Former October Palace. Earlier - the main building of the Institute of noble maidens. After the death of the architect the building finished by his son, Alexander Beretta. The facade of three-storeyed building altars adorned the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady (on the first floor) and the Orthodox St.Alexander (second). Among the distinguished architectural interior frame assembly hall and staircase. In 90-ies. 19 Art. to the main building was built two-storey brick building, which was connected with the transition to the second floor. In the depths of the house in 1903-04 years. neoclassical building was built hostel. Built in the style of late Classicism. The palace with a park located on a hill and is separated from adjacent streets (Institutskaya Khreshchatyk and Grushevskogo) steep slopes. After the revolution of the privileged educational institution has been closed. Here were located the various repressive agencies - the Cheka, the GPU of the NKVD. In the basement of the institute claimed thousands of innocent people - the so-called "enemies of the people." Palace, but the official entrances and exits, was still an underground tunnel through which the victims' bodies were taken out in the pits Bykovnyanskogo forest. In memory of that terrible time in front of new housing institute a memorial cross. At the beginning of the Nazi occupation in September 1941 there was a concentration camp. In 1952-58 the building was renovated and adapted for October Palace of Culture. Now here is an international center of culture and arts, as well as cinema "Movie Palace".