A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located on the left bank of Kyiv
During the Soviet Union, people who arrived in Kyiv or passed through it could often take a stroll in Pobeda Park. Since, according to a 1969 resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a plan was adopted for the development of tourism and excursions in the country. Sub-clause 11 of this plan stated: … Read more
Ferris wheel in Partisan Glory Park The Ferris wheel appeared in the park in 1982. Its height is 26.5 meters, it makes a full rotation in 5 minutes, the cabins have rain awnings and a steering wheel – it allows you to rotate the cabin around its axis and examine the surroundings from above. The … Read more
Park “Taraschanets” (full name “Park named after the crew of the armored train “Taraschanets””) was created in 1963 and is located near the present day the unfinished Darnitsky railway station and the Kiev tank cemetery. In the center of the park there is a monument to the crew of the Tarashchanets armored train – a … Read more
On April 26, 1986, the largest man-made disaster in human history occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The explosion of the reactor at the fourth power unit led to human casualties and radiation pollution of air, soil, ground and river waters. The issue of clean water for Kyiv in those days became very acute, … Read more
The Kiev Armored Plant is better known for its parking lot of used military equipment, which is popularly called a tank cemetery (although there are not only tanks there). Multi-ton armored vehicles are transported from place to place and stacked on top of each other here by a special crane moving on rails. Many tanks … Read more
The tunnels under the Dnieper, or as they are also called “Stalin Tunnels” (passed in the documents as “Construction No. 1 of the NKPS (People’s Commissariat of Railways of the USSR)”) are unfinished railway tunnels. Work on their construction was carried out in the period from 1938 to 1941, and commissioning was planned for 1944. … Read more