In 1911 the Kyiv zemstvo, with a subsidy from Count Władysław Branicki, began building a new two-storey brick hospital for 50 beds in the town of Stavyshche in the Tarashcha district of Kyiv Governorate.
The “age of aviation” made itself felt, and the hospital was built in the shape of a biplane:
- the place of the propeller went to the central entrance;
- in the vestibule – the engine;
- in the pilot’s cockpit – a prayer room;
- in the wings – wards and a corridor;
- the fuselage – auxiliary rooms, an X-ray room and an infectious diseases ward with two separate entrances;
- in the ailerons – an outpatient clinic and a kitchen;
- in the tail – apartments for medical staff.
By the start of the First World War only the first floor for 35 beds had been built; the second was completed in Soviet Ukraine in 1923.
Today the building belongs to the Stavyshche Hospital Municipal Non-Profit Enterprise and is an architectural monument of local significance with protection number 86-Kv.
The hospital is one of the buildings of the Polish heritage in the Stavyshche area (you can listen about this in the audio guide “Stavyshche: a Polish Town”); behind it is a Catholic necropolis of the second half of the 19th – early 20th century, in which three alleys have been laid out:
- Priests’ Alley. The gravestones of the abbots Józef Bieliński (d. 1898) and Mykola Trotsky (d. 1917) have been preserved here.
- Doctors’ Alley, where the gravestones of the doctors Stanisław Baczyński (d. 1886) and Emeryk Malewski (d. 1913) have been preserved.
- Andrzejowski Alley. This alley leads to the memorial of Antoni Andrzejowski, consecrated on 29 September 2018 (architects Petro Pshevlotskyi and Oleksandr Vartyletskyi, Bohuslav).
