Melkonov-Yezekov House

The Melkonov-Yezekov House (Russian: Дом Мелконова-Езекова, romanized: Dom Melkonova-Yezekova) was a building in the centre of Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Two merchants, the horse breeder Karapet Chernov and the woollen trader Melkonov-Yezekov, allegedly made a bet over which one of them was richer.

They each decided to build as luxurious a revenue house as possible, facing each other on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street.

In the 1930s, the building was occupied by the Rostov Azov-Black Sea Committee for Radio Broadcasting and Radiocommunication of the Rostoblispolkom, and the "Udarnik" cinema.

[4] In 1942, during the Second World War, an aerial bomb hit the Melkonov-Yezekov house, partially destroying the building.