Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in Shevchenkivskyi district
The history of the Kyiv dairy plant began in January 1930. The plant was built using the latest technologies at that time; its design was consulted by the enterprise at the Bergerdorf plants in Germany. In the 1930s, only a few dairies in all of Europe had similar equipment with which the Kiev dairy plant … Read more
The elevator in the house on Proreznoy Street is the smallest elevator in Ukraine, as it has an area of 0.5 square meters and is designed for only 1 person. In order to ride in it together, you need to be either very slender, or squeeze in excess and snuggle up to each other. A … Read more
In June 1973, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR decided to build a new educational building of the theater institute, and already in December the city executive committee ordered the allocation of a plot of 0.3 hectares for construction and the demolition of the “low-value” two-story houses No. 41, 43, 45 located on … Read more
The first Kiev cycle track was located at 77 Bibikovsky Boulevard (now Taras Shevchenko Boulevard). On May 23, 1899, the first bicycle races took place on the bicycle track, which were organized by the Kyiv Cyclists Society. The second Kiev cycle track, on the initiative of Kiev resident Ivan Filippovich Belenko, was built in 1913 … Read more
The central indoor market (Kolkhozny) was built in 1949-1958 on the site of the demolished Yevbaz (Jewish Bazaar). But the people of Kiev adopted a different name for this bazaar – it was christened Senny, after the market of the same name that was liquidated during the reconstruction of Lviv Square (Senny was called because … Read more
The Gray Theater appeared in 2013, its organizers and ideological inspirers are Vincent and Wilhelmina Mettel. The theater attracts not only with its intriguing name, but also with its direction and style. Why is the theater called Gray? It’s not about color at all, as it might seem at first glance. The answer is not … Read more