House with Chimeras

Kharkiv's House with Chimeras is a modernist architectural landmark dressed with Gothic flourishes and carved creatures. Look up for the details: chimeras, salamanders, wolves, knightly emblems, and other sculptural pieces give the facade its name.

The building has long been associated with the theatre faculty of the Kotlyarevsky Institute of Arts, whose students helped restore it. It is mainly an exterior stop, but a worthwhile one if you are tracing Kharkiv's more eccentric early-20th-century architecture.

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