Bessarabka: how was one of the most famous markets in Kiev created?
In Kiev, the top leadership of the city and the region on July 16, 1912, solemnly opened the Bessarabian covered market. It was built within two years - 1910-1912 for the money of sugar magnate Lazar Brodsky.
Bessarabskaya Square was previously a marginal wasteland - a gates stood here and the city ended, there was also a horse-drawn mail station here. In the first half of the XIX century a spontaneous market was formed, with which the modern name of the square is connected. Merchants came mainly from the southern provinces and Bessarabia.
In 1834, the Kiev government approved the "Regulations on the device of Kiev." Kiev sugar magnate Lazar Brodsky bequeaths 500,000 rubles for the construction of the market. However, provided that the municipality constantly pay 4.5% of this amount in favor of the charitable institutions in which it was engaged.
In 1908, a project competition was held, and Polish architect Heinrich Hai, the author of the Warsaw indoor market and houses in Minsk, won first place. Construction work under the direction of the contractor Leiser Gugel began in 1909.
On the market were built: 31 external stores, a restaurant and a large trading hall with places for trade in meat, lard, sausage, 88 places for the sale of greens and vegetables, dairy products, bread, 27 places for the sale of fish. The monthly net profit of the market was 10-12%, and at that time it was quite a significant profitability.
Bessarabskaya Square was previously a marginal wasteland - a gates stood here and the city ended, there was also a horse-drawn mail station here. In the first half of the XIX century a spontaneous market was formed, with which the modern name of the square is connected. Merchants came mainly from the southern provinces and Bessarabia.
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In 1834, the Kiev government approved the "Regulations on the device of Kiev." Kiev sugar magnate Lazar Brodsky bequeaths 500,000 rubles for the construction of the market. However, provided that the municipality constantly pay 4.5% of this amount in favor of the charitable institutions in which it was engaged.
In 1908, a project competition was held, and Polish architect Heinrich Hai, the author of the Warsaw indoor market and houses in Minsk, won first place. Construction work under the direction of the contractor Leiser Gugel began in 1909.
On the market were built: 31 external stores, a restaurant and a large trading hall with places for trade in meat, lard, sausage, 88 places for the sale of greens and vegetables, dairy products, bread, 27 places for the sale of fish. The monthly net profit of the market was 10-12%, and at that time it was quite a significant profitability.
