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Sightseeing Tours in KyivActivities in Kyiv1. Taras Shevchenko
The Taras Shevchenko Monument in Kyiv is a monument to the Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv, located in Shevchenko Park, opposite the Red Building of Kyiv University. It was erected in 1939 on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the poet's birth. It is one of the symbols of modern Kyiv.
2. House with Chimeras
House with Chimaeras or Horodetsky House is an Art Nouveau building located in the historic Lypky neighborhood of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Situated across the street from the President of Ukraine's office at No. 10, Bankova Street, the building has been used as a presidential residence for official and diplomatic ceremonies since 2005. The street in front of the building is closed off to all automobile traffic, and is now a patrolled pedestrian zone due to its proximity to the Presidential Administration building.
3. Lavra
Kyiv City Gallery of Lavra - Main Municipal Gallery of Kyiv at: ul. Lavrska, 1, in the historic building of the Prov setting store of the Kiev fortress. Opened in 1996. Since 2013, the Kyiv City Gallery of Lavra has been headed by Director Tatiana Mironova, Art Station, Laureate of the Plato Biletsky Conshu Prize in 2021.
4. St. Volodymyr's Cathedral
St Volodymyr's Cathedral is a cathedral in the centre of Kyiv. It is one of the city's major landmarks and was the mother cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate before the Unification council of the Eastern Orthodox churches of Ukraine.
5. Golden Gate
The Golden Gate of Kyiv was the main gate in the 11th century fortifications of Kyiv, the capital of Kievan Rus'. It was named in imitation of the Golden Gate of Constantinople. The structure was dismantled in the Middle Ages, leaving few vestiges of its existence. It was rebuilt completely by the Soviet authorities in 1982, though no images of the original gates have survived. The decision has been immensely controversial because there were many competing reconstructions of what the original gate might have looked like.
6. Замок Річарда — Левине серце
"Richard's Castle – Lionheart" is the poeticized name of the house No. 15 on Andrew's Descent, a monument of the early 20th century, built in the English Gothic style. It was named by the people of Kiev in honor of the English king Richard I the Lionheart, the hero of Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe. The house in the form of an ancient castle stands on the complex relief of the former annalistic mountain Uzdykhnytsia below St. Andrew's Church. The monumental facades are decorated with architectural elements of fortress and castle structures — various types of towers, spires, crenellated wall tops, etc. On the left side of the house rises a high tower with fortress features.
7. Музей-квартира Віктора Косенка
The Victor Kosenko Museum is a museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, which memorializes the life of Victor Kosenko, who was a prominent Ukrainian musician, teacher, and public figure in the early 20th century. The museum opened in 1938, the year of his death, and is housed in the building in which Kosenko lived in the last few months of his life from 11 May 1938 to 3 October 1938. The museum is maintained in its original 1930s style and is a popular tourist destination in the city. In addition, the building is used by the local Union of Composers to host concerts, lectures, and meetings. More than five thousand exhibits are kept in the apartment.
8. National Museum of History of Ukraine
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine (MIST) (Ukrainian: Національний музей історії України) illustrates Ukraine's history from ancient times to the present. It is one of the leading museums in Ukraine. It holds about 800,000 items in its collection, and usually has approximately 22,000 items on permanent display. The museum holds world-famous archaeological, numismatic, ethnographic and weapons collections, examples of decorative and applied arts, manuscripts, prints, paintings and drawings, as well as relics of the Ukrainian national liberation movement of the 20th century.
Wikipedia: National Museum of the History of Ukraine (EN), Website
9. Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater
The Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater, located in Kyiv, was founded in 1920. It rightfully plays an important role in the history of Ukrainian culture. Real masters worked here and continue to delight their fans: actors, directors, composers, set designers. The repertoire is based on national and World Classics. You can watch performances both on the main stage and in the chamber. Each performance is a separate world, a variety of ways of artistic solution, and unusual Productions. Bohdan Benyuk, Anatoly Khostikoev, Ostap Stupka, Natalia Sumskaya work on the stage of this theater.
