 wide cornice with fragment made of majolica, solomonic columns with decorative towers, sculpture of griffins (guardians of gold mines in antique mythology).The history of the bank is traced to 1839 when in Kiev was established a branch of the State Commerce Bank with the ongoing reform in the Russian Empire when assignation ruble was being replaced for state credit notes.In 1841 for the bank was built an empire style (or broader neoclassical style) building (today is the older building).