A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Arsenalnaya station
The foundation stone for the first Kyiv centralized water supply took place in May 1871 in the City Garden. In less than a year, the first stage of the water pipeline was put into operation. Its total length was 25 kilometers, it covered 150 houses in the center of Kyiv. The water intake was located … Read more
The sweet bench “Big Baking Tournament” was opened on the observation platform Pevchee Pole of the Pechersk Landscape Park in September 2013, and nearby is another unusual monument “The world through pink glasses“, which was installed a year later. An unusual art object by Daria Khozhay was presented to the people of Kiev by the … Read more
The building was built in 1902 in the neo-Gothic style according to the design of engineer Nikolai Vishnevsky. Belonged to the family of barons Uexküll-Gildenband (an ancient German family originating from the Archbishopric of Bremen). The house is three-story. The front façade is symmetrical and richly covered with various decorative elements, reminiscent of a fairy-tale … Read more
In 1910, a nobleman of Polish origin, Nikolai Kovalevsky, got tired of living in hotels and bought a plot on Lipki from the Kiev sugar factory Brodsky for 70,000 rubles (now the mansion stands surrounded by equally famous buildings like Tereshchenko mansion, chocolate house, Ikskyul-Gildenbanda house). The house designed by Pavel Aleshin (also designed doctor’s … Read more
The famous master of microminiatures Nikolai Sergeevich Syadristy was born on September 1, 1937 in the Kharkov region. After graduating from the Kharkov Art School, he entered the Kharkov Dokuchaev Agricultural Institute. Syadristy is a comprehensively gifted personality: a master of sports of the USSR, as well as the absolute champion of Ukraine in scuba … Read more
The Chocolate House (the dark brick-red color in which the walls are plastered became the basis for its name) is the unofficial name of the mansion of Semyon Mogilevtsev (Russian timber merchant) in which famous figures of science, socio-political and government life subsequently lived. Built in 1899-1901, next to Ikskyul-Gildenbanda House. In 1934, part of … Read more