Zaporizhzhia

House Leshchinsky

Buildings

Description

  • Leshchinsky's house is located at the junction of two streets - Troitskaya and Soborny Prospekt.
  • The facade is decorated with stucco molding and it’s difficult to precisely name the style.
  • Old photographs show that before the nippers of both street facades were decorated with columned clocks.

The style of the building is eclectic, with some dominance of Renaissance and Gothic elements. The facade is evenly divided by the rhythm of the rectangular window and the two door openings. Decorative elements of intricate shape, on the third floor, beam rails accentuated with keystones, window sills are decorated with "aprons". On the second floor, the shape of the sandracks is also a rather complex combination of symmetrical stepped linear elements beneath them; above the openings of the windows (as well as in the window sills) are placed sticky emblems in the form of plants.

The first floor is cut by large rectangular storefront windows and entrances, the positions of which are accentuated by massive straight sandracks. In the same way, The faсade along the street Troitskaya is constructed in the same way. Only with the difference that instead of two unzipped vertical accents, one is used here, which fixes the central axis and is equipped with an entrance to the cafe on the ground floor.

The facade of the house along the street. The facade of the house along Troitskaya Street, at the far side of the house preserved semicircular archivol over the original passage. The composition of the interior faсade has a very simplistic utilitarian character.

The style of the building is eclectic, with some dominance of Renaissance and Gothic elements. The facade is evenly divided by the rhythm of the rectangular window and the two door openings. Decorative elements of intricate shape, on the third floor, beam rails accentuated with keystones, window sills are decorated with "aprons". On the second floor, the shape of the sandracks is also a rather complex combination of symmetrical stepped linear elements beneath them; above the openings of the windows (as well as in the window sills) are placed sticky emblems in the form of plants.

The first floor is cut by large rectangular storefront windows and entrances, the positions of which are accentuated by massive straight sandracks. In the same way, The faсade along the street Troitskaya is constructed in the same way. Only with the difference that instead of two unzipped vertical accents, one is used here, which fixes the central axis and is equipped with an entrance to the cafe on the ground floor.

The facade of the house along the street. The facade of the house along Troitskaya Street, at the far side of the house preserved semicircular archivol over the original passage. The composition of the interior faсade has a very simplistic utilitarian character.

How to get there?

By public transport to the stop «Theater them. Magara » Nearby: Oleksandrivsk Railway Station, Catherine Railway Station, Power Station, St. Pokrovsky Bishops' Cathedral, Zaporizhzhya Regional Museum of Local Lore, Hospital Building Bera

And also nearby

HISTORY

  • 1901 - the time when the city bore the old name - Aleksandrovsk. And it was in this year that the first building appeared in it, occupying as many as three floors.
  • The house performed the function of a profitable property, the area was rented out.
  • After the October revolution, the Bolsheviks came to power and one of the directions of the reforms was the process of nationalization.
  • Later, the room was taken under the Alexander People’s University. In 1920 - the Palace of Labor.

Built in 1901 for the hereditary merchant of the 1st Guild of Y. I. Leshchynskyi, the house was the first three-storey apartment building in the city of Alexandrovsk.

In 1905, during the Jewish pogroms, the house was burned down, but completely rebuilt after the original project in 3 years.
The homeowner Y. I. Leshchynsky leased it to private residents for shops and NGOs. According to old photographs, the tongs of both street facades were decorated to this day with not preserved column clocks; Trinity functioned as a through-hole from the street to the courtyard (now laid).
In 1917-1918 the First Alexander Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies was housed in the house.
In 1919 Alexander Workers University worked in the building, and since 1920 - the Palace of Labor.
With the establishment of Soviet power, the house became residential and to this day residential buildings are located in the building, and the first floors are occupied by commercial objects.

Built in 1901 for the hereditary merchant of the 1st Guild of Y. I. Leshchynskyi, the house was the first three-storey apartment building in the city of Alexandrovsk.

In 1905, during the Jewish pogroms, the house was burned down, but completely rebuilt after the original project in 3 years.
The homeowner Y. I. Leshchynsky leased it to private residents for shops and NGOs. According to old photographs, the tongs of both street facades were decorated to this day with not preserved column clocks; Trinity functioned as a through-hole from the street to the courtyard (now laid).
In 1917-1918 the First Alexander Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies was housed in the house.
In 1919 Alexander Workers University worked in the building, and since 1920 - the Palace of Labor.
With the establishment of Soviet power, the house became residential and to this day residential buildings are located in the building, and the first floors are occupied by commercial objects.

INTERESTING FACTS

  • In 1914-1915. In the house of Ya.I. The artist, singer and composer Leonid Utesov rented Leshchinsky's house, while at the same time he met his future wife.
  • In this house lived Nestor Makhno - political and military figure, commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, leader of the peasant insurgent movement of 1918-1921, a well-known anarchist and tactician of conducting guerrilla warfare
  • In Soviet times, the famous Belochka shop of the Zaporozhye confectionery factory operated on the ground floor. Which is still remembered by thousands of Zaporozhye people and relate sweet memories from childhood.
  • In 1914-1915. In the house of Ya.I. The artist, singer and composer Leonid Utesov rented Leshchinsky's house, while at the same time he met his future wife.
  • In this house lived Nestor Makhno - political and military figure, commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, leader of the peasant insurgent movement of 1918-1921, a well-known anarchist and tactician of conducting guerrilla warfare
  • In Soviet times, the famous Belochka shop of the Zaporozhye confectionery factory operated on the ground floor. Which is still remembered by thousands of Zaporozhye people and relate sweet memories from childhood.