Vladislav Gorodetsky

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Vladislav Gorodetsky Владислав Городецький
Personal information
Name	Vladislav Gorodetsky Владислав Городецький
Nationality	Polish
Birth date	May 23, 1863(1863-05-23)
Birth place	Sholudky, Podillia, Russian Empire
Date of death	January 3, 1930 (aged 66)
Place of death	Tehran, Iran
Work
Significant buildings	House with Chimaeras (Kiev), St. Nicholas Cathedral (Kiev), National Art Museum (Kiev), Karaim Kenesa

Vladislav Gorodetsky or full name Leshek Vladislav Dezidery Gorodetsky (Ukrainian: Лєшек Дезидерій Владислав Городецький, Vladyslav Horodets’kyi; Polish: Leszek Władysław Horodecki) (June 4 [O.S. May 23] 1863 in Sholudky, Podillia — January 3, 1930 in Tehran, Iran) was an architect and big-game hunter, best known for his Art Nouveau-style buildings, namely the House with Chimaeras, the St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and many others in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Gorodetsky was born in a noble Polish szlachta family in the Podillia region (now Nemyrivskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). He graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1890, and moved to Kiev, where he lived for almost 30 years. In 1920 he emigrated to Warsaw, and in 1928 he moved to Tehran where he died in 1930.

One of Kiev streets, designed by Gorodetsky^[1], (between Maidan Nezalezhnosti and House with Chimaeras) was named after him in 1996. Historically, the street was named as Mykolaivska, and in Soviet times it was known as Karl Marx street.

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