Apartment building of the merchant Pervushin

In 1905, the Yekaterinburg city government satisfied the petition of the local merchant Yevgeny Ivanovich Pervushin "On permission according to the attached project to build a two-story stone building on the estate on the corner of Uktuskaya and Otryachikhinskaya streets." The mansion was built in 1906 according to the project of architect Pavel Zarutsky, and the purchaser of the construction was the second guild merchant Evgeny Pervushin, a representative of the flour mill dynasty. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Pervushin brothers, the sons of the serf peasant Ivan Pervushin, who received his freedom and became wealthy, owned their own mills and grocery stores. They successfully traded, modernized production, and increased the volume and quality of flour produced. In 1904, they received the Great Golden Cross at the World Food Exhibition in Brussels. Things were going well with the merchants, and the new apartment building was to become a profitable investment ^[1] .

After completion of construction, the second floor of the apartment building was leased to the Yekaterinburg district treasury, which was there until 1917. It also housed the Yekaterinburg district court and the local military service presence ^[2] . In 1919, the merchant with his sons left Yekaterinburg with the retreating forces of Admiral A. V. Kolchak , and their further fate remains unknown ^[3] .

In the building during the years of World War II, from the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1943, the legendary radio speaker Yuri Borisovich Levitan worked. In the basement of the house was the Sverdlovsk Radio Committee , from where Levitan transmitted the Sovinformburo reports. Thus, the famous words “Attention, Moscow says!” Actually sounded from Sverdlovsk ^[4] .

The evacuation of Levitan to Sverdlovsk took place in an atmosphere of strict secrecy, which was removed after the end of the war. For two years he was accompanied everywhere by armed NKVD officers in civilian clothes, he was not allowed to walk around the city and only at night could he go out to breathe the air. During these years, Levitan worked a lot, often stayed overnight in a radio room. According to contemporaries, he was unpretentious, slept in a narrow iron bunk, and in his free time he voiced film magazines at the Sverdlovsk film studio. In February 1943, Levitan moved to Kuibyshev , where the Union’s most powerful radio station was built. The radio point remaining in Sverdlovsk served the Urals for a long time. A memorial plaque in memory of the work of Yuri Borisovich Levitan during the Great Patriotic War was installed on the building.

After the war, the mansion surrendered to offices and housing. By the end of the 1990s, the building was completely dilapidated. In 2011, the Pervushin mansion was reconstructed. They restored the doors, the staircase fencing, window frames, stucco molding and refreshed the facade. Since 2004, the building has been occupied by the State Unitary Enterprise “Gas Networks”.

A two-storey house with an attic and a basement is located on the corner of 8 March street and Radishchev street. L-shaped building with a southern and eastern facade . The main entrance and the bay window volume is supported by powerful consoles and a crowned dome . The composition of the house is emphasized by the elongated volume of the bay window, decorated with domes, pilasters and pediments . On the horizontal of the facade there are interfloor cornices and a rather steep outer slope of the attic roof and a dome with weathercocks . The eastern facade is asymmetric, while the second part of the facade is symmetrical with the central axis, emphasized by the risalite and the dome. The south facade is symmetrical to the central axis of the entrance group, consisting of pilasters, an arched staircase window and a dome. On the facades - decor in “baroque” forms with a pattern, other architectural elements: paneled reliefs, stucco molding in the form of volutes , garlands and acroterias . The volume of the angular bay window, the casing of the window, console, corners, walls and pediment stands out as a decor. All decorated details of the front facades are highlighted in color, the outer slope of the roof and domes is covered “under the tile”. The layout of the house is built as a residential building with shops on the ground floor, so a large part of the ground floor area was occupied by trading floors, and the premises of the first and second floors were isolated from each other ^[5] .

The building is a monument of urban planning and architecture of regional significance. By the decision of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Executive Committee No. 16 of January 11, 1980, the Treasury building, decorated with art sculpting, having hipped roofs and an iron roof in the form of a tile, was included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Sverdlovsk Region and placed under state protection ^{[3] [6]} . Decree of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region No. 1056-PP dated 10.29.2007 in the account changed the name of the object to the Profitable House of Merchant E.I. Pervushin and the address from Sverdlovsk, st. March 8, 26 on the city ​​of Yekaterinburg, st. March 8, 28 / Radishchev St. 2 ^[7] .

• Sverdlovsk says! // Sverdlovsk film studio, dir. Alexander Arkhipov, 2008.
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