Tag: Kyiv

The park Feofaniya. Between Holosiyivo, Pyrohiv and Teremki lies another historic place in Kyiv – the Feofania skete (desert), where the wilderness bestowed by the holy Creator blends harmoniously with the work of humans. Historian Nikolay Sementov ...

Holosiivskyi park (NNP) covers roughly 11,000 ha of Kyiv city land. It was opened in February of 2007, but the land was reserved much earlier in February 1994. The park is divided into several zones, the largest one being that in the Holosiivskyi dis ...

This Chernobyl Museum is located in Kyiv. The old fire station building, built in the early 20th century, looks like a fortress with thick walls and a tower. In 1992, at the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a museum was opened here ded ...

Dynamo stadium was built in 1934-36 (architects V. Osmak and V. Bespalov) on the site of the former Chateau de Fleur Park and athletics track. The main entrance designed as a concave colonnade flanked by two pillars (architect N. Manucharova and V. P ...

Kyiv is not just majestic churches, chestnut trees, green hills, and steep slopes, but is also Dungeons. There is a hidden Kyiv beneath your feet – a whole network of tunnels under the city. Down here is the sewage system and rivers and caves hidde ...

In November 1951, a complex of television studios that afforded a highdefinition television image was built on Khreshchatyk of Kyiv. A 180- meter-high TV tower was erected at the same time (it was later dismantled). In 1968-1973, a new tower with a h ...

Kyiv was built on seven main hills called “the mounts” by locals. Three were named after the legendary founders of the city, Kyi, Schek and Khoryv. You will also find StaroKyivska Hill with the “castle” of Kyiv princes, Schekavitsa and Khorev ...

This impressive construction is one of the newest bridges in Kyiv. Building began in 1983 to solve an urban traffic problem. The Kharkiv residential development was growing ever larger and road connections from the city to Boryspil International Airp ...

The ceremonial opening took Metro Bridge place on 5 November 1965. Chief project engineer Georgy Fux had proposed a new and bold solution. It was the world’s first bridge with a reinforced concrete arch-cantilever with dry joints. The bridge also p ...

This piece of engineering is not only a handsome ornament to present day Kyiv, but also a unique European technical achievement. With the development of the city and building construction on the rapid development of the Dnieper’s left bank it was o ...

Back in 1925, the Soviet government made the decision to modernize Kyiv’s main station, and on 7 November 1927, the construction work began based on the plans developed by Professor of Architecture Alexander Verbitsky and architect Pavel Alyoshin. ...

By Kyiv standards, Khreshchatyk is very recent. Less than two centuries ago, a stream ran through this site. Now there is Khreshatyk, the premier main street of the capital, and its business and cultural center. What is more, this street was not simp ...