Perhaps the most beautiful building on Donets’-Zakharzhevs’koho Street is the magnificent Art Nouveau house at number 2.

According to the list of architectural monuments, the building was designed by Moisey Dikansky and constructed in 1905.

But he was most likely not an architect; rather, as Anton Bondarev has established, he was a businessman, a developer, and a theorist of urban planning.

According to the 1909 property owner records, this house belonged to Alexander Yakovlevich Nemirovsky, a lawyer.

There are also reports online that the house was originally built for Zilberberg.

The house’s facade is full of intricate details that you just can’t stop looking at…

It is known for certain that Albert Moiseevich Zilberberg, a dentist, owned another Art Nouveau-style house on the same street, at number 8.

This house is also attributed to Dikansky; the years 1873–1908 are visible on the facade.

The year 1908 refers to the year of construction; the building was originally built to house the “Zilberberg and Sons” printing house, which was founded in 1873 and was previously located at Rybnaya Street, 30.

The first issues of *Yuzhny Krai* newspaper were printed there.

Building No. 2 was renovated in 2002 by the now-defunct company “MKS,” which had its main computer store located there. The facade of House No. 8 was renovated several years ago; in a 2011 Google Street View image, you can see an unsightly balcony and a downspout right in the center of the building.

They were removed during the renovation, and the windows were also replaced (alas, as always, with some of the original glazing bars lost in the process), while there are now two downspouts, which are elegantly concealed.