Among the residents of the house were many notable[6] scientists, engineers and several art workers, and the compound was entered into the cultural heritage list by an act of the city legislative assembly in 1999.

[1] In early 1930s the city block on odd-numbered side of Kantemirovskaya street immediately east of Lesnoy Prospect was filled with two sets of apartment buildings differing in the degree of built-in conveniences.

In the southern part of the block the 6 residential 5-storeyed buildings of No 59 Lesnoy Prospect avenue constructed for the district textile mills workers did not have what their nextdoor neighbors from the three houses of No.

These specially designed better conditions were provided for by the national government decision Archived 2020-07-16 at the Wayback Machine of 1932 to build apartment houses for specialists - several in each of a number of big cities.

[5] No 61 by Lesnoy Prospect / 21 by Kantemirovskaya Street House of Specialists accommodated dozens of significant engineers, factory managers, scientists in various fields, and several cultural figures.