A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Maidan Nezalezhnosti station
The building was built in 1978-1982 according to the design of the architects of the Glavkievproekt Vadim Gopkalo (Vernadsky Library, river station, Hotel Tourist, first microdistrict of Troeshchina), Vadim Grechina (Vernadsky Library, Holy Trinity Cathedral, design of the Bereznyakov and Troeshchina microdistricts), Vladimir Kolomiets (design of the Troeshchyna microdistricts), Leonid Filenko (Khreshchatyk Hotel, planning of … Read more
At the beginning of the 19th century, there was only one Roman Catholic church in Kyiv – a wooden church, which burned down in 1814 and therefore Kyiv Catholics decided to build a new one. In March of the same year, the chairman of the provincial nobility, Count Pototsky, wrote a letter to Emperor Alexander … Read more
The city’s second monument to the founders of Kyiv with a fountain (the first monument is located in Navodnitsky Park) is located on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The sculptural composition was installed in 2001 during the reconstruction of the central square of the capital. The sculpture, located in the center of the fountain, represents the figures of … Read more
The building of the Institute of Noble Maidens (a 19th-early 20th century women’s educational institution for girls in Kyiv) was designed by the architect Vikentiy Beretti (the red building of Shevchenko University was also built according to his design). The first brick was laid in the foundation of the building in 1838; construction of the … Read more
The Ginzburg skyscraper, or as it was also called the Ginzburg House, is a 12-story building of the early 20th century. It went down in history as the first skyscraper in Ukraine and the tallest building in Russia. It was built in 2 years in 1912 and was blown up on September 24, 1941. Completely … Read more
The Kiev Conservatory was founded in November 1913 on the basis of the music school of the Kyiv branch of the Russian musical society. Outstanding musicians contributed to the organization of the institution: Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Glazunov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The Conservatory House was built in the 1890s (former Continental Hotel, architects Eduard Bradtman (Franco Theater, … Read more