The fate of the place chosen for the square is interesting. In 1866, the editor-publisher of the newspaper Crimean Bulletin at his own expense rebuilt a building here for a printing house and lithography. In 1910, the building was placed in the Empire cinema, renamed in 1929 to the «Flight», then to the «Culti-film», and even later-in the «Jungshchm-MOM». There was a time when a Jewish club acted in this building. After the Great Patriotic War, the Astoria Hotel, the restaurant and a photosalon of the same name, earned here. Later, the building was located in the Crimean fishing department, the Children’s World store and the Mill Department of the People’s Commissariat of Education. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the building has planned to be completely repaired. But the idea could not be realized and the once chic structure turned into ruins. Only one facade wall was more or less preserved, which, let’s say, did not decorate the face of the city. And since the owner of the building did not take any measures to reconstruct the facility, the District Administrative Court of the ARC by its decision terminated ownership of the building.
