Name
People's Commissariat of Labor
Years of construction
1925
Architect
Address
1, Myronosytska, str.
Architectural heritage of Serhiy Tymoshenko.
People's Commissariat of Labor The House of the People's Commissariat of Labor became an architectural monument in 1980. Despite the architectural value of the building, the main reason for its preservation was its Soviet history - in the postwar times, it housed the Regional Committee of the Communist Party, and later it belonged to the Regional Committee of the Komsomol (The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League). In the process of dossier creation, one problem was revealed - according to information gathered by Viktor Chepelyk, among its architects was Serhiy Prokopovych Tymoshenko, who worked in the style of Ukrainian romanticism (so-called Ukrainian Art Nouveau). But his name was "erased" for some reason. In the Architectural Life of Kharkiv was said that the House of the People's Commissariat of Labor was built in 1925 by P. Kushnaryov. This article also provides a picture of the building, which has not been completed. Any documents confirming the authorship of SP Tymoshenko were not found. Modern local historians have found that Serhiy Tymoshenko was a known Ukrainian politician till 1917; he was a member of the Central Council and for short time he acted as provincial commissar of the Kharkiv region, authorized by the Ukrainian government to negotiate with the Don Army for joint anti-Bolshevik military operations. In 1919, he went out of the city on a business trip and could not return. In 1921 his archives, including all the drawings of his designs, were taken away in an unknown direction by Soviet soldiers on two trucks. Considering that this archive was a result of 12 years of Tymoshenko's research on the Ukrainian architectural heritage, the famous Kharkiv ethnographer Mykola Sumtsov immediately began to search the documents, but to no avail. Meanwhile, a comparative analysis of buildings by Tymoshenko proves that the one on the Myronosytska street, 1 seems to be his work as well. This is evident in the 1943 photograph that reveals all details of the facades that were lost in the 1960s and 1970s. It is known that between 1918 and 1924 the construction of public facilities was paused. Even the most important buildings in Kharkiv, such as the House of All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, were only rebuilt or reconstructed. So we can assume that at that time the People's Commissariat of Labor was located in an unfinished facility. The address of the organization was often changing, and in the 1930s it moved to its current address on Myronosytska street, 1. In the archives of the Kharkiv City Council, there is a letter dated 1915 requesting to remove the plan of the yard of the primary school#1. This document could be evidence that the construction of the new building was about to start. Given that Tymoshenko worked on projects of several educational institutions, we can assume that the architect was working on the design of a new building though he had not finished it due to Revolution. And already in 1925 the chemical engineer Pavel Kushnaryov completed this object. Stylistically, the building is transitional from Ukrainian Art Nouveau to modernist searches. The main facade of it has the blades with a stylized Doric order. The hexagonal windows on the 3rd floor, hexagonal entrance portals, and hexagonal doorways in the interiors of the 3rd floor are influenced by Ukrainian Art Nouveau are. Characteristic elements of this style include stairwell fencing, authentic window frames, wooden stairs to the attic, attic entrance doors. The cladding of the courtyard facades mimics a reinforced concrete framing with red bricks inside, reminiscent of modernist search. Olga Shvydenko
People's Commissariat of Labor / Administrative Institutions / Faculty of Economics, Kharkiv National University named after Karazin
Timoshenko S., Kushnaryov P. / 1925 / 1, Myronosytska, str.
State institutions / Іnfluence of Ukrainian folk architectureі
Monuments of architecture / Unaltered condition
Romanticism of Industrial Revolution
Influence of classical art
Constructivism
Art Deco
Influence of Ukrainian folk architecture
Influence of European Modern architecture
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