The house of Gumper

Once the pointed roof of this house, towering over the sea one-story buildings of Slobodka, immediately arrested attention. At the turn of the XIX and XX centuries Mariupol doctor Sergey Fedorovich Gumper lived and treated people here. Sergey Gumper received a secondary and higher education in Kharkov: after graduating from the gymnasium, he entered the medical faculty of Kharkov University. Having completed his studies at the university, only two years later, with a diploma of a doctor, he came to Mariupol and occupied the post of his father. Previously, to the “Gothic” building adjoined a spacious courtyard with a garden, hedged by an impressive fence. The first thing that caught the eye of visitors was the pool with swans. During the revolution, the owners of the building emigrated abroad, the house became communal property. They say that during the occupation of Mariupol by the Nazis came the son of Gumper. It was said that he asked to take care of the house until better times.