Burevestnik Cinema

On 21 July 1920 Sergei Yesenin performed a poetry reading there, an event marked by a commemorative plaque on the facade facing Bolshaya Sadovaya Street.

On 28 September 2008 the municipal administration decided, despite public opposition, to close the cinema and assign the building to the Southern Federal University.

[6] The rector of Southern Federal University, Vladislav Zakharevich [ru], claimed that the deed of the cinema was handed over to him only in the summer 2009.

[5] In February 2010 the sign of the Russian President's plenipotentiary to the Southern Federal District was placed on the façade of the building.

^ "Burevestnik" in Russian means "the announcer of a storm", and is the name of a number of seabird species known in English as petrels.