The Ministry of Defence building is a government building in Kyiv that houses the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. The building, originally constructed as the Vladimir Cadet Corps, was built to the design of Russian architect Ivan Shtrom.
The Ministry of Defence building is a government building in Kyiv that houses the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. The building, originally constructed as the Vladimir Cadet Corps, was built to the design of Russian architect Ivan Shtrom.
In 1847, the nobility from a number of Southwestern (Ukrainian) Russian guberniyas (Kyiv, Volyn, Podolie, Kherson and Tavrida) collected 200,000 rubles for construction of a school building for children of nobles from those guberniyas. The nobles also agreed to pay 67,000 silver rubles to the school annually for education, and they petitioned to name the school after the newly born Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia.
Emperor Nicholas I of Russia granted the petition, and in the same year, he visited Kyiv to pick a spot for the new school. In the meantime, it was agreed to temporarily conduct all classes in the First Kyiv Gymnasium (today the 'Yellow Building' of Kyiv University). The construction was entrusted to the Russian architect Ivan Shtrom and stretched for some 10 years. The building was finally completed on August 30, 1857, and it housed some 400 students.
The school changed hands during the Ukrainian–Soviet War of 1917 to 1920, and normal education was interrupted. From June 1920 until World War II, the building housed the 5th Kyiv Infantry School. During the occupation of Kyiv by Nazi Germany, the building served as army barracks for the German Wehrmacht. On November 5, 1943, a Soviet air strike destroyed half of the building, and it was rebuilt from 1951 to 1953. After that time, the headquarters of the Kyiv Military District was located there.
Since 1991, the building houses the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex. Aside from its main building, the cathedral includes an ensemble of supporting structures such as a bell tower and the House of Metropolitan. In 2011 the historic site was reassigned from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Regional Development of Ukraine to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. One of the reasons for the move was that both Saint Sophia Cathedral and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra are recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Program as one complex, while in Ukraine the two were governed by different government entities. It is currently a museum.
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