Kovalevsky’s mansion

Особняк Ковалевского

In 1910, a nobleman of Polish origin, Nikolai Kovalevsky, got tired of living in hotels and bought a plot on Lipki from the Kiev sugar factory Brodsky for 70,000 rubles (now the mansion stands surrounded by equally famous buildings like Tereshchenko mansion, chocolate house, Ikskyul-Gildenbanda house). The house designed by Pavel Aleshin (also designed doctor’s … Read more

Castle Hill

Замковая гора

Castle Mountain (other names: Khorivitsa, Kiselevka, Florovskaya or Frolovskaya Mountain) is a historical hill, which is an outlier (an isolated rock mass that remains after the destruction of a more unstable rock by any exogenous factors – weathering, erosion, exposure to water, etc. .d.), separated from the neighboring plateau of Starokievskaya Mountain by erosion that … Read more

Furniture House

Дом мебели

The furniture house project by architect Natalya Chmutina was conceived as multifunctional: the building was planned to be used both as a shopping center and as an exhibition pavilion. In addition to the sales floors, it was planned to imitate the interiors of real apartments with examples of furniture compositions. The spatial solution of the … Read more

Klovsky Palace

Кловский дворец

The Klovsky Palace was built in 1756 according to the design of the architects Gottfried Schedel (born in Germany; worked a lot in Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra during the construction of the bell tower, galleries in the Near and Far Caves, the key house and cells, helped in the design of St. Andrew’s Church; donated many times … Read more

National Palace of Arts “Ukraine”

Дворец Украина

In the 1950s and 1960s, Krasnoarmeyskaya Street (now Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya) was actively built up. Residential buildings were erected, the first 16-story building in Kyiv was constructed, and the Republican Stadium was reconstructed. Against the backdrop of all this work, few were surprised that in 1965 builders appeared in the block between the current Konovalets and … Read more