The landscape alley is a recreation area created on the site of the hidden defensive ramparts of the Upper City, which went from above in a ravine, over the Gonchary tract. In fact, this is a path (automobile-pedestrian), which repeats the route of the rampart and landscape design objects around (curbs, park sculpture, playgrounds, flower … Read more
On the eve of the celebration of the Day of Kyiv, in May 2013, Kiev Fashion Park installed the city’s first sculpture on the water – “Rare Bird”. The work of Alexey Vladimirov is located in the middle of the Dnieper near the Paton Bridge, between the embankment Navodnitsky Park and Hydropark. This point on … Read more
Metro bridge The first metro bridge across the Dnieper, the author of the project and chief engineer is Georgy Fuks (his other projects: South Bridge, Northern Bridge, Podolsky bridge). Opened November 5, 1965. A two-tier structure for the movement of metro trains (upper tier, in the middle) and vehicles (lower, on the sides). It was … Read more
In August 2013, within the framework of the “Kiev Fashion Park” project in the park area Rusanovskaya embankment (across the street from the playground house at Rusanovskaya embankment 6) the opening of a new street art object by Anna Kiseleva “Grandma with Kravchuchka” took place. “Grandmothers” is the author’s series of lively, ironic and kind … Read more
In September 2012, on Rusanovskaya embankment, another sculpture appeared from a whole series of art objects that are on it (Grandmother with Kravchuchka, sculptural group “The bird that flew to the middle of the Dnieper”). The “Ladder” is made in the classical casting technique and is strikingly different from the already well-known sculpture “Love-River” by … Read more
In the place where the Paton bridge is located today, in pre-revolutionary times there was the Nikolaevsky chain bridge, which was designed by the English engineer Charles Vignolem. During the Soviet-Polish war in 1920, the bridge was blown up by the retreating Polish troops. In 1925-41, on the site of the chain bridge, there was … Read more