Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Kyiv, Ukraine
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11.8 km
289 m
Explore Kyiv in Ukraine with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in KyivIndividual Sights in KyivSight 1: 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.
Sight 2: Eternal Glory Park
The Park of Eternal Glory is a park in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is located between Lavrska Street and the Dnipro Descent, and is surrounded by the Old Kyiv-Pecherska fortress, and the Glory Square.
Sight 3: 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.
Sight 4: 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
Sight 5: 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
Sight 6: 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.
Sight 7: Театр на Липках
The Kyiv Academic Theatre of Young Spectators is an academic theatre of young spectators in Kyiv, the oldest theatre stage in the city for children's spectators.
Wikipedia: Київський академічний театр юного глядача на Липках (UK), Website
Sight 8: Klov Palace
The Klov Palace is the seat of the Supreme Court of Ukraine in Kyiv. The building takes its name from Klov, a neighbourhood of Pechersk District.
Sight 9: 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.
Sight 10: Будинок Ікскюль-Гільденбанда
The Ikskül-Gildenband House is a historical and architectural monument in Kyiv, located at 19 Shovkovychna Street.
Sight 11: House of Crying Widow
The House of the Weeping Widow is an architectural landmark in the city of Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, located at 23 Lyuteranska Street.
Sight 12: Кірха Святої Катерини
St. Catherine's Lutheran Church is a German evangelical church in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: 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.
Sight 15: Kyiv Operetta
The Kyiv National Theatre of Operetta is a theatre in Kyiv in Ukraine. It was founded in 1934.
Wikipedia: Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta (EN), Website
Sight 16: 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.
Sight 17: 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.
Sight 18: 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".
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