The tower of the fire station on Zaikivka

Address: Kvitkinska Str, 27

Photo: Ivan Ponomarenko, 2016

Fire and rescue unit No. 4 of Osnovyanskij District is located at 27 Kvitkinska Str.

Photo: Ivan Ponomarenko, 2021

The building of the fire department is an architectural landmark. It was built in 1886 (according to other data, in 1887) according to the project of the architect Hryhoriy Stryzhevskyi in the historicism style with neo-Gothic elements.

Photo: Ivan Ponomarenko, 2021

Several service buildings of the same period were located on the territory of the fire station. They were also architectural monuments.

Photo: Ivan Ponomarenko, 2021

Most of them were destroyed as a result of 2 missile strikes by Russian forces in March 2022. The main building of the fire department was also seriously damaged.

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv Region. 2022

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv Region. 2022