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Palace of Culture named after V. I. Lenin

Palace of Culture named after V. I. Lenin (also known as the Palace of Culture of Motovilikhinskiye Zavody), an architectural monument of regional importance, located in Motovilikha district of Perm city, on Ural street, 93. The building of the Palace of Culture was built in 1963 according to the project of Moscow architects Ya.A. Kornfeld and TG Zaikin.

Palace of Culture named after V. I. Lenin is a monumental three-story building, the main facade of which is decorated with a ten-column entrance portico, supplemented by a superstructure with a gabled front.

In the external design of the Palace of Culture the methods of classicism were used. The wings of the palace are decorated with semi-columns in the style of the Corinthian order, on which lies a heavy entablature.

The basement and columns of the entrance portico are treated with a natural stone, and behind the columns, above the entrance to the Palace, there are two bas-reliefs depicting the life of Soviet society. In front of the Palace of Culture there is a large square, in the center of which there is a bust of VI Lenin, created by the sculptors NN Klindukhov and LV Prisyazhnyuk, the architect VB Olshanskaya, and installed here in 1971.

The total area of ​​the interior of the Palace of Culture named after V. I. Lenin is about 5 thousand m², and in the palace itself there is an assembly hall for 900 seats.

Palace of Culture named after V. I. Lenin was built on October 19, 1963 on the initiative of the then director of Motovilikhinskiye Zavody, Lebedev Viktor Nikolaevich.

The construction of the palace building was planned for the 100th anniversary of the creation of the steel plant.

Moscow architects - Ya. A. Kornfeld and TG Zaikin - who worked in those years under the influence of mastering the historical and architectural heritage were involved in the creation of the project of the future Palace of Culture.

Since its inception, the palace has become one of the largest cultural sites of the city of that time, and for more than forty years it has been the center of culture, creativity and enlightenment for the residents of the district.

Since 1963 in the Palace of Culture there was a factory public library, founded as far back as 1896 by the initiative of the county trusteeship committee for people's sobriety.

By the early 2000s, the Palace of Culture. There were more than twenty circles of various profiles located in Lenin's circle: pop studio, vocal circle, schools of various kinds of dance, circus circle, drama theater, art studio, guitar playing circle, veterans' chorus, various ensembles.

In the 1990s, the former Palace of Culture. VI Lenin became known as the Palace of Culture "Motovilikhinskiy Zavod", and in 2006 it was renamed into the cultural and business center "Motovilikha".