Vladimir market

The Vladimir market has a 130-year history. It appeared back in the 19th century during the era of tsarist autocracy, during the reign of Nicholas 2 - the emperor of the Russian Empire, and was developed in Soviet times. It was rebuilt many times, changing the appearance and internal content.

The stage of market formation takes us to the 40s of the 19th century. The first written mentions of the Vladimir market are among the documents of the Provisional Committee for the Improvement of Kiev under the Kiev Provincial Government, dated 1834-1842, which dryly states: "Relocation of the Church of St. Vladimir to the New Building Area".

It is from this event that the long history of the Vladimir market begins, since both the market and its first location are owed to the Vladimir Church, which is still located on its territory. The transfer of the church was carried out according to the decree of the Kiev military governor Dmitry Bibikov, under whose leadership the Kiev New Pechersk fortress was built. In addition to the church, many Pechersk families were relocated to the new district. The Kiev historian Sementovsky claims that from 1832 to 1850, 800 families were resettled from the Pechersky district to the New Building district. The reason for such actions was that their houses were located in the area of ​​the esplanade of the fortress. This territory was needed by the military to monitor the terrain, and, if necessary, to shell an advancing enemy.

At that time, the area was located between the Lybed river to the Cherepanova mountain itself. The New Building area did not belong to Kiev. This outskirts was located outside the city and was an uninhabited, sparsely populated area in the lowlands of the Starokievsky plateau. In the New Building, there were single-story houses in which, in addition to families from Pechersk, families of garrison employees, small and medium-sized officials lived. The arrangement of the district began with the construction of a road, street marking, the opening of hotels, taverns, blacksmith workshops. This area was revived by brisk trade, which took place at a weekly fair near the Vladimir Church.

Thanks to the transport interchange (Vasilievsky Way, which was much later modernized into Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya Street), the New Building district connected many nearby villages and cities of Ukraine with various districts of the capital, therefore brisk trade arose here by chance. Years passed, and the weekly fair was not enough for the area, it was necessary to create a place for constant trade. And for this, the fair was to receive status from the city administration. The first petitions of sellers appear in the archival documents of the Kiev City Council, the bazaar branch for 1888: “On August 26, 1888, traders at the Vladimir Fair came to the council with a motion to open the Vladimir Market, at the site of spontaneous bazaar trade conducted on Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya Street and near the Church of the Holy Prince Vladimir. " The petition said that the Vladimir market would be useful to the city and residents of Kiev. "

It should be noted that on Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya Street there were already two markets: Bessarabsky and Troitsky. After submitting a petition to the Council of Merchants of the Vladimir Fair, a lot of protests arose from the administrations of the Bessarabian and Trinity markets. The reason for the hostility was the discontent that the new Vladimir market could lead to an outflow of customers from existing markets. As a result of this, complaints and petitions about the inadmissibility of the organization of a new market, its inexpediency and even harmfulness fell in the direction of the Kiev Council. However, this did not frighten representatives of the Vladimir Fair - after an almost six-month documentary confrontation at the end of this year, the Kiev Government made a final decision and issued documents confirming the creation of a new Vladimir market. This event occurred on October 8, 1888. The record of this is noted in the “Case of the Kiev City Council for 1888-1896”.

After making a decision about opening a new market, its activity is regulated: documents are created in the chancellery to systematize its functioning, rents of land and trading places are distributed among sellers; lists are compiled, rents are determined and collected in the treasury.

The department of trading floors began its activities during the construction of the main building of the Vladimir market. The decision to build the main indoor market was made on September 27, 1960 by the executive committee of the Kiev City Council of Workers' Deputies - Decision No. 1721 "On the allocation of land to the Market Administration for the construction of the indoor market:" Allocate to the Market Administration a land area of ​​about 1.5 hectares along the street Gorky, 115 under the construction of a covered market. "

In a memorandum addressed to the head of the Kyiv City Market Directorate, comrade Aksenova I.V. was said: “The Research Institute of Experimental Design of the ASIA of the Ukrainian SSR reports: when developing working drawings of a covered market for 486 trading places on 115 Gorky Street, all the comments of the Construction and Architectural Council of the Office for Construction and Architecture of the Kiev City Executive Committee were taken into account , the State Sanitary Inspectorate of Kiev and the Fire Department of the Kiev Regional Council of Workers' Deputies. "

The modern Vladimir market is the central market of the city of Kiev. It was built for about three years (1965-1968) according to the project of architect G.K. Ratushinsky and engineer L.G. Dmitriev. The building is made of glass, all structures are metal. Distinctive features of the new market are clear proportions, new materials and progressive designs, on the street. Antonovich, 115 (1968 architects K.S. Feldman, G.K. Ratushinsky). The building is 20 meters high, designed for 485 retail outlets, whose sales area is 3181 m2, volume 30876 m3. The market consists of a central trading floor with the planned dimensions of 42X42 and the departments of meat, eggs and vegetable oil, vegetables and fruits attached to it. Utility premises are located in a two-story annex on the back of the building. In the basement there are warehouses, 19 refrigerators with an area of ​​180 m2, a freezer compartment, a special chamber for defrosting meat, etc.

The market building has a prefabricated reinforced concrete cable-stayed shell and is designed according to the skeleton scheme of prefabricated reinforced concrete elements. Glass-reinforced concrete panels were used to enclose the side surfaces of the central trading floor.

The unusual shape of the roof in the form of visors, triangles, descending to the center, clearly defines the specifics of the design, forming a memorable architectural image. The market was formed from three main platforms for sale.

On the territory of the covered market was organized the trade of honey from households, milk, sour cream, cream, syrup, homemade butter, etc. A part of the trading area was reserved for the sale of beaten poultry and rabbits. A significant part of the floor space of the ground floor along the walls was circled under the shelves for trade in meat and lard, where a significant part of the people gathered, where the lines for goods were often observed. Part of the central aisles was reserved for trading places for sellers of fruits and vegetables from household plots, often sellers here were retirees from suburban areas who cultivated gardens and had orchards.

In the middle of the trading floor, concrete-brick trading counters were built. At the beginning of each such series light stands were mounted on iron supports with inscriptions - Vegetables, Meat, which shone brightly.

Most of the central hall of the indoor market was occupied by the following stores: GORKOOPTORGU store, store No. 7, store No. 495 of the Moscow RGT, juice department, fish products store, grocery store No. 2 of the Kiev company - grocery store department, fish department, store No. 506 of the Moscow ORPC - section for the sale of fruits and vegetables, section for the sale of canned food and pickles, department of canned goods and juices. The department of Christmas-tree decorations and toys of the Cultural Trade Store No. 1916 Kiev also worked on the market.

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• Vladimir market at retroua