Many Kharkiv residents are convinced that the building with the largest arch in the city is located on the Kharkivs’ka Embankment (Heroes of Kharkiv Ave., 27/1). Although this claim is debatable, at least as far as the height of the arch is concerned. While the arch of the building on the embankment reaches the 4th floor, the one on Chernyshevska Street reaches the 5th.

The residential building at Chernyshevska Street, 95 was built in 1938 by the talented architect Noi Moiseevich Podgorny, a native of Zhytomyr who devoted most of his life to Kharkiv. He designed many residential buildings, participated in the project for the innovative “New Kharkiv” socialist town (now the historic part of the KhTZ settlement), and developed plans for the restoration of post-WWII buildings.

In particular, he restored the destroyed House of Science and Technology on Constitution Square (the former Commercial Bank, designed by architect O. Beketov), which is why the facade of this historic building bears the date 1949. Noi Podgorny also designed the main building Kharkiv Institute of Railway Transport, (1951–1956) and oversaw the reconstruction of the Kharkiv Institute of Railway Engineering complex, as well as the construction of numerous schools and childcare facilities… Noi Moiseevich lived a long life and died in 1988 at the age of 91, having accomplished a great deal for Kharkiv.