Walking in Kiev in Pechersk, you could more than once pass by this beautiful old house at 9 Suvorov Street (not far from the Zoryany cinema). I have long wanted to collect up to a heap of information about his history, scattered across the Internet, supplementing them with my photographs, and this day has finally come.
Built in the Baroque style, the semicircular portal with abundant molding and strict columns is ideal for the central entrance to any classic palace. The openings of the semicircular windows are occupied by sandriks, decorated with cartouches with through ovals, which are supported by young cupids. On the side gables there are images of eagles taking off. Two octahedral towers with spiers, an amazing sculptural group: young men in the form of Roman legionaries, who put fanfare to their lips, and girls who hold laurel wreaths in their hands to present them to the winners.
Further onstoriesof this building tells Grigory MELNICHUK :
Pechersk is one of the most colorful districts of Kiev: there are palaces, a fortress, ancient churches, and modern skyscrapers. Among this is the building of the old hippodrome, practically near the current regional administration. Although it was completed to please the officials, its magnificent facade, worthy of palaces, has been preserved. Once there was an esplanade of the old Pechersk fortress, and a hundred years ago - a hippodrome, which later turned into an airfield, where the first air shows were held. Now there are "Cabinet" houses and a reservoir from the Cold War era.
Gregory talks about the history of the Pechersk Hippodrome during a walk on the occasion of the release of the pilot edition of the book "Kiev. Encyclopedia of Local History Tourist. 750 Objects and Locations", 18.08.2013:
For a long time, Suvorov Street was built up on only one side, an even one. And with the odd one there was only the Pechersk Hippodrome and the building of the Road Institute on Glory Square. The reason for this is the esplanade of the citadel of the Pechersk Fortress, the border of which ran along Suvorov Street. And the street itself was formerly called Esplanadnaya.
A large open area of the esplanade was located not far from the prestigious Lipki, and over time it was adapted as a hippodrome: the popularity of equestrian sports in the 19th century did not bypass Kiev either. And the gendarme regiments standing nearby used the esplanade. Equestrian societies in Kiev arose several times, but quickly disintegrated. So the "Kiev Society for Testing Horses" was founded back in 1867, soon organized equestrian competitions began. In 1889, a tote began operating at the Kiev hippodrome.
From air shows to Nepman feasts
The Pechersk Hippodrome at the beginning of the last century could be called the main show park of the city. Even an airfield was destined to appear here. Only in 1903 did the Wright brothers fly the world's first plane, and already in 1910 aviation mania reached Kiev. One of the first pilots in the Russian Empire was Sergei Utochkin. Racer, boxer, fencer, swimmer, in 1910-1911 Utochkin made public flights in various cities, which attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators. From his performances, the introduction to aviation of Sergei Korolev, Pavel Sukhoi, Sergei Ilyushin, Nikolai Polikarpov began. The fashion for aviation also penetrated into the army: soon, near the arsenal, they set up the assembly of military aircraft from parts supplied from France. So the hippodrome also began to serve as a factory airfield.
In 1915-1916, architect Valerian Rykov and sculptor Fyodor Balavensky built a new hippodrome building to replace the wooden one. A palace-like structure with covered stands, a restaurant, and halls has secured the fame of one of the best entertainment places in Kiev for the Pechersk Hippodrome.
French pilots at the hippodrome, May 1917 (photo by humus.livejournal.com): 
French pilots at the hippodrome , May 1917 (photo humus.livejournal.com)
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French pilots at the hippodrome , May 1917 (photo by humus.livejournal.com):
German aerial photography, 1918. Hippodrome - center right. Below are the Nikolsky barracks and the Arsenal plant:
Also in the frame is the Nikolaev Chain Bridge, the first permanent bridge across the Dnieper in Kiev. It existed from 1853 to 1920, opposite the Askold's grave, in the area of the confluence of the Chertoroy and the Dnieper. Length 776 meters, width 16 meters. Blown up on June 9, 1920 by the retreating Poles. Now about this place, a little to the north, is the Metro bridge.
