Postysheva Street (Donetsk)

Postysheva street is located in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk . It goes from south to north. From the west, parallel to it is Artyom Street , from the east - Gorky and Chelyuskintsev Streets. It is crossed by the following avenues ^[1] : Lagutenko, Labor, Fallen Kommunarov, Sadovy, 25th anniversary of the Red Army, Mayakovsky, Komsomolsky, Gurov, Theater ^[2] .

Initially, the street was called the Seventh Line, along with other lines in Yuzovka. In 1928, the lines were renamed, including the Seventh, which was called Novomartenovskaya ^[3] . In 1937, in honor of the centenary of the death of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, the street was renamed Pushkinskaya ^[3] . During the German occupation of Donetsk during the Great Patriotic War, the names associated with the Soviet power were replaced with the previous ones, including the streets of the city center were again called number lines. After the city was liberated, pre-war names were returned to the streets ^[4] .

In the mid-1950s, a new Pushkin Boulevard was named in honor of Pushkin, and the street was renamed in honor of Pavel Petrovich Postyshev ^[3] - a Soviet statesman and party leader. Since Postyshev’s personality is perceived ambiguously in Ukraine, the street name is perceived ambiguously. Since 1990, the Donetsk regional organization of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and its chairman Maria Oleynik ^[5] repeatedly addressed the Donetsk City Council with a request to the city council to rename it to Vasily Stus Street ^[6] , and the Maybutnyi Party of Ukraine proposed to return the name Seventh Line ^[7] .

On the night of November 24 to 25, 2007, unknown memorials smashed a plaque on Postyshev Street, which was located on the facade of building No. 66 ^{[6] [8]} . According to Oleinik, this was done by unknown patriots ^[5] .

In 2009, the regional organization of the Enlightenment society, under the leadership of the same Maria Oleinik, again appealed to the Donetsk City Council with a request to rename it to Stus Street, but the deputy commission did not approve the name change ^{[9] [10]} .

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  Plaque on Postyshev

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  The plaque on Postyshev defeated by nationalists

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  Street nameplate smeared with paint

Synagogue

At the end of the 19th century, a house of worship and the first synagogue in Yuzovka were built on the seventh line. By 1910, the building of the synagogue and house of worship ceased to accommodate believers, and the Jewish community built a new building of the synagogue on the fourth line, where regular worship services began in 1920 ^[11] . The building of the first synagogue was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War ^[12] and is currently not preserved. Now at this place is the Donetsk Regional Philharmonic .

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  The first Yuzov synagogue on the seventh line. 1910 photo

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  Club of medical workers (building of the former synagogue). 1938 photo

Great Britain Hotel

See also the UK article (hotel) .

The United Kingdom Hotel (20, Postysheva) is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Donetsk . The hotel building was built in 1883 ^[13] . At first it was a two-story building, but in 1891 a third floor was built on, after which the hotel became one of the tallest buildings in the city ^[13] . Also, for a long time the building was the only hotel in the city.

The hotel "United Kingdom" was owned by a Yuzov entrepreneur Chaim Srulevich Sobolev. In the main building there were expensive rooms, and in the annex - cheap ^[14] . Adjoining the hotel was a cinema with a hall for 350 people - the "Sobolev illusion" ^[15] .

Writers Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin ^[13] (who came to Yuzovka as a correspondent of the Kiev newspapers), Alexander Serafimovich Serafimovich ^[13] (from the newspaper Priazovsky Krai), Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky ^[13] (who arrived at the Yuzovsky plant as a receiver of shells) stayed at the hotel ), Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ^[13] (he read poems in Stalin in 1927), Theodor Dreiser and engineers Ivan Pavlovich Bardin ^[13] , Mikhail Alexandrovich Pavlov ^[13] .

Paustovsky’s “ Tale of Life ” included the eponymous chapter with a description of the hotel. Paustovsky described the hotel as follows:

The UK Hotel deserves to be described as a long extinct fossil.

Her walls were painted the color of dirty meat. But this seemed to the owner of the hotel boring. He ordered the walls to be covered with fashionable decadent paintings - white and lilac irises and flirty heads of women peering out of water lilies.

The ineradicable smell of cheap powder, children, and medicine was everywhere. Electricity burned dimly, it was impossible to read under its icteric light. All beds were squashed like troughs.

Corridor girls at any time, day or night, "received guests."

Downstairs on a darn and darned cloth of billiards, the "pyramids" snapped drunken young men with caps on their side and bow ties in bow ties. Every evening someone broke a cue’s head.

- Konstantin Paustovsky. "The Tale of Life"

In Soviet times, the hotel was renamed “October” and in the 1920s was redesigned into the house of workers and collective farmers ^[14] .

During the German occupation of Donetsk during the Great Patriotic War, the hotel had a brothel for German officers ^{[13] [16] [17]} .

In the 1990s, the hotel returned its historical name ^[14] and installed two sculptures of lions at the entrance. Currently, the building is a 2-star hotel with the same name - "UK".

