Did you know that there functioned several post office branches on the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra?

The first post office brunch “11-V-15” functioned in the Ukrainian Museum Town in the second half of the 1930^s. Then it was also possible to use public payphone that was installed there.

The second post office branch № 15 resumed its work after the Second World War, on May 1, 1955. It functioned in the second section of building № 4 that was adapted for these purposes. To make this activity real, Kyiv City Post Office signed the leasing contract with Kyiv State Preserve-Museum “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”. According to the document, the post office resumed its functioning in building № 4 that had lasted there for several years before special organizations started the restoration of that architectural monument.

Captions to the illustrations:

1. Postcard of the early 1930^s, sent to Petro Kurinny, Director of Lavra State Historical and Cultural Preserve (Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, file 10, case 28/25)

2. Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Open space between buildings № 3 and № 4. Late 1920^s–1930^s (National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, inv. № 3462)

Anna Yanenko