Kyiv Torte
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Kyiv Torte

Kyiv torte is another famous Ukrainian product. Nearly every visitor to Kyiv has a duty to taste this delicious confection. Its history is shrouded in legends. It is well known that the first Kyiv torte was baked in 1956 at the Karl Marx confectionar ...
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Puzata Hata in Kyiv
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Puzata Hata in Kyiv

Today, it is one of most popular restaurant chains of Ukrainian cuisine found in Kyiv and other major cities. The brand was founded in 2003 based on affordable prices, national recipes, and a great choice of simple, good quality dishes.These restaura ...
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Kyivska Perepichka
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Kyivska Perepichka

In February 1981, on the corner of Khreshchatyk and Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, 3A (formerly Lenin Street), a small pastry stall opened to sell simple hot fast food – sausage rolls. Within less than a year Perepichka won the hearts (and stomachs) ...
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Eugenia Gapchinska
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Eugenia Gapchinska

Eugenia Gapchinska is perhaps today’s most popular Ukrainian artist and is a talented illustrator of children’s books. The original style of her work is immediately recognizable – chubby angels, angel-like children, princes and princesses paint ...
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Klitschko Brothers
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Klitschko Brothers

Vitali (born 1971) and Wladimir Klitschko (born 1976) are world heavyweight boxing champions. The two of them managed to collect every version of championship belts: WBC, WBO, WBA, IBO, IBF and also The Ring magazine belt. Vitali Klitschko is also a ...
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Evgeny Paton
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Evgeny Paton

Evgeny Paton (1870-1953) was born in Nice (France) in the family of a retired Ukrainian Guards officer. He studied at the Dresden Technical University and at the Petersburg Institute of Railroads. Paton was a professor at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institu ...
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Serge Lifar
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Serge Lifar

Born in Kyiv in 1905, Serge Lifar discovered ballet in 1920 when he wandered into the studio of Bronislava Nijinska, the choreographer and ballet mistress at the Kyiv Opera. He studied with her until leaving for Paris in 1923. He joined les Ballets R ...
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Kazimir Malevich
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Kazimir Malevich

The “Black Square” painted by Kazimir Malevich makes most viewers raise their eyebrows in astonishment rather than admiration. But one should not take this picture as a painterly masterpiece; it is more of an artistic gesture, a manifesto, a comm ...
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Igor Sikorsky
Kyiv
03/04/2022

Igor Sikorsky

One name is synonymous with helicopter development more than any other Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972). Often regarded as the father of the helicopter, Sikorsky was an incredibly talented and versatile aeronautical engineer who first established himself as ...
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Sunflower in Ukraine
Ukraine
03/04/2022

Sunflower in Ukraine

Ukraine, the world’s largest sunflower producer, set a world record in 2016 with a harvest of 13.6 million tons. There are so many sunflower fields in Ukraine that the big round yellow flower has become one of the symbols of the country. The sunflo ...
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Chicken Kyiv
Ukraine
03/04/2022

Chicken Kyiv

But it is another culinary legend (Chicken Kyiv) that ranks alongside Kyiv torte and its origins are shrouded in similar rumours. They say, in the late 19th century, at the Kyiv restaurant, this “cutlet of poultry” (côtelette de volaille) was re ...
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Walnut in Ukraine
Ukraine
03/04/2022

Walnut in Ukraine

Persian walnuts, in Ukraine called Greek walnuts, are associated by many people with warm countries, where they actually grow wild, like in China, Iran, India. That is why, coming to Ukraine for the first time, you might be surprised to see them grow ...
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