People
Ilya Mechnikov
1845–1916 · Biologist, Nobel laureate
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov — physiologist and embryologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908). Born in Kharkiv Governorate, he studied at the 2nd Kharkiv gymnasium and Kharkiv University.
As a schoolboy he organized a “Union of Science” and worked in a university lab. His name is part of Kharkiv’s identity as a city of science.
Tales
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топонимНОБЕЛЕВСКИЕ ЛАУРЕАТЫ · начало XX века · Центр
ILYA MECHNIKOV
At gymnasium Ilya and his classmates founded a "Union of Science." They held debates and wrote papers on scientific topics. Still a schoolboy, he first crossed the threshold of Kharkiv University…
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байкабез даты · Центр
FROM LIFE
In the mid-1850s the artist V. Mechnikov appeared in Kharkiv. He stopped here en route from St. Petersburg to his wealthy parents' estate in Kherson province…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
A BEQUEST TO THE CITY
I was always struck by the massive building at the start of Pushkinska, home to the Mechnikov Institute: breaking the street's straight line (small wonder—the Germans settled it!), it juts out almost…
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легендаXIX век · Центр
STEAL LESS!
It happened on the morning of 17 October 1888 near Borki. On a curve a rail came loose from the wheels of a fast train. The locomotive skewed and dug into the ground; cars overturned…
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топонимсоветский Харьков · Центр
MUSIC IN STONE
Kharkiv is unimaginable without the Law Academy (former Commercial School), the motor transport college (former Land Bank), the puppet theater (former Volga-Kama Bank), the institute named for M…
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слухначало XX века · Харьков
STALIN IN A CUBE
For all the pragmatism of his refined mind, Stalin was at the same time quite superstitious and wary of all sorts of fortune-tellers and enchanted places, especially if it could somehow concern…
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топонимначало XX века · Центр
FIVE FROM THE PAWNSHOP
As is well known, in December 1917 a congress in Kharkiv proclaimed Ukraine a Republic of Soviets. Half a century later, to honor the event, the city’s central square was renamed Soviet Square (now Constitution Square…”
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