Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Pechersk region
On November 28, 2006, the Law of Ukraine “On the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine” was adopted, which officially recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide of the Ukrainian people and provided for the construction of a memorial in memory of the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine. The author of the … Read more
On the site where the hotel was built, in 1912-1944 there was located “Ginsburg skyscraper” – a multi-storey apartment building of Lev Ginzburg , which until 1928 was the tallest building on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. Lev Borisovich was a Kyiv merchant of the 1st guild, a construction contractor, and a millionaire. He … Read more
The official name of the museum is “Tragedy and Valor of Afghanistan” and “In Foreign Wars.” It was created in the form of a small exhibition in the spring of 1992 in Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (under the statue Motherland). The exhibition was dedicated to participants in armed conflicts and … Read more
On the territory of the memorial complex National Museum of the Great Patriotic War, not far from the statue Motherland, there is a rather large exhibition of military equipment, which contains unique examples of weapons of the Red Army from pre-war times to the 70s of the last century. At the military equipment exhibition you … Read more
The Vydubitsky Monastery is one of the most ancient monasteries in Kyiv, along with the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. It was founded around 1077 by the son of Yaroslav the Wise, Vsevolod Yaroslavich. The monastery itself and the adjacent area of Vydubychi take their name from the old legend about Vladimir the Baptist and the defeated … Read more
The House with Chimeras (the house got its name thanks to the sculptural decorations located both on the facade of the house and inside it, the themes of which are terrestrial and underwater fauna, hunting attributes, fairy-tale creatures) was built according to the design of the architect Vladislav Gorodetsky in 1901-1902 using innovative solutions for … Read more