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((Short description|Ukrainian Parliament building))
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((Infobox building
| name = Ukrainian Parliament Building  <br> Будинок Верховної Ради
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| image = Kyiv - Parlament 250502.jpg
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| architectural_style = Ukrainian Classic
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| owner = State Bureau of Affairs
| current_tenants = [[Verkhovna Rada|Parliament of Ukraine]]
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| location = [[Lypky]] district
| address = 5, [[Hrushevsky Street (Kyiv)|Hrushevsky Street]]
| location_town = [[Kyiv]]
| location_country = Ukraine
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| start_date = 1936
| completion_date = 1939
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| renovation_date = 1945–47
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| destruction_date = World War II
| height = 40 m
| diameter = 16 m (plafond)
| floor_count = 3
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| architect = [[Volodymyr Zabolotnyi (architect)|Volodymyr Zabolotnyi]]
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| awards = Architecture landmark
| website = [https://goo.gl/maps/Zm3LoMcWek72 Google 3D Tour]
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The '''Verkhovna Rada building''' (((lang-uk|Будинок Верховної Ради)), romanized: ''Budynok Verkhovnoi Rady'') is located in the center of [[Kyiv]], in the [[Pecherskyi District]]. The building is located at the Constitution Square.

It is the place where the Ukrainian [[parliament]] ([[Verkhovna Rada]]) meets for all regular and ceremonial sessions. The building was erected between 1936–38 to a design by [[Volodymyr Zabolotnyi (architect)|Volodymyr Zabolotnyi]] in the [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] Ukrainian architectural style.<ref>((Cite web |date=2017-03-19 |title=Державна наукова архiтектурно-будiвельна бiблiотека iмені В.Г.Заболотного |url=http://www.dnabb.org/modules.php?name=Pages&go=page&pid=211 |access-date=2023-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319111047/http://www.dnabb.org/modules.php?name=Pages&go=page&pid=211 |archive-date=2017-03-19 ))</ref> Zabolotny was awarded the [[State Prize of Soviet Union|State Prize]] for that project in 1940 and was appointed the chief architect of the city.

The building is located on the eastern side of [[Hrushevsky Street (Kyiv)|Hrushevsky Street]], across from the [[Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine]] building, and is surrounded by the [[Mariinskyi Palace]], [[Mariinskyi Park]], and a pedestrian park square. From the square, the building, and the palace are seen next to each other, along with views from the Kyiv heights to the left-bank neighborhoods across the [[Dnieper River]].

==History==
At the beginning of 1934, after the capital of the [[Ukrainian SSR]] was transferred from [[Kharkiv]] to [[Kyiv]], many new projects were started for the reconstruction of the new capital. Many prominent administrative buildings to house the government institutions of the Ukrainian SSR were planned to be erected in downtown Kyiv, including the building of the government and the building of the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]. The very heart of the city was chosen for that purpose — the [[Pecherskyi District]] which lies on the right bank of [[Dnieper]] river.

In February 1936, a contest for the best building design of the [[Verkhovna Rada]] was announced. Numerous prominent specialists were invited, including Volodymyr Zabolotnyi, Valerian Rykov, and Yakiv Steinberg. The jury selected the design of Zabolotnyi. The construction was initiated in 1936 and lasted until 1939 with the final inspection taking place at the beginning of the summer, having the building passed with an ''excellent'' grade. The first session of the [[Verkhovna Rada]] took place at 5, [[Hrushevsky Street (Kyiv)|Hrushevsky Street]] on 25 July 1939.

===Main features===
The building is designed in a strict rectangular-symmetrical form and is three floors high. It is crowned with a dome, made of metal and glass, providing the building with natural lighting. The hundred-tonne glass [[dome]] over the main session hall is the building's most memorable feature. The red-and-blue [[Flag of Ukrainian SSR]] was flown on top of the dome for over 50 years, until it was replaced by the yellow-and-blue [[national flag|national]] [[Flag of Ukraine]], following Ukraine's attainment of independence in 1991.

The dome's multicolored illumination at night provides a memorable view, one of Kyiv's tourist attractions. The diameter of the [[plafond]] is 16 meters. In the center a crystal [[chandelier]] is located that, by its form, resembles a [[sunflower]], a [[Motif (visual arts)|motif]] frequently featured in the Ukrainian folk arts. Based on this design, the illuminating plafond of the hall was installed with colored glass. The interior of the building is generously decorated with intricate wood panels, multicolored marble, bronze artwork, and statuary. The flat rooftop of the modern structure adds harmony to its composition. The front of the building was decorated with ornaments and statues featuring [[Ukrainian SSR]] symbolism, with the [[Coat of Arms of the Ukrainian SSR]] in the center.

