Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in Kyiv, Ukraine

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

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.

Wikipedia: House with Chimaeras (EN)

The House of the Weeping Widow is an architectural landmark in the city of Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, located at 23 Lyuteranska Street.

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The Iskül-Hildenband House is a historical and architectural monument in Kyiv, located at 19 Shovkovychna Street.

Wikipedia: Будинок Ікскюль-Гільденбанда (UK)

Kovalevsky's mansion is a historical and architectural monument of the early XX century, on the corner of Pylyp Orlyk and Shovkovychna streets in Kyiv. It was erected in 1911–1913 by architect Pavel Alyoshin by order of the official Mykola Viktorovich Kovalevsky.

Wikipedia: Особняк Ковалевського (Київ) (UK)

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.

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Kyiv Academic Theater of Young Spectators is an academic theater for young spectators in Kyiv, the oldest theater stage in the city for children.

Wikipedia: Київський академічний театр юного глядача на Липках (UK), Website

Zaksa Mansion is an architectural monument in the Pechersk district of Kyiv, located at 4 Lipska Street. It was erected in 1873 by the architect V. Nikolaev in the Neo-Renaissance style. In 1896, the architect A.-F. Krauss made a superstructure on the mansion. The house is a characteristic example of the Lypki development of the late XIX — early XX centuries and the main compositional accent of the quarter.

Wikipedia: Особняк Закса (UK)

The National Museum of Military History of Ukraine (NMMH) 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 items of weapons and military equipment of different eras.

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The State Toy Museum is a museum institution that has 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 subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Державний музей іграшок (UK)

The 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 was a 75mm mountain gun used by multiple countries prior to, during and after World War I.

Wikipedia: 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 (EN)