Sound, Preview - Taras Petrenko / taraseq_petrenko Our instagram- / life_in._.kharkiv Our telegram - https://t.me/life_in_kharkiv Videos taken from the KruchinaFILM channel Hello friends!!! This is the 3rd series of videos about the districts of Kharkov and today we will tell you about the New Houses. Let's start with the history: In 1909, a breeding station opened on the outskirts of Kharkov. This building is the main building of the breeding station, its construction was carried out from 1909 to 1911, the chief architect was Edislav Harmansky, those who watch our videos remember that he was also the chief architect of the grandstand of the Kharkov hippodrome, and in these buildings we can see a common style. Now this building houses the Institute of Plant Growing, and it is the oldest house in the district. Yuryev is one of the founders of selection and seed production of agricultural crops in the USSR. The author of many varieties: wheat, rye, barley, oats, millet and corn. For his work he received many titles and awards, including the Order of Lenin and two stars of the Hero of Socialist Labor. A bust of Yuryev is installed at the entrance to the Kyiv cinema, and a boulevard behind the cinema is also named in Yuryev's honor. Until the 60s, there was a breeding station on the territory of New Houses and there were no residential buildings. In 1930, in the capital of Soviet Ukraine, they decided to build the main republican stadium named after Petrovsky with a capacity of 45,000 people, that is, more than today's Metallist. The stadium was planned to be built next to the breeding station, in addition to the stadium, they planned to build several sports towns for children and the military and a large outdoor swimming pool. It was planned to build the stadium at Stakhanovite rates, they wanted to have time by 1933 to hold the second all-Union Spartakiad on it. In 1931, 350 workers completed 60% of the earthworks. But the following year the construction was frozen, this happened due to a shortage of workers and the Holodomor. After Kharkov lost its capital status, the construction was finally closed, because it was built for the capital of the republic and was not needed in an ordinary regional center. The outline of the stadium can be easily found on German aerial photographs. And even today it is still partially visible. Although the stadium was not built, the main street of the area was called Stadionnaya for a long time. Only later it was renamed Kommunalnaya. Then to Marshal Zhukov Avenue, and now Petra Grigorenko Avenue and as you know, judge by its name they are still called today. And also the street which is located perpendicular to the unbuilt stadium and is now called Stadionny Proezd. In 1943 During the February battle for Kharkov, fierce battles took place on the territory of the selection station, the burnt equipment stood along the Chuguevskoye Highway of today's Moskovsky Prospekt. So it is not surprising that some street names remind us of that February battle. As you all know, Kharkov was heavily damaged during the war, and there was a housing crisis in the city. In 1953, a plan for the post-war reconstruction of the city was developed. According to this plan, Kharkov was to be built up with beautiful houses in the Stalinist Empire style. But in 1956, Nikita Khrushchev criticized Stalinist architecture and introduced a law to combat architectural excesses. And since 1957, Khrushchev-era buildings began to appear in cities. This is what happened in Kharkov: instead of a beautiful embankment built up with even blocks, five-story buildings began to be built on the territory of a breeding station. Because of this, even today there are dilapidated houses on the embankment, but the city has a new district. The mass construction of New Houses began in 1961, when the Kharkiv DSK1 started working. The first houses in the district were built by criminal prisoners, barbed wire was stretched around the construction site, and towers were installed along the perimeter. In the comments under the video about KhTZ, someone wrote that they even remember how criminals were previously transported to construction sites. The origin of the name of the district is very simple 60s people began to be massively resettled from communal apartments and barracks to new houses. Which after the cramped conditions and post-war devastation seemed incredibly cozy housing. This is how the name New Houses appeared. One of the most famous places in the district is the Sports Palace, it was commissioned in 1977. I do not know by chance or on purpose it was placed on the site of the unfinished 30th stadium. It was planned that the Sports Palace would be an ice arena with a capacity of 3,500 people, where home matches of the Kharkiv Dynamo hockey club would be held. If necessary, the ice arena could be transformed and host mini-football, volleyball, handball and other matches. And in 1980, a separate training ground