Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #16 in Kyiv, Ukraine

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.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Тарасові Шевченку (Київ) (UK)

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

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

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

The Khanenko Museum is an art museum located in Kyiv, in Ukraine, which holds the biggest and most valuable collections of European, Asian and Ancient art in the country.

Wikipedia: Khanenko Museum (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Садиба на Антоновича, 23 (UK)

The Brodsky Synagogue, also called the Brodsky Choral Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Brodsky Synagogue (Kyiv) (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: PinchukArtCentre (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 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

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

Wikipedia: House of the Weeping Widow (EN)

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

Wikipedia: Будинок Ікскюль-Гільденбанда (UK)

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.

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.

Wikipedia: Klov Palace (EN)

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

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.

Wikipedia: Особняк Закса (UK)

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

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.

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), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Park of Eternal Glory (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Церква святого Миколая (Аскольдова могила) (UK)