Konstantin Skritutsky – sculptor and designer, author of many street sculptures in Kiev, including the complex on Landscape alley, sculptures of animals in Partizanskaya Glory Park (Darnitskaya landscape), the sculptural group “The bird that flew to the middle of the Dnieper” on Rusanovka, a cat made of disposable forks (the square near the Golden Gate … Read more
Andreevsky Descent in Kyiv is one of the ancient roads connecting Upper Kyiv, its central part, with Podol, which was traded at that time. The road goes from Kontraktova Square to Desyatinnaya and Vladimirskaya streets. Andreevsky Descent got its name thanks to the Andreevsky Church built almost at the end of the street, which is … Read more
The incident with the Park of Memory at the Baykove cemetery in 1982 is one of the biggest tragedies that has happened in Ukrainian culture. The names of Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko are not inscribed in the history of Ukrainian art, although they devoted 13 years of their lives to the creation of a … Read more
The Park of Eternal Glory (former names: Anosovsky Garden, Commandant’s Garden) is located on the upper and middle terraces above the Dnieper between Lavrskaya Street and Dneprovsky Spusk. From the south it is limited by the ramparts of the old Kiev-Pechersk fortress (citadel), the lower part of the park adjoins the historical area Askold’s grave. … Read more
In the early 1980s, Kyiv officials saw the city’s need for another hotel. The project of the architect Avraam Miletsky was chosen for the construction (known for such works as Park of Eternal Glory, the crematorium at the Baikove cemetery, wall of memory at Baikove cemetery, Landscape alley). The hotel was built in 2 years … Read more
Navodnitsky Park is located on the Dnieper embankment near Paton Bridge and was founded in 1951. Until 1993, the park was named after Vitaliy Primakov (Soviet military leader, during the Civil War – commander of the Ukrainian Red Cossacks), whose monument was erected in the park in the 1970s and dismantled in 2016. There are … Read more