A street named after the architect of the city's first station appeared in Kyiv

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From now on, Fedoseev Street in the Solomyansky district will be named in honor of Ivan Vishnevsky.

Decision on renaming about 40 toponyms on September 8 supported deputies of the Kyiv City Council.

In particular, they voted to change the name of Fedoseeva Street, which has immortalized the memory of the Russian Marxist revolutionary since the middle of the last century. Now its name will be more symbolic, because it was in the Solomyansk district that the architect Ivan Vishnevsky implemented the most significant project in his biography - the first railway station.

The area of ​​the former Fedoseeva Street. Photo: Mapio

Today, a building from the 20s and 30s of the 1870th century stands on this site, but before that, the main building of the railway had a completely different appearance - it was made in the style of Old English Gothic. The first station was built in XNUMX. It consisted of three three-story buildings that connected single-story galleries. 

The project of the first station of the city, Ivan Vishnevskyi. Image: "Zodchy" magazine

The project of the first station of the city, Ivan Vishnevskyi. Image: "Zodchy" magazine

In front of the building, on the station square, there were parking spaces for carriages, stagecoaches and omnibuses, and later also for cars. Restaurants and waiting rooms for 1st and 2nd class passengers were located to the right and left of the central building. 

Neo-Gothic station from the side of the station square. Photo: Kyiv History Museum

In 1877, there was a big fire here. Later, the building was restored and partially reconstructed, but when the population of the Ukrainian capital began to grow rapidly, it was clear that there was not enough space. Already in 1908, the architectural landmark was dismantled, and 20 years later, its current version was built.

The arrival of the first train at Kyiv station on August 23, 1868. Photo: Kyiv History Museum

Very little biographical information has been preserved about the architect himself. He was born in 1829, most likely in St. Petersburg. There, at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, he received an education by profession. In the 1960s, he already moved to Kyiv.

Among the well-known projects in the capital are the production buildings of the Demiiv sugar refinery and a residential building on the street. Volodymyrska № 38. He died in 1875, 5 years after the completion of the station project.

 

 

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