Contracts House

The Contracts House (Ukrainian: Контрактовий будинок) is a trade building in the Podil neighborhood of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

[1] It is located on the Kontraktova Square, once one of the Podil's main trading centers.

[1] After a large fire destroyed part of the Podil in 1811, the first Contracts House in the neighborhood burnt down.

The Contracts House was envisioned as part of an ensemble, which would include the post office, the magistrate's quarters, and the building itself.

Famous personalities visited or used the Contracts House: writers Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol,[2] and Honoré de Balzac, poets Taras Shevchenko, Adam Mickiewicz, and Denis Davydov.