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Moscow City Slaughterhouse Exchange
The building was erected between 1886 and 1888 in the style of red brick eclecticism and became part of the Moscow city slaughterhouse complex. Architect Alexander Ober developed the project in the 1880s. The idea of co…
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German Market
This architectural ensemble is an example of typical commercial development from the 19th century. The buildings are designed in the classical style, characterized by strictness, conciseness, regular layout, restrained d…
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Frolov's Income House
This building, although not an architectural masterpiece, is quite an interesting object. First of all, it is an income house built by a peasant. How did a peasant manage to erect a four-story house in the pseudo-Gothic …
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All Saints Church
The stone church dedicated to all saints was built in 1817 and consecrated a year later, in 1818. The funds for its construction were provided by merchant Alexei Fyodorovich Ochkina two years before his death; his family…
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Water Tower of Penza 3
The old water tower, presumably built in the 1890s, is one of the few towers of the Ryazan-Ural Railway that has retained its original roof shape. A similar tower can be seen at the Moscow-Tovarnaya Pavletskaya station, …
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Lebedev (Kazan) Bridge
On the right bank of the river, near the Kazan church, which was demolished, is the Lebedev Bridge. In the mid-19th century, all the bridges on the Penza River were dismantled for the winter. This was a sensible decision…
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Bristol Hotel
The house of Rakhil Isaakovna Slonimskaya was built in 1914, and that same year the "Bristol" hotel began its operations. In the background, a new 9-story residential building can be seen, which houses the "Elektron" an…
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Grand Hotel
The "Grand Hotel" was founded in 1774, when state peasant Yakov Andreyevich Koshelev, who became a merchant from Penza, purchased the estate from the honorable citizen Matryona Nikolaevna Kazitsyna and began construction…
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People's House named after Emperor Alexander II
Next to the meat passage, which functioned reliably until 1877, when the meat trade moved to a new market building on Bakunina Street, there was a livestock yard from which meat was supplied for sale. On the eve of the 5…
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Third Men's Gymnasium (S.A. Ponomarev Gymnasium)
The building that housed the Ponomarev Gymnasium was constructed in the mid-19th century by the merchant's son Iov Stepanovich Samarin. At the end of the same century, it was acquired by retired notary Viktor Nikolaevich…