It is located at the corner of Bolshaya Sadovaya street and Ostrovsky Lane, and is currently occupied by the Southern Federal University.

[1] It was built in the Art Nouveau style and has the status of an object of cultural heritage of regional significance.

A competition was held, in which the first place was awarded to the design of I. E. Cherkessian (Cherkesov), a student of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

The second and the third places were taken by the designs of the Kiev engineer I. G. Torov and the Rostov architect Grigory Vasilyev [ru] respectively.

In the mid-1930s, the main building of Rostov University moved to the Kistov revenue house [ru].