Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Pechersk region
In 2007, during the initial stage of construction of a multi-storey residential building in the area of Lesi Ukrainka Boulevard near the Pecherskaya metro station, the entrance to the casemates of the Vasilkovsky fortification, which is part of the Kiev fortress, was excavated (this place is mistakenly called the NKVD underground prison). As expected in … Read more
The State Toy Museum was founded in 2005. Subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine. The idea of creating a museum arose in 1933, when, in accordance with the Resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks of August 26, 1933 No. 202 “On the … Read more
The building of the Institute of Noble Maidens (a 19th-early 20th century women’s educational institution for girls in Kyiv) was designed by the architect Vikentiy Beretti (the red building of Shevchenko University was also built according to his design). The first brick was laid in the foundation of the building in 1838; construction 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 building was built in 1902 in the neo-Gothic style according to the design of engineer Nikolai Vishnevsky. Belonged to the family of barons Uexküll-Gildenband (an ancient German family originating from the Archbishopric of Bremen). The house is three-story. The front façade is symmetrical and richly covered with various decorative elements, reminiscent of a fairy-tale … Read more
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