A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located on the right bank of Kyiv
The Military History Museum of the Ivan Chernyakhovsky University of Defense of Ukraine was created on July 25, 1992. Currently, on two open areas of the university museum there are about 60 museum exhibits of military equipment and weapons, dating from the period before and during the Great Patriotic War. Among them: armored and automotive … Read more
In 1887, a small chapel was built at the Lukyanovsky cemetery, but over time it became insufficient – it could not meet the existing needs of the parish. Therefore, in 1910, Colonel Ivan Mirovich offered to convert the chapel into a church at his own expense, but only on one condition – the temple would … Read more
The Sixties is the name of a new generation of Soviet and Ukrainian national intelligentsia, which appeared in culture and politics in the second half of the 1950s – during the period of temporary weakening of communist-Bolshevik totalitarianism and Khrushchev’s “thaw” (de-Stalinization and some liberalization) and reached maximum popularity at the beginning and mid-1960s (hence … Read more
The Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica is the oldest wooden church in Kyiv. In 1715, in the village of Zhulyany near Kiev, by the forces of the monks of the Sofia Monastery, to which the village belonged until 1787, a temple-chapel was erected Demetrius of Thessalonica. By the middle of the 19th … Read more
Among the outstanding writers of the past, whose work has stood the test of time and entered the treasury of world culture, the classic of Jewish literature Sholom Aleichem (Rabinovich Solomon Naumovich) occupies an honorable place. In March 2009, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth, his museum was opened, which the … Read more
During the reconstruction of the central railway station and the creation of a new station square in front of the South Terminal, the dean of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, Archpriest Vasily Rusinka, turned to the Minister of Transport and Communications, General Director of Ukrzaliznytsia Georgy Kirpa with a request to build a cathedral – he supported … Read more