Great Podil fire

The fire's power was strengthened with high winds and the season's severe droughts, from which even the nearby Dnieper River was reported to have been dried out.

3 stated: [that it's the] third since the historic city's foundation, and the first since the times of Batyi [Khan].In 1812, a new plan for the reconstruction of Podil was drawn up by architects Geste and Melensky.

The plan had redrawn the neighborhood's curved streets into straightaways, thus creating the square city blocks that exist to this day.

[8] The fire showed the vulnerability of the city's wooden buildings, some of which would later be reconstructed in stone.

Reconstruction after the fire brought about the construction of many architectural landmarks currently standing, including the Contracts House and Gostnyi Dvir, among many others.