The Green Theater is an open-air theater that was built on the slopes of the Dnieper in 1949 and is located in Askoldova Mogila Park, not far from Mariinsky Park. An element of the Green Theater is one of the two casemate walls of the former military building of the 19th century of the New … Read more
Hagia Sophia was built in the first half of the 11th century by order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise on the site of the victory in 1036 over the Pechenegs. At the turn of the 17th-28th centuries, it was externally rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The interior of the cathedral has preserved the world’s … Read more
The Kiev funicular allows you to quickly and inexpensively get from Podol to the Upper Town. It is one of the first funiculars in the former Russian Empire, opened in 1905 after the Kremlin and Pokhvalinsky elevators in Nizhny Novgorod (1896) and the Odessa funicular (1902). Mikhailovsky mechanical lift Until the beginning of the 20th … Read more
St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery was rebuilt in 1998 on the site of the cathedral church in honor of the Archangel Michael, destroyed in the 1930s. It also includes a refectory with the Church of St. John the Evangelist (built in 1713) and a bell tower (also restored in 1998). Nowadays it belongs to the UOC-KP. … Read more
Park Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across the Dnieper, which connects the central part of Kyiv with the park area and beaches of Trukhanov Island. Built in 1956-1957 according to the design of the Ukrproektstalkonstruktsiya Institute with the participation of the Evgeniy Paton Institute of Electric Welding of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian … Read more
Who of you reading this article now remembers that trams ran along the Paton Bridge?… Or that you could take a breeze along the embankment from Motherland to Kontraktova Square? By the way, this tram line on the Dnieper embankment was the only one in Ukraine along the river bank and was very reminiscent of … Read more