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Officers' House

Categories / Army. Navy/Quarters, Arsenals, Riding-halls, Guardhouses, etc.
Categories / Architecture/Architectural Monuments/Public Buildings and Edifices

OFFICERS’ HOUSE (20 Liteyny Avenue), a cultural educational establishment of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence, and professional military servicemen’s club. Founded in 1918 as the Red Army House, it was given the name of S.M. Kirov in 1934; its official name changed to Officers' House in 1972. In the 1920s, the Officers' House carried out large-scale educational work among Red Army soldiers; during the Great Patriotic War it served as a base for a number of special military preparatory courses, front-line concert and propaganda brigades. It is located in the former Public Building of Army and Navy Officers' Assembly (1895-98, military engineers V.K. Gauger, A.D. Donchenko).

References: Золотов В. Н. С красной звездой на фасаде // ЛП. 1986. № 2. С. 20-21.

G. V. Kalashnikov .

Persons

Donchenko Alexander Dmitrievich
Hauger Wilhelm Karlovich
Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich

Addresses

Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20

Bibliographies

Золотов В. Н. С красной звездой на фасаде // Ленингр. панорама, 1986

Chronograph

1898
1950

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House of Officers' Assembly of Army and Navy. Photo by K.K.Bulla. The early 1900s.

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Komissarzhevskaya Theatre KOMISSARZHEVSKAYA THEATRE (19 Italyanskaya Street). Established in 1942 as the City ("Besieged") Theatre, being legitimized as a drama theatre in 1943, named after V.F. Komissarzhevskaya in 1959, and granted academic status in 1994

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Liteiny Avenue LITEINY AVENUE [in 1918-44 - Volodarskogo Avenue, after revolutionary V. Volodarsky (1891-1918)], between Liteiny Bridge and Nevsky Prospect. In 1711, a foundry was founded at the beginning of future Liteiny Avenue; later, houses of craftsmen

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Officer Assemblies OFFICER ASSEMBLIES, administrative associations of officers serving in the same regiment, including the quarters. Administrative committees of officer associations were established in the 1870s and engaged in administrative issues with capital

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Society of Military Enthusiasts SOCIETY OF MILITARY ENTHUSIASTS, a military science society. It was founded in 1898 on the basis of a military science circle established in Petersburg Garrison in the late 1896 by a group of officers with Major General E. M. Bibikov at the head

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