A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Kontraktovaya Ploshcha station
Castle Mountain (other names: Khorivitsa, Kiselevka, Florovskaya or Frolovskaya Mountain) is a historical hill, which is an outlier (an isolated rock mass that remains after the destruction of a more unstable rock by any exogenous factors – weathering, erosion, exposure to water, etc. .d.), separated from the neighboring plateau of Starokievskaya Mountain by erosion that … Read more
Vozdvizhenka is an elite residential microdistrict, built in the early 2000s in the Gonchary-Kozhemyaki tract. Located between the Poskotinka mountains, Zamkovaya and Landscape Alley, parallel to Andreevsky Descent, and goes directly onto Nizhny Val Street, the main thoroughfare of Podol. Consists of Vozdvizhenskaya, Goncharnaya, Degtyarnaya and Kozhemyatskaya streets. It is believed that the earliest settlements … Read more
Who of you reading this article now remembers that trams ran along the Paton Bridge?… Or that you could take a breeze along the embankment from Motherland to Kontraktova Square? By the way, this tram line on the Dnieper embankment was the only one in Ukraine along the river bank and was very reminiscent of … Read more
The first Holy Cross Church in Kyiv was erected by Prince Mstislav Galitsky at the beginning of the 13th century over the cliff of Starokievskaya Mountain, towering above Podol, where the famous St. Andrew’s Church. On the site of the modern church, until 1811 there was a wooden parish church of Kozhemyatskaya Sloboda on a … Read more
After the fire in Podol, which occurred in 1811, the building of the first contract house, which was built in 1801, completely burned down. It was decided to restore the building using modern building materials in 1815-1817 according to the design of the English architect William Geste (who also participated in drawing up the master … Read more
The One Street Museum is dedicated to the history of Andreevsky Descent, one of the most ancient streets in Kyiv, connecting the Upper Town with the Lower Town – Podil. The concept of the museum is based on the desire of its creators to bring the history of St. Andrew’s Descent and Kyiv as close … Read more