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  The facade of the hotel "United Kingdom", photograph of 2006

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  Lion at the entrance to the hotel "United Kingdom", photograph of 2006

Club of clerks

In 1907, the Yuzov Society of Mutual Assistance to clerks rented a room in which the auditorium, the club "Our Corner", the first public reading library in the city, an amateur theater group, and an amateur orchestra were located ^{[18] [19]} . Performances of the theater team and concerts were in Yiddish, Russian and Ukrainian ^[20] . The club “Our Corner” performed touring ^[20] . The building in its modern presentation was located at 36 Postysheva Street and was destroyed in 2007 ^[21] during the construction of the Green Plaza shopping and entertainment center.

Krol House

Krol House (55 Postysheva St.) - a monument of history and architecture. Built in Donetsk in 1903 for merchant David Lazarevich Krol .

The mansion is made in modern style , new for the time of its construction. Krol House is one of the few Art Nouveau buildings in Donetsk. The building has two floors. David Krol traded tiles, which were produced by the company in Bobruisk . The facade of the house is inlaid with this tile.

In the courtyard there was a furnace on which Kroll burned a brick, and in the basement there were bottles with hydrochloric and sulfuric acid for sale ^[22] .

In Soviet times , it was a residential building that burned down during the years of perestroika and stood in ruins for several years. Subsequently, the mansion was reconstructed. The restoration of the house at his own expense was carried out by businessman Larisa Zakharova.

In the 1980s, it was planned to include the house and other old houses of this region in the memorial part of “Old Yuzovka”, but due to lack of funds this project was not implemented.

During the construction of the Polytechnic Institute station of the Donetsk Metro, the house could be destroyed ^[23] .

Opposite the Krol’s house was a two-story merchant’s mansion of the late XIX - early XX centuries , which was also planned to be included in the memorial part of “Old Yuzovka”, but it was destroyed in April 2007 during the construction of the Green Plaza shopping center.

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  Krol's house

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  facade of the Krol house inlaid with tiles

Merchant House

“Merchant House” (44, Postysheva) is a two-story merchant mansion of the late XIX - early XX centuries in Donetsk . Monument of history and architecture. Destroyed in April 2007 during the construction of a cultural and public shopping center.

The mansion was entered in the state register of monuments of the Donetsk region .

The mansion had six rooms on two floors in which the Yuzovsky merchant and his family lived. Total area - 313, 9 square meters. m. Opposite is the house of Krol .

In the 1980s, it was planned to include the house and other old houses of this region in the memorial part of “Old Yuzovka”, but due to lack of funds this project was not implemented.

The management company Domus LLC has received permission from the State Service for National Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine for the construction of a cultural and public shopping center at the site of the monument. Five years before the construction of the shopping center, the mansion was redeemed and a long-term lease was made on the land under it ^[24] .

The project indicated that during the construction a reconstruction of the architectural monument will be carried out and the front part of the house is built into the facade of the shopping center. In media reports, Olga Sakhno, deputy director of public relations of the communal enterprise “Office of the General Plan of Donetsk”, argued that this was not demolition, but reconstruction ^[25] . One of the leaders of Domus LLC claimed that the house was used as a hangout for homeless people and drug addicts ^[25] while the building and windows and doors were in good order and locked ^[26] .

During the work, the building was destroyed, on one of the facades of the "Green Plaza" its imitation was created.

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  The facade of the house to destruction. 2006 photo

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  The facade of the house after the start of "rehabilitation". 2007 photo

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  The ruined facade of the house. 2007 photo

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  Copy of the historical facade. 2009 photo

Green plaza

see [1]

First City Hospital

Museum of Local Lore

From 1944 to 1950, a local history museum was located in a four-room one-story residential building on the 7th line (69, Postysheva). The total area of ​​the premises was 70 m², the staff consisted of 12 people, and the museum funds totaled about 1000 exhibits. The exposition was located in three rooms, and the office was in the fourth. In 1950, the museum moved to 115 Pushkin (the so-called Postyshev street at that time) and was located in a one-story building of the former synagogue, together with 5 families of residents who lived in the basement and in the attic . The exposition was in 2 rooms and 3 rooms of the house, and the total area of ​​the premises was 334 m². In 1954, the museum moved to the Krupskaya library building ^[27] .

Firewall House Ekka

Wigderhaus House

Wigderhaus House was built in 2007 according to the project of architect Pavel Isaakovich Wigderhaus . The house has two floors. It is stylized as a Yuzov modern.

Cinema Chronicle and Repeat Movie

Lenin Square

In the early 1950s, residential and administrative buildings were built on Postyshev Street along the eastern side of Lenin Square ^[28] .

Philharmonic

The building, which houses the concert hall of the Donetsk Regional Philharmonic named after Sergei Prokofiev, was built as a mirror copy of the building of the Voroshilov District Executive Committee - these buildings are similar in plan but different in design ^[29] . The building was built in the 1930s by Yuzhzhilstroi and was called the “building of state institutions”. It was designed by architect L.I. Kotovsky. After World War II, the building of state institutions was significantly rebuilt ^[30] .

