Derzhprom - House of the State of Industry, located in the central square of the Kharkiv city - Dzerzhinsky Square (1998 – Freedom Square). An architectural monument in the style of constructivism.

The building was constructed in record time - preparatory work began in the summer of 1925, commissioning - November 7, 1928, to the 11th anniversary of the October Revolution. In the spring of 1926 construction was decided to close, but after the personal intervention of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who visited construction site May 8, 1926, construction continued. At the ceremonial laying of the central building, which occurred November 21, 1926, the building named after him.

During the German occupation of 1941-1943 on the first floor was arranged stable, on the other floors in the beginning of the occupation lived monkeys escaped from the building located near the zoo. Until August 23, 1943 in Derzhprom survived three rhesus monkeys, which the 65-th anniversary of the liberation of the city, in August 2008, a monument to the zoo.

Before the retreat in August 1943, during the so-called "cleaning" Kharkov, the Germans had mined the Derzhprom, like many other buildings in the city, but the explosion was averted by an unknown patriot who was killed at the same time. Then the building burned, but the reinforced concrete skeleton of Derzhprom was not harmed. The building is restored after the war in 1944-1947, respectively. In 1955, the roof has one of the first in the USSR television towers in height of 45 m.

Building height of Derzhprom 63 m. Along with the first BTS, established in 1955, is 108 meters. Derzhprom began to build with the help of man and horse power with the use of primitive tools and mechanisms - shovels, litter, wheelbarrows, etc. By the end of the construction work has been mechanized by 80%. Up to five thousand workers per day (winter 500-600), half of whom lived in wooden barracks, worked in three shifts, and completed the construction in less than two and a half working season.

In the third Derzhprom entrance exists a museum of itself, that established in 1986-1987 with the participation of writer E. Zvonitskogo and academician of architecture A. Leybfreyda. At the time of construction it was the biggest in the USSR (according to other sources, in Europe) "Skyscraper", which now is impressive: its size 347 sq m ?. Material - reinforced concrete.