German aerial photography, 1918. Hippodrome - in the lower left corner. In the center - the Pechersk Lavra, slightly below - the building of the modern Mystetsky arsenal (with at the beginning of the 19th century, the building housed military warehouses, workshops for the repair of weapons and horse ammunition, a smithy): 
Another photo from the air:
The work of the hippodrome was interrupted by the civil war, but already in the early 1920s, during the NEP years, the hippodrome revived again. The previously empty premises were rented by yesterday's fighters against Wrangel's White Guards in Crimea - Vladimir Olderogge and Ivan Pauka. The then commander of the Kiev military district, Mikhail Frunze, gave complete freedom of action to his recent associates, who soon became one of the largest Kiev Nepmen. The scope of the receptions of the then Bolshevik leaders was compared in splendor to the governor's receptions of tsarist times.
Elite skyscrapers of the sixties
For the first time, the idea of building the Pechersk Hippodrome arose in the 1930s, when the capital of Ukraine was moved to Kiev and a project for a government center was being developed. But the officials were frightened by the inconvenient transport links and the soot from the pipes of the Arsenal plant - the hippodrome survived.
Hippodrome stables (view from the tribune). In the background is the Great Lavra Bell Tower:
Hippodrome tribune (view from the side of the running track). In the background, there are two octagonal turrets that have survived to this day:
1954:
1954 year. Hippodrome stables (view from the tribune):
1955 year. At the awarding Mr. gher. GRASS, winner of the Great Ukrainian Derby Prize. A.A. rider Palekh. This stallion was recognized as the best stallion of the Kiev Hippodrome in 1955:
1955 year. Winner of the 1955 Three Years Grand Prize - Ger. GIT, Lokotskoy k-z, rider Kolesnik G.M .:
1964:
However, in the 1960s, they decided to "evict" the hippodrome from Pechersk: the place was too attractive, and it still remains so. In 1962-1969. a new hippodrome was built near VDNKh. A large modern complex with everything you needed. It was located almost outside the city, because the Teremki massif did not exist then.
“On the site of the old hippodrome, it is planned to set up a children's sports park for the Palace of Pioneers with a stadium for 8 thousand seats,” they wrote in architectural essays about Kiev in the early 1960s. The Palace of Pioneers was built, but the sports park was "forgotten": already in the late 1960s, a complex of residential high-rises began to be erected on the site of an equestrian field.
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These buildings are often called "Cabinet houses", as the new settlers are mainly representatives of the nomenklatura. And now the 5th, 7th, 11th and 13th houses are served by the state administration of affairs, popularly known as "DUSya". But in the early 1990s, residents suffered from the same problems as the entire city: it was not always possible to safely pass through the gateways to the entrances, and homeless people settled on large stairwells.
By the way, Vadim Getman, an economist and head of the National Bank, lived in house number 13.
Entrance number 4, in which Vadim Petrovich Getman lived for 23 years and in the elevator of which he was shot on April 22, 1998:
Offices instead of stands
The hippodrome building itself houses a purely Soviet ministry of rural construction. For the needs of the bureaucrats, the building was completed: from the rear, where the covered luxurious tribune boxes were located, offices were arranged.
The result was disastrous: the building, which has a facade that palaces could envy, in its completed part became more like a barrack: dull monotonous windows, no decor, except that it was painted with high quality. And the building itself disappeared from the guidebooks for a long time.
Since 1989, the presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences has been located here.
A reservoir was placed on the remaining territory: four huge pools of water. The reservoir was built in the late 1960s, just at the height of the Cold War, for the reserve water supply of Pechersk. Nearby, on Leipzigskaya street, there is the central office of Kievvodokanal; there is a huge valve near the entrance. There have already been attempts to build up the reservoir with residential skyscrapers, but the attacks of the developers, once a strategic object, have so far been able to fight off; recently one of the pools has even been renovated.
