The house with chimeras in Kiev

Adress of the sight: 10 Bankova Str., Kiev, Ukraine.

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The house with chimeras is the brick building in modernist style. It is situated in Kiev the capital of Ukraine. The house received the name thanks to sculptural jewelry (located both on a facade of the house and in it), their subject is various — land and underwater fauna, attributes of hunting, fantastic beings.

The building is located in the Pechersky area on Bankovaya Street, 10, opposite to Administration of the President of Ukraine. Architect Vladislav Gorodetsky constructed it in 1901 — 1903 as the profitable house with rooms for the family. The construction site was chosen over a steep on Bankovaya Street, on the former bank of the drained Goat bog. Sculptural jewelry was made by sculptor Elio Salya, according to his own drafts.

On the authority of the government resolution the building is used as the dwelling of the president of Ukraine since spring of 2005. It is an architectural monument No. 906.