Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

two monumental buildings - for the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party of Ukraine and for the government of the republic. Instead of a funicular it was planned to build a huge staircase to the embankment and install a 75-meter monument to Lenin, facing the Dnieper River. To clear the square, one of the most outstanding monuments of the old Kiev, the St. Michael's Cathedral, was demolished, which was restored only in 2000. According to the plan, for the demolition prepared and the current shrine of Kiev - St. Sophia Cathedral, but these plans were not destined to come true, prevented constant adjustments of the country's creative elite, and then the war broke out.

However, only the governmental organizations were located in the building of the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since the 1940s, the regional and city party committees were operating here, as well as the main Komsomol institutions. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the building was temporarily occupied by the city government, but as a result, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was transferred here, and the Soviet coat of arms over the colonnade gave way to the national symbolism of Ukraine.