House of Sirotkin (Grigorievich-Barsky)

Дом Сироткина (Григорьевича-Барского)

At the end of 1899, the land plot where the house now stands was purchased for 125,000 rubles by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Grigorovich-Barsky, the great-grandson of the architect Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky (construction project Church of the Intercession and Nicholas Naberezhny Church, reconstruction project Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Pirogoshhi), and in February of the following … Read more

The Wax Museum

Музей восковых фигур - Никулин, Моргунов и Вицин

The Kiev Wax Museum is the private collection of Evgeniy and Alexey Sazhin, who decided to create it in 1997 after visiting the Amsterdam branch of the London Wax Museum. At the moment, the collection of the Kyiv museum includes more than 60 figures of Ukrainian and foreign political figures, writers, actors, singers and athletes. … Read more

Beaches of Kyiv

Пляжи Киева - Пуща-Водица

Beach “Children’s” The “Children’s” beach is located in Gidropark (Venetian Island) and has an area of 2 hectares. In the northeast it is washed by the waters of the Venice Strait, from the beach you can see the shore of the Dolobetsky Islands, Trukhanov, the Desenka River (Whirlpool), and also the right bank of Kyiv. … Read more

Money Museum

Музей денег

The Museum of Money National Bank of Ukraine was officially opened on March 24, 2004 on the basis of materials from the museum of the Ukrainian office of the State Bank of the USSR (although the decision to establish it was made at the end of 1988), this event is timed to coincide with the … Read more