The store "Saule" has preserved its ancient appearance. It is located on Chekhov Street, which until 1935 was called Bolshaya Street. And that name fully corresponded to reality, because it was the straightest, biggest and busiest street of Ust-Kamenogorsk at that time. For the first time in the city there were stone and wooden sidewalks, folk festivals, New Year's masquerades were held here.
The building was built in 1911.
Trade buildings differed from other constructions of that time by a large number of decorative elements. For advertising purposes, any compositional techniques and architectural details were allowed, which were invented by the irrepressible imagination of local architects and builders. In the architecture of the building the influence of classicism is felt - those are rusticated blades, window platbands, cornice modiglions, though there is already a touch of modernism - a slat curvilinear pediment over the main entrance.
The building is brick. On the first floor the window openings at the top are slightly rounded. The windows on the second floor were classical semi-circular. The east wall of the house was remodelled and the interiors were changed. In the 90s the building was plastered over. Some of the decorative turrets on the roof perimeter were lost, as well as the original socle part with facing stone plates and a number of relief decorations.
The building is L-shaped. A whole system of such houses, in the form of corner buildings, is presented in the historic part of the city.
The function of trading houses, which meant a great number of people in a fairly limited space, determined the use of L-shaped compositions with a corner entrance - that allowed not only to enter the buildings located on mutually perpendicular streets, but also to have a good view of the entrance part from the crossing.
