Troyeshchyna is the most ordinary residential area in Kyiv, but its local resident Tatyana Pika decided to diversify the gray tones of the floor in the house where she lived and eventually created an art object known throughout the city. She has been creating this object for more than 5 years and neighbor children helped … Read more
The first Kiev cycle track was located at 77 Bibikovsky Boulevard (now Taras Shevchenko Boulevard). On May 23, 1899, the first bicycle races took place on the bicycle track, which were organized by the Kyiv Cyclists Society. The second Kiev cycle track, on the initiative of Kiev resident Ivan Filippovich Belenko, was built in 1913 … Read more
The steel plant was founded in 1862 and specialized in the production of iron castings, as well as machinery for distilleries, sugar factories and mills. In 1913, the production of tugboats was mastered. Until 1929, the Leninskaya Kuznitsa plant did not have a clear specialization, but after a large order received from the Dnieper River … Read more
Near the industrial outskirts of Kyiv Korchevaty and crane cemetery, in the middle of the Dnieper there is an unusual structure that can even be seen from South Bridge. The round concrete tower, topped with a stepped platform, is located near the fairway, on stilts 12 meters long and was built in the early 1980s. … Read more
Defensive structures, civil defense facilities, were intended to protect people from the high-explosive and fragmentation effects of aerial bombs and shells, debris from destroyed buildings and the poisonous effects of poisonous gases. In the world, most air-raid shelters were built between 1930 and 1940, and over time many of them were modified into nuclear weapons … Read more
The foundation stone for the first Kyiv centralized water supply took place in May 1871 in the City Garden. In less than a year, the first stage of the water pipeline was put into operation. Its total length was 25 kilometers, it covered 150 houses in the center of Kyiv. The water intake was located … Read more