An advertisement has appeared online for the sale of a cottage belonging to the nitrogen-fertilizer plant in Sotsmist - the very one that served as the home of the Berestov family in the Soviet film "Height."
According to the realtor's advertisement, the house stands on a 12-sot plot, has 106 square meters of total area, and five living rooms.
Three rooms on the first floor, two in the attic
Autonomous gas heating and a gas water heater
Centralized water supply and sewerage
The house has preserved its original appearance better than some of its neighbors. The street on which it stands has changed three names: first Levanevsky, then Podilska, and now bears the name of Oleksandr Malofeev – an athlete and coach who died in 2022 in Donetsk Oblast.
This cottage is one of fourteen identical houses built between 1947 and 1949. Garages on each plot indicate that the buildings were not intended for ordinary factory workers.
"Height" is the most famous cinematic embodiment of Kamianske. In the summer of 1956, when the city was still called Dniprodzerzhynsk, location shooting took place here, and in 1957, the film was released. The footage preserved views of the metallurgical plant, the construction of new neighborhoods, and the daily life of an industrial city in the 1950s.
Today, the film is perceived ambiguously, but it is remembered for its acting, cinematography, and music. "March of the Installers" from "Height" became one of the symbols of that era. V. Belyaev's review in the city newspaper "Dzerzhynets" concluded: "...Individual shortcomings do not diminish the overall good impression of this truly moving cinematic work about our heroic workers."
