Mogilev. BRU.

After the Peace of Riga in 1921, western Belarus was handed over to Poland, and the state border was 30 or so kilometers away from Minsk. And that is why the project to move the capital from Minsk to Mogilev was born. The main administrative square of the future capital began to take shape in Mogilev. The House of Government (House of Councils) was built according to the project of I. Langbard in 1938. And immediately on Lenin Square, opposite the House of Government, another administrative building for the NKVD was built according to the project of the architect Pavel Abrosimov in 1938-1941. The author did not consider it necessary to pay attention to the architecture of the House of Government and built an administrative building with an enlarged Corinthian order. This caused great dissonance between the two large administrative buildings, which were built at the same time, and the integrity of the architectural ensemble failed. Before the war, the Mogilev Interregional School of the NKVD was located in the building. And during the defense of Mogilev in July 1941, a people's militia regiment was formed in the school building. After the war, in 1961, the building was assigned to the main building of the Mechanical Engineering Institute. And even today, the Belarusian - Russian University works here. The main facade of the building, which overlooks Lenin Square, is flanked by two rhizoliths, which decorate porticoes with 6th columns of the Corinthian order.