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Main - - Culture - Architectural monuments - Minsk region The Palace of the Republic
The Palace of the Republic. The building of the Palace of the Republic (architect M. Pirogov, L. Zdanevich, Shabalin, 2000.) completing the formation of Octyabrskaya Square in Minsk, develops the neoclassical trend in modern architecture .It is designed for the conduct of socio-political events, concerts, performances, performances of opera and ballet companies. The volume of the Palace is a large parallelepiped, the facades of which are solved by the strict rhythm of piers with a towering stage box. Its scale, overwhelming the environment, has transformed the nature of image connections of the ensemble of the Avenue and the Upper Town which is adjacent to the square. The structure of the building includes several groups of rooms: the audience complex of the Grand Hall for 2700 seats, a complex of small rooms with 800 seats, a government unit, scenic, support and technical facilities. Large auditorium is solved in three levels by the stalls, an amphitheatre and a balcony. The foyer, placed around the auditorium, with terraced levels of lobbies, is comprehended as a single space, opened to the environment. The artistic conception of the palace interior is built on a combination of white and gold colour gamma and a system of decorative lighting elements, developing the folk theme (artist B. Stelmashonok - participated in the early years, V. Dovgalo, Yu Ivahnishin, V. Chaika). The idea of the authors is in the unity of decorative, functional and symbolic role of lighting fixtures, for which prototypes of traditional folk articles of straw, called "spiders" were used as well as towels with the Belarusian ornament. The versatility of modular element - a voluminous glass diamond - made it possible to create a wide variety of compositions of lighting fixtures in the lobby and halls. A series of tapestries devoted to the themes of national culture and nature adds a lyrical theme into the interiors of the palace. It is a curtain in the main hall - a tapestry "Belarus" (painters O. Gridin and V. Krivosheeva), the curtain in the small hall - a tapestry of "Rainbow" (painter G. Krivoblotskaya), two tapestries in the room of the block of the Presidium - "The Melody of the City " and "The Melody of the Area" (painters L. Bartley, W. Markovets-Bartlova) and two tapestries in the hall of the Government block - "The Call of the earth" and "Awakening" (painter N. Pilyuzina).
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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