A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Maidan Nezalezhnosti station
In July 2014 in Kreschaty Park next to Water Museum has an art object from the national producer of chicken eggs, the company “Yasensvit” – a tree of desires. The work, which was made by the workshop of the artist-blacksmith Alexander Zagorodny, reaches 4.5 meters in height and weighs about 2 tons. At the foot … Read more
The history of the Philharmonic in Kyiv began in 1863, when the Kiev branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society was founded. In 1882, the society received its own concert venue – just built according to the project of Vladimir Nikolaev (Museum of Russian Art – since 2017 it has been called Kiev Art Gallery, … Read more
The Kiev State Academic Puppet Theater is the first puppet theater in Ukraine and was founded on October 27, 1927 at the Ivan Franko Kiev Theater for Children on the initiative of the People’s Artists of Ukraine A. I. Solomarsky and I. S. Deyeva. The first theatrical season was opened with two performances – “Ancient … Read more
The Water Information Center (Water Museum) is an information center in Kreshchaty Park, created by the Kiev City State Administration with the support of the Danish Ministry of Leisure May 24, 2003 in the restored structures of the first Kiev centralized water supply, built in 1872-1876 according to the project of architect Alexander Shile. The … Read more
The Bridge of Lovers is the unofficial name of the Park Bridge, which connected the current Mariinsky and Kreshchaty parks. The bridge was designed by the famous mechanical scientist and engineer Yevgeny Paton and opened in December 1910. Previously, on the site of the Park Bridge there was a hollow with a natural earthen partition … Read more
In order to install this monument in Kreschaty Park, the authorities of the city and its residents were inspired by the love story of an Italian prisoner of war and a Ukrainian woman who was hijacked to work in Germany. “I come to Ukraine every year. I still remember the events of the war that … Read more