A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Vokzalnaya station
On August 31, 2019, on Aviation Day of Ukraine, a monument to the outstanding aircraft designer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, who is the creator of the world’s first four-engine aircraft “Russian Knight” (1913), a heavy four-engine bomber and a passenger aircraft, was inaugurated at the Kiev international airport. “Ilya Muromets” (1914), transatlantic seaplane, serial single-rotor helicopter … Read more
At the beginning of the 20th century, on the site of the so-called Arrestantsky gardens, several small streets were planned and laid, among them was Skomoroshsky Lane (the Skomorokh River flowed nearby). Estate No. 7 in Skomoroshsky Lane was rented by the Jewish community, which was called the Galician Society after the name of the … Read more
The idea of building the Intercession Church with the Platonov altar – in memory of Metropolitan Plato, who died on October 1, 1891 – belonged to the Kyiv mayor Stepan Solsky. At the end of the 19th century, there was not a single church on Solomenka, at that time a developed and densely populated outskirts … Read more
The Transfiguration Church is located in Ostrovsky Park. Next to the square there is a city cemetery, where there used to be a church in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which was destroyed in the 1930s by decree of the Soviet government. In 1998, the city government gave permission to build a church … Read more
The first stone for the construction of a temple in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” was laid in 2001 on the territory of the 5th maternity hospital. Partial financing of the temple was carried out by the city administration and the chief doctor of the maternity hospital. With this … Read more
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