Memorial plaques are installed on the facade of the building:

• in honor of the fact that in September 1941 the headquarters of the 383rd miners' rifle division was located there ;
• in honor of the fact that in the building during the German occupation of the city in 1941-1943 there was an underground group that printed anti-fascist leaflets;
• in honor of the fact that the Philharmonic was named after Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ;
• in honor of the fact that the organ on which Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky played was placed in the philharmonic.

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  Donetsk Regional Philharmonic

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  Donetsk Regional Philharmonic

Bird Woman

“Bird Woman” is a mosaic panel of the outstanding Ukrainian artist Alla Aleksandrovna Gorskaya ^[31] in Donetsk . Also, Grigory Sinitsa and Victor Zaretsky took part in the creation of the panel. Weight - more than 7.5 tons. Another name is "Bereginya" ^[32] .

The panel was made in 1966 at the Rubin jewelry store, but in 2002 , when the building was redeveloped as a McDonald's restaurant, the builders were going to remove it. The Donetsk regional organization of the All-Ukrainian society "Prosvita" and the Donetsk regional organization of the Union of Ukrainian Ukrainians stood up to defend the work of Alla Gorskaya ^{[31] [33]} . Prior to this, in 2000 , during the construction of the Donetsk store “Marina”, another work of Alla Gorskaya - “Ukrainka” was destroyed ^[34] . Thanks to media publications, the Woman Bird panel managed to be defended and it was left and included in the interior of McDonald's restaurant.

At the same time, restoration was carried out . The panel was transferred from the ceiling to the supporting wall. The mosaic background was lined with South African black marble . The work was framed by mahogany . An illuminated podium was also built.

In 2008, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a jubilee coin in denominations of 2 hryvnias dedicated to Vasily Semenovich Stus . On the reverse of this coin, the portrait of Stus is located on the background of the stylized mosaic “Woman Bird” ^[35] .

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  The reverse of the Vasil Stus jubilee coin, in the background is a stylized mosaic of the Woman Bird

Vostok Media Building

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  Retro tram

• Yuzovsky Art Nouveau (unopened) (inaccessible link - history ) .
• The location of the buildings of the village of Yuzovka. Part 5. The seventh line (neopr.) . Archived December 5, 2012.
• Four distances of Postyshev street (neopr.) . Archived December 5, 2012.

Great Britain Hotel

• The building of the hotel "United Kingdom" (neopr.) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived on August 27, 2006.
• Konstantin Paustovsky Book about life. Restless youth. Hotel "United Kingdom" (neopr.) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived March 11, 2007.
• "Great Britain" (neopr.) . Archived November 30, 2012.

Krol House

• Under the gun - an architectural monument (neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived December 31, 2006.

Postysheva 44

• The plot of the building: Yandex. News (unopened) . Archived November 30, 2012. , Google News (unspecified) .
• There is less and less history in Donetsk, Anna Garichik "Salon of Don and Bass" (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.
• In Donetsk, the demolition of a house, which is a historical monument (neopr.) (Unavailable link), began . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived on September 28, 2007.
• In Donetsk, a shopping center (neopr.) Will be built on the site of a historical monument . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived on September 28, 2007.
• From the architectural monuments of Donetsk will remain the contours (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived on September 28, 2007.
• In Donetsk, a shopping center (neopr.) (Inaccessible link) will be built on the site of an architectural monument . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.
• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” in Ukraine “- A two-ton weight destroyed the past of Donetsk (Neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived on November 30, 2012.
• "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in Ukraine "- A skyscraper (neopr.) (Inaccessible link) will be built at the place of rarity . Date of access January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.
• On 44 Postysheva Street, in the Voroshilovsky District, preparatory work is underway for the construction of the Cultural and Public Shopping Center. (neoprene.). Archived November 30, 2012.
• In the center of Donetsk, they are building another shopping center. Photo (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.
• Discussions in   :
  • What do you think about this? (neoprene.). Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived December 9, 2012.
  • damn old house !!!)) (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived July 2, 2007.
  • all. house on Postyshev, 44 demolished. such matters (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.
  • "Rehabilitation" according to Postyshev 44 (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived December 16, 2012.
• The design of the shopping center at the site of the monument (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived on September 27, 2007.
• In Donetsk, a shopping center will be built on the site of a historical monument (photo) (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.
• A new shopping center will appear in Donetsk (photo) (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment January 22, 2010. Archived November 30, 2012.

Bird Woman

• "Bird Woman" has found new wings! (neoprene.).
• Living water for the dead "Tree of Life" (neopr.) (Inaccessible link - history ) .
• The year of spirituality is under the symbols of spirituality (neopr.) . Archived December 5, 2012.
• DONETSK. 1966 YEAR (neopr.) .
• About Victor Zaretsky (neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 3, 2010. Archived October 19, 2001.