Volodymyr Pokrovskyi

Biography

Volodymyr Mykolayovych Pokrovskyi was born in 1864 in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. He graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1888, receiving a gold medal. He then worked for a time at the Moscow Land Survey Office.

From 1917, Pokrovskyi left his position as diocesan architect and began working alongside Academician Oleksiy Mykolayovych Beketov in the Consumer Society of Southern Russia. , the Church of Saint Olga (built: 1902–1903) and the reconstruction of the Staszic Palace in the Byzantine-Russian style (1892–93) (the building's original appearance was restored in 1924).

1912 – Hotel, 7 , heritage site No. 7361-KhA. 1912 – Diocesan Museum of Antiquities (now the ), 4 , heritage site No. 7227-KhA. 1913 – Diocesan Girls' School, 79 . 1914 – Private Girls' Gymnasium, also known as the (currently the educational building of the Kharkiv Academy of Arts), 79 , heritage site No. 7491-KhA.

Residential buildings

1911–1913 – Residential buildings, 8/1 and 8/2 Gareth Jones Street, heritage site No. 7388-KhA. Co-author: L. T. Lenevych. 1913 – Residential building, 7 , heritage site No. 7131-KhA. 1913 – , 66 Chernyshevska Street, heritage site No. 7490-KhA. 1914 – , 101 , heritage site No. 7052-KhA. Design by .