Wikipedia: Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater (EN), Website
10. Особняк І.М.Терещенка
Ivan Tereshchenko Mennyuk - an architectural monument in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, located on the boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, 34/11, at the intersection with Mikhail Kotsyubynsky Street. The building is mostly two -storey, only a corner tower with one room is elevated to three floors. The angle is accentuated with rectangular in plan with a bay window on the second floor. The front entrance of the house is located on the side of Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, and the main facade of the mansion is focused on the boulevard, and lateral - on the street of Mikhail Kotsyubynsky.
11. Храм великомученика Димитрія Солунського
The Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica is an Orthodox church in the village of Zhulyany in the city of Kyiv. After the annexation of Zhulyany to Kyiv, it became the oldest wooden church in the city. Confessionally, it belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the deanery of the western district of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church. The patronal feast day is the feast day of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica. The rector of the church is Bishop Mykola (Pochtovyi) of Vasylkiv, the priest is Priest Georgy Gaborets.
Wikipedia: Церква великомученика Димитрія Солунського (Київ, Жуляни) (UK), Website
12. ЗіС-3
ZIS-3 is a 76 mm divisional gun. The chief designer was V.M. Grabin. Development of the gun began in May 1941. It entered service on February 12, 1942 with the official name "76-mm divisional gun of the 1942 model" and entered the army in several modifications. The ZIS-3 is the world's first gun assembled on an assembly line and the most massive gun of the German-Soviet war - a total of 103 thousand units were produced in the period from 1942 to 1945. It received the unofficial name "Weapon of Victory". According to some reports, it is still in service in a number of countries.
13. Покровська церква
Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the church of work of Ipolitan Nikolaev in Kyiv, on Solomianets. Built on the order of the city community of Kyiv during 1895-1897 in memory of Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galician Plato (Gorodetsky). It is located at the corner of the streets of Patriarch Mstislav Skrypnyk and Stadionna. In 1905-1919 the head of the church was the creator and first metropolitan of the UAOC Vasyl Lipkivsky. Until 2018, the church belonged to the UOC KP. As of May 2022 in the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
14. Vladimir's Hill
Volodymyrska Hill or Saint Volodymyr Hill is a large 10.6 hectares (0.106 km2) park located on the steep right-bank of the Dnipro River in central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Its most famous and prominent landmark is the Monument to Prince Volodymyr. The monument, with its prominent location and overlooking the scenic panorama of the left-bank of Kyiv, has since become one of the symbols of Kyiv, often depicted in paintings and photographic works of the city. The Hill provides an excellent panorama of the Dinpro River, the Left Bank, and Podil.
15. Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду
The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine. The museum was opened on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008. It gained the status of a national museum in 2010. The museum is located on the Pechersk Hills on the right bank of the Dnipro river in Kyiv, adjacent to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
16. Monument to the Magdeburg Rights
The Monument to the Magdeburg Rights is a monument commemorating the return to Kyiv of its Magdeburg rights, which granted its right to self-government. It is located in Podil Raion, Kyiv, at the foothills of the former Mykhailo Hill, next to the Shore Highway. It is considered to be the city's oldest monument. It is also called the Column of the Magdeburg Rights, the Baptizing of Ruthenia Monument, and the Lower Monument of the Saint Volodymyr. It is a scenic spot overlooking the Dnipro river, popular for local baptisms.
17. Babi Yar monument
Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing some 33,771 Jews. Other victims of massacres at the site included Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani people. It is estimated that a total of between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar during the German occupation.
18. Іллі Муромцю
The monument to Ilya Muromets is located in Kyiv in Muromets Park. The monument was created by Volodymyr Zhuravel, a sculptor who is known to Kyiv residents as the creator of the monument to Anatoly Kuznetsov in Kurenivka, the sculpture "Kids Launching Boats" on Poshtova Square and the monument to Igor Sikorsky at the international airport "Kyiv". I. Sikorsky. The architect is Oleg Selivanov, the graphic designer is Stanislav Topolsky. The opening of the monument took place on August 2, 2018.
