Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Goloseevsky district
Bald Mountain – historical area The name of the mountain is mainly due to the small presence of woody vegetation (however, nowadays the mountain is covered with forest, and its top is lushly overgrown with Red Book herbs). In the second half of the 19th century, the Lysogorsk fortifications of the New Pechersk Fortress were … Read more
The creation of a forest in the Goloseevo area began in 1631 under the leadership of Peter Mogila, Archimandrite Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra. Goloseevsky Park was created in 1957, and in honor of Maxim Rylsky, who in 1951-1964 lived and worked in a building on Sovetskaya Street located next to the park, it was renamed in 1964. … Read more
This historical area extends on the eastern slope of Batu Mountain along the street and descent of the same name (the descent in 2003 was named after Nikolai Amosov), which in Soviet times was called Stepan Razin Street and Descent. On the street, traffic was one-way up, and downhill, one-way down. Protasov Yar Street also … Read more
Baikovo Cemetery The cemetery is named after the surname of General Sergei Baykov (Russian military leader, major general, participant in the Napoleonic Wars and the Russian-Turkish War). After the war, he retired and settled in Kiev – he lived in Pechersk in his own house, and across the Lybid River he acquired a farmstead on … Read more
Since 1841, at Bajkovo Cemetery there was the Church of St. Demetrius of Rostov, which was not only a cemetery, but also parish. Over time, the temple ceased to accommodate all believers, and the architect Vladimir Nikolaev (Tereshchenko mansion, Galperin’s mansion, Liberman’s mansion, philharmonic, monument to Khmelnitsky, Zaitsev’s mansion) a project for a new church … Read more