Educational complex of Taras Shevchenko University

Учебный комплекс университета Тараса Шевченко

In the 1950s, the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev found itself in a difficult situation – the free territory around the educational institution had ended and there was nowhere to build new buildings (the university is located between Taras Shevchenko Park and Fomina Botanical Garden). The choice fell on undeveloped territories in the region … Read more

Hotel Poznyakova (fake house)

Гостиница Познякова (дом-обманка)

Gavriil Poznyakov was born in 1857. He was an architect, civil engineer, entrepreneur and homeowner. Founded a company for designing utility structures on private estates. He bought land plots on which he built apartment buildings (hotels) according to his own designs, mainly in neo-Renaissance forms. The architect purchased the estate for the future fake house … Read more

Equilibrium

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In September 2013, near the residential complex “PecherSKY Luxury Apartments”, the first kinetic sculptural installation in Kiev “Equilibrium” by the famous Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Lidagovsky was opened (at Rusanovka there is his sculpture “Staircase”). The sculpture, weighing about one ton and 6 meters high, is made of bronze and steel. Under the influence of the … Read more