Lipskay street

Lipskay street was laid out in the Clov tract in the late eighteenth century. The Linden alley was in that place. It passed through the grape and mulberry gardens. The general plan of Kyiv from 1787 bears witness to this fact. From the moment of it’s appearing the street was called Klovskaia. Only in 1830 it was renamed to Lipskay. However, in 1869, the street was renamed for a second time to Katherininskaia. Since 1919, the street was named after the activist of German and international labour movement, Rosa Luxemburg.

Only in 1993, it returned its historical name - Lipskay.

The street is apart of a rectangular plan, which characterises urban planning of classic period.

Here the Mariinsky and Klovskiy palaces are situated. Modern buildings of the street represent different periods of the history.

The houses № 2,4,10,16,18/5 are built in the style of historicism and modernism.

But the building number 15 - Young Spectator Theatre, which was opened here in 1954, and the houses № 7/24, 8/21, 17 - the architecture of the Soviet period. It comes to one`s mind that after the war, hundreds of Kyiv` students gathered here from all parts of Kyiv. All of them were looking forward to new performances. Since 2004 the theatre has the status of "Academic Theatre".

The theatre has two stages - with 408 and 80 seats. There were wonderful children and New Year performances.

House number 2 - is a real reminder of history. The party and state leaders of the Ukrainian Soviet Union were lived there, they are: Vladimir Zatonskiy, Demian Korochenko and others.

Sidor Kovpak, Hero of the Soviet Union, lived in the building No. 12/5. The house number 18/5 was the urban college named after Nikolai Bunge.

Constructed according to the original design of architect George Shleifer, it is an integral part of historic buildings of Lipky.

The college was known under the name of "The People’s College at the Limes."

In Soviet times it was occupied by the bodies of the State Security Committee KGB. Now the Ukrainian Headquarters of Civil Defence is situated here.

House No. 16 was built by the architect P. Hollandskiy project. It was ordered by the daughter of a well-known sugar manufacturer Theodore Tereshchenko. According to her husband she was - Countess Natalia Uvarova.

In the early 1900s house number 10 belonged to E. Torkleru - a German citizen, a seller of sewing machines. This two-story brick house was built under the supervision of the military engineer Anatoly Ruban. Lipskay street, as well as, the rest of the central streets of Kyiv, attracts tourists from all over the world with its beauty, history and uniqueness.

©Vitaly Bakanov
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July 2013