Chevalier of the Orders "For Services to the Fatherland", the Labor Red Banner, "Badge of Honor". Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and Russia, Gold and Silver medals of the USSR Academy of Arts, Moscow Prize in the field of literature and art, the Russian national prize "Crystal Daedalus". People's Architect of the USSR, Honored Architect of Russia, Honorary Architect of Russia. Full member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences, the Russian Academy of Arts, the International Academy of Architecture, the American Institute of Architecture, the College of Spanish Architects, the French Academy of Architecture, an honorary member of the Academies of Architecture in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Georgia. First Secretary of the Union of Architects of the USSR (1986-1992), President of the Moscow branch of the International Academy of Architecture. Honorary Doctor of MARCHI. Chief Architect of the Russian Academy of Sciences, creative and scientific director of the GIPRONII RAS. Cavalier of the honorary medal of the Cambridge Biographical Society "Man of the Millennium" for his contribution to art and literature - all this about Yuri Platonov.
The entire conscious creative life of Yuri Pavlovich was devoted to architecture and is associated with the history of the Academy of Sciences. He came to the Institute "Akademproekt" (now GIPRONII RAS) immediately after graduating from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1953. In 1962, the president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Alexander Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov, assigned Yuri Platonov the role of creative and scientific leader, which he played until his last days. First, as the chief architect of the Institute, then as the director of the GIPRONII RAS, and finally as the chief architect of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Under his direct authorship, a number of large projects were implemented: the Museum of Paleontology, the complex of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow, scientific centers in Novosibirsk and the Moscow region, a new building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Competitive international projects led by Yuri Platonov were of key importance in gaining the prestige of the domestic architectural school abroad: a project for the Parisian Pompidou Center, the Tet Defense communications center and La Villette park, the concept of the Tourist Center in Tangier and the university complex in Sofia.
The Russian theorist and historian of architecture Selim Khan-Magomedov wrote that some of Platonov's projects "are clearly superior to the Pompidou Center in Paris in terms of the level of creative audacity and the quality of artistic discovery." Academician Platonov saw his creative credo in an active directorial role in the approach to solving architectural and artistic problems, romanticizing figurative interpretations, and embodying humanistic ideals.
An outstanding architect passed away, who not only fascinated with his ideas, but also knew how to embody them, a person whom they looked up to and from whom they studied.
