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Grotto-Well, the XVI century. Preservation Number #1665 | Foto
4 Kuznets'ka St.

Primarily, it was located in the basement of the stone dwelling house covered with a shingle roof, which was situated on the terrace of the western slope of the Old Town, the building above ground level consisted of four rooms and a hallway. Because of the fact, that in the basement of the house there was a well with a bitter-salt (mineral) water, it was very dump in the building. In 1850, the building was covered with a new shingle roof. During the Great World War the building was destroyed, only small fragments of the walls and deepened into the earthen slope basement remained - it was a stone unplastered lodgement, covered with a torisherical vault. In the ground floor at the eastern wall there is a square opening of the well, the water level in which raises almost up to the level of the floor.
The monument is a remained fragment of the dwelling house, in which the attempts of local solution of the problem of water supply were made.

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Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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