Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Pechersk region
In 1910, a nobleman of Polish origin, Nikolai Kovalevsky, got tired of living in hotels and bought a plot on Lipki from the Kiev sugar factory Brodsky for 70,000 rubles (now the mansion stands surrounded by equally famous buildings like Tereshchenko mansion, chocolate house, Ikskyul-Gildenbanda house). The house designed by Pavel Aleshin (also designed doctor’s … 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 Klovsky Palace was built in 1756 according to the design of the architects Gottfried Schedel (born in Germany; worked a lot in Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra during the construction of the bell tower, galleries in the Near and Far Caves, the key house and cells, helped in the design of St. Andrew’s Church; donated many times … Read more
In the 1950s and 1960s, Krasnoarmeyskaya Street (now Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya) was actively built up. Residential buildings were erected, the first 16-story building in Kyiv was constructed, and the Republican Stadium was reconstructed. Against the backdrop of all this work, few were surprised that in 1965 builders appeared in the block between the current Konovalets and … Read more
The famous master of microminiatures Nikolai Sergeevich Syadristy was born on September 1, 1937 in the Kharkov region. After graduating from the Kharkov Art School, he entered the Kharkov Dokuchaev Agricultural Institute. Syadristy is a comprehensively gifted personality: a master of sports of the USSR, as well as the absolute champion of Ukraine in scuba … Read more
The Ginzburg skyscraper, or as it was also called the Ginzburg House, is a 12-story building of the early 20th century. It went down in history as the first skyscraper in Ukraine and the tallest building in Russia. It was built in 2 years in 1912 and was blown up on September 24, 1941. Completely … Read more