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Milica Čolak-Antić Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Чолак-Антић Крстић; 9 September 1887 – 9 September 1964) was a Serbian architect, she is considered one of the most important female architects in Serbia and Yugoslavia during the first half of the twenty-first century. She spent her twenty-six-year career employed by the State, at a time when women could only be public employees, working for the ministry of civil engineering. Milica's career flourished in the period between the two wars, influenced mostly by Modernism. As a respected architect, she reached in 1940 the rank of inspector, the highest position and received numerous awards for her achievements.