ICTV plot for October 2014:
This is how they "stretched" the territory of the former hippodrome and the failed children's sports park. Instead of a huge children's complex - and in addition to the Palace of Pioneers and a sports park, it was planned to create a huge park, the Green Theater and a water station on the Dnieper - another quarter for officials. The builders of the infamous high-rise building in the Mariinsky Park have worthy predecessors.
Kiev resident Leonid Vasiliev recalls:
It was in the first half of the 50s, when I was a student at KADI (Kiev Automobile Road Institute). Ipodrome, we are students, visited quite often. Not for racing or sweepstakes. It was just that in winter, when it was covered with snow and more than one decent horse did not risk running on its icy surface without the risk of breaking legs, we, the students, were kicked out for gymnastics and tests in skiing physical training. Naturally, the skis were inventory from the department of physical training, oak, with loose belt bindings. We were shod in a lot, and the number of obscene expressions during our “races” was no less than those that flew from the stands when our favorite horses were brought down.
But we also had very pleasant moments when we no longer under duress, but of our own free will, visited the hippodrome. Again, not for the races, but just for a cultural pastime in the local restaurant. Not often, but it happened. Moreover, the prices in restaurants then did not bite at all; in the days when there were no races, they were quite comparable to prices in canteens. The last visit was especially memorable.
In the summer of 1955, we went there with a big company, about the graduation from the institute. They feasted, had fun, and got the bill and were stunned. It turned out that it was in these last days that a decree was adopted on the introduction of a high restaurant mark-up on alcohol. Earlier, alcohol in taverns went at a store price, or almost the same. And then the rise in prices followed and we were bankrupt. I had to leave part of the company hostage, give the waiters a watch (who had it) for the same purpose, which was then more expensive than today's mobile phones at a relative cost, and run to the institute for support. Fortunately, he was right there nearby. We borrowed from everyone and even from teachers, and that's how we ended the holiday.
And finally, a few more today's (11/30/16) photos by phone:
Ukrainian SSR. Monument to the architect. No. 54. The building of the hippodrome. 1915 year:
The Kiev Hippodrome has a long and glorious history. The beginning of his activity took place in 1867. The hippodrome - as a capital structure for testing horses and various kinds of equestrian sporting events - did not yet exist, but it was in 1867 that equestrian sport was officially recognized in Kiev, as a result of the activities of a properly organized society - "Kiev Society for Testing Horses". History has not preserved documentary information about the founders of this society - until now, only reports on races and races in Kiev in the official journal of the State Horse Breeding have survived. In 1885 to replace the horse testing society, a new one arose - the Kiev Horse Race Hunters Society. Races in Kiev continued - on the ice of the Dnieper in winter, on a treadmill in summer. Until 1960, the trotting Kiev Hippodrome was located in the center of Kiev, in close proximity to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. In the middle of the twentieth century, it was a modern well-equipped complex for testing horses and was located in a densely populated area of Kiev. As a result, in accordance with the architectural and planning decision of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR / decree No. 1516 of November 27, 1959 / a decision was made to move the hippodrome to a new location in the area of the republican exhibition of achievements in the national economy. In May 1960, after the drawing of the last prizes, the hippodrome in Pechersk ceased to exist. In the same year, the design and construction of a new hippodrome began. To date, only the complex of stands has been preserved from the former complex - as an architectural monument of the nineteenth century. The construction of the new complex took place intermittently. The final construction of the racetrack with the commissioning of the stands was completed in September 1969. Production activity was resumed earlier - after the completion of the first stage - in August 1966. By the end of the construction of the hippodrome, the 12th All-Union Competition of horsemen of collective farms, state farms and stud farms, which gathered 40 