A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near the Friendship of Peoples station (from 2023 Zverinetskaya)
In September 2013, near the residential complex “PecherSKY Luxury Apartments”, the first kinetic sculptural installation in Kiev “Equilibrium” by the famous Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Lidagovsky was opened (at Rusanovka there is his sculpture “Staircase”). The sculpture, weighing about one ton and 6 meters high, is made of bronze and steel. Under the influence of the … Read more
The Holy Trinity Monastery of John is located in the ancient part of Kyiv on the hill of Zverinetskaya Mountain. From the hills there is a view of the wide flood of the Dnieper and the Chernigov forests stretching beyond the horizon, the place of which has now been taken by residential areas of the … Read more
The furniture house project by architect Natalya Chmutina was conceived as multifunctional: the building was planned to be used both as a shopping center and as an exhibition pavilion. In addition to the sales floors, it was planned to imitate the interiors of real apartments with examples of furniture compositions. The spatial solution of the … Read more
The National Botanical Garden named after Nikolai Grishko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was founded in 1935 and is part of the natural reserve fund of our country, is an object of comprehensive protection, and belongs to lands of natural, historical and cultural significance, which are protected as a national treasure of … Read more
There are no exact and documented references to the Zverinetsky Cave Monastery. It is assumed that the settlement of the caves by monks occurred in the 11th-12th centuries during the Christianization of Kievan Rus. Some church historians believe that the Zverinetsky Monastery is the predecessor of the Vydubitsky Monastery and owes its appearance to Prince … Read more
Who of you reading this article now remembers that trams ran along the Paton Bridge?… Or that you could take a breeze along the embankment from Motherland to Kontraktova Square? By the way, this tram line on the Dnieper embankment was the only one in Ukraine along the river bank and was very reminiscent of … Read more