Mirror Stream

In the 1920s, grandiose objects of various purposes were built - it obliged the position of the capital of Soviet Ukraine. One of such grandiose projects was the construction of a theater of mass action - then an international competition was announced for the architectural project of the Theater of Mass Action for 4000 seats, a building that would correspond to the grandeur of all the plans of the state. Such foreign celebrities as Walter Gropius and even the ideologist of constructivism Le Corbusier took part in the competition. Of course, active Soviet architects also took part. At the competition, the first place was given to the project of famous Soviet architects Vesnin brothers. Under the construction of the theater took place in Sumy, which was occupied by the Mironositskaya church. By the end of 1930, Sumy lost one of the monuments of architecture - the Mironositskaya Church. In 1931-33, the foundation was already partially laid and the supporting structures were erected from Chernyshevskaya Street, but in June 1934 the capital moved to Kiev. Funding from the state budget has ceased, and the local budget could not continue such a grand building; the volume of started construction began to be reduced, and then they completely abandoned this undertaking. This corner remained absolutely unchanged until 1939, when the first trolleybus depot in Kharkov was located here. Kharkiv is the second city in Ukraine, where a trolleybus communication was opened (after Kiev, where the trolleybus was allowed in 1934). In 1939, in connection with the launch of the trolleybus, the entire section of the former construction was converted into a trolleybus depot and was used for this purpose until 1947. In 1948, one of the representatives of the Kharkiv leadership (namely, the first secretary of the Kharkov regional party committee Viktor Churaev), resting in Kislovodsk, He was fascinated by the beauty of the arbor, located near the so-called “Mirror Pond”, and decided to by all means create something similar in our city. Architect Vasily Korzh was entrusted with the design of such a structure in Victory Square, which they began to build on the site of the former trolleybus depot. To get acquainted with the "Caucasian model" V. Korzh was sent to Kislovodsk, after which he began designing with the then chief architect of the city A. Kasyanov and the chief architect of the region V. Orekhov. At that time, in the construction of gardens and parks, strict geometric forms of individual elements began to acquire other, free shape that influenced the shape of the pool that feeds the stream. Gardening of the park was done under the guidance of landscape architect Anna Mayak. It is absolutely wrong to consider our composition a copy of Kislovodsk - the architects borrowed only the idea, the concept of the fountain, and the Kharkov gazebo-fountain turned out to be more intricate and delicate. - for many decades, the Kharkiv citizens stubbornly called the Glass Stream (official name) Zerkalnaya. Many Kharkiv citizens remember the building that stood in the north parts. After the war, the Kharkov Theater Institute was located in the building of the former Kostyurinsky district school. Famous actors and directors of theater and cinema (Leonid Bykov, Natalia Fateeva and many others) studied at the institute. It is no coincidence that all famous graduates of this institute, at the mention of Kharkov, first of all recall the Mirror Stream, with which all the best memories of their student life are connected. In the 1970s, the building of the former theatrical institute was demolished, turning it into a part of a public garden. In 2007, in connection with the 60th anniversary of the fountain, a large-scale reconstruction was carried out, and the name was changed from “Glass Jet” to “Mirror Stream”. Also 137 nozzles were added, 2 installations of artificial fog and 135 searchlights - the fountain became the way we see it now. And in 2015, a revived Mironositsky temple was opened in the eastern part of the square.