thousand spectators on the day of its opening, was timed. Further access of those wishing to visit the hippodrome that day was limited by great efforts of the militia on the approaches to it. If at the beginning of construction the racetrack with an area of 45 hectares was the only organization brought to this area on the border of Kiev, now it is again in the ring of operating organizations - the Cybernetic Center, the Ice Stadium, the University. TG Shevchenko and others and residential areas "Teremki -1" and "Teremki - 2". Today there are three treadmills at the racetrack: 1. The main trotting treadmill, designed for control high-speed work and drawing prizes. Its dimensions are 1600x30 m. It has design bends. Like the rest of the tracks, along the perimeter it is equipped with a drainage system with storm water inlets going into the closed concrete / under the hippodrome / Nivka river. In 1978-79, the prize track was overhauled on its own through the planning, delivery and subsequent refinement of 3,500 cubic meters of soil, similar in its characteristics and at the same time different from black soil. After the renovation, the prize track became even faster. 2. Race track. Dimensions 1800x25 m Used for training and testing - if necessary - riding horses. 3. Gran-slag track, has a coating of blast-furnace granulated slag with a thickness of 15-18 cm, dimensions of 1477x20 m. A very original, cheap in construction and practical track in operation, requiring annual slag filling. The stables include eight custom-built capital stables for 40 stalls each. In the middle of each stable there is a harness arena where horses are harnessed and unharnessed. In the stables there are service rooms, harnesses, pantries for storing fodder, household rooms. The stables are equipped with sewerage, water supply cold water... Capital walking yards are equipped near the stables. In addition to the aforementioned stables, the hippodrome has a sports and summer stables. At the main building of the hippodrome, a tribune for 3,500 seats was built with two halls - on the first and second floors - where the sweepstakes services were previously located, and a place for the work of the panel of judges. The main building was erected in a modern style with precast concrete and aluminum-glass blocks. The canopy of the tribune is assembled from pre-assembled reinforced concrete structures without a single support, which gives an excellent view of the treadmills. The Kiev Hippodrome conducts horse trials all year round.
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Photos from the history of the Kiev Hippodrome
June 13th, 2014The first hippodrome in Kiev was established in 1867 at the initiative of the Kiev Society of Horse Testing Hunters. For more than 10 years, the hippodrome was located on the Staro-Zhitomir road (since 1906 - Degterevskaya Street) behind the Lukyanovskiy SIZO or, as they said at the time, the Prison Castle. The hippodrome existed there for over 10 years. When the society closed in 1881, it returned the land to the city.
And only in 1885 the newly created Kiev society of horse race hunters received permission to arrange a hippodrome and a wooden arbor, as the stands for spectators on the Pechersky parade ground were then called. A wooden gazebo in the Russian style existed on Esplanadnaya Street (Suvorov) until 1915! It fell into disrepair, it was removed and a real palace was built in its place, the project of which was developed by the architect V.N. Rykov and the sculptor F.P. Balavensky. The premises have been decorated with magnificent sculptures both inside and on the façade.
In 1906, another Kiev hippodrome began to operate next to Pushkin Park. It was called the Syretsky Racing Field, and it was managed by the South-West Encouraging Racing Society. But this hippodrome left a memory of itself not by leaps, but by the fact that in 1910 the first plane of the KPI professor, Prince A.S. Kudashev, was raised there, and Sergei Utochkin himself flew there in his "Farman-VI". In 1927-1928, on the site of the Syretsky hippodrome, a cinema factory was built / A. Dovzhenko film studio. /
Sergei Utochkin demonstrated flights at Pechersk. The newspaper “Kievskaya Mysl” wrote on April 16, 1911: “Today, at 4 pm, the first flight of S. I. Utochkin will take place at the Pechersk hippodrome. All the necessary structures and buildings at the hippodrome were completed yesterday; there are several ticket offices at different points of the fence near the hippodrome. The tram society ordered that an increased number of cars be launched on the lines leading to the hippodrome. "
The fields and the distance were spread out in an ellipse.
