A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located on the left bank of Kyiv
Throughout their lives, people leave traces of their stay in the form of various wastes. Nowadays, garbage for archaeologists is an opportunity to learn about the life of people who lived many thousands of years ago. There is a place in Kyiv where very valuable things from the history and culture of Ukraine are presented. … Read more
DVRZ got its name from the Darnytsky Car Repair Plant, which operates to this day. The microdistrict arose in 1934 as the village of the Darnitsky depot when the first barracks-dormitory for plant builders were built here, and modern development began in the 1930-50s. After 2000, multi-storey new buildings began to appear in the DVRZ, … Read more
Command bunker (code name: CB) Every large and small city of the former Soviet Union has some secrets and mysteries. The Cold War period left behind many buildings that are striking in their gigantism and the size of the budget funds that USSR officials poured into the military, rather than into the civilian sector of … Read more
Among other theaters in the city, the Kiev Academic Drama and Comedy Theater occupies a special place. The theater, which arose in the wake of democratic changes in society in the late 1970s, is now very famous and popular among audiences, and respected among critics. The first meeting of the theater troupe took place in … Read more
Under the Soviet Union, most factories were classified and their names were given in the form of numbers. The “thousandth” plant produced caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, dust, berthollet salt, chlorine and was considered the most harmful enterprise in Kyiv, the consequences of which still reverberate to this day. The construction of the plant was planned … Read more
The German Quarter (Emergency village) in Kyiv is a cottage quarter consisting of 2-3-storey nice apartment buildings for workers of the nearest Darnitsa factories. Houses began to be built immediately after the end of the Great Patriotic War; their construction was carried out by German prisoners of war. Civilian German specialists from transformed Germany also … Read more