following the heavy destruction of the second world war, a new project for the reconstruction of central kiev was unveiled. this transformed the khreshchatyk avenue into one of the finest examples of stalinism in architecture. a total of individual 22 projects were drawn up, when the initial competition began in 1944, none of which was realised due to extensive critique and finally in 1948 "kyivproekt" institute submitted its final version, headed by architects a. vlasov and from 1949 anatoly dobrovolsky. for the next two decades, this figure would dominate all of the major projects in the capital.