The Shirman House ( rus, Дом Ширмана, r=Dom Shirmana) is an edifice in the Kirovsky District of Rostov-on-Don,

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. The house is located at 20 Voroshilovsky avenue (russian: Ворошиловский проспект, 20) at the intersection of Suvorova street and Voroshilovsky avenue. It was a

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. The building is also considered to be an object of cultural heritage.

History

The Kushnarev House was built in 1911 upon to a project of Rostov architect Arutun Khristoforovich Zakiev. Dwellings in the Shirman House were rented. The building was nationalized after the establishment of the

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rule in 1920. It was turned over to a printing house. Rostov association of proletarian writers and the ''Molot'' newspaper correspondents club were accommodated in the building. The first Rostov

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pack was formed here in 1922. Russian poet

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

appeared in the Shirman House on 28 November 1926. Before the Second World War, the building was turned over to the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. After the end of the war, a puppet theater begun to work on the ground floor, Yuzhnaya hotel occupied the upper floors. Two memorial plaques were opened on the facade in 1986. One of them was established in memory of Vladimir Mayakovsky appearance. Another commemorates organization of the first Pioneer pack in Rostov-on-Don. The Shirman House is owned by Gazprom Mezhregiomgaz Rostov-na-Donu LLC currently.

Description

The five-storey brick building was designed in the Art Nouveau style in the early of the 20th century. The facade is decorated with wreaths, flowerpots, attic,

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s and floral ornament. The first and second floors are decorated with banded rustications. The third and fourth floors have small balconies with delicate iron-cast railing. A cornice above small corbels divides the fourth and fifth floors.

References

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