Gench-Ogluev House

[1] In the late 1870s the important Rostov merchant Stepan Gench-Ogluev [ru] decided to build a revenue house.

Architect Alexander Pomerantsev drew up the designs, with construction beginning in 1880 and being completed by 1883.

Records from 1925 show that the ground floor of the house was at this time occupied by a branch of the South-Western Commercial corporate bank, the Rostov district office of "Neftesindikat", and the "Myasokombinat" butcher shop, as well as other premises.

[3] The building sustained damage during the Great Patriotic War, with the destruction of the roof.

The architecture employs Baroque elements, with classical cornices, combined with Gothic bas-reliefs on the pediments.