Profitable house of Retsker and Khosudovsky

The profitable house of Retsker and Khosudovsky was built at the expense of the merchants of Retsker and Khosudovsky. Boris Ermolaevich Khosudovsky was a merchant, tobacco merchants. In addition to tobacco and other matters, he had on his account the technical office of the Caucasian-Don Engineering Bureau. E.L. Retsker had a tobacco business.

In 1914, on the site of the seven-story building of Retsker and Khosudovsky, there was a house with a lower number of floors, a tobacco shop of two merchants worked in it. The co-owners of the store, Retsker and Khosudovsky, had a good business during the outbreak of the First World War and started the construction of a large apartment building. The apartment building was built in 1916 according to the project of the architect Eberg Leonid Fedorovich .

The seven-story building of the apartment building had a two-story basement and was erected in the "modern" style. The building had a U-shaped configuration, located on Taganrog Avenue (now Budennovsky Ave.) and occupied an entire block between the streets of Turgenevskaya and Vorontsovskaya (now Bauman Street). The first floor of the building was designed for commercial premises, and the first floor of the basement was intended for warehouses, in the second lower basement a boiler house was built with a boiler fuel storage.

At the beginning of the XX century, during the First World War , the revolutionary events of 1917, the German occupation in the spring of 1918 and the white movement, life in Rostov continued in the same mode. In January 1920, with the advance of the Red Army under the leadership of Semyon Mikhailov Budenny , it changed a lot. The capture of the city by the Red Army took place with great destruction in the city center. The apartment building of E. L. Retzker and B. E. Khosudovsky was one of the first to suffer. A fire broke out in the building, it was badly burned, after which it was empty for a long time. It hosted homeless teens.

By 1923, the house in its condition was already a threat to the life of the population. Residents of a neighboring house on the street. Turgenevskaya No. 42 complained to the Don Department of Local Economy (HOUSE) about the deplorable view of the neighboring building with two-story basements, which became a brothel for street children. But since there was no money to restore the building, it was fenced with a wooden fence, and the first floor was laid with brick. However, this did not stop the tramps - they still lived there, and even broke out beams, iron rails, batteries, etc. for sale from the house. When the beams began to break out from the lower floors, the wall collapsed, ceilings on the third and fourth floors collapsed, in the wall bordering the house number 42 on the street. Turgenevskaya cracked. There was a threat of a wall falling onto a neighboring house, where about a hundred people lived.

On April 14, 1925, the newspaper Molot wrote the following article in the article “Catastrophe with human victims”: “On April 13, a corner collapsed on the burned-out house of Khosudovsky and Retsker along Budyonnovsky Prospekt. Dilapidated, which do not have major connections with the main walls and overhanging floors of the 4th floor, due to their own gravity, collapsed on the underlying floors and, dragging them along, collapsed into the basement, falling asleep in the building at that moment homeless. It has not yet been possible to establish the presence of victims, due to the fact that street children are buried under a pile of bricks and construction waste. A fire brigade and an ambulance were called immediately, but there is no way to begin excavations at this time, since an iron-concrete wall leaned inside the building, closer to Budennovsky Avenue, which threatens to collapse at any moment. ”

Representatives of the administration and fire department arrived at the site of the collapse. After the inspection, it was found necessary to protect the building.

In 1923, the regional architect’s office carried out a second inspection of the house, after which it was ordered that tenant Yuvstroy “take appropriate measures to stop the accumulation of snow and rainwater in open basements and establish continuous monitoring of the condition of the house with taking necessary measures to prevent landslides and destruction ”.

Inspections continued further for several years. In 1926 he was found fit for restoration. Money was allocated to repair the building. In 1929, the architect L.F. Eberg drew up a project for the reconstruction of the building with some simplifications that almost did not affect the appearance of the building.

After reconstruction in 1930, the Don Hotel was opened in the former apartment building of E. L. Retzker and B. E. Khosudovsky. The view of the hotel was printed in the set of postcards "Socialist Rostov." Before the start of World War II, the building was the tallest in the city.

In 1941, when the Germans occupied the city, a fire broke out in the hotel building. The building burned down again.

In July 1942, the Germans again occupied the city, by this time all the bridges were damaged in it. For several days, the Germans erected a pontoon bridge across the Don, but they needed a major bridge. The capital bridge was built by them instead of the old floating bridge. To smooth the road to the bridge, the Germans used building material obtained from the analysis of the profitable houses of E. L. Retzker and B. E. Khosudovsky, as a result of which the house gradually turned into a pile of rubble.

After the war, by the decision of the Executive Committee of the City Council, the territory occupied by the former hotel was transferred to the management of the Shipping Company. For three years, a new administrative building of the shipping company was built on this site according to the project of the Rostov architect B. A. Nikitayev. In 1953, the management of the Shipping Company was liquidated. In 1957, a four-story dormitory of the Maritime College named after G. Ya. Sedova. Currently, there is a sailing school "Crew number 1".

• The newspaper "Hammer": 1925-1927gg.
• Newspaper "Soviet South": 1925
• The newspaper Priazovsky Krai 10/19/14.

• Apartment house of Retsker and Khosudovsky or hotel Don .
• Profitable house of Retsker and Khosudovsky