becoming Jack Jackson (1927–2002), Olga Zakharoff and Emily Adams.