April 18 is the International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites. The holiday was established in 1983 by the Assembly of the International Council for the Protection of Monuments and Sites in order to draw attention to the protection and preservation of world cultural heritage.

SFedU is famous not only for its educational programs, scientific discoveries, great scientists, but also for the buildings of its structural isions. Many of them are architectural monuments of federal and regional significance. Maria Bratolyubova , associate professor of the Department of Russian History of the 20th-21st centuries, spoke about the history of university cultural attractions .

“Until 1915, Rostov-on-Don was not distinguished by the seal of university selectivity. During the First World War, the Imperial Warsaw University was evacuated to Rostov-on-Don. On December 1, 1915, classes began at the new location. But until 1917, the university was called the Warsaw Imperial University and was subordinate to the Warsaw Educational District. On May 5, 1917, by decree of the Provisional Government, it was closed, and Don University was established on its basis. The university in Rostov did not, like other universities in the empire, have its own unique cultural and city-forming property. Architectural complexes built according to special projects were not created specifically for the university. Local authorities had to adapt buildings that were already dominant elements of urban architecture,” said Maria Bratolyubova.

Bolshaya Sadovaya 33: the first main building of the University of Warsaw

The main building of the university is located in the building of a city apartment building on Bolshaya Sadovaya. It was built in 1912-1914. designed by architect I.E. Cherkisian . The historical-philological, legal and part of the physics-mathematics departments of the university are located here, as well as the library and office of the university.

The first meeting of the university council at the new location was held on September 19, 1915, and classes began in December. Professors entered the building from the main entrance (from the Bolshaya Sadovaya side). Well, the students entered from the back street, from Pochtovy Lane (now Ostrovsky). The building remained the main building of the university (which became the Don University from Warsaw, and the North Caucasian University from Don) until the university was closed in 1930. And starting from the next year, when medical, pedagogical and financial-economic institutes were formed on the basis of the former faculties of the university, the pedagogical institute was located in the former main building.

During the Great Patriotic War, the building was heavily damaged by bombing and artillery shelling. The premises of the upper floors burned out, the roof and architectural details of the facades were damaged. Restoration work was completed in 1949 (this is the date marked today on the attic of the main facade of the building). In 2006, after the organization of the university and the formation of SFU, the building of the apartment building again became owned by the university. It is currently undergoing a major overhaul with elements of restoration.

Per. Universitetsky, 93: former public school building

In 1915, the building of the public school in Tkachevsky Lane was given to the University . It was built at the end of the 19th century by the architect G.N. Vasiliev and at various times it housed the “Rostov Society for Assistance to Private Official and Professional Labor”, private trading classes, the Higher Public School, as well as a chemical laboratory (according to documents – the Chemical Institute). The Chemical Institute was part of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, headed by Professor V.V. Kurilov. The institute had laboratories, classrooms and a lecture hall – an amphitheater for 156 people, in which chemical and pharmaceutical courses were held, meetings of the Society for the Promotion of Chemical Education, and open public lectures were given to citizens. In 1932, the first classes of the University’s Faculty of Chemistry began there and continued until 1976, and in 1986 the Faculty of Philology and Journalism of the Russian State University moved here . Now students from the Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication are studying in the building .

Gorky, 88: former building of a trade school

The building, which originally had the address: st. Sennaya, 100, was built for the “Trade School of the Society for Mutual Assistance of Clerks” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The trade school graduated clerks – people who served in various commercial and industrial institutions and performed various financial transactions. After the final establishment of Soviet power in Rostov-on-Don, the trade school was closed. In 1920, the workers’ department of Don University was located in this building. After the establishment of Rostov State University, the building was transferred to the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. Damaged, like many large public buildings in Rostov, during the Great Patriotic War, the building of the Trade School was restored for the 80th anniversary of the university. From that moment on , the Faculty of Law and, subsequently, the Faculty of Economics settled in the building .

Pushkinskaya, 140: former building of the city school named after. Elpidifora Paramonova

The building was built by architect G.N. Vasiliev in 1913 at the expense of the Don merchant E.T. Paramonov especially for the public school. On the first floor there were premises for a male primary school, and on the second – for a female one. Also on each floor there were spacious recreational halls and apartments for heads of schools. Part of the large courtyard located behind the building was planned to be adapted “as a playground for children and a garden with a flower garden.”

