A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located on the right bank of Kyiv
The House with Chimeras (the house got its name thanks to the sculptural decorations located both on the facade of the house and inside it, the themes of which are terrestrial and underwater fauna, hunting attributes, fairy-tale creatures) was built according to the design of the architect Vladislav Gorodetsky in 1901-1902 using innovative solutions for … Read more
Kenassa (a house of prayer for the Karaites in Eastern Europe) was built on the initiative of Solomon Cohen (Karaite philanthropist, tobacco manufacturer, head of the Kiev Karaite community) and with the blessing of the Kiev gazzan (Karaite clergyman who serves in the kenassa) Joseph Sultansky, is located next to baron’s castle and golden gate. … Read more
The building of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater was built in 1898 on Nikolaevskaya Square, which appeared on the site of a filled-in pond located in the estate of Kyiv professor Friedrich Mehring. The theater building was erected by architects Eduard Bradtman (house of the “weeping widow”, Kiev Conservatory, house of Baron Hesselbein) … Read more
The Green Theater is an open-air theater that was built on the slopes of the Dnieper in 1949 and is located in Askoldova Mogila Park, not far from Mariinsky Park. An element of the Green Theater is one of the two casemate walls of the former military building of the 19th century of the New … Read more
Hagia Sophia was built in the first half of the 11th century by order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise on the site of the victory in 1036 over the Pechenegs. At the turn of the 17th-28th centuries, it was externally rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The interior of the cathedral has preserved the world’s … 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