A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Kontraktovaya Ploshcha station
Pushcha-Voditsa is a historical area in Kyiv, which until November 2001 was an urban village, and after that date it became part of the city and became part of the Obolon district. The name is a combination of the word “pushcha”, that is, dense forest, and the name of the Voditsa River (the now defunct … Read more
Not far from Peyzazhnaya Alleya you can see the oldest Kiev bridge, although in fact the first was the Struve Bridge, but it is still there today not preserved. Kudryavsky Bridge is a viaduct and is located above Petrovskaya Street, which almost no longer exists. In the 1960s, people still lived here in private houses … Read more
The steel plant was founded in 1862 and specialized in the production of iron castings, as well as machinery for distilleries, sugar factories and mills. In 1913, the production of tugboats was mastered. Until 1929, the Leninskaya Kuznitsa plant did not have a clear specialization, but after a large order received from the Dnieper River … Read more
The Pharmacy Museum is an exhibition dedicated to the history of the formation of Ukrainian pharmaceuticals and pharmacy business. In 1728, the German Johann Geither opened the first private pharmacy in Kyiv in Podol, not far from Andreevskiy Spusk, the patent for which he received Decree of Emperor Peter II of July 28, 1728. After … Read more
The Chernobyl Museum tells about the biggest (known to us, not classified) disaster in the history of nuclear energy – the accident at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986. The Chernobyl Museum contains more than 7,000 exhibits – these are declassified documents, maps, photographs, items of ethnic culture … Read more
From the charter of King Sigismund II Augustus, given on May 17, 1566 to the Kiev voivode, Prince Ostrozhsky, it is known that “the Kiev nunnery of Florovsky on Podol is provided with everything that it had, into the hereditary possession or management of the Kiev archpriest Iakov Gulkevich (who restored this monastery ) with … Read more