The monument to the Persian cat Panteleimon was erected in 1998 in Zolotovorotsky Square opposite the Pantagruel restaurant where the cat lived. In the mid-1990s, Margarita Sichkar, a Kiev restaurateur and director of the Pantagruel restaurant, which is located near Golden Gate, had a the idea of having a cat at the restaurant, which was … Read more
Construction of the Darnitsky railway bridge began in March 1868. The bridge had 11 supports and 12 spans of 89 meters each, the total length was 1068 meters. The bridge had one railway track, the supports were built using caisson technology. On February 12, 1870, during a test, a special train consisting of 6 locomotives … Read more
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
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
Tightly closed iron doors 10 centimeters thick that lead to the basement, equipment abandoned to the mercy of fate, personal and work belongings and medicines – this was the picture in an abandoned laboratory until 2015 and which was a branch of the Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases (was founded in 1896 with … Read more
Bald Mountain – historical area The name of the mountain is mainly due to the small presence of woody vegetation (however, nowadays the mountain is covered with forest, and its top is lushly overgrown with Red Book herbs). In the second half of the 19th century, the Lysogorsk fortifications of the New Pechersk Fortress were … Read more