The qualification certificate #0001



General director: Bogdan S. Smertyuk



- The workshop was founded in 1991

Main activities:

• Designing of objects of civil and housing construction;

• Town-planning documentation;

• Pre-project analysis (detection of plot opportunities, program composition);

• Elaboration and endorsement of architectural and engineering sections of project at all stages;

• Designer’s supervision;

• Consultations.


Professional awards:

The projects of workshop are awarded professional prizes and diplomas (“Zodchestvo”, “Yuzhnaya Stolitsa”, “ArhiTavr”, etc). The workshop regularly represents outstanding achievements of Russian architecture on international exhibitions and competitions (Venice, Sofia, Yerevan) and these achievements often become the subject of publications in the press. The information of architectural workshop of Smertyuk B.S. was published in the catalogue “Leading designing organizations and workshops of Russia” as well as in the catalogue ARTINDEX “Russia architectural 2009/10”.

Member of X and XII World Architecture Triennale "Interarch-2003" and "Interarch 2009", Bulgaria.

Member of the International Festival "Zodchestvo-1995 to 2011."

Laureate - Bronze Diploma in nomination "The best creative teams" International Festival "Zodchestvo 2011".

Laureate - Bronze Diploma of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia in the category Innovation and futuristic project "Innovation of the Future" - "Architecture 2011".

Diploma of the international festival "Architecture 2004".

Laureate, winner of the nomination contests Architectural Society of the South, "Southern Capital" 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 years.

Laureate - Golden Diploma in the nomination "The best creative teams" on the 1 Forum Architects North Caucasus Federal District, 2011

In 2004 the workshop became a winner in the 4th Forum of architects of South of Russia in “The best creative groups” nomination.

The stations of the first turn of the cable railway "Azau – “Krugozor” were voted THE BEST CONSTRUCTION of the South of Russia in 2007.

The project “Multifunctional mount-skiing comlex AZAU” became a winner in the nomination “The Best architectural work 2009” of the South of Russia.

The winner of the competition “Construction with the use of KNAUF technologies” which took place in South federal district.

The winner of Russian competition “Architecture of sports” organized by a German company SCHUCO for its project “Azau – Krugozor on the mount Elbrus”.

The laureate of interregional competition “Architecture and Glass”.


Participation in architectural design competitions:

1 place - The project is a tourist hotel "Nart" for 1000 beds in Nalchik (USSR Competition)

1 place - The project office of the Russian-American representation in Gelendzhik.

1 place - The project is bus station complex "Scat" in Essentuki.

1 place - The monument project natives of Kabardino-Balkaria - victims of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP.

1 place - The project is a 35-storey residential complex in Saratov.

1 place - The multifunctional complex "Atoll" with a water park in Essentuki.

1 place - The project is the reconstruction of 3-screen cinema into a shopping and entertainment complex in Mineralnye Vody.

2 place - The project of the Temple of St. Mary Magdalene in Nalchik.


The architect’s workshop successfully operates with the projects of different complexity and typology, elaborating projects of dwelling, office, commercial, sports and religious constructions, multifunctional complexes and high-rise buildings as well as hotel and recreation complexes, suburban settlements, etc.

In the projects of the workshop one can trace tendency to ingenious modernistic stylistics. The indispensable feature of this stylistics is easily recognizable own architectural language and individual style. The projects of workshop are individual, innovative with an author’s approach. In these projects architects achieve striking figurativeness and expressiveness of created architectural works.

Considerable operational experience of its workers and specialists of all the main designing specialties lets the workshop carry out the whole spectrum of works in the field of architectural and construction designing. The workshop has licenses, qualification certificates and documental permission to carry out all the types of designing works, permission to design buildings and construction of the normal level of responsibility, to design in especially difficult engineering-geological conditions and it operates in earthquake-dangerous regions (with magnitude up to 9).

PCAW of B. Smertyuk, Ltd admitted to the Rostov Regional Public Organization on Collective Management of Copyright "Authors Union "BONA FIDES".