Don-Plaza
Don-Plaza — a four-star hotel in the center of Rostov-on-Don. History. The history of the hotel "Intourist" begins on July 1, 1954, when, on the orders of the Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR No. 326 Rostov-on-Don, the agency VAO "Intourist" was organized, to which "a meeting of foreign delegations and individual foreigners arriving in the city, and also performance of other tasks of the Center for servicing foreign clients” was entrusted. There were only 3 people in the agency staff: a manager, a driver and an inspector. During the first year  of work, the agency was able to host and serve 206 foreigners. The first guests were two tourists from Denmark. By 1955, the influx of visitors to the city had increased to 3,000 people, coming mainly from Bulgaria, France, the United States and the GDR. Despite the growing need for hotel services, there was only one “Don” hotel in the city, where 65 hotel rooms were allocated to foreign guests, only 8 rooms were equipped with bathrooms. Since 1964, has annually received average more than 5 thousand tourists. The city turned into one of the tourist centers of the Soviet  Union. There was a need to increase the material base: new hotels, shops, restaurants were needed. In 1966, the Department for Foreign Tourism under the Council of Ministers of the approved technical documentation for the construction of the hotel "Intourist" in Rostov-on-Don. In October 1972, the building of the complex was to be completed. In the same month in the newspaper "Evening Rostov" an advertisement was published on the employment for 12 professionals to Intourist. Many people responded: during the first month, more than a thousand people were interviewed. The selection took into account such criteria as education , age, work experience and party affiliation. Selected candidates were sent to specialized courses. By June 1973, 120 hotel workers, 30 cooks and confectioners, 45 waiters, 8 lifters and 6 mechanics had been trained. People selected for managerial positions were trained directly at the Glavintourist Qualification Institute. 17 July 1973 is the birthday of the hotel "Intourist" in Rostov. On this day, the State Commission adopted the 17-storey hotel complex "Intourist" on , 115. The order of Glavintourist No. 184 of July 26, 1973 declared: "Transfer the hotel Intourist with 507 places and a power supply unit for 792 places to  balance of the Intourist branch in the region. To consider the hotel "Intourist" in Rostov-on-Don put into operation on July 17, 1973." The first foreign guests were the couples Helmut, Nass and Arsis, who came from the Federal Republic of Germany. Foreigners were provided with services unusual for Soviet citizens: a currency exchange office, an international telephone connection, city and regional excursions accompanied by guides and interpreters, as well as riding a “Russian troika” on a racetrack. In 1974, the author of the project L.Pushkova, the chief architect V.I. Simonovich and the head of UNR-112 Y.Y. Kostenko were  awarded the State Prizes of the RSFSR. For the first year of work of "Intourist" 37 thousand foreigners from 60 countries of the world were hosted. The main streams of tourists came from Czechoslovakia, the GDR, France, Bulgaria and Finland. 11 thousand of them arrived by cars, 8 thousand - on cruise ships, 4 thousand - by airplanes, 2 thousand - by trains "Drushba". By the 1990s, thanks to Intourist and Rostov-on-Don, about half a million foreigners met. As a result of the privatization of state property in 1992, JSC "Intourist in the city of Rostov-on-Don" was established on  the basis of the hotel complex. The overall economic decline in the country has had a negative impact on tourism activity. The flow of foreign guests has decreased significantly, and the hotel complex has increasingly deteriorated. The idea of reforming Intourist into an office building was becoming more and more relevant. The emerging economic stabilization in the region has determined the reorientation of the hotel to business tourists. In 2004, Intourist experienced reconstruction, as a result of which conference halls and a business center appeared in the hotel. In 2007, the hotel, named Don-Plaza, received the official certificate of  Rostourism for the assignment of the category "4 stars". Description. The hotel building is a high-rise sixteen-story building made of reinforced concrete, lined with aluminum, plastic, acoustic tiles. The construction of a metal frame with mounted panels lined with sheets of anodized aluminum of golden color corresponds to the strictness and geometricity of the building plan. Towering above the center of the city, hotel organizes a spatial environment in the area of Bolshaya Sadovaya Street and Kirovsky Square. The latter is organically connected with the hotel complex. The Don theme can be traced in the interior design of  the hotel. The decoration of rooms and halls is made using expensive materials and products such as wood, marble, aluminum, tapestries, decorative grilles, carpet floors, coffered ceilings. The rooms were furnished with Finnish furniture and decorated with original lamps. The interior design was attended by sculptors Y. Aleksandrov, I. Kazansky and artists Andronov and Egorshin. Due to the high level of subterranean waters resulting from leaks from the sewer network and the Rostov reservoir, the foundation of the building is periodically flooded. Section::::"Don-Plaza" company. The company "Don-Plaza" includes the management company, the hotel Don Plaza, the lobby bar  Amadeus, the restaurant Mein-Herz, the men's club "Hypnosis". Under the management of the company, the international congress center Hyatt Regency Rostov Don-Plaza is under construction — a complex of buildings with a total area of about 100 thousand square meters. Owners and management. Igor Viktorovich Gorin — the president of the company; Andrey Vladimirovich Demishin — the first vice-president of the company.