VLADIVOSTOK: A HISTORIC WALKING TOUR 

  2, PERVAYA MORSKAYA STREET

FORMER GRAND HOTEL

     Constructed in 1902, the six-story yellow building on the corner of Pervaya Morskaya (First Sea) and Aleutskaya (Aleutian) Streets served as Vladivostok’s Grand Hotel before the Revolution.  The owner was entrepreneur Leonty Sh. Skidelsky, but the architect remains unknown.  From the architectural point of view the building is noted for its simplicity: the decorative belts on the façade and the alternating windows remind one of classical architecture.

     The hotel rooms have been closed since the 1920s.  From the 1930s on, the building has served several purposes, housing first the Palace of Labor (a workers’ community center), which displayed on its façade the figure of a worker tearing off the capitalist

                                                        BI, 1998

chains encircling our globe.  For a long time the building then served as the headquarters of the Executive Committee of the Regional Administration; now a variety of offices and companies have their premises here, including the Catholic Relief Service and--perhaps more poignant in these new times--the regional tax-collecting office.

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