Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Darnitsky district
Park “Taraschanets” (full name “Park named after the crew of the armored train “Taraschanets””) was created in 1963 and is located near the present day the unfinished Darnitsky railway station and the Kiev tank cemetery. In the center of the park there is a monument to the crew of the Tarashchanets armored train – a … Read more
The Kiev Armored Plant is better known for its parking lot of used military equipment, which is popularly called a tank cemetery (although there are not only tanks there). Multi-ton armored vehicles are transported from place to place and stacked on top of each other here by a special crane moving on rails. Many tanks … Read more
Darnitsa station arose in 1899 in connection with the construction of the Kyiv-Poltava railway. Simultaneously with the appearance of the station, railway workers began to settle on the site of Lesnaya Street (now Grodnenskaya Street). On the other side of the railway tracks, a holiday village arose, called Novaya Darnitsa. The building of the station’s … Read more
The parish in honor of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt is part of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The parish was founded at the end of 2000, the first service took place on January 2, 2001. The community was created at the city clinical hospital No. 1, Kronstadt Street runs along this medical institution, so … Read more
The Museum of Partisan Glory, which was opened on May 7, 2008 in Partisan Glory Park and is a branch of Museum of the History of Kiev, over the years of its existence has become an important center for military-patriotic education of youth and perhaps the only museum in the left bank part of Kiev. … Read more
Partisan Glory Park (popularly simply PPS) is a regional landscape park in the Darnitsky district of Kyiv. It is located between Trostyanetskaya and Slavgorodskaya streets. Part of the Nikolsky forest area was included in the boundaries of the Darnitsky district of the city in 1965 to organize the district park of culture and recreation “Partisan … Read more