The Levanovsky Dead End in the Primorsky district of Odesa has been renamed to Tolvinsky Lane.
Key highlights:
- The Levanovsky Dead End has been renamed Tolvinsky Lane.
- Mykola Tolvinsky was an architect who worked in Odesa starting in 1887.
- Among his projects: the «Kuyalnik» health resort, university buildings, and structures at the railway square.
- He created university buildings, an observatory, and the library of Odesa National University.
- After his time in Odesa, he worked in Warsaw, and his son became a founder of the Polish urban planning school.
Mykola Kostyantynovych Tolvinsky (1857 – 1924) was born in Warsaw but flourished creatively in Odesa. Since 1887, he worked in the city administration and judicial chamber, designing residential and public buildings that still adorn the city today.
In the center of the city, at the railway square, his projects include the buildings for the judicial institutions and the Zemstvo administration, both reflecting the spirit of the Renaissance. Today, these buildings house the Odesa Railway Administration.
Some of his notable projects include the hospital wing of the «Kuyalnik» resort, the physics and chemistry faculty buildings of Odesa University, as well as the anatomical building of the Medical University, the magnetic meteorological observatory, and the scientific library of ONU.
In 1900, the architect returned to Warsaw, where he continued his work at the polytechnic institute. His son Tadeusz Tolvinsky, born in Odesa, became one of the founders of modern urban planning science in Poland.
