Fire tower no.1 of Tsaritsyn, Fire station from 1891 in Tsentralny District, Volgograd, Russia.
Fire tower no.1 of Tsaritsyn is a two-story building on Kommunisticheskaya Street in central Volgograd, built in the eclectic style common to Russian provincial architecture of the late 19th century. The facade features ornamental details that were typical of public buildings of that era in the region.
The building was erected in 1891 as a working fire station for the city then known as Tsaritsyn. It continued to operate through the city's successive name changes, first to Stalingrad and then to Volgograd, keeping its original function for many decades.
The name of the building recalls the time when the city was still called Tsaritsyn, long before it was renamed. The ornate facade, with its mix of decorative elements, shows how public buildings looked in late 19th-century Russian provincial towns.
The building sits on Kommunisticheskaya Street in central Volgograd and is easy to reach on foot from the city center. As a protected heritage site, it can be seen from the outside, and the facade is best viewed from the pavement directly in front of it.
Although the building was granted heritage status in 1991, it had by then already carried the name of a city that no longer existed for exactly 100 years. The name Tsaritsyn disappeared in 1925, yet the structure still holds it in its official title today.
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