Pharmacy Lache, Pharmaceutical building in Donetsk, Ukraine

Pharmacy Lache is a building at 5 Artema Street in Donetsk, originally two storeys and almost unchanged until 2008. In 2009 a third floor was added and the facade was clad in modern materials. It once housed the pharmacy of the Novorossiysk Coal Mining Company, leased by the Belgian Ivan Ivanovich Lache.

Built in the 19th century, the building housed the pharmacy of the Novorossiysk Coal Mining Company, leased by the Belgian Ivan Ivanovich Lache, after whom it is named. In Soviet times it held Printing House No. 1. It remained almost unchanged and two-storeyed until 2008; in 2009 a third floor was added and the facade was clad in modern materials.

The name comes from the Belgian tenant Ivan Ivanovich Lache, who ran the pharmacy of the Novorossiysk Coal Mining Society. Since 2009 a separate pharmacy near Lenin Square has used the name "Lache" and keeps a corner museum of about 200 items from Donetsk region: wooden cabinets, glass shop jars, scales and flasks, assembled by Maxim Myasnikov with Vladimir Silko and Viktor Khomenko.

The historic building stands at 5 Artema Street by Predzavodskaya Square in the Voroshilovsky district; the pharmacy-museum under the Lache name is a separate site near Lenin Square on Postysheva Street. Look for the third floor and modern cladding added in 2009, which mark the rebuilt original.

The name Lache comes from the Belgian tenant Ivan Ivanovich Lache, who ran the pharmacy of the Novorossiysk Coal Mining Society. Since 2009 the name has also been used by a pharmacy-museum near Lenin Square, whose corner holds about 200 exhibits collected in Donetsk Oblast, including wooden cabinets, glass drug jars, scales and flasks.