A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places located near Pochtovaya Ploshchad station
On May 28, 1988, the Kiev theater “Wheel” gave its first performance. Headed by ideological inspirer Irina Klishchevskaya, the team received its own premises on Andreevsky Spusk. In the 19th century, a Podolsk jeweler lived in this house, and in the 20th century there were Soviet communal apartments. All theater workers – both service workers … Read more
Kokorevo gazebo (the name Kokorevo gazebo is often found, but gazebo is the same gazebo, but in Ukrainian). The first gazebo is located on Andreevsky Descent behind St. Andrew’s Church, and the second – in park on Vladimirskaya Gorka. How did these gazebos appear and why were they called that? Russian businessman and philanthropist Vasily … Read more
In 1993, with the support of the Kyiv city state administration and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the museum-workshop of Ivan Kavaleridze was founded. The museum is located Andreevsky Spusk 21, in the house where he worked on the project in 1911 monument to Princess Olga future outstanding Ukrainian sculptor, film director and … Read more
The monument to the characters of the famous film comedy “Chasing Two Hares” (released in 1961), Pronya Prokopovna and Golokhvosty, is located on Andreevsky Descent. The monument, created according to the design of the architect Vladimir Skulsky and sculptors Vladimir Shchur (monument to Panikovsky, Gorodetsky, Leonid Bykov) and Vitaly Sivko (monument to Princess Olga, Yaroslav … Read more
“House of the Turbins” is a literary and memorial house-museum of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, which was founded in 1989. The main exhibition is on the second floor. Here you can see Bulgakov’s personal belongings and learn the story of his life in Kyiv. This story is closely intertwined with his novel “The White Guard”. The … Read more
Trukhanov Island on the Dnieper has an area of 450 hectares and is located opposite the central part of Kyiv between the main channel of the Dnieper in the west and its branch Chertoroy in the east, includes Park Muromets. It is believed that the name of the island comes from the name of the … Read more