The Children's and Youth Center of Volgograd is a municipal educational institution for additional education of children. He is the legal successor of the first in Russia and the second in the territory of the former USSR (after Kharkov) Palace of Pioneers - the Stalingrad Palace of Pioneers.
City Children and Youth Center | |
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| opening after reconstruction (2018) | |
| Other names | Volgograd Palace of Pioneers |
| Located |  Russia , Volgograd |
| Purpose | Palace of Pioneers |
| Public access | Yes |
| Status | Built by |
| Built in | 1981 |
| opening date | December 29, 1981 |
| Operation period | 1981–2005, from 2018 |
| Architectural style | Soviet architectural modernism |
| Materials | concrete , glass , limestone , coquina |
| Number of floors | 3 fl. |
| total area | 13,000 m² (10870 sq. Yard ) |
| Under jurisdiction | Russia |
| Design | Levitan Efim Iosifovich |
| Official site | |
History
January 3, 1936 in Stalingrad at a meeting of the Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) the question of opening the Palace of Pioneers . Of the six proposed buildings in which the palace could be located, for various reasons, not one was chosen. As a result, the building was transferred to the Palace of Pioneers, in which the city committee of the party was located at that time [1] .
This building was built by order of Tsaritsynsky merchant K.V. Voronin. The interiors of the mansion were made of marble . The walls were decorated with artistic stucco . Floors - inlaid parquet . The building was faced with Finnish granite . [one]
Restoration and refurbishment of the building were carried out within three months. The building had 38 rooms. The opening was equipped with music rooms, a ballet studio, premises for theatrical and choral groups, a laboratory of young naturalists, an entertaining physics class, a cinema and a photo studio, a zoology study room, and a radio center. The palace was designed for 1500 pupils. The decoration of the palace was made by the Moscow artist N.V. Filippov. All work on the creation of the Palace of Pioneers was carried out by the Council of the Palace, which was chaired by the first secretary of the regional committee of the party, Joseph M. Vareikis . [one]
The grand opening of the Stalingrad Palace of Pioneers took place on May 17, 1936 . [one]
The first director of the palace was appointed Samuil Lvovich Zaitsev, but in the middle of 1937 Veniamin N. Nikolaevsky, who worked until 1962, became the director. [one]
In addition to the main building, the palace was transferred to the building of the former Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium, which opened an auditorium with 800 seats. [one]
In the first months of World War II, the Palace continued its work. The circle of needlework started the mass sewing of linen for hospitals. Young chemists packaged medicines and dressings for field medical battalions. The printing house printed the agenda. The palace symphony orchestra played on city radio, replacing musicians who had gone to the front. Art circles gave concerts at the recruiting centers and in hospitals. Young technicians made wooden hulls for anti-tank mines. Art school students painted postcards for the Red Army men. [one]
On December 9, 1941, the city defense committee decided to close the Palace of Pioneers. On December 10, the palace building was occupied by the headquarters of the Kharkov Military District. But the circles continued to work in schools, in the premises of the musical technical school and radio studio. [one]
During the Battle of Stalingrad, the palace building was destroyed and could not be restored. [one]
April 22, 1950 in the building at ul. Pushkinskaya, 25 began its work the House of Pioneers, which, according to the old memory, the Stalingrad citizens called the Palace. The building was small and in 1956, by a decision of the Executive Committee of the City Council, the palace was transferred to the building along Lenin Avenue , 5. [1]
Modern DJC
In the summer of 1980, before the opening, a canvas for the museum-panorama “Battle of Stalingrad” was sewn in the palace’s gymnasium [1] .
On December 29, 1981, a new building of the Palace of Pioneers was opened on the banks of the Tsaritsa River, designed by architect Efim Levitan and Alexander Leushkanov. [one]
In 1984, in the Volgograd Palace of Pioneers, the Match for the title of world champion in chess in 1984 was held. Contender for the title Irina Levitina and current double champion Maya Chiburdanidze , who defended the title, fought among themselves. [one]
For almost four months, the attention of the sports community of the whole world was riveted on Volgograd. A total of 100 thousand spectators attended the match. The open championship was attended by the President of the International Chess Federation Florencio Campomanes , the USSR Minister of Culture Pyotr Demichev , the Chairman of the USSR Chess Federation Vitaly Sevastyanov , and the leaders of the region. [one]
In 1995, the building was recognized as an object of architectural value for the city [2] .
December 20, 2005 due to lack of funding for the reconstruction of the building in disrepair, the palace was closed [3] . The children continued studying at various educational institutions of Volgograd and in the building of the former Pobeda cinema.
On May 11, 2014, a fire broke out in the building of the Children’s Sports Center. [four]
On June 1, 2014, the leadership of the Volgograd region decided to reconstruct the building. At the same time the reconstruction was started.
The building was renovated by PrivolzhTransStroy. The main architect of the reconstruction is Alexey Lisin, the head of construction is Alexey Kolpakov, the foreman Boris Miklin.
On March 6, 2018, the building of the Children's and Youth Center of Volgograd was opened after reconstruction.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 History // Volgograd Children's and Youth Center. - 2009. - October 5th. - The date of the appeal: 11.03.2018.
- ↑ Raised fires Palace of Pioneers
- ↑ Volgograd authorities closed the city youth center due to the lack of money for repairs (not available link) . The appeal date is July 24, 2014. Archived on February 18, 2015.
- ↑ In the center of Volgograd the building of the city’s Children’s Sports Center
Links
- Rita Malich. The youth center of Volgograd is waiting for happy votes // v1.ru. - 2018. - 3 March. - Date of appeal: 03/02/2018.