The silk of the umbrellas breathed with a thirst for thunder.
A scorching day aimed at a bottomless sky
In the stands of the racing hippodrome.
The people were sweating like bread kvass on a glacier,
Fascinated by the melting of distances.
Spinning in a whirlwind of hooves and greaves,
The horses beat the space like butter.
And behind the dimensionally beating breeze
Some kind of underground beginning
The war year soared for the jockeys
And horses and rocking knitting needles.
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It was all over. Night has come. In Kiev
Darkness swept through, tossing the shutter against the shutter.
And the rain poured down. And, as in the days of Batu,
The past day has become strangely old-fashioned.
B. Pasternak / 1926 /
During the period of social upheaval, the hippodrome stopped its work. Renewal began only in May 1927. And after Kiev became the capital of Soviet Ukraine in 1934, major repairs and reconstruction of the hippodrome in Pechersk were carried out. The work was carried out by the author of the initial project, Professor V.N. Rykov.
The racetrack opened its first post-war season in September 1945, and the last trotting trials took place in May 1960.
The city really needed this land. The construction of a new hippodrome began at the same time, in 1960, on the southern outskirts of Kiev (now Glushkov Ave.). The first competitions were held in September September 1966.
The modern Kiev hippodrome is a whole complex of structures, which is located on an area of 45 hectares.
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Moreover, these hectares are no longer on the outskirts, but in the near center, since the Ippodrom metro station has been opened in the immediate vicinity since October 2012. And this fact haunts ... So back in 2011, the head of the Kyiv City State Administration Alexander Popov said that the current territory of the hippodrome is an ideal place for such a project as a business center. This year, as an April Fool's joke (or maybe not), the message was spread that the Kiev Hippodrome will become the home arena for the Arsenal football club.
The current state of the hippodrome is sad ... but good omens have appeared
At the end of last summer, a kitten was planted at one of these stables. Apparently some bad person offended him with something and frightened him. And the cat was clearly domestic, well-groomed, thoroughbred. Many of the visitors to the stable immediately had a burning desire to take the cat with them. But the kitten did not give in and scratched the hands to the blood of one young lady-jockey, who managed to catch him. In general, the kitten was left alone: fed, watered and not touched. Now all fears are over. The cat has grown up, matured, is not afraid of either horses or people, and, of course, is firmly convinced that he is the real keeper and owner of the Kiev stables. And he has people and horses like that, in their homes.
Information and photos.
Kiev Hippodrome (Central Hippodrome of Ukraine)- a hippodrome located in Kiev. The hippodrome has changed its location many times. The following societies oversaw the hippodrome: first, the Kiev Horse Testing Society, then the Horse Testing Society, and later the Kiev Horse Racing Hunters Society.
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Lukyanovskiy hippodrome
Syretsky hippodrome
The Syretsky hippodrome was located on the Race Field.
Central Hippodrome of Ukraine
In 1960, construction began on the new Central Hippodrome of Ukraine.
The modern Kiev hippodrome was built in 1962-1969 (designed by architects V.N.Sherman, G.P. Markityan, Yu.N. Piskunenko, and I.S.Telyuk, and engineers V.V. Kobkin and G.P. Abrosimova), had its original address - Prospect 40-letiya Oktyabrya, 140. In the 1970s, an ice stadium began to be built opposite, next to the Teremki residential area.
After the avenue was renamed in 1982, the address of the Kiev Hippodrome is Akademika Glushkov Avenue, 10.
2014-2015
In May 2014, the then chairman of the Kiev City State Administration, Volodymyr Bondarenko, wanted to locate an IKEA shopping center on the site of the hippodrome. Employees of the Ievsky hippodrome appealed to the people of Kiev and all citizens of Ukraine for help.
In 2015, despite the change in city leadership, the future of the racetrack remains unclear.
