Ancient Kyiv is beautiful, but over time, some historical buildings are being lost in the city. A photo of a 19th-century house at 70 Zlatoustivska Street, which was demolished in 1985, was posted online.
The photo was shown in the Facebook group Kyiv, Living History.
The street appeared in the 1930s and was called Zahorodnia (Zamiska) because it was located outside the city. It received its modern name in 1869, from the Church of St. John Chrysostom (the so-called Iron Church). Since 1926, it was called Volodarsky, in honor of the Russian figure Volodarsky. In 2000, the historical name was restored.
The name of the street is spelled differently - there are two versions (in the text of the Kyiv City Council's resolution it is Zlatoustivska, in the KCSA's resolution it is Zolotoustivska), both appear on various plates and signs, and in information sources. However, the official guidebook "Kyiv City Streets" (2015) presents only one version of Zlatoustivska.
The street began to be built up in the 1830s as a retired soldiers' settlement, which was called Soldatska Slobidka. Brick or mixed income houses began to be built here in the second half of the 19th century.
Almost no old buildings have survived on the street. The street is mostly built up with brick five-story buildings of the 1950s and 1960s and modern multi-story buildings of the 1970s and 2000s. Many of the old houses on Zlatoustivska Street were demolished in the 1980s, while house number 30 was demolished in February 2014 and house number 35 in the fall of 2016.
Earlier, Apostrophe published a rare photo of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra from 1918.