Ivan Franko Street or Ivana Franka Street () is a street in the Shevchenkivskyi District of the city of Kyiv, in the Afanasiivskyi Yar neighbourhood. It runs from Yaroslav's Wall Street to Taras Shevchenko Boulevard.
Ivan Franko Street is connected with Vyacheslav Lypynsky Street, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street, and the Botanical Square, where the A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden as well as St Volodymyr's Cathedral are located.
History The street appeared in the second half of the 19th century, formed from two streets — Afanasiivska (between the modern Yaroslav's Wall Street and Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street) and Nestorivska (between the modern-day Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street and Taras Shevchenko Boulevard). Afanasiivska Street was first mentioned in 1855, and its name came from Afanasiivsky (Sviatoslavsky) Ravine, over which the street was built. The name Nestorivska (; ), in honour of Nestor "the Chronicler", was given to the street during the 1869 renaming of Kyiv's streets.The official part On the naming of some streets and squares in Kyiv // Kievlianin. — 1869. — No. 95. — August 14. — P. 1–2. (Russian pre-ref.). However, in official documents dating back to the 1880s, the street was also referred to as Nesterovska(ya). In 1889, both streets were merged under the common name Nesterivska.Kyiv: An Encyclopedic Handbook (1981) claims that a parallel name for the street is Nesterivska, in honour of the pilot Pyotr Nesterov, who died in an air battle in 1914, was used during the First World War. It also states that the street is allegedly named after the artist Mikhail Nesterov, who took part in the painting of the St Volodymyr's Cathedral.
In 1926, in connection with the 10th anniversary of the death of the poet and writer Ivan Franko, the Nesterivska was renamed Ivan Franko Street.Улица имени Франко // Киевский пролетарий. — 1926. — № 116 (278). — 23 мая. — С. 5. The current revised name is from 1944.Excerpt from the resolution of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council of Workers' Deputies dated 6 December 1944 No. 286/2 "On the arrangement of the names of squares, streets and alleys of the city of Kyiv"// Kyivska Pravda. — 1944. — No. 249 (6223). — 22 December. — P. 2.
Buildings of historical and architectural value, architectural monuments No. 4. Mansion; 1897, architect Andriy-Ferdinand Krauss; No. 19. Apartment building; late nineteenth - early twentieth century; No. 28. Mansion; late nineteenth century; No. 42. Residential building.
Houses No. 1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26 (‘Zamkov's house’Kyiv City Council did not reject the petition regarding the Zamkov's house), 29, 31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 were built in the 2nd half of the 19th century - 1st third of the 20th century.
Personalities House No. 4 belonged to the sister of the famous scientist Mykola Kashchenko and writer Adrian Kashchenko. In 1904–1913, the composer lived in house No. 18. In the early twentieth century, Otto Schmidt lived in house No. 26. Academician Volodymyr Ikonnikov lived in house No. 31. In house No. 33 lived the bridge engineer Mykola Beleliubskyi and in 1918–1919 - the writer Konstantin Paustovsky.
In 1880–1882, the building on the territory of the present-day estate No. 19 housed the drawing school of Mykola Murashko.
Institutions and establishments No. 19 - Ministry of Culture of Ukraine No. 33 - No. 34 -
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References
Sources Web encyclopedia of Kyiv. Streets of Kyiv: a handbook. Compiled by A. M. Syhalov and others. Kyiv: Reklama [Advertising], 1975. p. 95.
Ivana Franka Street // Streets of Kyiv: Official Handbook. Appendix to the decision of the Kyiv City Council dated 22 January 2015 No. 34/899 “On approval of the official handbook “Streets of Kyiv City””. p. 287.
Ivan Franko Street // Kyiv: An Encyclopedic Handbook (1982) / ed. A. V. Kudrytsky. Kyiv. : See ed. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1982. p. 610. (Russian) Ivana Franka Street // MIAS ZMD "Urban Planning Cadastre of Kyiv".