Virtually all the historic buildings in the area around Vernadsky Street and the beginning of Aerokosmichnyi Avenue were destroyed during World War II and the renovations of the 1960s and 1970s. The old Art Nouveau building at Netichenskaya St, 16, which miraculously survived, looks like a stranger in this neighborhood.

The house was built in 1910 according to a design by architect Alexander Ginzburg.

Today, this building houses a branch of the Rimsky-Korsakov Children’s Music School, founded in 1923. The building’s façade was recently restored. Incidentally, the Rimsky-Korsakov family was quite extensive; the house that once belonged to one of its members in Kharkiv, Anna Vasilyevna Rimskaya-Korsakova, is located at Oboronny Val Square, 6.

Fun fact: Ginzburg scaled up some of the facade details of this house for a larger “house without corners,“ built in 1913 on Kaplunovsky Lane.