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History

The building of the old railway station is located in the northeast part of the pre-revolutionary Oleksandrivsk (now Zaporizhzhia) (Table 1). It was erected during the construction of the Second Catherine Railway, which connected Dolhintsevo and Volnovakha stations. The construction of the railway lasted from 1902 to 1905. The main works were carried out by the construction office led by the engineer B. Rippas. In 1907–1908, the section with the stations Oleksandrivsk and Peredatochna turned the city into a significant hub of passenger and freight transportation with 9,936 verst (over 10,000 km) of railway lines (Materialy do bahatotomnoho Zvodu pamiatok Istorii ta kultury Ukrainy: Zaporizhzhia, 2016, p. 158-159).

The brick building is not plastered on the facades, with protruding volumes in the southern and northern parts (Tables 1 and 2). The overall dimensions are 104 x 23 meters. The built-up area is 11,646.2 square meters. The planning structure is of a mixed type.

During the 1905 revolution, the territory of the station was one of the centers of the armed uprising in Oleksandrivsk. In August 1907, the outstanding Ukrainian poetess Lesia Ukrainka was at the station while traveling by railway to the south. In honor of this event, a granite memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the building on October 8, 1995.

The records for the monument of architecture and urban planning under the name “Oleksandrivsk Railway Station (Zaporizhia-2 Railway Station)” were drawn up in 2006 by the architect O. Kuzmenko registered as FOP (individual entrepreneur). The building is not included in the unified register of monuments (Table 1).

In the modern urban planning structure, the building of the station is organically connected with other monuments and parks located nearby. The station was used for its intended purpose until the opening of the new premises of the Zaporizhzhia-2 station in 1981.

Violation description

During the hostilities, on March 16, 2022, part of the monument was damaged by missiles launched by Russian troops. The epicenter of the explosion was on the side of the railway track. Most of the building is damaged (Table 3) [1].

Gallery

• Passport of the cultural heritage object No. 4458/2-Zp Oleksandrivsk Railway Station (Zaporizhzhia-2 Railway Station) (Zaporizhzhia, 9 St. Constantine the Great Street).
• Облікова картка вокзалу Олександрівськ

Article source and links

• Video of the damage
• Articles
• Old and new photos on the website of the Ukrainian Institute
• Wikipedia

• Materialy do bahatotomnoho Zvodu pamiatok Istorii ta kultury Ukrainy: Zaporizhzhia, 2016, p. 158-159.