The mosaic panel “Pottery” is located on the building at 50 Vaclav Havel Boulevard. At the center of the composition stands the figure of a potter; to his left is the figure of a woman, surrounded by pottery items. This monumental work on a folk theme is a remarkable example of the so-called end-grain mosaic technique and its original execution (a low relief combined with mosaic). Its authors — Kyiv artists Valerii Karas, Ivan Apollonov, and Oleksandr Dolotin — created in the late 1960s a cycle entitled “Creativity” consisting of four monumental works, one of which is the “Pottery” panel (a newly identified cultural heritage object of monumental art). The panel has suffered significant material losses.

Text and photo by T. Miachkova.

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Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 18 begins its history in 1885, when a two-storey building of faculty surgery and a therapeutic clinic with 50 beds was built, which belonged to the University of St. Volodymyr.
In 1888, an obstetric and gynecological clinical building appeared nearby.
In 1899, extensions to the building were put into operation, which housed infectious maternity beds, gynecological wards, hydrotherapy departments, and a library. The completion of the clinical ensemble was the construction of the building of the pathological institute in the 1894.

The Sixth Male or Lukianivka Gymnasium was founded in 1908. At first, training took place in the rented estate of General Pyshenkov, located at the current address at 16 Yuriia Illienka Street. And later, the institution got its own premises. It was a two-story modern building erected in 1912–1913 by Petr Zhukov to the design of Aleksandr Kobelev, who also designed the building of the Polytechnic Institute and the National Bank of Ukraine. The 7th Zemstvo hospital also functioned at the gymnasium. Now, the premises are occupied by one of the buildings of the Kyiv National University of Economics.