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Christina Berut-MaminayshviliRolsky, Soviet and Georgian architect and designer
Date of Birth: 12.02.1923
Country:  Poland |
Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Wartime Service and Imprisonment
- Return to Education and Career
- Post-Soviet Life and Return to Warsaw
- Death and Burial
- Family and Awards
- Mother:Janina Gużyńska-Bierut
Early Life and Education
Kristina Berut-Maminashviliwas born on February 12, 1923, in Warsaw to Bolesław Bierut and Janina Gużyńska-Bierut. She attended the Secondary School of the Workers' Society of Friends of Children in Warsaw's Żoliborz district. Subsequently, she studied at the Stanisław Noakowski Women's School of Architecture.
During the German occupation of Poland, Berut-Maminashvili enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the underground Warsaw Polytechnic University. Concurrently, she actively participated in the Resistance movement, joining the Żoliborz branch of the Union of Fighting Youth in 1943.
Wartime Service and Imprisonment
During the Warsaw Uprising, Berut-Maminashvili served as a liaison officer and later as a nurse. In August 1944, she was severely wounded and treated in a hospital for insurgents. Following its fall, she was interned in camps at Pruszków and Konin.
Return to Education and Career
After the war, Berut-Maminashvili resumed her architectural studies at the Warsaw University of Technology under the renowned architect Szymon Syrkus. Graduating in 1951, she continued her studies at the Moscow Architectural Institute, where she met her future husband, Bidzina Maminashvili.
After completing their education, Berut-Maminashvili and her husband settled in the Georgian SSR. She worked as a designer and researcher at the Academy of Architectural Sciences of the Georgian SSR and as an interior and small architectural forms designer at the Institute of Aesthetics.
Post-Soviet Life and Return to Warsaw
Following the dissolution of the USSR, Berut-Maminashvili and her husband remained in Georgia. However, in 2000, they moved to Warsaw. In 2001, she was awarded the rank of Second Lieutenant by Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
Death and Burial
Kristina Berut-Maminashvili passed away on December 21, 2003, and was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
Family and Awards
Father:Bolesław Bierut, first secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and President of the Polish Republic
Mother:Janina Gużyńska-Bierut
Brother:Jan Chyliński, Polish ambassador to West GermanyHusband:Bidzina Maminashvili, Georgian architect
Daughters:Two
Awards:
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Cross of Valour
Partisan Cross
Warsaw Uprising Cross
Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945"
Jan Krasicki Gold Cross
