A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near the Golden Gate station
The opening of the Alexander Pushkin Museum in Kyiv took place in May 1990 and was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poet’s birth. The exhibition is based on the private collection of the philologist and writer, a resident of Kiev, Yakov Berdichevsky, who throughout his life collected materials … Read more
Beginning in 1916, a group of young actors, united in a theater studio, actively worked on creating performances and performed them at various venues in Kyiv. Having received the premises at Proriznaya 17, they made repairs with their own hands and, at their own expense, equipped it for showing performances. Having a huge success with … Read more
At the end of 1899, the land plot where the house now stands was purchased for 125,000 rubles by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Grigorovich-Barsky, the great-grandson of the architect Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky (construction project Church of the Intercession and Nicholas Naberezhny Church, reconstruction project Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Pirogoshhi), and in February of the following … Read more
In June 1973, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR decided to build a new educational building of the theater institute, and already in December the city executive committee ordered the allocation of a plot of 0.3 hectares for construction and the demolition of the “low-value” two-story houses No. 41, 43, 45 located on … Read more
The first Kiev cycle track was located at 77 Bibikovsky Boulevard (now Taras Shevchenko Boulevard). On May 23, 1899, the first bicycle races took place on the bicycle track, which were organized by the Kyiv Cyclists Society. The second Kiev cycle track, on the initiative of Kiev resident Ivan Filippovich Belenko, was built in 1913 … Read more
The central indoor market (Kolkhozny) was built in 1949-1958 on the site of the demolished Yevbaz (Jewish Bazaar). But the people of Kiev adopted a different name for this bazaar – it was christened Senny, after the market of the same name that was liquidated during the reconstruction of Lviv Square (Senny was called because … Read more