Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in Kyiv, Ukraine

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.

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The mansion of Ivan Mykolayovych Tereshchenko is an architectural monument in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, located on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, 34/11, at the intersection with Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Street. The building is mostly two-storeyed, only the corner tower with one room is raised to three floors. The corner is accentuated by a rectangular bay window on the second floor. The main entrance of the house is located from the side of Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, and the main façade of the mansion is oriented towards the boulevard, and the side façade is oriented towards Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Street.

Wikipedia: Особняк Івана Миколайовича Терещенка (UK)

St Volodymyr's Cathedral is a cathedral in the centre of Kyiv, and one of the city's major landmarks. Since the unification council of the Eastern Orthodox churches of Ukraine in December 2018, it has been under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Before that, it was the mother church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate.

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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.

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Taras Shevchenko Park is a park located opposite the main building of the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, which is located on the street. Volodymyrskaya, 60. It has the status of "Park-monument of landscape art of local importance".

Wikipedia: Парк імені Тараса Шевченка (Київ) (UK)

National Museum Taras Shevchenko is a museum in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, dedicated to the life and work of the painter and national poet, Taras Shevchenko.

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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)

The National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a natural history museum in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. It is one of the largest scientific research museums of its type.

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The Kyiv History Museum is a museum in Kyiv that first opened in 1979. The museum has many displays of historical artifacts from the city and its surrounding areas, which tells stories about the history of Kyiv.

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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.

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Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater is a theater in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is located in a building known as Bourgogne Theatre.

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The monument to Magtymguly in Kyiv is a monument to the Turkmen poet, philosopher, founder of the Turkmen language and literature Magtymguly (Fragi); located in the park at the intersection of Prorizna and Yevhen Chykalenko streets near the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Ukraine.

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The Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre is a theatre in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1979 and first played on 26 April 1980, with a focus on progressive productions. It is also known simply as Molodyy Theatre. It is a member of the European Theatre Convention, and became a national institution in 2019.

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The monument to Les Kurbas in Kyiv is a monument to the Ukrainian actor, director, founder of the national modern theater, located on Prorizna Street in the park near house No. 8. Nearby, in the building that now has No. 17, there was the Young Theater, which was directed by Les Kurbas. The monument was unveiled on April 1, 2002.

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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.

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St. Catherine's Lutheran Church is a German evangelical church in Kyiv.

Wikipedia: Кірха Святої Катерини (Київ) (UK)

The Monument to Ivan Franko in Kyiv is a monument to the outstanding Ukrainian writer, poet, scientist and thinker Ivan Yakovlevich Franko in the capital of Ukraine, the city of Kyiv.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Іванові Франку (Київ) (UK)

The Independence Monument is a victory column located on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv, commemorating the independence of Ukraine in 1991.

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The October Palace is a performing arts center in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is officially known as the International Center of Culture and Arts of the Trade Union Federation of Ukraine, while October Palace is used for its brevity.

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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is a museum dedicated to Ukrainian art in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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