Golden Gate During the reign of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, the territory of Kyiv was constantly expanding, which required the construction of new defensive fortifications – powerful ramparts with reinforced wooden cages and deep ditches were erected. The city was surrounded by earthen ramparts with a total length of 4 kilometers, they ran along the … Read more
Darnitsa station arose in 1899 in connection with the construction of the Kyiv-Poltava railway. Simultaneously with the appearance of the station, railway workers began to settle on the site of Lesnaya Street (now Grodnenskaya Street). On the other side of the railway tracks, a holiday village arose, called Novaya Darnitsa. The building of the station’s … Read more
Vozdvizhenka is an elite residential microdistrict, built in the early 2000s in the Gonchary-Kozhemyaki tract. Located between the Poskotinka mountains, Zamkovaya and Landscape Alley, parallel to Andreevsky Descent, and goes directly onto Nizhny Val Street, the main thoroughfare of Podol. Consists of Vozdvizhenskaya, Goncharnaya, Degtyarnaya and Kozhemyatskaya streets. It is believed that the earliest settlements … Read more
Polyakov’s mansion is located opposite Mariinskiy Park, near Mariinsky Palace, buildings of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, Galperin mansion and Zaitsev mansion. Built according to the design of the architect Fyodor Troupyansky in the 1910s. The house is a characteristic monument of the development of Lipki at the beginning of the 20th century. Due to … Read more
At the beginning of 1934, after the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was moved from Kharkov to Kyiv, a master plan for the construction and reconstruction of the city was developed and approved. As part of this project, in February 1936, a competition was announced for the best design of the building of the All-Ukrainian … Read more
This historical area extends on the eastern slope of Batu Mountain along the street and descent of the same name (the descent in 2003 was named after Nikolai Amosov), which in Soviet times was called Stepan Razin Street and Descent. On the street, traffic was one-way up, and downhill, one-way down. Protasov Yar Street also … Read more