Did you know that the premises of the Economic Building (№ 7) of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra have been used as dormitories since the late 1930’s? Those were the lodgings for the graduate students and employees of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In particular, that was the place where employees of the Academic Institute of Archeology lived in 1940. Among them there were Volodymyr Goncharov, a native of Berdychiv, who researched Kyivan Rus settlements; assistant Felix Luchytsky, who lived in Zhytomyr until 1935; Anna Beilinson, postgraduate student, who graduated from Odessa State University, and others.

Captions to the illustrations:

1. Economic Building (№ 7) of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The first third of the 20th century. [Scientific archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, f. 10, file no. 27]

2. Employees of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. First row: the third on the left – Mykhailo Karger, the fourth on the left – Volodymyr Goncharov [Institute of Manuscripts, Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, f. 243, file no. 658]

Anna Yanenko