The History of the Trading House of the Economic Society of Officers on Vozdvizhenka

The Trading House of the Economic Society of Officers or Voentorg – a department store, was built in 1913 on Vozdvizhenka in the center of Moscow. At the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. public and commercial buildings were erected in every major city, which often became the basis and compositional core of the historical center. In Moscow, Paris, London, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Milan, Rome in the middle of the 19th – early 20th centuries. new trade buildings were an important part of the reconstruction of the city (settlement of streets and squares, creation of a special city structure based on its historical layout, enlargement of buildings, unification of buildings along the red line of the street). Subsequently, some of them were rebuilt, changed, transformed, expanded their boundaries and, at the same time, retained their significance in the structure of the modern city. The history of the Moscow Voentorg is a complex phenomenon that reflects the political, economic, urban planning and architectural trends of different periods.

I.A. PROKOFIEVA, Candidate of Architecture (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy of Architecture) – MARKHI (11, Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, 107031, Russian Federation)

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