Pinsk. Gymnasium building.

There is a former gymnasium building in the city of Pinsk at 39 Lenin pedestrian street. The two-story stone building was built in the 19th century for a fifth-grade college. Architect Kazimir Skirmunt (1824-1893). There were 11 rooms on the ground floor, including a library, an office, a teacher's room, the principal's apartment and offices. And on the second floor there are seven rooms with a church.

In 1858, a gymnasium was opened instead of a college. Since 1872, the educational institution became known as the real college. During the First World War, the building was adapted for a Russian military hospital. During this difficult time, the writer and historian Constance Skirmunt (1851-1934) invited teachers and students to her home. During the German occupation by the Kaiser's troops, there was a military commandant's office in this building. After the Peace of Riga in 1921, the Pinsk State Gymnasium began operating in the building. After the war, a secondary school operated in Soviet times. 

At various times, world–famous figures studied in this building: Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), a politician and scientist, the first president of the State of Israel; Simon Smith Kuznets (1901-1985), Ph.D., statistician and economist. Nobel Prize winner in economics; Nikolai Sokolov (1859-1906), chief architect of Rostov–on–Don; Aron Luria (1867-1920)– revolutionary poet and journalist; Ivan Zheltkovsky (1867-1959), artist and architect, academician of architecture.

A memorial plaque in honor of Chaim Weizmann is installed on the building. If you are going to inspect this architectural monument, then lift your head higher and look at the pediment – there is still an inscription in Polish under the paint, when it was a Polish gymnasium.

The education department of the city executive committee is currently working here.