It was named after Kiev construction tycoon Lev Ginsburg.
Shelley
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM, cornel fleming
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
> I was looking at some Ukrainian stamp lists and found several
> showing"Ginzburg's House"!! Sounded like a tribal name,not Ukrainian so
> looked it up on Google. Turns out originally built as Kiev,s first
> skyscraper by architects Minkus and Troupyanski in 1910-12 and after a
> variety of problems it is today the "Hotel Ukraine". So my question
> is...who was Ginzburg??? Apparently in spite of the official name the locals
> still call it "Ginzburg House"!!! Cornel
>
>
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