Minsk. Volin's house.

      In Minsk, on Volodarsky Street, a beautiful eclectic and neo-Baroque building has been preserved, which is known as the Volin House. The building was erected at the intersection of Volodarsky Street and Zakharyevskaya Street, which is now called Independence Avenue.

          The house was built in 1900, and its owner was Samuel Lazarevich Volin, and his wife was Bluma–Feiga Volina. They had 6 children: 5 sons and a daughter. The house was profitable, and part of the building was rented out for residential apartments, and part for various organizations.

      Zhidovich's pub, Nazarova's shop, Pavlovsky's sewing workshop, a bakery and a Khmelevets bakery worked here. During the First World War in 1915, the department of the Committee of the Western Front of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union was located. The doctor, Leiba Polonsky, worked there. Since 1918, Akim Dubograyev's grocery store, V. Lampert's watch store, Joseph Mendel's store, and L. Tsyves's shoemaker's workshop have been operating. Since 1920, the city district bureau of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the BSSR has been operating.

      In 1922, there were four shops, the shoe workshop of Hertz Vishnev, the workshop of Andrey Yeager, and the tailor workshop of Reines. In 1928-1940, the bookstore of the Belarusian branch of the state publishing houses of the RSFSR, the 'Military Book' store and other institutions operated in the building.