The creation of a forest in the Goloseevo area began in 1631 under the leadership of Peter Mogila, Archimandrite Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra. Goloseevsky Park was created in 1957, and in honor of Maxim Rylsky, who in 1951-1964 lived and worked in a building on Sovetskaya Street located next to the park, it was renamed in 1964. … Read more
The Klovsky Palace was built in 1756 according to the design of the architects Gottfried Schedel (born in Germany; worked a lot in Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra during the construction of the bell tower, galleries in the Near and Far Caves, the key house and cells, helped in the design of St. Andrew’s Church; donated many times … Read more
The Museum of Television of the National Television Company of Ukraine opened on November 16, 2006 on the 55th anniversary of Ukrainian television. This is the only museum in the country dedicated to television. The founders of the museum were television workers who stood at the origins of professional television broadcasting in Ukraine and worked … Read more
In the 1950s and 1960s, Krasnoarmeyskaya Street (now Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya) was actively built up. Residential buildings were erected, the first 16-story building in Kyiv was constructed, and the Republican Stadium was reconstructed. Against the backdrop of all this work, few were surprised that in 1965 builders appeared in the block between the current Konovalets and … Read more
The Children’s Railway (official name: Small South-Western Railway) was opened in August 1953 in Syretsky Park, which was then still a wasteland next to Babi Yar. It was built through the efforts of railroad workers of the South-Western Railway and Komsomol members. The first train on the children’s railway was driven by driver Pyotr Krivonos, … Read more
Syretsky Dendrological Park is located in the historical part of the right bank of Kyiv – on Syrets. It has the status of “Park-monument of landscape gardening art of national significance”. The total area of the park is 7 hectares. The basis of the modern Syretsky arboretum was a demonstration park of ornamental crops at … Read more