Sergey Nikolaevich Padyukov (; 23 October 1922 – 22 October 1993; last name variantly spelled as Padukow"Sergey Padukow, at 70; architect, rights activist", Asbury Park Press, October 24, 1993. Accessed December 27, 2017. "Sergey Padukow, 70, a Toms River architect known for his church designs and volunteer work on human rights issues, died Friday morning at Thomas Jefferson Medical Center, Philadelphia, after a brief illness.") was an American architect and engineer, sculptor, and human rights activist.
Sergey Padyukov was born in a Russian family in Brest, a Polish city at that time. He graduated from Russian secondary school at Brest and together with parents was forced to move to Warsaw after Soviet invasion of Poland.Golden Domes of Sergey Padyukov by N. Alexandrov, Brest Courier, 2010. http://www.bk-brest.by/2014/10/9667/ At the end of World War II Padyukov's family found themselves in Munich in French occupation zone and Sergey started his high education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). During this time he met and married Gerda (born 1925) who studied chemistry at the same university. Later Sergey Padyukov completed his education at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and graduated as an architect.Russian American, 1997, no. 21, pp. 36–38. http://zarubezhje.narod.ru/texts/chss_0667.htm In 1954 Sergey Padyukov with family emigrated to USA and were living in Lakewood, NJ and later in Toms River, NJ. Sergey Padyukov received a license as an architect at Princeton University in 1960 and from 1965 he was a member of AIA. He introduced a new technology for construction of domes for church buildings from fiberglass and constructed (together with reconstruction of previously demolished buildings) 45 churches at the USA and hundreds of civil buildings. Sergey Padyukov's style involved traditional Eastern Orthodox Church decorations, but also modern elements and use of modern materials. Four churches constructed by Sergey Padyukov were classified as buildings of historic or architectural merit.
The onion dome in Whitestone was added in 1991: Did he design the original 1968 church or the 1991 additions or both?
List of buildings St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Church at St. Vladimir's Cemetery, 1968, Jackson Township, New JerseyNational Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000491.pdf St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 1969, Whitestone, Queens, New YorkInteresting Religious Architecture Around Queens: Churches Temples and Mosques: https://www.brownstoner.com/queens/arts-and-culture/interesting-religious-architecture-around-queens-churches-temples-and-mosques/St. Nicholas Orthodox Church: https://www.stnicholasny.org/ourchurch.html St. Michael's Cathedral, 1976, Sitka, AlaskaFr. Alexander Schmemann "A Holiday at Alaska" (Праздник на Аляске): http://www.kiev-orthodox.org/site/personalities/3773/«Cathedral Reconsecrated», Anchorage Daily News, Wednesday, November 24, 1976, page 8 (Replicating the original historic church, which burned in 1966, using modern materials) St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania St. Thomas the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church (the altar design), Rahway, New Jersey«St. Thomas sets Blessing of Icon», Rahway News-Record/Clark Patriot, 1982, April 15, p. 10 St. Michael's Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, 1984, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania«Plans finalized for new church», The Ukrainian Weekly, no. 46, November 15, 1981 St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 1986, Toms River, New Jersey Second Baptist Church, 1980, Toms River, New JerseySecond Baptist Church Toms River, NJ - Church History: http://www.secondbaptisttomsriver.org/our-gatherings St. Vladimir Memorial Church, 1988, Jackson Township, New JerseySt. Vladimir Russian Orthodox Memorial Church: http://www.stvladimirnj.org/Marilyn J. Chiat America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community, 1997, John Wiley & Sons Kimisis Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church and Community Center, 1988, Holmdel Township, New Jersey, NJ Blessed Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church, McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Political activity
Sergey Padyukov and his older brother, Arkady, were members of National Alliance of Russian Solidarists, known as NTS.List of NTS members: http://ntsrs.ru/content/p-spisok-chlenov-nts Arkady Padyukov was arrested and executed by NKVD in 1943 in Smolensk Oblast.Radlo L. Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp, 2009, Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company Later, in USA, as a human rights activist, Sergey Padyukov was serving as an expert for American Security Council Foundation and Republican National Committee. He was a board member of Young Americans for Freedom Organization and a member of the Congress of Russian Americans. During perestroyka Sergey Padyukov established an active collaboration with political activists in Russia and regularly visited Moscow. He died after one of the visits at the end of 1993 in his home in Toms River, New Jersey.
References
Bibliography Andreev S. The Golden Domes of Sergey Padyukov // Rodina (Андреев С. Золотые купола Сергея Падюкова // Родина), 1993, no. 5–6. pp. 116–118. Radlo L. Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp, 2009, Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company Saint Michael the Archangel Russian Orthodox Church At: SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012.