Ginsburg Skyscraper
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The Ginzburg Skyscraper, or Ginzburg House, was a 12-story, 67.5 m skyscraper in Kyiv. Known as "Ukraine's first skyscraper" and Europe's tallest building before 1925 in terms of roof height, it was c
Design of a skyscraper (1910)
A view of the walls
View from a skyscraper window
View of Kiev, the Ginzburg skyscraper on the right
Khreshchatyk
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Khreshchatyk is the main street of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. The street is 1.2 kilometres long, and runs in a northeast-southwest direction from European Square through the Maidan to Bessarab
Ginsburg Skyscraper
…scorched earth strategy, as commanders believed German soldiers would be quartered in central Kyiv. In addition to this building, around 100 houses on Khreshchatyk Street and adjacent streets were blown up. In 1953, the foundations of the building were finally demolished. In 1954–1961, the Moscow Hotel (since 2001, the…
Khreshchatyk in 2021
Kyiv Central Post Office in the 1900s
The demonstration on Khreshchatyk, March 1917
The remains of part of the street following its destruction in September 1941