29 landmarks damaged in Russia’s July 23 attack on Odesa

The New Voice of Ukraine
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Consequences of the nighttime missile attack on Odesa
Consequences of the nighttime missile attack on Odesa

Twenty-nine landmarks were damaged in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Odesa in the early hours of July 23, Ukraine’s Information Policy Ministry said on July 23.

Among the damaged facilities are historic buildings that were built in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  1. Jacques Naum's Lodging House (neoclassicism, built early in the 20th Century, architect Aron Panpulov). Naum was a co-owner of a local soap factory. The three-story facility is currently a residential building.

  2. Osyp Chyzhevych's Residential House (neo-Renaissance, built in the middle of the 19th Century, architect Volodymyr Bruns). Chyzhevych was a well-known Odesa public figure, memoirist. The facility is currently a residential building.

  3. Porro’s House (neo-Baroque, built in the 19th Century, architect Demosfen Mazirov). The house, built in 1883-1884 for French citizen Emilia Bistan, reportedly belonged to Genoese merchant Giacomo Porro from 1900-1905. Soviet and Russian poet and journalist Semyon Kirsanov lived and worked in the house from 1906–1926. The three-story facility is currently a residential building.

  4. The Brzozowski (Shakhsky) Palace ensemble (neo-Gothic style, built in 1851-1852, Polish-Russian architect Feliks Gąsiorowski). Zenon Brzozowski was a Polish tycoon. The palace is used as an administrative building now.

  5. The Credit Society’s Building (eclecticism, built in 1881, French architect Arthur Luix). The facility is used as a restaurant and club.

  6. Kovalevsky's House (built in Italian Palazzo Strozzi style in 1846, architects Cayetano (Ivan) Dall'Acqua and Alexander Shashin). Physiologist Prof. Bronislav Verigo lived in the house from 1897-1925. The facility is used as a residential house.

  7. Merchant Zabludovsky's Lodging House (the construction of the so-called “marshmallow house” started in 1890, architects Paul Klein and Bruno Bauer).

  8. The Manuc Bey Mansion (1845-1846, architects Cayetano (Ivan) Dall'Acqua and Alexander Shashin). Prominent Ukrainian novelist, short story writer, and playwright Mykola Hohol lived in the building in 1848. The facility is currently used as a kindergarten.

  9. Mass’s Residential House (built in 1870-1880, architect Feliks Gąsiorowski). The facility is used as a residential house.

  10. Tolstoy's Lodging House (built in 1880, architect Feliks Gąsiorowski). The facility is used as a residential house.

  11. Residential building in the Mór von Déchy complex of buildings (1908-1909, architect Vikentiy Procháska). The facility is used as a residential house.

  12. Residential building in the Mór von Déchy complex of buildings where Moldovan conductor Tymofiy Hurtovy and surgeon Prof. Volodymyr Pokotylo lived from 1920-1940. The facility is used as a residential house.

  13. Janusz’s Lodging House (built in 1901, architect Alexander Bernardazzi)

  14. Zhdanova's Lodging House (eclecticism, built in 1901-1902, architects Wilhelm Kabiolsky and Julian Dupont). Ukrainian opera singer Ivan Totsky lived in the house. The facility is used as a residential house.

  15. Zhdanova's Lodging House (built in 1910, architect Wilhelm Kabiolsky). The facility is used as a residential house.

  16. Ivan Gagarin's Lodging House (eclecticism, built in the end of the 19th Century according to a project by German architect Christopher Beutelsbacher, completed by local architect Mavrikyi Reintertz). The facility is used as a residential house.

  17. Complex of Mansions (built in the first half of the 19th century). The facility is used as a residential house.

  18. Lypkovsky’s House (built in 1850, architect O. Kollovych). The three-story facility is used as a residential house.

  19. Residential House (built late in the 19th Century, architect Lev Prokopovych). It is now used as an administrative building.

  20. Solomos Residential Buildings (2 blocks) (built early in the 20th Century, architect Vikentiy Procháska; renovated in 2008). The facilities are used as administrative buildings.

  21. Pasazh (Passage) Shopping Mall and Pasazh Hotel (built in 1898-1899, architect Lew Włodek; sculptors Tovii Fishel and Samuil Milman). The facility is used as a hotel.

  22. Yuryevich's Lodging House (the beginning of the 20th Century, Ukrainian architect Yuriy Dmytrenko). It is now used as a residential house.

  23. Rafalovich's House (Tsentralny (Central) Hotel) (built in the middle of the 19th Century). The facility is used as a hotel.

  24. The Pyotr Stolyarsky School of Music building (built in 1938-1939, Ukrainian architect Fedir (Feifel) Troupianskyi). Professor Stolyarsky worked in the building in the 1930s. It is a present-day art secondary school.

  25. Pommer's Mansion (built in 1893-1894, architect Wilhelm Kabiolsky). It is currently used as an administrative building.

26.1. The House of Scientists (Tolstoy Palace) (built in 1830-1890, architect Georgy Torricelli)

26.2. Tolstoy's Art Gallery (built in 1896-1897, Austrian architect Ferdinand Fellner, German architect Herman Helmer (they worked on the Odesa Opera House) and German architect Herman Scheurembrandt. Sculptures by Italian sculptor Luigi Iorini). The two facilities are listed as institutions of culture of national importance.

27. Papudova's House (built in 1832-1833, architects Ivan Kozlov and Franz Morandi). It is used as a residential house.

28. The facility of the Transfiguration Cathedral, where prominent people of Odesa and southern Ukraine, including Mikhail Vorontsov and his spouse Elizaveta Vorontsova, were buried (1880; reburied in 2005). It is a religious facility. The cathedral was consecrated in 1808, destroyed in 1936, and reconstructed from 1996 to 2011.

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29. The Odesa-based house where choir master and honored artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Prof. Kostiantyn Pigrov lived. It is used as a residential house.

Russia specifically targeted the UNESCO-protected historic center of Odesa, said Odesa Oblast military administration head, Oleh Kiper, on July 23.

"Everything that was created by great architects whose hard work is now being destroyed by cynical inhumans!," Kiper noted.

Documents to record the crimes committed by the Russians are being prepared, and experts are working on the ground. UNESCO experts are expected to arrive in short order.

Read also: UNESCO to send mission to Odesa for damage assessment

In the early hours of July 23, Russian troops inflicted the largest blow on the historic center of Odesa. The enemy hit the city with five types of missiles. The press service of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that out of 19 missiles of various types, nine targets were shot down by air defense forces. One person reportedly died and 22 were injured on the day of the attack. The Transfiguration Cathedral and other historical buildings were badly damaged.

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