Republica Moldova

The buildings of Medical-Sanitary Agency or, as the Russians say “lechsanupr”, lies in two blocks from the Museum of Art. Chekeruli-Kush was the author of rebuilding of several facilities in the corner of Vlaicu Pircalab Street and Veronica Micle Street. In 1905 the community of nurses of Gerbovetsky Monastery got land at this very address. The community destroyed all the previous buildings and erected at this place a beautiful one-storied mansion for the ambulance and hospital in 1907. The building’s facade faced Sinadinovskaya Street (today it is Vlaicu Pircalab Street). In 1909 the hostel for nurses began to build from the side of Fountain lane (today it is Veronica Micle Street). Chekeruli-Kush was asked to make one more floor of the hospital in 1910. He started working eagerly and completely changed the whole facade. At our time building looks the same as in 1910. It was reconstructed in 2008 but the look of the facility was preserved without any changes.

It is symbolic that Chekeruli-Kush managed to build a lot of hospitals. He was a kind person not indifferent to other people’s misfortune. From 1901 Chekeruli-Kush was appointed as a chief of the Firework Service due to the offer of the head of the city Carl Schmidt. The architect considered it to be his duty to save people from fire. During the time of the Jewish pogrom in 1903 Mihail Konstantinovichi took out the victims and hid scared women and children in the safe place which was the Firework building. In 1909 he and his team saved a lot of lives during terrible flood.