Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Goloseevsky district
The National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine is located on the southern outskirts of Kyiv near the village of Pirogov. The total area of the museum is large enough for long walks – 135 hectares. The museum (popular name Pirogovo) was founded in February 1969. The employees of the future museum carried … Read more
Feofaniya is a park-monument of landscape gardening art of national significance and a garden-park complex (formerly a state reserve) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which was created on May 13, 1992. The area of the park is 150 hectares. Since 1972, the Feofaniya tract has been a park-monument of local importance, located … Read more
Saint Peter Mohyla (Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and All Rus’, Exarch of the See of Constantinople) at one time drew attention to the special beauty and seclusion of the picturesque surroundings of Kyiv – Goloseev. He bought part of the forest along with a small clearing as his … Read more
The relief of the Goloseevsky National Natural Park, which was officially created in 2007, is represented by the Lysogorsko-Korchevatsky and Pirogovsky uplifts (185-190 meters high), the Kiev forest plateau, the first above-floodplain terrace of the Dnieper, the floodplains of the Dnieper and Vita rivers. In the Goloseevsky forest and Park named after Maxim Rylsky the … Read more
Kitaevo is a beautiful historical area, which is located on the southern outskirts of Kyiv, in the eastern part of the Goloseevsky forest. It borders on the historical area of Korchevatoye. The cascade of picturesque ponds located here is called Kitaevskie. The nature here is ideal for those who want to get away from the … Read more
Holy Trinity Kitaevsky Monastery (better known as Kitaevskaya Hermitage) is an Orthodox monastery in Kitaevo. The documented history of the monastery begins in 1716, and back in the 19th century Kitaevo became a popular place of pilgrimage. The most famous of the Kitaev elders were Dosifei and Theophilus. Stefan Demyanovich Kovnir in 1763-1768 built one … Read more