19. Храм Успіння Пресвятої Богородиці
The Pyrohoshcha Dormition of the Mother of God Church or simply Pyrohoshcha Church is an Orthodox church in Kyiv in the historical neighbourhood Podil. The original church was built in 1130s by the Mstyslav I the Great of Kyiv. It was the main church of Podil, and was a temporary cathedral of Kyiv Metropolitanate in the early 17 century. In 1613 the church was reconstructured in Renaissance style, and then in 18th-19th centuries was rebuilt in Ukrainian Baroque and Neoclassicism styles.
20. Chornobyl Museum
The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum is a history museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and its consequences. It houses an extensive collection of visual media, artifacts, scale models, and other representational items designed to educate the public about many aspects of the disaster. Several exhibits depict the technical progression of the accident, and there are also many areas dedicated to the loss of life and cultural ramifications of the disaster.
21. St. Michael Golden-Domed Cathedral
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is a monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. It is located on the edge of the bank of the Dnieper river, to the northeast of the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The site is located in the historical administrative neighborhood of Uppertown and overlooks Podil, the city's historical commercial and merchant quarter. The monastery has been the headquarters of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine since December 2018.
22. Музей історії туалету
The Toilet History Museum is a private museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, that contains the largest collection of toilet-related souvenirs and items in the world, including historic chamber pots, squatting pans, and urinals. The museum was founded in 2006 by a Ukrainian couple who worked in the plumbing business and is currently housed in a building within the Kyiv Fortress. In 2016, the Guinness World Records recognized it as "the largest collection of souvenir toilet bowls in the world".
23. Kyiv fortress
The Kyiv Fortress or Kiev Fortress is a historical and architectural monument complex of Russian fortifications in Kyiv, Ukraine built from the 17th through 19th centuries. Construction began after the 1654 Council in Pereiaslav, on the site of the already existing fortified monastery of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Located on the hills of the high right bank of the Dnieper, bounded on the north by the Klovsky ravine, on the south and west – by the slopes of the Lybid River valley.
24. Park of Partisan Glory
Partisan Glory Park is a regional landscape park in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv. It is located between Trostyanetska and Slavhorodska streets. In 1965, for the organization of the district park of culture and recreation "Partisan Glory", a part of the Nikolsky forest was included in the boundaries of the Darnytskyi district of the city. The park was established in 1970. In 1994, by the decision of the Kyiv City Council, it was granted the status of a protected area.
25. Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century. Hrushevsky is often considered the country's greatest modern historian, the foremost organiser of scholarship, the leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, the head of the Central Rada, and a leading cultural figure in the Ukrainian SSR during the 1920s.
26. Хрестовоздвиженська церква
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross "on Kozhumyaki" is a functioning church in Kyiv, in Podil, an architectural monument of the XIX century. It is named after one of the most prominent Christian holidays: the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord. The church is associated with the name of Vozdvyzhenska Street, which begins near it and ends at the intersection with Andriyivsky Descent.
27. Кам'яниця київського війта
The townhouse of the Kyiv voyt is an architectural monument of the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries in Kyiv, located in Podil at ul. Konstantinovskaya 6/8. The oldest surviving residential building in Kyiv has an original three-dimensional composition with features of a defensive structure. Today it operates as part of the Kyiv Scientific and Methodological Center for the Protection, Restoration and Use of Historical, Cultural Monuments and Protected Areas.
28. All Saints Church
The Church of All Saints above the Economic Gate is a temple as part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, an architectural monument of the XVII century. Built at the expense of Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1696-1698 in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior paintings were made at the beginning of the XX century. under the direction of Ukrainian artist Ivan Yizhakevych. It is dedicated to the holiday, which is celebrated on the first Sunday after Trinity.
29. Будинок із котами
Yahymovskyi's House, better known among Kyiv residents as the House of Cats, is a historical and architectural monument in Kyiv, located at 23 Hoholivska Street. The house was built in 1909 in the Art Nouveau style. It belonged to Colonel Fedir Yagimovskyi. Due to the unusual design of the façade of the house, urban legends usually associate its construction with Vladislav Gorodetsky, but the famous architect never took part in the construction.
30. Десятинний монастир (УПЦ МП)
The Tithe Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - an illegally established small architectural form (IAF), located on the site of construction of the First Cathedral of Kievan Rus in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to tradition, this place is considered to be the death place of the Russian first martyrs of Theodore Variag and his son John. According to the Moscow Patriarchate, the IAF is their acting male monastery.
