Building of the Russian Foreign Trade Bank

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russian Foreign Trade Bank
Російський банк для зовнішньої торговлі
Russian Foreign Trade Bank on Khreshchatyk No. 32

Russian Foreign Trade Bank on Khreshchatyk No. 32

Data
place Kiev , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
architect Fyodor Lidwal
Architectural style Art Nouveau
Construction year 1911-1913
Coordinates 50 ° 26 '49.9 "  N , 30 ° 31' 17"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '49.9 "  N , 30 ° 31' 17"  E
particularities
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.

Facade of the Russian Foreign Trade Bank

Web links

Commons : Chreschtschatyk 32  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Architecture Guide Kiev, Peter Knoch, Heike Maria Johenning; DOM publishers ISBN 978-3-86922-287-5 , p. 82
  2. ↑ 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]).
  3. ↑ 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  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guoks.gov.ua
  4. ↑ Monument protection status at www.pslava.info , accessed on August 21, 2015
  5. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kievcity.gov.ua

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Russian-language Wikipedia has an article on the architect under Лидваль, Фёдор Иванович