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Explore the history of Berdichev through old photographs and engravings. Witness the transformation of the town from its fortress-monastery days to the bustling city it is today.
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02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. BERDICHEV / BERDYCHIV THE TOWN WE HAVE LOST-1 Courtesy: Alexander (http://technolirik.livejournal.com/)
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. OLD PHARMACY (IN THE BEGINNINGS OF XXth CENTURY)
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. OLD BERDICHEV (general view)
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. BERDICHEV FORTRESS-MONASTERY (T .MAKOVSKOGO ENGRAVING, 1768)
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. CENTER OF BERDICHEV IN THE BEGINNIGS OF XXth CENTURY(St. Belopolskaya and the tower at the back)
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. THE FOREGROUND BUILDING OF POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE, BLASTED BY SOVIET TROOPS IN JULY 1941, BEFORE THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF THE CITY. IN THE BACKGROUND THE CITY DUMA BUILDING, BUILT IN 1890 AND SURVIVED TO THIS DAY.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. BERDICHEV IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. IN THE BOTTOM OF THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT IS THE FORTRESS-MONASTERY OF THE DISCALCED CARMELITES. IN THE CENTER OF THE FRAME IS VISIBLE DOMINANT SECOND CITY - CATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION, BUILT IN 1837 AND WAS BLOWN UP IN 1936 BY THE COMMUNISTS.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. BERDICHEV RAILWAY STATION, BUILT IN 1874 AND COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY THE GERMANS DURING THE BOMBING IN 1944.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. BERDICHEV STATION, A PHOTO FROM AN AIRSHIP IN 1912.
MECHANICAL AND STEEL PLANT "PROGRESS", THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. TRAM PUSHED BY HORSES AT THE ST. BELOPOLSKAYA. IN THE BACKGROUND, BUILDING A COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, BUILT IN 1908 IN BERDICHEV. THE BUILDING IS STILL STANDING TODAY AND THERE IS A TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. WATER TOWER AT CATHEDRAL SQUARE, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. DIRIGIBLE (AIRSHIP) "GRIF" NEAR THE HANGAR-BOATHOUSE IN BERDICHEV.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. CENTER OF BERDICHEV IN 1912. PHOTO IMPRINTED DURING THE FLIGHT OF THE AIRSHIP "GRIF." ALSO PRESENT AT THE PICTURES RAILS AND TRAM CARRIAGES AND POWER PYLONS.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. HEBREW BERDICHEV IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. IN THE BACKGROUND, BUILDING OF THE SYNAGOGUE, OF WHOM. AT THAT TIME THERE WERE ABOUT 80 BERDICHEV SYNAGOGUES. AS YOU CAN SEE THIS AND OTHER PICTURES OF THAT TIME ALMOST ALL THE SIGNS ARE GESHEFT (SHOPS) WITH JEWISH SURNAMES.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. PICTURE OF THE ASSUMPTION CATHEDRAL AND CATHEDRAL SQUARE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION IN CATHEDRAL SQUARE IN BERDICHEV, 1918. MOST BANNERS IN YIDDISH.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. UNVEILING THE MONUMENT OF LENIN IN BERDICHEV NOVEMBER 7, 1925
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. GERMAN TANKS ON THE STREETS OF BERDICHEV
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. AUGUST 6, 1941 ADOLF HITLER VISITED BERDICHEV AND HELD A MEETING WITH THE STAFF OF ARMY GROUP "SOUTH". THE MEETING WAS HELD IN A ROOM IN WHICH THE SCHOOL IS LOCATED TODAY UNDER NUMBER THREE. PRESERVED ARCHIVAL SNAPSHOT WAS IMPRINTED IN BERDICHEV, WHEN HITLER WAS COMING OUT OF THE SCHOOL PREMISES. AFTER THE MEETING, HITLER WENT INTO THE BUILDING OF THE RED CROSS (PRESENTLYUKRTELECOM), WHERE A RECEPTION WAS HELD IN HONOR OF THE ROMANIAN DICTATOR ION ANTONESCU YONA AT WHICH HITLER HANDED DICTATOR HIGHEST AWARD - THE KNIGHT'S CROSS.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. RUINS OF THE BERDICHEVSKOY PHARMACY NUMBER ONE ON THE STREET KARL LIEBKNECHT - THE MAIN STREET OF THE CITY, IN 1947.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. ALL THE REMAINS OF THE BERDICHEV RAILWAY STATION.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. ONE OF THE POST-WAR HOUSES BUILT FOR THE WORKERS OF THE ENGINEERING PLANT "PROGRESS", 1953 PHOTO.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. THE NEW RAILWAY STATION OF BERDICHEV
