Babi Yar is a tract in the northwestern part of Kiev, which gained sad worldwide fame as a place of mass executions of civilians, mainly Jews, Gypsies, Kiev Karaites, as well as Soviet prisoners of war, carried out by German occupation forces and Ukrainian collaborators during the Great Patriotic War. The first execution took place … Read more
St. Andrew’s Church is an Orthodox church in honor of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called. It was built in the Baroque style according to the design of the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754 on St. Andrew’s Hill. Down from the church goes Andreevskiy Spusk. In our time, it is an active church of the Ukrainian … Read more
Richard’s Castle – Lion’s Heart – the poetic name of house No. 15 on Andreevsky Spusk – an architectural monument of the 19th century, built in the style English Gothic in 1905, commissioned by industrialist Dmitry Orlov. Named by the Soviet writer Viktor Nekrasov in honor of King Richard the Lionheart, the hero of Walter … Read more
On May 28, 1988, the Kiev theater “Wheel” gave its first performance. Headed by ideological inspirer Irina Klishchevskaya, the team received its own premises on Andreevsky Spusk. In the 19th century, a Podolsk jeweler lived in this house, and in the 20th century there were Soviet communal apartments. All theater workers – both service workers … Read more
Kokorevo gazebo (the name Kokorevo gazebo is often found, but gazebo is the same gazebo, but in Ukrainian). The first gazebo is located on Andreevsky Descent behind St. Andrew’s Church, and the second – in park on Vladimirskaya Gorka. How did these gazebos appear and why were they called that? Russian businessman and philanthropist Vasily … Read more
In 1993, with the support of the Kyiv city state administration and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the museum-workshop of Ivan Kavaleridze was founded. The museum is located Andreevsky Spusk 21, in the house where he worked on the project in 1911 monument to Princess Olga future outstanding Ukrainian sculptor, film director and … Read more