Pavlo Alyoshin (16 February 1881 – 7 October 1961) was a Ukrainian Soviet architect and civil engineer. Throughout his career, he employed a wide variety of architectural styles, and helped to create the Pedagogical Museum, the incomplete city of "New Kharkiv", and the Kovalevsky mansion also known as the "Palace of Sighs". Born in Kyiv into a family of craftsmen, he first attended the Kyiv Drawing School before going to St. Petersburg to study at the Institute of Civil Engineers. There, as the best student in his class, he was allowed to study abroad and learn Western architecture. In 1904 he