Wikipedia: Десятинний монастир Різдва Пресвятої Богородиці (UK)
31. Монумент бойової слави
The Monument to Teachers and Students of the Polytechnic Institute is a monument in honor of the teachers, staff and students of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute who died during the Soviet-German war. It was opened on November 3, 1967 in the north-eastern part of the KPI park, at the entrance from Beresteysky Avenue, on a site paved with concrete slabs. The authors are sculptors Hanna Morozova, O. G. Surovtsev, architect E. P. Veresov.
Wikipedia: Пам'ятник викладачам і студентам Політехнічного інституту (UK), Website
32. Brodsky Synagogue
The Brodsky Choral Synagogue is the second largest synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was built in the Romanesque Revival style resembling a classical basilica. The original tripartite facade with a large central avant-corps flanked by lower wings also echoed the characteristic design of some Moorish Revival synagogues, such as the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna. Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman is the Rabbi of Brodsky Synagogue.
33. Особняк Закса
The Sachs Mansion is an architectural monument in the Pechersk district of Kyiv, located at 4 Lypska Street. It was erected in 1873 by architect V. Nikolaev in the Neo-Renaissance style. In 1896, the architect A.-F. Krauss made a superstructure on the mansion. The building is a typical example of the Lypky buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the main compositional accent of the quarter.
34. Музей Іграшок
The State Toy Museum is a museum institution with a unique collection of toys from the 30s of the last century to the present. The museum presents the history of industrial toys, Ukrainian folk toys, author's works. Located in Kyiv. It started working on January 1, 2005. The museum's collection includes more than 15 thousand exhibits. It is subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
35. Паніковському
The monument to the literary character Panikovsky is a monument to the character of the novel by Ilf and Petrov "The Golden Calf", Mikhail Samuelovich Panikovsky, erected on the place where, according to the text of the novel, he was at the beginning of the XX century. He was engaged in fraud, pretending to be blind and deceiving gullible passers-by. The opening of the monument took place on May 31, 1998.
36. Anne of Kiev
Monument to Anna Yaroslavna, Princess of Kyiv, the future Queen of France in Kyiv — a sculpture of a Ukrainian princess, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, the future Queen of France Anne of Kyiv in the form of a child; is located in the city center on Lvivska Square. The princess spent her childhood in Kyiv, and at the age of about 18 she became the wife of Henry I and moved to France.
37. Bronze cat
The Monument to Panteleimon the Cat is a monument to the Persian cat Panteleimon in Kyiv, opened in 1998 in Zolotovorotsky Square, opposite the Pantagruel restaurant, where the cat lived. It was installed on voluntary donations from Kyiv residents in memory of an animal that died in a fire in a restaurant. Today it is one of the most famous and popular monuments of the city.
38. Війсково-історичний музей України
The National Military History Museum of Ukraine (NVIMU) is a leading museum institution in the structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which researches and covers the history of military affairs in Ukraine, the origins and current state of Ukrainian military traditions, uniformology, phaleristics, vexillology, demonstrates weapons and military equipment of different eras.
Wikipedia: Національний військово-історичний музей України (UK), Website, Website
39. Monument of Eternal Glory at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial located in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, dedicated to the soldiers of the Red Army killed in the Second World War. It is situated at the Memorial of Eternal Glory inside the Park of Eternal Glory. The memorial is a 27 meters high obelisk, with an eternal flame burning at the tomb. The Alley of Heroes leads to the tomb.
40. Спасо-Преображенська церква
The refectory at the Vydubychi Monastery is an architectural monument of the early XVIII century. It is an elongated building with a small Transfiguration Church at the eastern end of the building. It stands next to St. George's Cathedral and was built at the same time. The refectory has completely preserved its original appearance — it was not built on or rebuilt.
41. The St. Cyril's Church Museum
St. Cyril's Monastery is a medieval monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery contains the famous St. Cyril's Church, an important specimen of Kyivan Rus' architecture of the 12th century, and combining elements of the 17th and 19th centuries. However, being largely Ukrainian Baroque on the outside, the church retains its original Kyivan Rus' interior.
