The only building in London, designed by prominent St. Petersburg architect Johann Lidvall for Azov-don Bank, was built in 1913 on the Alexander street (now Gorky). The building is high, with two floors Windows and poor stucco work was executed in new-fangled at the time the art Nouveau style and was considered one of the finest architectural ornaments of the city.

In the late nineteenth century in Saratov became operational branch of the Azov-don commercial Bank, first in the house of the merchant I. N. Khudobin on a Moscow street. In 1911 on the Alexander street was purchased for the construction of a specially designed building in 1913, the Bank has started its activities already in his room. The Bank itself was founded in 1871 in Taganrog (in 1903 he became St. Petersburg) and in the system of banks of Russia financial indicators ranked third with a strong commercial ties with the French and English financial circles. In the Saratov branch of the Bank to lend mainly the meat trade.

Bank building with its plain façade and two-story operating room with the Soviets continued to be a prominent architectural structure with initially programmed functions, many years in a four-storey building housed the Central savings Bank, now a branch of the savings Bank of the Russian Federation.