The section «Abandoned» on our website is devoted to the study of abandoned and forgotten places in Kyiv. We explore abandoned factories, factories, buildings and other interesting objects that used to be an important part of the city’s infrastructure. We offer our readers fascinating stories about what these objects look like today, about their history and significance for the city and its inhabitants. We talk about what objects can be visited, how to get to them and what risks exist when visiting abandoned places. In our section you will find a lot of photos and videos that will help you fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of abandonment. If you are interested in the history of Kyiv and want to learn more about abandoned places, then our section «Abandoned» is exactly for you.
Almost all the factories that were built in Soviet times have disappeared from the “face” of Kyiv or were abandoned. The Galakton dairy plant (Kiev dairy plant No. 2) was no exception. 700 meters from the entrance of the dairy there is a convenient transport interchange and the metro station “Levoberezhnaya”, Rusanovka with its entertainment … Read more
Not far from Peyzazhnaya Alleya you can see the oldest Kiev bridge, although in fact the first was the Struve Bridge, but it is still there today not preserved. Kudryavsky Bridge is a viaduct and is located above Petrovskaya Street, which almost no longer exists. In the 1960s, people still lived here in private houses … Read more
The history of the Kyiv dairy plant began in January 1930. The plant was built using the latest technologies at that time; its design was consulted by the enterprise at the Bergerdorf plants in Germany. In the 1930s, only a few dairies in all of Europe had similar equipment with which the Kiev dairy plant … Read more
Next to the unfinished official cemetery for pets there is also an unfinished asphalt plant (according to other sources, it was planned to build a waste incineration plant ). Construction began in the mid-1980s (almost immediately after the launch of CHPP-6, which is located nearby) on a site 500 meters long and 250 meters wide. … Read more
…the fate of another left-bank giant, the Darnitsa Silk Mill, turned out to be no less deplorable. Its history is somewhat shorter in time than the biography of “Khimvolokno“, but on the fate of many residents of Kyiv, first of all, Darnichens he was no less influential. After the end of the occupation, it was … Read more
Since 2005, a project to build an official cemetery for pets with a total cost of almost 30,000,000 hryvnia has been circulating in the Kyiv City State Administration. In 2009, about 16,000,000 hryvnia were allocated for this, but as of 2018 the situation has not changed – if a resident of the capital dies a … Read more