Lado Gudiashvili Street

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Located at 5, Gudiashvili St., the former head office of the Georgian Bank, and now the first building of the National Library of the Parliament of Georgia (corner of L. Gudiashvili and N. Vachnadze streets) was built in 1913-1916. In the competition held in 1912, in which many architects took part, the first prize went to the project of Russian and Polish Anatoly Kalgin and Henrik Hrinevsky. Stylistically, the building is a stylization of national architectural forms, which in a way characterizes the architecture of the Soviet period of the 20th century. The decorative sculpture of the facades of the building, which was made by the masters of architectural sculpture, the Agladze brothers, is interesting.