A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Pochayna station (formerly Petrovka)
It is known that temples have stood on this site since ancient times. Back in the 18th century, when Priorka was not yet a suburb of Kyiv, but only a suburban settlement, there stood the wooden Demetrius Church (the Church of Saints George and Demetrius). In 1791, it was dismantled, and in 1795, “through the … Read more
In the 1990s, after the Chernobyl tragedy, the Desnyansky district of Kyiv grew rapidly, new houses were built for Pripyat residents. In a huge residential area, worship was carried out in one small wooden church in the village of Troeshchina, which was not able to accommodate all the believers and therefore it was necessary to … Read more
The People’s Bread Museum was founded in 1981 and belongs to the national ecological and naturalistic center for student youth of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The museum contains over 2,000 exhibits that tell about the history of bread, its importance for humans, the origin of the main grain crops (rye, wheat, … Read more
In tsarist times there was a brick factory here, then there were barns for raw materials, to which a railway line ran from the side of the current Zenit (Kurenevskaya station). The park was laid out here in the early 1930s and was first called Kurenevsky Park named after Yezhov. After the war, on the … Read more
Troyeshchyna is the most ordinary residential area in Kyiv, but its local resident Tatyana Pika decided to diversify the gray tones of the floor in the house where she lived and eventually created an art object known throughout the city. She has been creating this object for more than 5 years and neighbor children helped … Read more
The Dnieper Towers residential complex consists of six separate sections 35 floors high, which in 2005 could have become one of the attractions of Kyiv, but they stand in the open air in varying degrees of completion and are gradually being destroyed. In 1999, the Main Directorate of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal … Read more