The Palace of Labour

The building of the Palace of Labor (now the building is occupied by the State Academy of Water Transport (NSAVT) at 33 Shchetinkin Street in the Railway District of Novosibirsk is recognized as an architectural monument of regional importance. The authors are ing-arch. S. A. Shestov reconstruction 1936 - arch. I. S. Alekseev, T. Y. Bardt.

In the architectural forms close to the Lenin House, a complex planned and voluminous composition of the Palace of Labor in Novosibirsk, built by 1926, was resolved.

The building of the Labor Palace was intended to accommodate 20 regional departments of trade unions, Krasovprof, clubs of co-workers and builders, regional labor department, cinema for 800 people, a meeting room for 300 people, a trade union library, rooms for visitors, a large dining room.

The Palace of Labor was built according to the project of the engineer "Gosstroy" S.A. Shestov. The building with a height of 3 floors (4th floor – basement), a symbolic and romantic direction of architecture, reproduced partly in a complex grouping of its volumes, in the silhouette and some details medieval castle complexes. The building had tower shapes with narrow windows, with stylized illusory-dented finishes. His composition was to include a tower height of 35 m, completed with a “terrestrial sphere” of glass, in which there would be a light source (“Light of October”). In this tower, the placement of a receiving radio station was designed. However, the tower was not built. The building was built of brick with reinforced concrete ceilings.