Mayakovskogo St., 4, Vyborg, Leningrad Region, Russia, 188800
Juho Lallukka, a commercial counselor who lived in Vyborg since 1891, was the founder of a large trading company, for the needs of which a four-story building with commercial and residential premises was built in the city center. Juho Lallukka and his family occupied an apartment on the second floor. For the cladding of the northern and western facades of the building, architect Allan Schulman used dark red granite. The roughly hewn tiles on the facade harmonized with the pavement laid with cobblestones. The corner of the house is marked by tall pointed gables and lancet arches, successfully combined with asymmetrically arranged balconies and bay windows on the main facade, as well as windows of various shapes: semicircular, rectangular, lancet, slit-like, and round. Another decoration of the facade was the ornaments and sculptures in the form of female figures by Emil Halonen.
The facade is visible in the perspective of Ushakov Street from the side of the main city square, and the building has an important city-forming significance. On the neighboring plot, a merchant Vorobyov’s house was built according to the project of the same architect. Upon completion of construction, the architectural merits of the building were noted in the St. Petersburg press, and Schulman’s techniques influenced the development of Northern Art Nouveau in Russian architecture.
During military actions, the building burned down, and all interiors and sculptural decorations were lost.
Repair work by 1952 returned residential premises to the city, but many decorative elements were not restored; in particular, the heavily damaged drawings on the window casings were covered with concrete. Of the six paired sculptures that decorated the main entrance to the building and the fence pylons, three became museum exhibits: two are in the collections of Vyborg Castle, and one (the statue "Peasant Woman") was in the Monrepo Park museum-reserve until it was returned to the Lallukka House in 2018. For some time, one of the sculptures decorated the adjacent square. The distortion of the building’s external appearance was further compounded by the replacement of the granite pavement with asphalt covering.
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