Basseina Street

This street, in the Pechersk district of Kyiv, is one of the few, which has preserved its original name. It comes from the so-called Basseinyi ravine. It was equipped at the end of the forties of the nineteenth century in the place where two streams - Khreshchatytskiy and Klovskiy - flow together. The drained pipes were laid from the ravine.

Later, it was completely filled up, and the market square was built on that place.

In those days a very active bidding took place. Even villagers from Bessarabia come here to sell fruit and wine. Hence the name of the street, which is adjacent to the square.

In the seventies of the nineteenth century the street was mostly built up with wooden one-story houses, and therefore, according to the "Kyiv City Rules of streets division into categories," it was given the lowest rank - the fourth.

And only on the border of the nineteenth- twentieth centuries a modern look of the street begins to form. The stone buildings with four storeys and above were built. There you can see the features of eclecticism and early modernism.

They are especially expressive in the architecture of the house at 1/2, Basseina street.

It is built in the renaissance style with elements of the Moorish style. Here, from 1899 to 1900, the hotel "Palais Royal" was located. Later it was renamed to the "Great Slavic" In the early twentieth century the "School on road foremen and construction business" was located there, an honorary trustee of which was the famous architect Alexander Kobelev.

In the 1910s Michail Bobrusov lived and worked at this house. He was a construction manager of Bessarabskiy market.

During the Soviet ruling, in the 1920’s, the building became an apartment building.

The commercial apartment buildings were built at the beginning of the street from Bessarabskaia Square.

The hotel "Orion" is of particular interest. It is built in the French Renaissance style.

In the house number 5 Golda Meir, the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel, has spent her childhood. And after her a memorial plaque was made on the building.

And a composer Reinhold Gliere was born and lived at the house number 6.

A house down the street 15, Basseina draws attention also. It was built in 1954-1955, as the house of the Capital Construction Department of the Kyiv City executive committee. Architecture of the house has been very well integrated into the environment.

A monument to the writer Sholem Aleichem was built in 1998, at the beginning of the avenue section of the street.

Architecture of Basseina Street attracts visitors from all over the world.

©Vitaly Bakanov
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July 2013