In 1797, the Kremenchug Duma applied to Governor Bakurinsky for permission to build a building for all self-government bodies. Permission was granted in 1798.
And on Torgovaya Square along Ekaterininskaya Street, the building of the City Duma is being built.
A project and an estimate for the total amount of 39,985 rubles 40 kopecks are sent from Chernigov. The author of the project was probably the Chernigov provincial architect A. Kartashevsky. The construction was carried out in 1801-1803 by the merchant T. Ryzhkov and the “eminent citizen” F. Privalov.
The stone two-story building of the Kremenchug Duma became the best among similar buildings not only in Poltava region, but throughout Ukraine. On the first floor there were trading shops, and on the second floor there was a thought, a magistrate, an election hall, verbal and orphan’s courts. The building was crowned with a belvedere with an observation deck. The writer I. Dolgoruky, who visited Kremenchug in 1810, wrote:
“The magistrate and the thought represent one of the best buildings in the city, there is a belvedere on it: I entered there and the view is beautiful in all directions.”
Destroyed during the war in 1943.
Date: before 1917
Location: Kremenchug, Ekaterininskaya (now Cathedral) street, on the site of the current building of the House of Trade
Photo of a postcard from the funds of the Kremenchug Museum of Local Lore
