The three-story apartment building in the Ukrainian Art Nouveau style at Georgiy Tarasenko Street, 29, is a historic landmark.

It was built in 1914 based on a design by Serhii Tymoshenko, one of the “fathers” of the Ukrainian Art Nouveau (Ukrainian Architectural Modern, UAM) style. But this authorship is probable and has not yet been documented.

In 1909, this courtyard plot belonged to Praskovya Malysheva, the widow of a merchant; at that time, the street was called Petinskaya Street. From 1919 to 2023, the street was called Plekhanovskaya Street.

The design called for shops with large display windows on the first floor. The building is distinguished by symmetrical bay windows with the tower endings typical of the style; it also features numerous trapezoidal windows that evoke traditional Ukrainian folk architecture. Most of them still retained their original frames as recently as the mid-2010s—unfortunately, they were damaged by Russian shelling during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

An interesting fact: in the early 2010s, a modern building appeared in the same yard that partially echoed elements of the UAM style—a canted roof and trapezoidal windows with a frame identical to those on the neighboring old building.

Incidentally, researchers believe that when designing the apartment building on Petinska Street, the architect drew inspiration from certain architectural and decorative elements of the Metropolitan’s House on the grounds of the former St. Sophia Monastery in Kyiv (1735).