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Kiev hippodrome, facade, 2012
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Kiev hippodrome, front entrance, 2012
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Kiev hippodrome, stands, 2016
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An excerpt characterizing the Kiev hippodrome
- They sent two of our regiments into the chain, there is such a revelry nowadays, trouble! Two music, three choirs of songwriters.The officer went by the chain to Echkin. From a distance, still driving up to the house, he heard the friendly, cheerful sounds of a soldier's dancing song.
"In the oluzya ah ... in the oluzi! .." - with a whistle and with a torban he heard him, occasionally drowned out by the shout of voices. The officer felt cheerful in his soul from these sounds, but at the same time it was also scary for the fact that he was guilty, for so long not having given the important order entrusted to him. It was already past nine. He dismounted from his horse and entered the porch and the hallway of a large, intact manor house, located between the Russians and the French. In the pantry and in the hall, footmen were bustling about with wines and food. There were songbooks under the windows. The officer was led through the door, and he suddenly saw all together the most important generals of the army, including the large, noticeable figure of Yermolov. All the generals were in unbuttoned coats, with red, lively faces and were laughing loudly, standing in a semicircle. In the middle of the room, a handsome, short general with a red face was smartly and deftly making a trepak.
- Ha, ha, ha! Ah yes Nikolai Ivanovich! ha, ha, ha! ..
The officer felt that, entering at that moment with an important order, he was doubly guilty, and he wanted to wait; but one of the generals saw him and, learning why he was, told Ermolov. Ermolov, with a frowning face, went out to the officer and, having listened, took the paper from him, without saying anything to him.
- Do you think he left by accident? - That evening the staff comrade said to the officer of the cavalry guard about Yermolov. - These are things, this is all on purpose. Give Konovnitsyn a ride. Look, what porridge will be tomorrow!
The next day, early in the morning, the decrepit Kutuzov got up, prayed to God, dressed, and with the unpleasant consciousness that he should lead a battle, which he did not approve of, got into a carriage and drove out of Letashevka, five miles behind Tarutin, to that place, where the advancing columns were to be assembled. Kutuzov rode, falling asleep and waking up and listening to see if there were any shots on the right, was the case starting? But it was still quiet. The dawn of a damp and cloudy autumn day was just beginning. Approaching Tarutin, Kutuzov noticed the cavalrymen leading the horses to the watering hole across the road along which the carriage was traveling. Kutuzov looked at them closely, stopped the carriage and asked which regiment? The cavalrymen were from the column that should have been already far ahead in ambush. "A mistake, maybe," thought the old commander-in-chief. But, having driven even further, Kutuzov saw infantry regiments, guns in the box, soldiers with porridge and firewood, in underpants. An officer was called. The officer reported that there was no order to march.
- How not ... - began Kutuzov, but immediately fell silent and ordered to call the senior officer. Climbing out of the carriage, head bowed and breathing heavily, silently waiting, he walked up and down. When the demanded officer of the General Staff, Eichen, appeared, Kutuzov turned purple not because this officer was the fault of a mistake, but because he was a worthy subject for expressing anger. And, shaking, gasping for breath, the old man, having come to that state of fury, in which he was able to come when he was lying on the ground from anger, he attacked Eichen, threatening with his hands, shouting and swearing with square words. Another who turned up, Captain Brozin, who was not guilty of anything, suffered the same fate.
- What kind of canalya is this? Shoot the scoundrels! He shouted hoarsely, waving his arms and staggering. He was in physical distress. He, the commander-in-chief, the most luminous, whom everyone assures that no one has ever had such power in Russia as he is, he is put in this position - made fun of the whole army. “In vain did I bother so much to pray for the present day, in vain I did not sleep at night and thought everything over! - he thought of himself. “When I was a boy as an officer, no one would have dared to laugh at me like that ... But now!” He experienced physical suffering, as from corporal punishment, and could not help expressing it with angry and suffering cries; but soon his strength weakened, and he, looking around, feeling that he had said a lot of bad things, got into the carriage and silently drove back.