The building of the City Duma, Federal heritage city hall in Rostov-on-Don, Russia

The building of the City Duma is a four-storey corner building at 47 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street in Rostov-on-Don, designed by Alexander Pomerantsev in an eclectic style with Beaux-Arts symmetry and Neo-Baroque ornament. Its rounded corner bay rises into a domed tower, and the facade has banded rustication on the ground floor, Doric pilasters, cartouches, medallions and a cornice on small corbels.

The building was designed by architect Alexander Pomerantsev and completed in 1899. It was built at a time when Rostov-on-Don was growing into one of the main commercial hubs in southern Russia and needed a proper civic center to match.

The building stands on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, one of the main avenues of the city, and still serves as an administrative seat today. Passers-by can study its facade closely and get a sense of what civic architecture looked like in a growing Russian city at the end of the 19th century.

The building is on a busy central street and easy to reach on foot. Since it is an active administrative building, the interior is generally not open to visitors, but the facade can be viewed freely from the pavement.

The first floor of the central section was rented out to shops selling dry goods, bicycles, gramophones, wallpaper, marble products, optical accessories, weapons and confectionery. The Duma and its offices occupied the three floors above, so a single visit could combine shopping with civic business.