City Hospital

The City Hospital is a unique architectural monument in Novomyrhorod, built in 1913. The building’s architect was the Kyiv native Yakov Pauenko. He not only designed the hospital, but also supervised every stage of construction. To create the complex decorative details of the facade, specially shaped bricks were made to order.

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The hospital’s plinth is made of concrete blocks. The walls were built from brick ordered from the local brickworks. The architect personally selected the brick, setting aside the higher-quality pieces for finishing the outer walls.

The City Hospital was one of the most modern buildings in the city. It had its own central heating and power station. One of Kyiv’s best doctors, Kmita, was invited here and was offered a salary at the new job three times higher than at his previous post at St. Volodymyr University.

The hospital remained in operation until the early 2000s. However, the neglect of the premises and the lack of funding led to the building now standing empty and steadily deteriorating.

Interesting facts:

• The funds for the hospital’s construction were provided by the widow of a merchant, Hanna Dmytrian, who in 1910 received a large inheritance from her father and decided to donate part of it to charity.
• The hospital was built in the historicism style, a substyle of the Neo-Russian style (pseudo-Russian) in architecture.
• For a long time, the hospital was funded by Hanna Dmytrian, who at that time allocated 300 thousand karbovantsi.