With the outbreak of the First World War, an infirmary was opened at the public school, and in the early 1920s, psychoneurological hospital No. 2 was located here. The premises on both floors were equipped with wards for the mentally ill, dining rooms, bathrooms and buffets. During the second occupation of Rostov, the Germans almost completely destroyed the building. All that remained were the foundations, walls (and severely damaged ones) and part of the reinforced concrete floors. The buildings in the back of the courtyard were completely destroyed; Only brick fences have survived. And the Germans, driving the patients of the hospital into Zmeevskaya Balka, shot them.

After the Great Patriotic War, the building was restored. And in the 1970s, another change occurred: the building was transferred to the North Caucasus Scientific Center for Higher Education, and now it is the educational building of the Southern Federal University.

Bolshaya Sadovaya, 105: former house of merchant Kistov

The building at the beginning of the twentieth century, according to reference publications, belonged to Grigory Yakovlevich Kistov . On its territory at that time there was a confectionery factory of the trading house “G. Kistov and S. Agraev.” In 1915, Kistov erected an apartment building on this site. At the end of the civil war, the former apartment building of G.Ya. Kistova was transferred to the administrative institutions of the Don District, which was part of the North Caucasus Territory. In 1935, in connection with the 20th anniversary of the Rostov State University (RSU), a joint meeting of the bureau of the Rostov-on-Don city committee of the CPSU (b) and the Presidium of the Rostov Workers’ Council decided to transfer the building to the university. During the Great Patriotic War, the building was damaged, but by 1949 it was restored. In the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries, the history and biology and soil faculties of the Russian State University, as well as the university’s governing bodies, were located here. Since 2006, since the formation of the Southern Federal University, the main building of the university has been located on Bolshaya Sadovaya, 105.

Pushkinskaya, 148: former mansion of Nikolai Paramonov

The mansion of Nikolai Paramonov , a book publisher, the son of the famous merchant Elpidifor Paramonov, who owned mills, steamships and grain warehouses (now “Paramonovsky warehouses”), was built in 1914 according to the design of Leonid Eberg in the neoclassical style.

Paramonov built this mansion for his daughter. He lived there with his wife Anna Ignatievna and children until the start of the Civil War. He lived there with his wife Anna Ignatievna and their children for exactly four years, until the building was requisitioned during the Civil War. At the end of February – beginning of March, the headquarters of the Rostov-Nakhichevan Revolutionary Committee was located here, and already in May 1918, after the expulsion of the Bolsheviks from Rostov, the Volunteer Army occupied the mansion.

It alternately housed a builders’ club and a blood transfusion institute. In the 1930s, the regional museum of local history was located here. During the Great Patriotic War, the building survived a second fire. The walls and colonnades were not significantly damaged, so in 1947 a decision was made to restore it and transfer the mansion to the library of Rostov State University. The building was reconstructed by the same Leonid Eberg. To this day, this building houses the zonal scientific library named after. Yu.A. Zhdanova.

Taganrog: the building of the former hotel where Chekhov stayed

Not only in the Don capital, but also in Tagarog, the Southern Federal University owns iconic historical buildings. On Petrovskaya Street, 81 in the very center of the city, building “B” of SFU is located . The three-story building was built in the 19th century.

Initially there were three buildings numbered 53, 55, 57. They housed a bookstore and P.N.’s library. Linitsky. The store and library were an urban center where many young people gathered. At the end of the 19th century, the new owner of the building, Otto Gavich, opened the France Hotel here, which was famous for its good rooms, restaurant and bathhouse. Anton Chekhov, who came to Taganrog, stayed in this hotel twice, in 1894 and 1898. He then described the establishment in the story “Lights.” In 1902, the hotel opened under a new name – “European”.

In 1916, the hotel was closed and the 32nd hospital for the wounded was placed there. In 1917, the building was occupied by a school for warrant officers, then by one of the departments of Denikin’s headquarters, the German commandant’s office, the revolutionary committee, and the military and civilian commissariats. Since 1969, the building has housed the Research and Design Bureau of Modeling and Control Systems “MIUS” SFU , which has been working in the interests of space, aviation and other industries for more than 50 years. In 2021, taking into account plans to develop Taganrog as a tourist center, SFU Rector Inna Shevchenko decided to begin large-scale repair and restoration work on building “B”.