Shchors cinema

Shchors cinema (Ukrainian: Дом кинотеатра имени Н. А. Щорса), was a theater in Chernihiv, Ukraine. The house of the NA Shchors cinema is an architectural monument of local significance in Chernihiv. The building housed the Chernihiv Regional Youth Center.[1][2][3][4]

Shchors cinema
Address3 Magistratskaya Street, Krasna Square
Chernihiv
Ukraine
Coordinates51°29′28″N 31°17′55″E
Operatorhouses the Chernihiv Regional Youth Center
TypeCinema
Construction
Opened1875
Demolished2022
Rebuilt1947

Description

Together with other buildings, it forms the architectural ensemble of Red Square. Brick, 2-storey, L-shaped house in plan. The facade faces east to Magistratskaya Street and Red Square. The facade on the entrance side has a rounded corner. The axis of symmetry of the main facade is accentuated by a 10-column portico of the central entrance. The portico is crowned with an attic. A cylindrical volume rises along the central axis of the façade above the roof. The facade is decorated with pilasters. The ends of the building end in gables.

History

In 1939, a cinema building was built. At the time of opening it was the best equipped cinema and became the third in the city ("First Soviet Cinema", "Komsomolets"). During the Great Patriotic War, the house was destroyed. The building was rebuilt in 1947.[5]

From 17 to 25 November 1947, an open trial of German and Hungarian prisoners of war who committed war crimes took place in the cinema building [source not specified, for 257 days].

In 1962 the building was reconstructed: "red" and "round" halls were added. At the end of the 1980s, the cinema had three auditoriums: "red" - for 560, "blue" - for 450, "round" - for 100 seats. The cinema building was a venue for brass band concerts and evening dances. In the postwar years and until 1971 - the opening of the cinema "October" on Gagarin Street - was the only cinema in Chernihiv.[6] In 1993 the "blue hall" burned down completely, in 1995 the building was reconstructed again.

By the decision of the executive committee of the Chernihiv regional council of people's deputies from 09.02.1996 No. 91 the status of an architectural monument of local value with protection No. 76-Chg. The building has its own "monument territory" and is located in the "complex protection zone of monuments of the historic city center", according to the rules of construction and use of the territory. An information board is installed on the building.

In 2017, the cinema was closed.[7] The building housed the Chernihiv Regional Youth Center.

Ruins of the cinema

On February 27, 2022, the building was severely damaged (partially destroyed) during the Siege of Chernihiv by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - as a result of an air strike on the building of the Chernihiv City Council (State Bank House). In addition, the houses of Kirponos Street - house No. 20А (Chernihiv Children's Dental Clinic - House where the writer GI Uspensky lived) and the 9-storey house No. 18 were damaged to varying degrees.[8][9][10]

References
  1. "им. Щорса". www.chernigov.kinoafisha.info. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  2. "Кинотеатр Им. Щорса (Чернигов)". www.kinofilms.ua. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  3. "Колишній кінотеатр Щорса у Чернігові: на якому етапі реконструкція". www.0462.ua. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  4. "Кінотеатру Щорса – 75!". www.choim.org. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  5. "Зруйнований бомбардуванням кінотеатр ім. М. Щорса у місті Чернігові 1943 р." www.archives.gov.ua. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  6. Семеріков, Сергій Олексійович (2007). "Maxima 5.13 : довідник користувача". doi:10.31812/0564/884. S2CID 125891338. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "Помилка на мільйони: хто відповість за провал проекту Молодіжного Хабу на базі колишнього кінотеатру Щорса?". www.gorod.cn.ua. 2019-12-20.
  8. "У Чернігові обстрілом зруйнували історичну будівлю молодіжного театру". www.ukrinform.ua. 2022-02-27.
  9. "Russian invasion update: Russian troops fire on Chernihiv city center, damaging dentistries and houses". Ukrinform. Government of Ukraine. 27 February 2022. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  10. "Ще одна безглузда атака по центру Чернігова" [Another senseless attack in the center of Chernihiv]. Chernihiv Regional Administration (in Ukrainian). Chernihiv: Government of Ukraine. 27 February 2022. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022. На цей раз ракета влучила поблизу обласного молодіжного центру (колишній кінотеатр ім. Щорса). Будівлю кінотеатру, зведену у 1939 року, пам'ятку архітектури, зруйновано. [This time the rocket hit near the regional youth center (former Shchors cinema). The building of the cinema, erected in 1939, an architectural monument, was destroyed.]
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