RKM_GUIDED TOURS KIEV 01 | STUDY VISIT

06 July 2010

• 1. Prime Residential Building of the Doctors "Soviet Doctor" 1928 | 1930
  Architect: P. Alyoshin
  Vuliza Velyka Zhytomyrska, 17/2
  

This architecture is a rare instance in the history of Soviet design because is not following to the dictates of the state but the needs of people and their welfare. In 1937, during the first Soviet Congress of Architects (when the name of a constructivist could already play as a condemnation), however, was unexpectedly presented as an example of a residential building for the people.
Le Corbusier called the building "a real machine for living" because for the first time in history in this building have been designed a club, a library, a laundry room, a gallery / walkway and an exotic like the sun (the first throughout the city), with a perfect division between work area and lounge area.
For a woman, this house was considered a treasure because there were special facilities such as vain refrigerator or wardrobes. Everything was functional and programmed, as intended Alyoshin architect who has followed the principle of combining the good profit.

• 2. Residential Building Military Division of the City of Kiev 1936 | 1937
  Architects: I. Karakis, M. Ruchko, V. Sazanskij
  Provulok Gheorghivskij, 2

• 3. Residential Building Senior Management of the Red Army 1935 | 1936
  Architects: A. Dobrovolskij, I. Karakis
  Vuliza Rejtarska, 3/2

• 4. Residential Building
  1930ies
  Unknown Architect
  Vuliza O. Gonchara, 14/26

• 5. Residential Building of the Factory Workers' Cooperative “ARSENAL”  1927 | 1931
  Architects: M. Anichkin, L. Toltus
  Vuliza M. Grushevskogo, 28/2

• 6. Residential Building of the Red Army Executives 1934 | 1937
  Architect: I. Karakis
  Vuliza  Institutska 15/5

• 7. Residential Building
  1930ies
  Unknown Architect
  Vuliza  Institutska 22/7
  

• 8. Sample of kindergarten Kiev Krasnoznamennogo (KCHZ) 1933 | 1934
  Unknown Architect
  Vuliza  Institutska 28
  

• 9. Residential Building 1939
  Unknown Architect
  Vuliza Lypska, 12/5

• 10. Residential Building of the cooperative “Nauchnyj Rabotnik” 1929 | 1939
  Architect: M. Kholostenko
  Vuliza Liuteranska, 21/12
  

• 11. Second Residential Building of the Doctors “Soviet Doctor” 1931 | 1936
  Architects: P. Alyoshin., O. Kolisnichenko
  Vuliza Zankovezkoj, 2/5
  

This building makes us see what the state's role in the development of culture during the totalitarian regime. His project coincided with the government decision which is blocking the search for new styles and techniques in research in all fields: painting, literature, architecture. For this Alyoshin, constructivist architect par excellence, never broke completely with the classical style. In the Stalinist period the constructivist was in use as meaning "someone not welcome", and then Alyoshin had to play the classic elements of the building while maintaining the functional style of the original project.

• 12. Residential Building for Regional Officers of the Militia 1933 | 1935
  Architect: P. Savich
  Vbuliza Kruglouniversitetska, 2/1
  

• 13. Residential Building for the Employees of “NKVS” / "НКВС”
  End of the 1920
  Unknown Architect
  Provulok I. Kozlovskogo, 5
  

•  14. Residential Building 1934 | 1939
  Architect: G. Liubchenko
  Vuliza Darwina, 5

• 15. Residential Building “NKVS” / "НКВС” 1934 | 1935
  Architect: G. Liubchenko
  Vuliza Academica Bogomolzia, 7/14
  

• 16. Residential Building 1934
  Architect: S. Grigoriev
  Vuliza Shovkovychna, 10

• 17. Residential Building for the Employees of the Party of Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic 
  1935
  Architect: S. Grigoriev
  Vuliza Shovkovychna, 21
  

In the history of the Soviet Union, Kiev has always been considered the city's middle class and intellectual, not the people. The Bolsheviks, in revenge for the fact that Kiev would not submit to their power, moved the capital to the more proletarian Kharkov until the famine of 1934 when the Ukrainian people was bent and it once again became the capital Kiev. That is why most modern architecture are in Kharkov, but in 1934 the architects were moving to Kiev, including Sergei Grigorev. He was not, however, neither a member of the Communist Party nor followed the conventional architecture. The two buildings of the visit were built instead of the house of a former governor general, burned in 1920 and located in a beautiful park. Although intended for senior management (within the structure there is also room reserved for the maid, a real anomaly for that time) creating these buildings Grigoriev thought the future would be allocated to people.