42. The National Folk Decorative Art Museum
The National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. It is located on the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve in the premises of the former chambers of the metropolitan and the adjacent house Church of the Annunciation, which are architectural monuments of the XVIII - early XX centuries.
Wikipedia: Музей українського народного декоративного мистецтва (UK)
43. Церква Миколи Чудотворця Набережного
The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Naberezhny or Naberezhno-Mykilska Church is an Orthodox church in Kyiv, Podil, a monument of Ukrainian Baroque architecture. It is located at the corner of Hryhoriya Skovoroda and Pochaininskaya streets. Built according to the project of Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky in 1772-1775, it is well preserved to this day.
44. Park «Victory»
Peremoha Park is a park in the Dniprovskyi district of Kyiv, dedicated to the victory of the peoples of the world in the German-Soviet war. The chief architect is Konstantin Semenovych Cherniy. Architects — Mikhail Grechyna, Valentin Yezhov, I. Y. Zhilkin, Alexey Zavarov, Samuil Weinstein, Igor Mezentsev. It is located near the Darnitsa metro station.
45. The Historical Locomotives and Cars Exhibition
The exhibition of rolling stock of historical locomotives and wagons is an open-air museum of railway equipment at the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky station of the South-Western Railway. It was opened in 2011. The museum's exposition includes steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, railway cars, other types of rolling stock and track equipment.
Wikipedia: Виставка рухомого складу історичних локомотивів та вагонів (Київ) (UK)
46. Іллінська церква
St. Elias Church is one of the most historically interesting temple buildings in Podil, in which the divine service was celebrated for 1000 years, located at the corner of Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska and Pochainynska streets and is an important architectural accent in the development of Podil and a compositional dominant of the Dnieper embankment.
47. National Philharmonic of Ukraine
The National Philharmonic of Ukraine, often referred to as Kyiv Philharmonic and National Philharmonic, is a complex of two adjacent concert halls in the Khreshchatyi Park in Kyiv, Ukraine. Formerly the Merchant's House, the building's use for musical performances is associated with the Philharmonic Society, established by Mykola Lysenko.
48. Church Theodosius of the Caves
The Church of Theodosius of the Caves is an architectural monument erected in the Ukrainian Baroque style near the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra at the end of the XVII century. It is located outside the Lavra walls, but belongs to the Lavra and the reserve. It was built in honor of one of the founders of the monastery, Theodosius of the Caves.
49. The Gate Church of the Trinity
The Gate Church of the Trinity is a historic church of the cave monastery of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Originally being built as in the church style of Kievan Rus', the Gate Church of the Trinity is now decorated in the Ukrainian Baroque style, having been reconstructed many times through its history.
Wikipedia: Gate Church of the Trinity, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (EN)
50. Національний історико-меморіальний заповідник «Биківнянські могили»
The Bykivnia graves are a National Historic Memorial next to the former village of Bykivnia within Kyiv woodland, Bykivnia Forest. During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of thousands of executed "enemies of the Soviet state".
51. Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine
The Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine is a museum that is a branch of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. The theme of the exposition is historical and artistic monuments made of precious metals and precious stones. It is located on the territory of the National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra".
Wikipedia: Музей історичних коштовностей України (UK), Website
52. Workers Monument in Kyiv Arsenal factory
The 76 mm Model 1909 Mountain Gun was a 76.2 mm light mountain artillery gun produced in the Russian Empire from 1911 to 1915. It was actively used in the First World War, the Ukrainian-Soviet War, the Civil War in Russia and some other armed conflicts with the participation of the states that were part of the Russian Empire.
Wikipedia: 76-мм гірська гармата зразка 1909 року (UK), Website
53. БРЕМ-1
Armored repair and evacuation vehicle 1 is designed to evacuate stuck and damaged equipment, including from enemy fire. Provides necessary repairs and maintenance in the field. It was created on the basis of the chassis of the T-72 main tank, in the city of Omsk under the leadership of A. A. Morov. It entered service in 1975.
