The cozy estate on Pankovskaya, just like a hundred years ago, will charm everyone who visits the Mikhail Grushevsky Historical and Memorial Museum. Since 1908, since it was acquired by the Grushevskys, it has become a real center and symbol of Ukrainianness in Kyiv. The history of this estate is directly related to decades of … Read more
In the 1990s, after the Chernobyl tragedy, the Desnyansky district of Kyiv grew rapidly, new houses were built for Pripyat residents. In a huge residential area, worship was carried out in one small wooden church in the village of Troeshchina, which was not able to accommodate all the believers and therefore it was necessary to … Read more
The Stroydormash plant named after the 50th anniversary of Soviet Ukraine was founded in 1932 by decision of the Kyiv district military construction department and in Soviet times was under the jurisdiction of the USSR Ministry of Construction, Road and Municipal Engineering. In the 1960s, on the basis of the AT-T tracked artillery tractor, the … Read more
The People’s Bread Museum was founded in 1981 and belongs to the national ecological and naturalistic center for student youth of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The museum contains over 2,000 exhibits that tell about the history of bread, its importance for humans, the origin of the main grain crops (rye, wheat, … Read more
The Klavdievskaya Christmas tree decorations factory has been continuing the tradition of craftsmanship in making glass Christmas tree decorations for many decades. Founded in 1948, the factory grew from a small manufactory that processed glass for medical needs into the largest manufacturer of Christmas products in Eastern Europe. Today, Christmas tree decorations from this factory … Read more
The history of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God is closely connected with the history of the Obolon massif. The Tereshchuk family, the head of which is Father Nikolai, can be called indigenous Obolonians, since they settled here from the very foundation of the massif. An Orthodox community of neighbors, acquaintances, … Read more