Мукомольная мельница Стройкова и Якимова, Flour mill in Samara, Russia

The Stroykov and Yakimov Mill is a four-story red brick building with arched windows and ornamental cornices located on Maxim Gorky Street. The original complex was later expanded with a six-story annex, and today the site houses a pedagogical institute.

The building was constructed between 1901 and 1903 by merchant N.V. Demkin near the Volga River mouth and designed by Samara architect Alexander Shcherbachev. After a fire in 1910, merchant V.Z. Karpov acquired the property and had a larger addition built.

The mill's name honours its last private owners, merchants A. Ya. Stroykov and K. S. Yakimov, who took over the site after 1902; an earlier owner was the grain merchant N. V. Demkin. The facades mix Russian-style arcading, toothed cornices and small turrets with plain brickwork, and the four-storey block is set back from the street line to form a service yard.

The building stands in the city center on a main street and is easily visible from outside, though the interior now belongs to an institute. Visitors should check beforehand if tours are available, as it is not open for casual visits.

The mill's name honours its last private owners, merchants A. Ya. Stroykov and K. S. Yakimov, not its builder: the plot passed from N. V. Demkin to merchant's wife S. A. Yakimova in 1902 and then to them. The ensemble was placed under state protection by a Kuibyshev regional executive committee decision of 6 May 1987, No. 165.