Kyiv City Duma building

The building was located on the then Dumskaya Ploschad (now Maidan Nezalezhnosti) of the Khreschatyk street in Kyiv and stood in the centre of it.

In this manner the city administrative center was moved out of the Kyiv Podil for the first time since 1490s closer to Pechersk.

In 1900 another Russian architect Aleksandr Krivosheyev added another floor level and it became a three-story building.

After the Russian Revolution when the Soviets took power, the archangel was replaced with a five pointed star.

During World War II, the building caught fire and was partially damaged by the 1941 Khreschatyk explosions that was staged by the withdrawing Soviet NKVD troops.