A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places located near Pochtovaya Ploshchad station
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
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine began its work in August 1899. The official founding date of the museum is December 1904, when it was consecrated and officially opened to the public. Its founders were famous Ukrainian scientists: archaeologist, ethnographer and art critic academician Nikolai Belyashevsky (the first director of the museum), archaeologist … Read more
The monument was originally unveiled in September 1911. Its creators were sculptors Ivan Kavaleridze and Pyotr Snitkin, architect Valerian Rykov. The composition consists of three figures on a pink granite pedestal. In the center is Princess Olga, on the left side is Apostle Andrew the First-Called, and on the right are the educators of the … Read more
The Kiev funicular allows you to quickly and inexpensively get from Podol to the Upper Town. It is one of the first funiculars in the former Russian Empire, opened in 1905 after the Kremlin and Pokhvalinsky elevators in Nizhny Novgorod (1896) and the Odessa funicular (1902). Mikhailovsky mechanical lift Until the beginning of the 20th … Read more
St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery was rebuilt in 1998 on the site of the cathedral church in honor of the Archangel Michael, destroyed in the 1930s. It also includes a refectory with the Church of St. John the Evangelist (built in 1713) and a bell tower (also restored in 1998). Nowadays it belongs to the UOC-KP. … Read more
Park Bridge is a pedestrian bridge across the Dnieper, which connects the central part of Kyiv with the park area and beaches of Trukhanov Island. Built in 1956-1957 according to the design of the Ukrproektstalkonstruktsiya Institute with the participation of the Evgeniy Paton Institute of Electric Welding of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian … Read more