page_title: Skyscrapers of Ukraine
section_title: First skyscrapers (1901–1940)
hierarchical_section_title: Skyscrapers of Ukraine / History of skyscrapers of Ukraine / First skyscrapers (1901–1940)
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Хмарочос Гінзбурга у Києві
context_page_description: Skyscrapers of Ukraine are high-rise residential and office buildings in Ukraine. Until 2009, skyscrapers in Ukraine considered buildings higher than 74 meters, now – 100 meters.
  The largest cities with a cluster of skyscrapers are Kyiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Odesa, Kharkiv.
  The first skyscraper on the territory of Ukraine was built in Kyiv in 1912, it was a 12-storey Ginzburg Skyscraper. The next big leap into high-rise construction was the Kharkiv skyscrapers: 13-storey Derzhprom with 68 meters and 14-story Project House with 68.5 meters.
  During the USSR, it was forbidden to build residential buildings with conditional height higher than 73.5 m, but 5 skyscrapers were built contrary to the law – Trade House, Hotel "Tourist" and Ministry of Infrastructure House in Kyiv, and two "tall buildings" of housing estate "Victory" in Dnipro. In addition, several other skyscrapers began to be built in Soviet times: the KyivTV-center and the House of the USSR Ministry of Melioration in Kyiv, and the «Parus» Hotel in the Dnipro.
context_section_description: For the first time a high-rise building in Ukraine was built in 1900–1901 in Kyiv, it was "Kyiv Paris" – an 8-storey skyscraper (6 main, attic and underground) with a spire 46 meters high. For the first time in this building, an elevator was installed in Ukraine. The building was used as revenue house, owned and built by builder-contractor Lev Ginzburg.
  In 1912, Ginzburg built Ginzburg Skyscraper near "Kyiv Paris". The architects were Adolf Minkus and Fedor Troupiansky from Odesa. The 12-story building was truly different against the backdrop of the city, with a spire of 67.5 meters in height. The skyscraper struck with its novelty, it had 94 apartments, about 500 rooms, a mall on the ground floor and modern forged elevators at that time. In addition to its 67-meter height, the house seemed even taller because it stood on a hill. 
  The building was so amazing and tall that pilgrims from other cities prayed before the building, thinking it was some kind of temple. In the days of the World War II, Ivan Kudrya, a Soviet spy, lived in this skyscraper. Until now, the house has not survived, it was blown up on 24 September 1941, by the Red Army, and completely dismantled in the early 1950s, during the construction of Hotel Ukraine. 
  In 1921, the first Lviv skyscraper was built – the Sprecher House, which was a 7-story revenue house. It was owned by the richest businessman in Lviv, Jonah Sprecher. It is the first house in Lviv to be equipped with two high-speed electric elevators.  
  Another multi-story building was built in Kiyv before World War II, it was the famous Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which has 10 floors and a height of 58 meters (67 meters with a spire). The construction of the building lasted from 1936 to 1938, the chief architect was Ivan Fomin. This building still remains the largest and one of the tallest administrative buildings in the city. It is the first high-rise of the "Stalin Empire". Until 1991, it was the House of Council of People's Commissars of USSR (Radnarkom).   
  The last "pre-war" high-rise was Kiyv's 10-story constructivist UVO House on Arsenal Square, built according to the plan of Ukrainian architect Joseph Karakis in 1934–1940. The height of the building reached about 35 meters.
caption: Ginzburg Skescraper – the first scryscraper in Ukraine (1910s)
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