The city garden has an area of 12 hectares, is a monument of landscape art of local importance and is located between three parks: Mariinsky, Kreshchatym and Askold’s grave. Old names of the park: Tsarsky Garden, City Park, Pervomaisky Park. The city garden, since it has no clear boundaries, is often mistaken for the Mariinsky … Read more
Volodymyrska Gorka (formerly Mikhailovskaya) is an elevation above the right bank of the Dnieper, a park-monument of landscape gardening art of local importance, which was founded in the middle of the 19th century. The development and planning of the slopes began in the 1830s. In 1853, a monument to Vladimir the Great was erected on … Read more
On May 25, 2019, a pedestrian and bicycle bridge was solemnly opened in Kyiv, which connected two parks: Kreshchaty and Vladimirskaya Gorka. Below the object is magdeburg right column (monument to the baptism of Rus’), to which a beautiful staircase leads . The glass bridge officially opened at 20:00. First, several cyclists drove over it, … Read more
The monument to the baptism of Rus’ (other names: the column of Magdeburg Law, the lower monument to St. Vladimir), is the oldest monument in Kyiv and is located in Kreschaty Park. Magdeburg Law was granted to Kyiv in the 18th century, during the reign of Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great. According to … Read more
This attraction is located in Kreshchaty Park, and its opening took place in 1982 after four years of construction and was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of education of the USSR. The sculptural and architectural composition replaced the summer stage that was located here. The Arch of Friendship of Peoples consists of three … Read more
In 2010, the famous Ukrainian sculptor Oleg Pinchuk presented Kiev with a bronze piggy bank toad, the creation of which cost $180,000. The monument to the toad turned out to be huge both in weight and size: it occupies 4 meters square and weighs 6 tons. The sculptor asked the Kiev authorities to erect a … Read more