Apostolopulo House

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Apostolopulo House, also known as Alafuzov House, is a 19th‑century mansion in Taganrog, at 26 Frunze Street (corner with Italyansky Lane). It was built in the 1870s on land originally granted by a 1806 decree of Emperor Alexander I to settler Ivan Apostolopulo.

In the early 1870s the house on what is now Frunze Street belonged to Maria Apostolopulo. At the end of the 1880s it was bought by pharmacist Yakov Solomonovich Parnokh, whose children Valentin Parnakh and Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya were reportedly born there. In the early 1890s the property passed to Cleopatra Karpovna Krasnokutskaya, a wealthy peasant, and in the early 20th century it was owned by attorney Konstantin Konstantinovich Popandopulo. Around the 1910s it was acquired by Nikolay Nikolaevich Alafuzov, a well-to-do hereditary citizen, and the house is sometimes called Alafuzov House.

In the mid-1980s the cellar was turned into an artists’ workshop by Leonid Stukanov and Yury Shabelnikov from the Taganrog Children's Art School. In the mid-1990s a pharmacy operated there. In the mid-2000s the building was bought by the IT company Coral-Micro to house their store “Office World of KM” and a service center.

Architecturally, Apostolopulo House is a mixed-design building that combines Renaissance, Baroque, and early classicism. This blend of styles was popular in Taganrog in the late 19th century, and the house is one of several such examples in the city.