October Palace
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October Palace International Center for Culture and Art |
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| Address: | Instytutska Street (вул. Інститутськa) 1 |
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Kiev , Ukraine
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| Coordinates: | 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 40 ″ E |
| Architecture and history | |
| Construction time: | 1838-1842 |
| Spectator: | > 2000 places |
| Architect: | Vincent Beretti |
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| Website: | www.icca.kiev.ua/ |
The former October Palace of Culture ( Ukrainian Жовтневий палац культури ) today called International Center of Culture and Art ( Ukrainian Міжнародний центр культури і мистецтв ) and is a cultural building near the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The building in the style of late classicism , which among other things houses a theater and a library with over 70,000 volumes of books, was built according to plans by the architect Vincent Beretti between 1838 and 1842. The building also has rooms for, for example, exhibitions, conferences, symposiums and seminars.
history
After severe destruction in the Second World War , the building was restored and reopened on December 24, 1957. Since then, more than 40 million people have attended the various cultural events in the building.
Web links
- History of the building (English)
- The October Palace in the Kiev travel guide (Russian)
- Description on www.gorodkiev.com (Russian)
- Secret of the October Palace in memorial.kiev.ua of February 14, 2006 (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURE AND ARTS - on the official website ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2014 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. , last accessed on February 15, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ International Center for Culture and Arts (Kiev) , last accessed on February 15, 2014 (English)