54. Екіпажу бронепоїзду «Таращанець»
The Taraschanets armoured crew is a monument in honor of the heroes of the Taraschanets Red Armoured Train, who in August 1919 for almost six days protected from Denikinians Darnitsky Railway Knot, on the night of 30 August, rejecting the proposal to surrender, crew members undermined the armoured train and died with it.
55. Пам'ятник Чорнобильцям
A memorial sign to the victims of the Chornobyl disaster is a memorial complex in Kyiv dedicated to the victims of the nuclear accident at the fourth power unit of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant; located in the Svyatoshinsky district in a landscape park at the intersection of Chornobylska Street with Peremohy Avenue.
Wikipedia: Пам'ятний знак жертвам Чорнобильської катастрофи (Київ) (UK)
56. Будинок Сироткіна
The Sirotkin House is a former apartment building, a monument of architecture, history and monumental art, one of the most beautiful buildings in the historical center of Kyiv, at the time of construction it was the tallest residential building in Kyiv. It is located at the corner of Volodymyrska and Prorizna streets.
57. Кесон «Сталінського метро» (титул №10)
Tunnel under the Dnieper — two unfinished railway tunnels in Kyiv: North and South. Together with auxiliary engineering and other structures, they were to become the basis for a complex of underground railway crossings, designed primarily to ensure the safe and hidden crossing of troops and cargo under the Dnieper.
58. Георгіївський собор
St. George's Cathedral is the central building in the architectural ensemble of the Vydubychi Monastery in Kyiv. One of the best masterpieces of Ukrainian Baroque, an architectural monument. The temple was erected in honor of St. George the Victorious at the expense of Colonel Mikhail Miklashevsky during 1696-1701.
59. Нью-Навадвіпа Мандір
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. It was founded on 13 July 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Its main headquarters is located today in West Bengal, India.
Wikipedia: International Society for Krishna Consciousness (EN), Website
60. Volodymir the Great statue
Monument to Prince Volodymyr, is a monument in Kyiv, dedicated to the Grand Prince of Kyiv Volodymyr the Great, built in 1853. It is located on Volodymyrska Hill, the steep right bank of the Dnipro. It is the oldest sculptural monument, a dominating feature of the Dnipro banks, and one of the city's symbols.
61. National Museum of Literature in Ukraine
National Museum of Literature of Ukraine is a national museum in the former Pavlo Galagan Collegium's main structure in Kyiv. It covers Ukrainian literature's development from the ninth century to the present. The museum has a branch, the Kyiv Literary Memorial Museum, in the apartment of Mykola Bazhan.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Literature of Ukraine (EN), Facebook, Website
62. Київський літературно-меморіальний музей-квартира М. Бажана
The Kyiv Literary-Memorial Museum-Apartment of Mykola Bazhan was opened on October 26, 2004 in the apartment where the famous Ukrainian poet, translator, public figure Mykola Bazhan lived for about forty years. According to the will of his wife N.V. Bazhan-Lauer, a museum was created in this building.
Wikipedia: Київський літературно-меморіальний музей-квартира Миколи Бажана (UK)
63. Motherland Monument
Mother Ukraine is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. In 2023, the Soviet heraldry was removed from the monument's shield and replaced with Ukraine's coat of arms, the tryzub.
64. Пам'ятник репресованим митцям
The monument to the repressed artists was unveiled in 1996 on the territory of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv. It honors the memory of Ukrainian artists who were victims of the communist regime of the USSR. The authors are sculptor Borys Dovhan and architect Florian Yuriev.
65. Great Choral Synagogue
The Great Choral Synagogue of Kyiv, also known as the Podil Synagogue or the Rozenberg Synagogue, is the oldest synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is situated in Podil, a historic neighborhood of Kyiv, and is under the leadership of Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, who is the Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and of Ukraine.
66. Church of the Elevation of the Cross
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross or the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross is an architectural monument of the XVIII century, the most significant building of the ground complex above the Near Caves of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Three entrances lead from the church to the caves.
Wikipedia: Хрестовоздвиженська церква (Києво-Печерська лавра) (UK)
67. Парк імені Миколи Зерова
Mykola Zerov Park is a city park located in the Solomensky district of Kyiv, along Povitroflotskyi Avenue between Solomenska and Preobrazhenska streets. The area is 4.11 hectares. The park is dominated by deciduous trees — maples, lindens, poplars. The number of bushes is relatively small.
