High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov (Яков Георгиевич Чернихов) (5 (17) December 1889, Pavlohrad, Ukraine - 9 May 1951, Moscow) was a constructivist architect and graphic designer. His books on architectural design published in Leningrad between 1927 and 1933 are amongst the most innovatory texts (and illustrations) of their time.