Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in Shevchenkivskyi district
The idea of creating a museum of medicine in Ukraine appeared in the early 1960s, and the outstanding Ukrainian medical historian Alexander Grando played a major role in its formation. The Museum of Medicine of Ukraine was founded in 1973 and opened its doors to visitors in 1982 on the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv. Enthusiasts, … Read more
At the end of 1899, the land plot where the house now stands was purchased for 125,000 rubles by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Grigorovich-Barsky, the great-grandson of the architect Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky (construction project Church of the Intercession and Nicholas Naberezhny Church, reconstruction project Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Pirogoshhi), and in February of the following … Read more
Gavriil Poznyakov was born in 1857. He was an architect, civil engineer, entrepreneur and homeowner. Founded a company for designing utility structures on private estates. He bought land plots on which he built apartment buildings (hotels) according to his own designs, mainly in neo-Renaissance forms. The architect purchased the estate for the future fake house … Read more
Previously, this was the famous royal Cherry Park, with rare species of cherries. In the 90s, despite protests from residents, it was ruthlessly cut down under the pretext of building an entertainment complex for children. A playground and a railway were built, but they never really worked. It was soon dismantled, and a house was … Read more
In April 2013, a square named after Heydar Aliyev was opened near the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv, in honor of the 90th anniversary of the birth of the former President of Azerbaijan. On the territory of the park of 0.5 hectares, an architectural structure was placed – a fortress wall, like in Baku, with the … Read more
Not far from Peyzazhnaya Alleya you can see the oldest Kiev bridge, although in fact the first was the Struve Bridge, but it is still there today not preserved. Kudryavsky Bridge is a viaduct and is located above Petrovskaya Street, which almost no longer exists. In the 1960s, people still lived here in private houses … Read more