Description of the attraction
The only building in Saratov, designed by the outstanding Petersburg architect Johann Lidval for the Azov-Don Bank, was built in 1913 on Aleksandrovskaya Street (now M. Gorky Street). The building with high, two-storey windows and poor stucco moldings was made in the modernist style, which was fashionable at that time, and was considered one of the best architectural decorations of the city.
At the end of the nineteenth century, a branch of the Azov-Don Commercial Bank began to function in Saratov, first in the house of the merchant I. N. Khudobin on Moskovskaya Street. In 1911, on Aleksandrovskaya Street, a place was bought for the construction of a specially designed building, and in 1913 the bank began operations already in its premises. The bank itself was founded in 1871 in Taganrog (in 1903 it became St. Petersburg) and in the system of Russian banks, in terms of financial indicators, ranked third with strong commercial ties with French and English financial circles. In Saratov, the bank branch provided loans mainly for grain trade.
With the onset of Soviet power, the bank building with a strict facade and a two-story operating room continued to remain a noticeable architectural structure with functions originally incorporated into it - for many years the four-story building housed the Central Savings Bank, and now a branch of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation.
