Palace of Children and Youth Creativity (Smolensk)

The house was built in 1895 - 1896 by order of the owner of the tiled-tile factory, the merchant of the 2nd guild Pavel Budnikov, at the intersection of Kadetskaya (now Communist) and Malaya Dvoryanskaya (now Mayakovsky) streets. A few years later he was transferred to the needs of the officer meeting ^[1] . During the years of Soviet power (from November 1935 ), the Palace of Pioneers was located here, and in the post-Soviet era, the Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth. Among the students of the Palace of Pioneers is the future famous sculptor Lev Kerbel . During the Great Patriotic War, the building was destroyed. The head of the Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth is currently Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation Tatyana Vasilievna Kudasova ^[2] .

The building is built of red brick and is the brightest example of the Russian style in Smolensk. On the outside, the walls are covered with red stucco and painted for masonry. In the appearance of the building, a large number of multicolor multiform tiles were used ^[1] .

The main part of the building of the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity has three floors, the wing, which runs along Mayakovsky Street, continues with a veranda of two floors, the second of which is wooden. In the center of the composition, which goes directly to the intersection of Mayakovsky and Kommunisticheskaya streets, is a cut corner of the building with a balcony on the second floor and a round image of the coat of arms of Smolensk on the third. The windows of the building also vary - on the first floor, the windows have bridges, on the second they are large arched windows, and on the third they are crowned with a gable top ^[1] .