Housing complex KOWO

Housing complex KOWO ; Schytlowyj budynok UWO
	; Housing complex KOWO
Data
place	Kiev , Ukraine
architect	Iossif Yulievich Karakis
Client	Command of the Red Army of the Kiev Military District
Construction year	1934-1937
Coordinates	50 ° 26 '47.2 " N , 30 ° 32' 1.9" E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '47.2 " N , 30 ° 32' 1.9" E
particularities
	Architectural monument

The residential complex KOWO or residential building UWO ( Ukrainian Житловий будинок УВО для комскладу Червоної армії ) is a listed residential complex in the city of Pechersk in the Ukrainian capital Kiev since 2006 .

history

Since 1896 a mansion (architect M. Artynow) of the entrepreneur O. Brodsky stood in the same place.

Immediately after the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was relocated from Kharkov to Kiev, the Red Army command of the Kiev military district had a five-story residential complex designed for their officers and, between 1934 and 1937, it was located on Instytutska Street ( вулиць Інститутська ) numbers 15 to 17 on the corner of Sadowa Street ( Садова вулиця ) opposite the Villa Schleifer .

The new building caused a sensation due to its unusual corner design, as the architect Iossif Juljewitsch Karakis (1902–1988) had beveled the corners and provided the stairwells behind the slope with drawn-in, house-high glazing. Other building elements such as the loggias and window systems were just as lavishly designed. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Bilokolos and the opera singer Anatoly Solovyanenko lived in the residential complex .

After Ukraine gained independence, the first two-story penthouse apartment in Kiev was built in the residential complex, which at the time was the most expensive apartment in the capital.