Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in Shevchenkivskyi district
The place where the market is now located was only improved in 1869. Before this, Bessarabka was a wasteland. It was constantly flooded with water running from all the surrounding hills and was strewn with household waste. The place was famous for the fact that tramps and people who traded in robbery and robbery gathered … Read more
In 1899, the Kiev Literacy Society approached the City Duma with an initiative to build a people’s house (a publicly accessible cultural and educational institution). The mayor took up the proposal and by the end of the year a resolution was issued on the free allocation of land next to the Trinity Church. Provincial architect … Read more
Bogdan Ivanovich Khanenko (Russian industrialist, collector and philanthropist) graduated from Moscow University with a degree in law and was assigned to St. Petersburg in 1871. There, Yuri Druzhinin, the brother of the famous writer, and Dmitry Grigorovich, secretary of the St. Petersburg Society for the Encouragement of Artists, became his acquaintances. In St. Petersburg, Khanenko … Read more
The monument to the Persian cat Panteleimon was erected in 1998 in Zolotovorotsky Square opposite the Pantagruel restaurant where the cat lived. In the mid-1990s, Margarita Sichkar, a Kiev restaurateur and director of the Pantagruel restaurant, which is located near Golden Gate, had a the idea of having a cat at the restaurant, which was … Read more
The Museum of Television of the National Television Company of Ukraine opened on November 16, 2006 on the 55th anniversary of Ukrainian television. This is the only museum in the country dedicated to television. The founders of the museum were television workers who stood at the origins of professional television broadcasting in Ukraine and worked … Read more
The Children’s Railway (official name: Small South-Western Railway) was opened in August 1953 in Syretsky Park, which was then still a wasteland next to Babi Yar. It was built through the efforts of railroad workers of the South-Western Railway and Komsomol members. The first train on the children’s railway was driven by driver Pyotr Krivonos, … Read more