A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Kontraktovaya Ploshcha station
The Hetman Museum is a state cultural, educational and historical research institution, a concentration of monuments of material and spiritual culture related to the history and traditions of the Cossack-Hetman era, which was created on March 11, 1993 by order of the representative of the President of Ukraine. The museum is located in the building … Read more
Also known as the Podil Synagogue or the Rosenberg Synagogue. The oldest of the currently operating Kyiv synagogues. The synagogue was built in 1894-1895 at the expense of the merchant Gabriel-Yakov Geselevich Rosenberg, who owned the land plot and the building itself. Architect Nnikolai Gordenin (also designed the building on Andreevsky Spusk, where today Bulgakov … Read more
The Church of St. Nicholas Pritisk is one of the most ancient monuments preserved in Podol. The church was built at the expense of a Kyiv tradesman nicknamed Iron Grosh in 1695-1707 (according to other sources – in 1631) in the Ukrainian Baroque style. In the place where the temple is now located, back in … Read more
The theater was created in 1982 under the name of the State Children’s Musical Theatre. The theater became the first (and so far the only) in Ukraine and the second in the world of this type. On February 1, 1985, the theater opened with the opera “Winter and Spring” by the outstanding Ukrainian composer Nikolai … Read more
In 2006, on the initiative and with the full financial support of the Ukrainian philanthropist Vladimir Filippov, Radu Poklitaru created the author’s theater “Kyiv Modern Ballet”. As a result of the all-Ukrainian casting, 16 young dancers were selected. It is noteworthy that the presence of an academic ballet education was not a necessary condition for … Read more
According to the Laurentian Chronicle, the church was built in 1132-1136 during the reign of Mstislav the Great at the foot of Castle Hill. Mentioned in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” in connection with the return of the hero of this work, Prince Igor Svyatoslavich, to Kyiv from Polovtsian captivity. The temple was a small … Read more