Derzhprom
Constructivist State Industry Building of 1928 on Svobody Square, damaged by a Russian glide bomb.
Derzhprom, the State Industry Building, was raised between 1925 and 1928 on what is now Svobody Square in Kharkiv, then the capital of Soviet Ukraine, to a competition design by Sergei Serafimov, Samuil Kravets and Mark Felger. Three H-shaped blocks of up to eleven storeys are linked by glazed bridges at high level and stepped so that the mass rises towards the centre. It was among the first large reinforced-concrete frames built in the Soviet Union and is usually described as the world's largest constructivist building.
The building was burned and partly destroyed during the German occupation and rebuilt after the war, when its radio mast and upper storeys were reinstated. Ukraine put it forward for the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017 as part of the Svobody Square ensemble, and in 2023 it was granted enhanced protection under the Hague Convention. Since the bombing of October 2024 it has been the subject of international documentation and repair efforts, and any eventual restoration is expected to take years.
Highlights
- Three stepped H-shaped blocks joined by high-level glazed bridges
- One of the earliest large reinforced-concrete frames in the Soviet Union
- On UNESCO's tentative list and under enhanced protection since 2023
- Visible damage from the glide-bomb strike of October 2024
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