In 1949, a decree of the USSR Council of Ministers was signed on the construction of the Republican Agricultural Exhibition in Kyiv. It was built on the site of a small suburban farm called Krasny Tavern. Construction began in 1952 and lasted 6 years. The official opening of the exhibition took place on July 6, … Read more
The National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine is located on the southern outskirts of Kyiv near the village of Pirogov. The total area of the museum is large enough for long walks – 135 hectares. The museum (popular name Pirogovo) was founded in February 1969. The employees of the future museum carried … Read more
Feofaniya is a park-monument of landscape gardening art of national significance and a garden-park complex (formerly a state reserve) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which was created on May 13, 1992. The area of the park is 150 hectares. Since 1972, the Feofaniya tract has been a park-monument of local importance, located … Read more
Saint Peter Mohyla (Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All Rus’, Exarch of the See of Constantinople) at one time drew attention to the special beauty and seclusion of the picturesque surroundings of Kyiv – Goloseev. He bought part of the forest along with a small clearing as his … Read more
Nivki Park is divided into 2 parts: western (Lenin Komsomol Park) and eastern (Vasilchikovskaya Dacha). The green zone is conditionally divided by the railway track and the Syrets River. The park is home to about 100 species of ancient trees. The terrain is hilly. Nivki Park was created in 1972 by the decision of the … Read more
The relief of the Goloseevsky National Natural Park, which was officially created in 2007, is represented by the Lysogorsko-Korchevatsky and Pirogovsky uplifts (185-190 meters high), the Kiev forest plateau, the first above-floodplain terrace of the Dnieper, the floodplains of the Dnieper and Vita rivers. In the Goloseevsky forest and Park named after Maxim Rylsky the … Read more