Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in Solomensky district
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
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
The history of the development of oxygen production in Kyiv began in the pre-war period, when, with the growth of the industrial potential of the region, a significant need for oxygen and acetylene arose. By the beginning of 1941, production buildings were built and the Kiev oxygen plant received domestically produced equipment manufactured by the … Read more
The Polytechnic Museum has 7 halls with a total area of 1,500 square meters, and the collection consists of more than 10,000 different exhibits, of which about 3,000 are on permanent display. Here are presented various directions of development of science and technology not only in Ukraine, but also in the world. Among such exhibits … Read more
The only surviving steam locomotive of the 1-4-2 series IS (Joseph Stalin). During the years of “de-Stalinization,” the name of the beautiful car was replaced by the faceless FDp (Felix Dzerzhinsky Passenger) – the IS locomotive was created on the basis of the commercial FD. It was built in 1941 by the Voroshilovgrad plant. In … Read more
The Kiev Wax Museum is the private collection of Evgeniy and Alexey Sazhin, who decided to create it in 1997 after visiting the Amsterdam branch of the London Wax Museum. At the moment, the collection of the Kyiv museum includes more than 60 figures of Ukrainian and foreign political figures, writers, actors, singers and athletes. … Read more