Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Monument to the Founders of Kyiv is a statue located on the banks of the river Dnipro in Navodnytskyi Park, Kyiv, Ukraine. It was designed by sculptor Vasyl Borodai, and created to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv. The monument was constructed with reinforced concrete and covered in copper leaf. Completed in 1982, it partially collapsed in 2010, but was restored within a few months. The monument is considered a symbol of Kyiv.

Wikipedia: Monument to the Founders of Kyiv (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Наводницький парк (UK)

Pechersky Park is a landscape park in the city of Kyiv. The total area of the park is 43.7 hectares.

Wikipedia: Печерський ландшафтний парк (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: ЗІС-3 (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Аннозачатіївська церква (UK)

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.

Wikipedia: Церква Феодосія Печерського (UK)

The Lesya Ukrainka Monument in Kyiv is a monument to the outstanding Ukrainian poetess Lesya Ukrainka in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Лесі Українці (Київ) (UK)