Leonidov House

The Leonidov House was built in the early of the 20th century. Dwellings in the building were rented. Different organizations occupied the ground floor.[2] Writer and journalist Alexander Arsenyevich Bakharev lived and worked in this building. His family lived at the third floor between 1950 and 1974. He is known for writing about life and fate of people in kolkhozes, legacy of Russian biologist and breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, sketches about Volga-Don Canal. Bakharev headed the Administration of Rostov oblast writer's organization. He was awarded Order of Honour, Order of the Red Banner and several medals.[3]

Russian writer Valentin Nikolayevich Syomin with his family lived at the fourth floor. He wrote novels: Zhenya and Valentina, Award pin OST, stories: Asya Alexandrovna, Our old women, Visiting aunts, Owner, In 1942, On the river, Down-river and other. The Leonidov House was nationalized after the establishment of the Soviet rule in 1920. Two memorial tablets reminding about life of Syomin and Bakharev installed on the facade in 1983.[4]

The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style. Architecture of the building employs baroque and classic elements of decoration. These include moldings, small corbels and architraves. The first floor is decorated with banded rustications with smooth-faced "V" joints and vermiculated square blocks. Windows of the second floor are crowned with triangular cornices. The fourth floor is decorated with Labels. The nook-windows at the second and third floor have small balconies with delicate iron-cast railing.[5]