68. October Palace
The International Center of Culture and Arts of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (ICCA) is an architectural monument designed and built in 1842 by the famous architect Vincent Beretti. One of the largest theater halls in Kyiv: it can accommodate more than two thousand spectators.
69. Поштова станція
The Post House is a one-story house in the style of classicism in Kyiv on Poshtova Square, a monument of history and architecture. It was erected in 1853-1865 as the main building of the Podolsk postal station complex; It is the only building of the complex that has survived to this day.
70. Будинок актора
The Karaite Kenesa of Kyiv is a former Kenesa in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is located in Yaroslaviv Val Street 7, close to the Golden Gates of Kyiv and is considered to be one of the remarkable monuments of architecture and artwork in Kyiv. Nowadays, it is known as the Ukrainian House of Actors.
71. Museum of Kyiv life of the first half of the XIX century
The estate on Kudryavka is a museum in Kyiv on Kudryavka, a branch of the Museum of the History of Kyiv, which recreates the atmosphere of the life of citizens in a typical city estate and shows the identity and national specifics of Kyiv in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Wikipedia: Музей побуту Києва першої половини ХІХ століття (UK)
72. Садиба міська, в якій проживав Глієр Р.М., композитор
The Kuchera Garden is located at 23 Antonovycha Street. It consists of the main house on the red line (No. 23) and outbuildings in the back of the courtyard. Building No. 23 is a typical example of tenement houses of the late XIX century. The Renaissance façade is marked by splendor.
73. National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War is a memorial complex commemorating the German-Soviet War located in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque hills on the right-bank of the Dnipro River.
Wikipedia: National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (EN), Website
74. Church of the Saviour at Berestove
The Church of the Saviour at Berestove is a church located immediately north of the Monastery of the Caves in an area known as Berestove. Although it is situated outside the Lavra fortifications, the Saviour Church is part of the Lavra complex and the related World Heritage Site.
75. Покровська церква
The Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a functioning brick church in Kyiv, Podil, an architectural monument of the XVIII century. The parish of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Kyiv belongs to the Kyiv Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
76. Navodnitsky Park
Navodnytsky Park is a park in the Pechersk district of the city of Kyiv. It is owned by a municipal enterprise for the maintenance of green spaces in the Pechersk district. The park has been declared a monument of landscape art and a complex natural monument of local importance.
77. Церква Святого Миколая Чудотворця на Аскольдовій могилі
The Church of St. Nicholas on the Askold's Mohyla is a church in the Askold's Grave tract (Kyiv), designed by Andriy Melensky and built in 1809 on the site of religious buildings that existed on this site from the XI century and were originally dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra.
78. Church of the Conception of St. Anne
Church of the Conception of St. Anne or the Church of the Conception of St. Anne is an architectural monument of the XVII century. It was built in 1679 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra above the entrance to the Far Caves. A staircase leads from the church to the underground labyrinth.
79. Planetarium
Kyiv Planetarium in Kyiv, Ukraine is one of the largest planetaria in former Soviet states. Opened on January 1, 1952, by the initiative of the scientist-astronomer Serhiy Vsekhsviatskiy (1905–1984), the planetarium has a dome of 23.5 meters in diameter, and seats 320 people.
80. Cathedral of St. Pantaleon
The Cathedral of St. Pantaleon or St. Panteleimon is a large Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the Kyivan neighbourhood of Feofaniia. It shares similarities with the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn and is considered a high point in Russian Revival ecclesiastical architecture.
81. Махтумкулі
Monument to Magtymguly in Kyiv - a monument to the Turkmen poet, philosopher, founder of the Turkmen language and literature Magtymguly (Fragi); is located in the park at the intersection of Prorizna and Yevhena Chykalenko streets near the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Ukraine.
82. Park of KPI
Polytechnic Park is a city park located in the Solomyansky district of Kyiv, along Beresteysky Avenue, in front of the first buildings of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The area is 13.5 hectares. The park is a monument of landscape art of local importance since 1972.
