In February 2013 in Vitebsk on a former Bernardine monastery began construction of administrative and commercial center. Building under construction is an extension to the house number 35 Lenina Street, which belongs to the monuments of late XIX - early XX century. Despite this, together with the new extension twine concrete fence and part of a historic building, blocking free access to the monument of architecture, which is a violation of the right to access to cultural materials.

Front of the house number 35 is almost retained its original appearance. The yard also left many reminders of the past. Just now from the townspeople they will be closed by a concrete fence.

House number 5 on the street Smalenskaja (now Lenina) belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential residents of prerevolutionary Vitebsk, widow of 1st guild Hannah Gurevich. This building housed a variety of organizations, including women's was semiklassnaya gymnasium. Since 1906, her mistress was a former graduate of Vitebsk Mariinsky Gymnasium Ekaterina Chernova. It was one of the oldest educational institutions of the city, the history of which goes to the 1860s.

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