===Post WWII reconstruction and 21st century decommunization===
Having been destroyed in the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Second World War]], the building was reconstructed in its original style in 1945–1947, with the reconstruction design provided by Zabolotnyi, once again. The glass dome was rebuilt one meter higher than the original one. Although it is adjacent to [[Rastrelli]]'s [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] [[Mariinskyi Palace]] (1752), the architect of the more monumental and imposing Rada building managed to avoid disharmony from the juxtaposition of such contrasting architectural styles. To the main building was added an adjacent three-story high building for servicemen that is designed in a closed half-circle shape with an inner court.

During the restoration works conducted in 1985 under the leadership of [[Nataliia Chmutina]]((#tag:ref|Chmutina was one of several assistants of Zabolotny when his building design won the contest in 1936.|group=nb)), four sculptural groups (sculptor [[Valentyn Znoba]]) were installed in front of the [[risalit]]s of the central entrance as intended by Zabolotny's design. The sculptures represent various segments of the Ukrainian population: workers, peasants, scientists, and [[intelligentsia]].

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The building's exterior is addressed in light colors through the use of light plaster and light-gray granite. These [[Lightness (color)|tones]] contrast with the dark shade of a [[Socle (architecture)|socle]], made out of polished [[labradorite]], and has a significant jut against a plane wall. All rooms of the three-story building were designed in a single compact scope. The [[facade]]s are symmetrical and have one order that received more extensive interpretation for the colonnade of the main facade ([[Engaged column|quarter columns]]), as well as the main planes of side facades (three-quarter columns).

Following 1991's [[Ukrainian independence]], some decorations were altered and some replaced, to reflect the [[national symbolism]] of independent Ukraine. Currently, the stylized [[trident]], the centerpiece of the modern [[coat of arms of Ukraine]], is featured above the front entrance to the building. In 2016 the last decorations believed to show [[communist propaganda]] were removed to comply with [[Decommunization in Ukraine|2015 decommunization laws]].<ref>((in lang|uk)) [http://espreso.tv/news/2016/08/23/u_radi_dekomunizuvaly_stelyu The Rada dekomunized ceiling], [[Espreso.tv]] (23 August 2016)</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Polyakova House and Verkhovna Rada - Mykhaila Hrushevskoho Street, Pechersk Raion, Kiev. - Pechersk 937.jpg|Verkhovna Rada (right) [[Polyakova House]] (center) in 2013
File:Constitution square Kiev night2.JPG|Verkhovna Rada building at night in 2015
File:Parliament of Ukraine. Listed ID 80-382-0099.SW. - Mykhaila Hrushevskoho Street, Pechersk Raion, Kiev. - Pechersk 28 09 13 452.jpg|Verkhovna Rada building from [[Mykhaila Hrushevskoho Street]] in 2013
File:Місяць над Верховною Радою.jpg|Verkhovna Rada building in 2017
File:Протест проти змін до Конституції України 04.JPG|Protests at the Verkhovna Rada building in 2015
File:Kiev-VerkhovnaRadaBuildingGate.jpg|Verkhovna Rada building's gates in 2009 before Decommunization
</gallery>

==Notes==
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== References ==
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==External links==
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*((cite web | url = http://www.nat.com.ua/parlament_of_ukraine.html | title = Photo Gallery of most famous places in Kyiv: Building of parliament | access-date = March 17, 2006 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060906213516/http://www.nat.com.ua/parlament_of_ukraine.html | archive-date = September 6, 2006 ))
*((cite journal|first=Svitlana |last=Mefford |title=The Building of Verkhovna Rada. History of the sitting place of Ukrainian Parliament |journal=The Ukrainian Observer |issue=184 |url=http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/184/106 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114162306/http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/184/106 |archive-date=January 14, 2016 )) 
*((cite web | url = http://portal.rada.gov.ua/libora/static/excursion/arhitecture.htm | title = Verkhovna Rada Library: Verkhovna Rada building, Tour Overview | access-date = March 21, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070319200724/http://portal.rada.gov.ua/libora/static/excursion/arhitecture.htm | archive-date = March 19, 2007 | language = uk | url-status = dead ))
*((cite web| url =http://kandydat.org.ua/proyav_tizhnja/3.htm| title =Ремонт примiщення Верховної Ради| publisher =інформаційно-аналітичний тижневик "ПРОЯВ ТИЖНЯ"| access-date =March 17, 2006| language =uk| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20050221025314/http://kandydat.org.ua/proyav_tizhnja/3.htm| archive-date =February 21, 2005))
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