Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Podolsky district
The park, with an area of 11.5 hectares, represents the remains of natural relief and vegetation (deciduous forest) in the upper reaches of Kirillovsky Creek. It is dominated by linden, oak, birch, aspen and elm. The undergrowth here is formed by hazel, warty and European euonymus, hawthorn and others. A relict species, large horsetail, has … Read more
Syretsky Gai, which is better known as Dubki Park, is a forest park and park-monument of landscape gardening art of national importance, which was created on July 26, 1972. Area 195 hectares. Dubki Park is part of the Syretsky Forest Park, which was created on the site of natural plantings (the remnant of the forest) … Read more
The Kiev funicular allows you to quickly and inexpensively get from Podol to the Upper Town. It is one of the first funiculars in the former Russian Empire, opened in 1905 after the Kremlin and Pokhvalinsky elevators in Nizhny Novgorod (1896) and the Odessa funicular (1902). Mikhailovsky mechanical lift Until the beginning of the 20th … Read more
Who of you reading this article now remembers that trams ran along the Paton Bridge?… Or that you could take a breeze along the embankment from Motherland to Kontraktova Square? By the way, this tram line on the Dnieper embankment was the only one in Ukraine along the river bank and was very reminiscent of … Read more
The first Holy Cross Church in Kyiv was erected by Prince Mstislav Galitsky at the beginning of the 13th century over the cliff of Starokievskaya Mountain, towering above Podol, where the famous St. Andrew’s Church. On the site of the modern church, until 1811 there was a wooden parish church of Kozhemyatskaya Sloboda on a … Read more
A wooden church with this name was first mentioned in written sources in 1520. The new building of the stone Church of the Nativity of Christ was built on the site of the old wooden church, which was dismantled in 1807. The project was developed by architect Andrey Melensky (Contract House, monument to Magdeburg Law, … Read more