Former Smolensk City Council

Building of the former City Duma in Smolensk

Building The former City Duma in Smolensk witnessed many events in history. our city. It's in the heart of the city. If you want it yourself. Find, then go to the main office of Sberbank on the street. Communist, and you. You will see a building on the left with a small turret, and this will be the same building.

If you look at the old photos of this building, you will notice that it is It was an old watch. The author of the watch is the Nizhny Novgorod watchmaker Konstantinov Semyon Aronovich. The watch was made by order of the time. Governor of Smolensk. Smolensk customers rushed the master and asked bring the clock to Smolensk by October 1886, that is, to the very opening. It's A little-known fact.

In this building, important decisions were made in the fate of the city. Under the roof of this different administrative offices at different times, Bank, offices, public library, museum and even fire department. Over the building. There was a fire tower, which has survived to this day.

Previously, the clock tower had a good view of the city. Like I wrote at the time. As in the palm of my hand, my city is visible from the beautiful tower of the City building. The Dumas of our beloved city.”

We can talk about the building for a long time. This is where it was at some point in time. Historical and Archaeological Museum of Smolensk, which founded A well-known local historian and historian (NAME, HOUSE) Pisarenko. The museum opened at the end. July 1888, about two years after the building was built.

The building was badly damaged during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, the building The former City Duma was restored by Soviet citizens. First on the central streets.

There were renovations to the building. According to witnesses, it was originally It's a three-story building, but soon another floor is added to it, and now we see it. four floors. Why and why was the fourth floor built? It's all here. Just. It was necessary to place somewhere Soviet military commanders, those who He helped rebuild the city and their families. According to eyewitnesses and Old residents of the city, after the reconstruction of the building, the clock tower became more It reminds me of a newsstand on the roof. In the building you can see fragments. That's the realignment.