 Many contemporaries considered the building too American, too tasteless, and its appearance generated some heated public debate.At the corner of Malaia Morskaia and Nevsky is an entrance to the actual bank, now housing a collection of travel agencies, from 1960 until 1992 the building was Leningrad headquarters of Aeroflot, the space is airy, quiet with entrance passage leading through a hall to the cavernous bank lobby, complete with rows of columns and a spacious gallery above.Wawelberg Bank is one of the most remarkable turn of the 20th century bank buildings in St. Petersburg.