The history of the famous house. As a result of the rocket attack, the building of Ukrkabel in Tatarka suffered significant damage

On the morning of March 21, Russian troops launched a large-scale missile attack on the capital of Ukraine. In several districts of Kyiv there is damage due to the fall of rocket fragments. Among the most affected is the famous Stalin-era house on Tatarka.

A photo of a large building in Kyiv with broken windows and smoke from the windows went viral on all social networks and news agencies of the world. A building in Tatarka, a cozy district of Kyiv, was damaged by the fall of debris from one of the 31 rockets that flew towards the capital in the early hours of March 21.

This building is one of the notable buildings of Kyiv’s Tatarka, to which Kyiv tour guides often take tours. It is known in the city as the building of Ukrkabel. It was built in the style of Stalin’s empire (neoclassicism).

The project of the Ukrkabel building was created in 1938 according to the plan of the Kyiv architect Semen Barzylovych (1903−1958).

The architect inscribed the house into the topography of the area so that it could be seen from afar. It became one of the largest residential buildings of the late 1930s and early 1940s built in Kyiv.

According to the project, the building has 51 apartments: 33 two-room apartments, 10 three-room apartments and 8 three-and-a-half-room apartments. Until the end of the 1980s, the apartments in the building were communal. Employees of the Ukrkabel plant lived in them, which is where another name of the building comes from.

In 2015, the expert group of the Research Institute of Monument Protection Research raised the issue of including the building in the register of cultural heritage objects of local importance.

Next to the house is the Church of St. Nicholas in Memory of Chernobyl Victims of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the construction of which was started in 2005 and completed in 2011. The church and the chapel nearby were damaged as a result of being hit by fragments of a downed rocket.