Building of the Russian Foreign Trade Bank
Russian Foreign Trade Bank Російський банк для зовнішньої торговлі |
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Russian Foreign Trade Bank on Khreshchatyk No. 32 |
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Kiev , Ukraine![]() |
architect | Fyodor Lidwal |
Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
Construction year | 1911-1913 |
Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '49.9 " N , 30 ° 31' 17" E |
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Architectural monument |
The Russian Foreign Trade Bank ( Ukrainian Російський банк для зовнішньої торговлі ) is a listed Art Nouveau building in the city of Shevchenko in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The building erected between 1911 and 1913 on Khreshchatyk No. 32, the capital boulevard of Kiev, housed the Kiev branch of the Russian Foreign Trade Bank. The house has been an architectural monument since 1979, and today it houses a well-known souvenir shop and an office of the Kiev city administration.
The four-storey house is one of the few remaining buildings on the Khreshchatyk that was built before the Second World War . It was built by the Swedish-born St. Petersburg architect Fyodor Lidwal (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Лидваль , Swedish: Johan Fredrik Lidval) in his own Nordic Art Nouveau style with elements of the Italian Renaissance . The balustrade is crowned by a cornice, which is interrupted in its central part by two symbols of shipping and trade. On the third floor there is an unusual row of arched windows. The facade, which was sandblasted in early 2000, consists of roughly hewn natural stone. Some of the relief surfaces melted by the great fire in 1941 can still be seen.
Web links
- Chreschtschatyk 32 on kievin.info (Russian)
- History of the Russian Foreign Trade Bank and the building on pamyatky.kiev.ua (Ukrainian)
- Bank building Kiev on relax.ua (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Architecture Guide Kiev, Peter Knoch, Heike Maria Johenning; DOM publishers ISBN 978-3-86922-287-5 , p. 82
- ↑ a b c d Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (= Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 43 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
- ↑ a b List of the Shevchenko District Cultural Heritage of January 1, 2015, page 186, No. 1244 ( Memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on August 21, 2015
- ↑ Monument protection status at www.pslava.info , accessed on August 21, 2015
- ↑ General Directorate for Urban Development, Architecture and Urban Planning ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Kyiv City Council website; accessed on August 21, 2015
Remarks
- ↑ The Russian-language Wikipedia has an article on the architect under Лидваль, Фёдор Иванович