Anatoly Alekseevich Shashkov was the chief architect of the town of Severomorsk. He created the site plan of the naval capital. In his own words, he “gave a piece of his soul to the development of naval architecture”. Anatoly Shashkov was born on August 2, 1924 in the village of Shilovo in the Altai Territory. After graduating from the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, Second Lieutenant Shashkov came to the Russian North and immediately began working on improving naval garrisons.
The site plan created by Shashkov outlined the layout of Severomorsk, taking into account the topography of three terraces, which led to the construction of a grid of streets, squares, commercial and residential areas. In 1976, for many years of fruitful work, his immense contribution to the creation of the site plan of Severomorsk and its implementation, as well as for his active social work, Shashkov was awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of the town of Severomorsk”. He worked in Severomorsk from 1951 to 1979. Simultaneously, Shashkov developed several projects for Murmansk, including designs for a number of buildings on Nakhimov, Flotskaya, and Safonov streets, and a checkpoint on the Murmansk — Severomorsk highway.
Anatoly Shashkov was a board member of the Murmansk Organization of the Union of Architects of the USSR and the Severomorsk Branch of the Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. He wrote a series of articles on the experience of naval architects for the newspapers “Severomorskaya Pravda”, “Krasnaya Zvezda”, “On Guard of the Arctic”, and gave lectures and talks on warships, in military units, clubs and schools.
Shashkov recalled that when he first arrived in
Severomorsk, he saw a scattering of prefabricated panel houses, barracks and
sheds, several two-story buildings, four stone four-story buildings and many
temporary shelters. However, through the efforts of Anatoly Alekseevich
Shashkov, the city began to undergo a rapid transformation. Shashkov passed
away on February 12, 2015 at the age of 91. He spent the last years of his life
living with his son in Vyborg. In April 2016, a memorial plaque was installed
in memory of the architect on the facade of house No. 2 on Kirov Street in
Severomorsk, where he lived.
