Grigorije Ivanovič Samojlov[1](Russian Cyrillic: Григорий Иванович Самойлов; Taganrog, Imperial Russia, 8 September 1904 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 15 October 1989) was a Russian architect, designer and painter who lived and worked in Serbia.[2] He was one of the many academically trained Russian émigrés who after settling in Serbia contributed the architectural landscape of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He built in the spirit of academism, Serbo-Byzantine style, modernism and art deco.[3] He distinguished himself not only with his high skills in designing various types of building, from monumental public buildings to family houses, but also as the author of some of the most beautiful interiors of Belgrade palaces of this period. Also, he painted the likenesses of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and scientist Milutin Milanković among the most notable, as well as teaching the art of design and painting.
He is the author of numerous works such as the chapel of Jovan Savić at Novo Groblje (Belgrade New Cemetery), the iconostasis and interior of the former Church of the Holy Trinity (now the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Banja Luka),[4] the Church of the Holy Archangel Gabriel at Topčider Cemetery (1939),[5] the factory and villas of the Teokarović family, as well as the Church of the Nativity of St. John in Vučje, Palace of the Pension Fund of Officials and Employees of the NationalBank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1938[3]) in Terazije, with cinema "Belgrade", since 1975 converted into Theater on Terazije, the building of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering[6] and the Faculty of Technology in Belgrade.[7]