Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Dneprovsky district
Trukhanov Island on the Dnieper has an area of 450 hectares and is located opposite the central part of Kyiv between the main channel of the Dnieper in the west and its branch Chertoroy in the east, includes Park Muromets. It is believed that the name of the island comes from the name of the … Read more
Hydropark is a park located on the Venetian (to the left when exiting the metro) and Dolobetsky (respectively to the right) islands between the Dnieper and the Rusanovskiy Strait in Kyiv. The hydropark is located on the site of the former Podmostnaya Slobidka, destroyed in 1943 during the occupation of Kyiv. Created in 1965-1968 as … 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
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
Around the end of the 1950s, Soviet engineers began preparatory work for the construction of the Rusanovsky residential area, which would have accommodated nine (series 1-KG-480-11u and 1-KG-480-12u), sixteen (BPS series) and seventeen-story (BPS series) houses made of brick, expanded clay concrete, vibro-rolled panels. The number of people living in Rusanovka was planned at 45,000 … Read more