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. IN 1959-1965, KHRUSHCHEV STARTED IN BERDICHEV A MASS HOUSING CONSTRUCTION. AT THE SAME TIME THE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS OF THE CITY WHICH SHAPED THE FACE OF BERDICHEV THE LAST 100 YEARS WERE RUTHLESSLY DEMOLISHED. IN THE PLACE OF JEWISH MANSIONS GREW FACELESS BOX-STOREY BUILDINGS.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. KHRUSHCHEV BEGAN A SYSTEMATIC OFFENSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF BOX BUILDINGS REPLACING THE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. RADZIWILL PALACE - OWNERS OF BERDICHEV, BUILT THE PALACE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY IN THE STYLE OF LATE CLASSICISM, DEMOLISHED IN THE EARLY 1970S DUE TO AN EMERGENCY CONDITION.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. AT THE SITE OF THE PALACE WAS BUILT SUCH A "MASTERPIECE" OF SOVIET ARCHITECTURE, WHICH IS NOW THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. ANOTHER OF THE CITY'S OLDEST BUILDING, DEMOLISHED IN THE MID-1970S - THE HOUSE IN WHICH LIVED FOR SOME TIME UKRAINIAN HETMAN IVAN MAZEPA. THE HOUSE WAS BUILT IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY, AND THERE OCCURRED IN 1704 THE ARREST OF COSSACK COLONEL SYMEON PALY. THE REASON FOR THE DEMOLITION WAS PRECARIOUS CONDITION OF THE BUILDING. ON THIS SITE IN 1986 WAS BUILT A RESTAURANT CALLED “SKAZKA".
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. IN 1973, THE HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE CITY SUFFERS ANOTHER LOSS – WAS DEMOLISHED ONE OF THE SYMBOLS OF BERDICHEV - THE WATER TOWER IN THE CENTER. THE REASON FOR THE DEMOLITION - USELESSNESS, AS THE CITY IS NOW EQUIPPED WITH A NEWLY BUILT CENTRALIZED WATER PUMPING STATION.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. IN 1980 PASSED THROUGH BERDICHEV THE OLYMPIC FLAME, WHICH SYMBOLIZED THE BEGINNING OF THE XXII OLYMPIC GAMES IN MOSCOW. THE OLYMPIC FLAME PASSED THROUGH THE CITY ALONG12 KM. IN THE ITINERARY WERE INVOLVED 12 OUTSTANDING ATHLETES OF THE CITY, EACH CARRYING THE OLYMPIC FLAME FOR A KILOMETER, ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY TWO OTHER ATHLETES.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. COLLAPSED HOUSE (FOREGROUND) AND THE ADJACENT NEIGHBOR BUILDING, WERE DEMOLISHED SOME MONTHS AFTER THE DISASTER.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. DEMOLITION OF DAMAGED HOUSES IN THE STREET SVERDLOV, DURING SUMMER 1996.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. MEN'S GYMNASIUM SCHWARTZMAN (THREE-STOREY BUILDING IN THE CENTER OF THE FRAME), PHOTO 1913.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. AS A CONSEQUENCE OF DAMAGED BUILDINGS WAS DEMOLISHED A RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX AT THE INTERSECTION OF LENIN STREET AND CATHEDRAL SQUARE. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, THERE WAS A RUSSIAN-FRENCH BANK. PHOTO 1913.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. THE BUILDINGS OF THE COMPLEX IN 1998, BEFORE THE DEMOLITION. NOW IN THIS PLACE IS A SKELETON OF AN UNFINISHED SHOPPING CENTER.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. BERDICHEV CONTINUES TO LOSE THE REMNANTS OF ITS HISTORICAL BUILDINGS. IN THE NEW CENTURY. THE CATHEDRAL SQUARE IN THE CITY CENTER WAS DEMOLISHED BECAUSE OF DAMAGES IN THE NEXT HOUSE, BUILT IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. IN THIS PHOTO OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, THIS HOUSE IS LOCATED DIRECTLY BEHIND THE TOWER.
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. SO IT LOOKED IN THE LAST YEARS BEFORE THE DEMOLITION
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. AND NOW DURING THE DEMOLITION IN 2012
02. Облога бердичевской крепости-монастыря. Гравюра Т.Раковецкого, 1768 год. TODAY, HERE IN THE HEART OF THE TOWN WAS LEFT AN EMPTY SPACE. VERY PROBABLY IN THE COMING YEARS THERE WILL RISE ANOTHER UGLY MALL, LINED WITH CHINESE PLASTIC, SUCH AS THOSE THAT ARE ADJACENT TO A VACANT LOT.