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Secretariat of the President of Ukraine LOADING...
SLIDESHOW
The Bankova 11 building in Kyiv was built in 1939 by Serhiy Hryhoryev. It is his most famous creation and combines the elements of Classicism and Ukrainian Baroque. The building has very thick walls, as it is, in fact, an extension of architect Alexander Shile's symmetrically located two-floor twin houses. This monumental building has a beautiful façade and long wings and is decorated with a colonnade of the Corinthian order. The architect highlighted its grandeur and monumentality with a massive entablement, a labradorite facing and four stone spheres near the entrance. The building dominates the Pechersk neighborhood and is perfectly seen from different corners of Kyiv but, despite its formidable size, does not "crush" the narrow street and looks very natural. It has been used for military and later political purposes for decades. When Ukraine declared independence in 1991, it became the Ukrainian president's office. The building was known as the Presidential Administration under Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma and has been called the Presidential Secretariat since the Orange revolution of 2004. President Victor Yushchenko's office, rooms for meetings and receptions and a guestroom are all on the fourth floor of the building, which was restored in 2001. The president holds face-to-face talks in the Pink room. The Blue room is used for negotiations. The Guestroom is for those waiting for a meeting with the head of state. The Greeting room, which had been the office of the second secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, was renovated in 1996 and is now used for meetings of the leadership of the secretariat. The room for state ceremonies, where the Ukraine-EU summit took place and the National Unity Pact was signed, was refurbished in 1997. |
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