Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Podolsky district
The Chernobyl Museum tells about the biggest (known to us, not classified) disaster in the history of nuclear energy – the accident at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986. The Chernobyl Museum contains more than 7,000 exhibits – these are declassified documents, maps, photographs, items of ethnic culture … Read more
From the charter of King Sigismund II Augustus, given on May 17, 1566 to the Kiev voivode, Prince Ostrozhsky, it is known that “the Kiev nunnery of Florovsky on Podol is provided with everything that it had, into the hereditary possession or management of the Kiev archpriest Iakov Gulkevich (who restored this monastery ) with … Read more
Castle Mountain (other names: Khorivitsa, Kiselevka, Florovskaya or Frolovskaya Mountain) is a historical hill, which is an outlier (an isolated rock mass that remains after the destruction of a more unstable rock by any exogenous factors – weathering, erosion, exposure to water, etc. .d.), separated from the neighboring plateau of Starokievskaya Mountain by erosion that … Read more
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine began its work in August 1899. The official founding date of the museum is December 1904, when it was consecrated and officially opened to the public. Its founders were famous Ukrainian scientists: archaeologist, ethnographer and art critic academician Nikolai Belyashevsky (the first director of the museum), archaeologist … Read more
Vozdvizhenka is an elite residential microdistrict, built in the early 2000s in the Gonchary-Kozhemyaki tract. Located between the Poskotinka mountains, Zamkovaya and Landscape Alley, parallel to Andreevsky Descent, and goes directly onto Nizhny Val Street, the main thoroughfare of Podol. Consists of Vozdvizhenskaya, Goncharnaya, Degtyarnaya and Kozhemyatskaya streets. It is believed that the earliest settlements … Read more
This six-pillar, cross-domed temple is one of the oldest surviving on the territory of the former ancient Russian state. The church in the name of Saints Cyril and Athanasius was built after the ascension of the Chernigov prince Vsevolod Olgovich to the Kiev throne in 1139 on the outskirts of the city – in the … Read more