A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Khreshchatyk station
In the 70s of the 19th century, according to the design of the architect Alexander Shile, 2 buildings were erected on Bankovaya 11 for the Kyiv military district. Famous military leaders worked here over the years. Before the revolution of 1917 – generals of the Russian Empire Nikita Alekseev, Mikhail Dragomirov, Vladimir Sukhomlinov. In 1918, … Read more
In Ukraine and Kyiv in particular, German colonists settled in the second half of the 18th century and they lived mainly in Podol. The first services for the still small German community were held in the house of Georg Bunge, the owner of the first city pharmacy. However, the community soon became cramped in the … Read more
The Museum of Money National Bank of Ukraine was officially opened on March 24, 2004 on the basis of materials from the museum of the Ukrainian office of the State Bank of the USSR (although the decision to establish it was made at the end of 1988), this event is timed to coincide with the … Read more
The elevator in the house on Proreznoy Street is the smallest elevator in Ukraine, as it has an area of 0.5 square meters and is designed for only 1 person. In order to ride in it together, you need to be either very slender, or squeeze in excess and snuggle up to each other. A … Read more
Doctor’s House No. 1 The Doctor’s House is one of the first multi-apartment residential buildings built during Soviet times in Kyiv. Created in the style of constructivism according to the design of the architect Pavel Aleshin (also designed Kovalevsky’s mansion) in 1930. A monument of history, architecture, and urban planning of local importance. The house … Read more
Passage is a commercial and residential building in Kyiv in the form of a street-corridor formed by two parallel buildings (the current address is Khreshchatyk Street, 15). At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Stifner estate, located on the site of the current Passage, was purchased by the Rossiya Insurance Company for … Read more