Lenin Street 47, Art Nouveau office building in Tyumen, Russia
Lenin Street 47 is the main house of the Yankel Shaitchik estate, a complex of buildings of different styles that forms the front of a historic city block. Built in 1914 to a design by architect Konstantin Chakin in the Art Nouveau style, it stands at 47 Lenin Street in Tyumen.
The building was completed in 1914 under architect Konstantin Chakin's design and marks a period of architectural flourishing in pre-revolutionary Tyumen. It shows how Russia adopted modern European styles and blended them into local practice.
The building is linked to merchant Yankel Shaitchik (1875–1942) of the second guild, who commissioned it; in November 1918 the trading house "Shaitchik Brothers Yankel and Abram-Itzhak" was sold to Vologda merchant Abram Khnokh, and Shaitchik emigrated to Kobe, Japan. From 1921 the former house held a midwifery and feldsher school moved from Tobolsk, which became a medical college in 1954.
The building still functions as an office complex, but visitors can view it from the street and study the facade details. The best view comes from across the street, where you can take in the full width and proportions of the structure.
The building was part of a larger Shaitchik estate that also included a clerks' club at the corner of Tsarskaya and Irkutskaya streets, where the Tyumen Philharmonic now stands. In 1921 the former merchant's house was given to a midwifery and feldsher school moved from Tobolsk; during the Great Patriotic War short Red Cross courses there trained nurses and medical instructors for the front.
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