83. Будинок Ковалевського
Kovalevskyi's mansion is a historical and architectural monument of the early XX century, at the corner of Pylypa Orlyka and Shovkovychna streets in Kyiv. It was built in 1911-1913 by architect Pavel Alyoshin by order of the official Nikolai Viktorovich Kovalevsky.
84. House of the Metropolitan
The Metropolitan House is a monument of palace architecture of the XVIII century, the former residence of the Metropolitan of Kiev. Now it is a museum institution as part of the Sofia Kyivska National Reserve. Located at: Kyiv, str. Vladimirskaya, 24.
85. Дитинка
A baby is a mountain in Kiev, which is a wedge -shaped delicate of the Starokievskaya mountain from the side of Podil. On the north side, the baby borders with the ancient tract of Kozhumyaki, from the south - from the potter, thus delimiting them.
86. Park Suputnyk
Sputnik Park is a city park located in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, along Umanska Street. The current park is actually the only surviving part of the Cadet Grove, on the basis of which the park was formed in 1969. The area is 16.41 hectares.
87. Пам'ятник Олені Телізі
The monument to Olena Teliha and her associates is a sculptural composition that perpetuates the memory of Olena Teliha and her associates. It was installed on the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" in Kyiv.
88. The church of the Transfiguration of Jesus
The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior is an active church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Solomensky district of Kyiv, on the territory of the Mykola Zerov Park at 29 Povitroflotsky Avenue.
89. Березовий гай
"Berezovyi Hai" is a recreation park in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv at the corner of Vyshhorodska and Bilytska streets. The area of the park is 7.46 hectares. The park is a monument of landscape art of local importance since 1972.
90. Маєток барона Рудольфа Штейнгейля
The Baron's Castle is a complex of mansion, outbuilding and park of Baron Rudolf Shteingel, father of the Secretary General of Trade and Industry of the Central Rada and Ambassador of the Ukrainian State in Berlin Fedir Shteingel.
91. Сквер імені Василя Стуса
Vasyl Stus Square is a square located at the corner of the avenues of Berestski and Palladin. Named in honor of one of the most active representatives of the Ukrainian cultural movement of the sixties, Hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus.
92. Pinchuk Art Centre
PinchukArtCentre is a private contemporary art centre, located in Kyiv with a collection of works by Ukrainian and international artists. The museum was opened on 16 September 2006 by the steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk.
93. Свято-Вознесенська Церква
The Church of the Ascension of the Lord is an Orthodox church in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, in the area of Demiivka. It belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is a monument of history and architecture.
94. Меморіальний комплекс Бабин яр
The Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve was created to convey to citizens the history of the tragic events of the mass extermination of Kyiv residents and prisoners of war in Babyn Yar by the Nazis.
Wikipedia: Національний історико-меморіальний заповідник «Бабин Яр» (UK)
95. Козицький Пилип Омелянович
Pylyp Omelyanovych Kozytskiy was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, musicologist, professor, head of the department of history of music at the Kyiv Conservatory, and Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1943).
96. Kyiv National Art Gallery
The National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery" is a museum of fine arts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Until March 2017, it was the Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art. It is located in the premises of Fedir Tereshchenko's house.
Wikipedia: Національний музей «Київська картинна галерея» (UK), Website
97. St. Nicholas Cathedral
The Church of St. Nicholas in Kyiv is a Roman Catholic church in Kyiv, one of only two Roman Catholic churches in the city, built before 1917. It is located in the center of Kyiv on Velyka Vasylkivska Street.
98. «Zheleznyakov» monitor
Zhelezniakov is a river monitor of the Soviet Navy, the lead ship of its class of six ships. Completed during the 1930s it participated in World War II and was the only one of its class that survived the war.
99. Хата на Пріорці
The house on Priorka is a branch of the Taras Shevchenko Museum. Staying in Kyiv for the last time in August 1859 before his departure for St. Petersburg, Taras Shevchenko lived in this house for two weeks.
100. Церква Різдва Христового
The Church of the Nativity of Christ is an Orthodox church belonging to the OCU, located in the historical area of Podil in Kyiv, built in 1809-1814 according to the project of architect Andrei Melensky.
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