Gomel. The building of the former Zemstvo hospital.
Landmark
Belarus, Gomel, Komissarova Street, 13.
Description
The building of the former Zemstvo hospital (now an Emergency Hospital) in Gomel is located at 13 Komissarova Street. This three-story square building was built in 1913 according to the design of architect Stanislav Shabunevsky. Initially, it served as a zemstvo hospital and included a complex of auxiliary facilities such as an infectious diseases barracks, a kitchen, a laundry room, a chapel with rooms for anatomical autopsies, as well as an apartment building for the chief physician and a block of utility rooms. Today, the building is included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus.
Categories
Historical
Architectural monument
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Reviews to the Place
1Ольга Ерёменко
04.03.2025
The building of the former Zemstvo hospital in Gomel is an important architectural monument included in the list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus.
Princess Irina Ivanovna Paskevich financed the construction of the former Zemstvo hospital. The building was erected deep in the courtyard on a steep riverbank. It has distinctive architectural features. Its first ground floor is treated with horizontal rustication. The window openings of the second and third floors are decorated with sandalwood. In general, the building has a symmetrical composition, which is emphasized by two side risalites. The central cylindrical volume, projecting in front of the facade in the form of a bay window, ends with a cornice and a figured pediment with the inscription "Hospital".
The hospital received its first patients in 1915. After 1919, it was renamed the 1st Soviet Hospital, and after the typhus epidemic in 1921, it was redesignated the 1st Soviet Infectious Diseases Hospital.
After the Great Patriotic War, the institution functioned as a regional hospital. Currently, the Gomel City Clinical Emergency Hospital is located in this building.
The building is included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus, which underlines its importance and historical value for the region.