The dead-end street Levanievsky in Odesa has been renamed Tolvinsky Lane.
Key highlights:
- Levanievsky dead-end has been renamed Tolvinsky Lane.
- Nikolai Tolvinsky – a prominent architect who began his work in Odesa in 1887.
- His projects include the health resort «Kuyalnik», university buildings, and structures on the Railway Square.
- He created the university's bodies, observatory, and library.
- After Odesa, Tolvinsky worked in Warsaw, where his son became a founder of the Polish urban planning school.
Nikolai Konstantinovich Tolvinsky (1857 – 1924) was born in Warsaw, but he experienced his creative peak in Odesa. Since 1887, he designed residential and public buildings that still beautify the city.
In the heart of the city, on Railway Square, he designed the judicial institutions and the Zemstvo administration buildings. Both were built in the Renaissance style, and currently, they house the Odesa Railway administration.
Among his notable projects are the hospital building of the «Kuyalnik» health resort, the physical and chemical faculties of Odesa University, as well as the anatomical building of the Medical University, the magnetic-meteorological observatory, and the scientific library of ONU.
In 1900, the architect returned to Warsaw, where he continued his work at the polytechnic institute. His son Tadeusz Tolvinsky, born in Odesa, became one of the founders of modern urban planning science in Poland.
