Shearman house, Art Nouveau building at Voroshilovsky Avenue, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

The Shirman House is a five-storey brick building in the Art Nouveau style, built in 1915 to a design by architect Arutun Khristoforovich Zakiev. Its plastered main facade features wreaths, vases and floral ornament, with rustication on the first two floors and a massive cornice between the fourth and fifth floors. The building has a rectangular plan with an inner courtyard and a corridor layout; the main entrance is at the corner of Voroshilovsky Avenue and Suvorova Street.

The site held a revenue house of the Zifo family from the 1890s; Mikhail Shirman owned it from 1911 to 1912, and the building is often wrongly named after him. In 1913 the Rossiya Insurance Company bought the plot and in 1915 completed the present five-storey revenue house to a design by architect Arutyun Zakiev, valued at 155,800 rubles. After 1920 it became the House of the Press, and Vladimir Mayakovsky spoke there on 28 November 1926.

The building is often wrongly called Shirman House after Mikhail Shirman, who owned the plot only from 1911 to 1912; the current structure was built in 1915 for the Rossiya Insurance Company. A sculptural group 'Mercy of Russia' stood on the corner until the 1950s, showing a woman warrior protecting an old man and a girl. In 1922 the first Rostov Pioneer detachment 'Spartak' was formed here, and Mayakovsky spoke in the building on 28 November 1926.

The five-storey building is occupied by Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Rostov-on-Don. The main entrance sits on the corner of Voroshilovsky Avenue and Suvorova Street; the plastered main facade faces the avenue. Two memorial plaques on the facade mark Mayakovsky's 1926 appearance and the first Rostov Pioneer pack of 1922.

The building is often wrongly called the Shirman House: Mikhail Shirman owned the plot only from 1911 to 1912, and the present structure was built in 1915 for the Rossiya Insurance Company to Zakiev's design. On the corner stood a three-figure sculpture group, "Russia's Mercy", a woman warrior with shield and sword shielding an old man and a girl; it survived until the 1950s and vanished in 1960.