Derzhprom (Kharkiv)
Ukraine /
Kharkivska /
Kharkiv /
maidan Svobody, 5
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/ Ukraine
/ Kharkivska
/ Kharkiv
, 3 km from center (Харків)
World / Ukraine / Kharkiv
office building, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage, 1928_construction, constructivism (art)
The Derzhprom (or Gosprom) Building (Ukrainian: Держпром - Derzhprom; Russian: Госпром - Gosprom; also known as the State Industry Building, Palace of Industry) is a Constructivist building located on Maidan Svobody ('Freedom Square') in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
It was designed and built between 1925 and 1928 by Sergei Serafimov, M. Felger and S. Kravets.
The building was one of a few showcase projects designed when Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. Others include the Post Office by Arkady Mordvinov.
The Derzhprom complex was the largest Modern building in the Soviet Union until the 1960s, and was used as a symbol of modernity in films such as Dziga Vertov's "Three Songs about Lenin" and Sergei Eisenstein's "The General Line".
The use of concrete in its construction and the system of overhead walkways and individual interlinked towers made it extremely innovative.
It was rated by Reyner Banham as one of the major architectural achievements of the 1920s in his Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, comparable in scale only to the Dessau Bauhaus and the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam (Architectural Press 1972, p. 297).
It was designed and built between 1925 and 1928 by Sergei Serafimov, M. Felger and S. Kravets.
The building was one of a few showcase projects designed when Kharkiv was the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. Others include the Post Office by Arkady Mordvinov.
The Derzhprom complex was the largest Modern building in the Soviet Union until the 1960s, and was used as a symbol of modernity in films such as Dziga Vertov's "Three Songs about Lenin" and Sergei Eisenstein's "The General Line".
The use of concrete in its construction and the system of overhead walkways and individual interlinked towers made it extremely innovative.
It was rated by Reyner Banham as one of the major architectural achievements of the 1920s in his Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, comparable in scale only to the Dessau Bauhaus and the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam (Architectural Press 1972, p. 297).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derzhprom
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°0'23"N 36°13'37"E
- Maidan Svobody ('Freedom Square')
- Oak Alley 0.6 km
- Gondola Lift 2.7 km
- Tsirkuny-5 Settlement of Bronze Age 12 km
- Vilkhovyi Rih Grove 14 km
- Drobytskyi Yar Memorial 17 km
- Kolomacke gorodische 70 km
- National Nature Park "Slobozhanskyi" 80 km
- Mahanok maidan 93 km
- Kardominskyj maidan 103 km
- Zaderzhpromia 0.3 km
- Kharkiv Zoo 0.4 km
- Maidan Svobody ('Freedom Square') 0.4 km
- Regional Clinical Hospital 0.5 km
- Klinmistechko ('Clinical Town') 0.6 km
- Shevchenko City Garden 0.6 km
- Botanical Garden of Kharkiv National University 0.8 km
- Nahirnyi Raion 0.8 km
- Shevchenkivskyi district 3.5 km
- Kyivskyi district 6.6 km