Minsk. Abrampolsky House.

   The pre-revolutionary Abrampolsky House is located on Independence Square in Minsk. The building was built in the Art Nouveau style on Sovetskaya Street – 17. Before the revolution, the street was called Zakharyevskaya. The building was built by the Belarusian architect Stanislav Gaidukevich.

           The apartment building was built in 1912, and its owner was Emmanuel Abrampolsky, who worked as a director of the bank. On the ground floor, several rooms were rented by Princess Magdalena Radziwill, who is known as a philanthropist and social activist. The Princess actively supported the Belarusian national culture. Abrampolsky himself and his family lived on the second floor.

             After the revolution, the building was nationalized, and the apartments of the Belarusian department of the United State Political Administration were located here. The apartments of the party and state leadership of Soviet Belarus were also located here. Adam Slavinsky, People's Commissar of Agriculture and secretary of the Minsk City Committee of the Communist Party, lived here from 1919 to 1931. At that time, the building was informally called the First House of Soviets. Dmitry Prishchepov, a well-known Belarusian public and political figure, also lived in this house.

       During the Great Patriotic War, there were safe houses of Soviet underground workers in the house. After the war, there were residential apartments here, including academician Vasily Popov.