Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Kyiv, Ukraine

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 International Center of Culture and Arts of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (ICCA) is an architectural monument designed and built in 1842 by the famous architect Vincent Beretti. One of the largest theater halls in Kyiv: it can accommodate more than two thousand spectators.

Wikipedia: Жовтневий палац (UK), Website

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 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 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.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Паніковському (Київ) (UK)

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

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Махтумкулі (Київ) (UK)

The Sirotkin House is a former apartment building, a monument of architecture, history and monumental art, one of the most beautiful buildings in the historical center of Kyiv, at the time of construction it was the tallest residential building in Kyiv. It is located at the corner of Volodymyrska and Prorizna streets.

Wikipedia: Будинок Сироткіна (UK)

Zolotovorotsky Square is a square and a botanical natural monument of local importance in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv. The total area is 0.57 hectares.

Wikipedia: Золотоворітський сквер (UK)

Pidgorskyi's house is a mansion at No. 1 Yaroslaviv Val Street in Kyiv, close to the junction of Mykola Lysenko Street.

Wikipedia: Будинок Підгорського (UK)

The Monument to Panteleimon the Cat is a monument to the Persian cat Panteleimon in Kyiv, opened in 1998 in Zolotovorotsky Square, opposite the Pantagruel restaurant, where the cat lived. It was installed on voluntary donations from Kyiv residents in memory of an animal that died in a fire in a restaurant. Today it is one of the most famous and popular monuments of the city.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник котові Пантелеймону (UK)

The Kyiv Opera group in Ukraine was formally established in the summer of 1867, and is the third oldest opera in Ukraine, after Odesa Opera and Lviv Opera.

Wikipedia: National Opera of Ukraine (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky (EN)

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)

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

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

St Volodymyr's Cathedral is a cathedral in the centre of Kyiv. It is one of the city's major landmarks and was the mother cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate before the Unification council of the Eastern Orthodox churches of Ukraine.

Wikipedia: St Volodymyr's Cathedral (EN), Website

The exhibition of rolling stock of historical locomotives and wagons is an open-air museum of railway equipment at the Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky station of the South-Western Railway. It was opened in 2011. The museum's exposition includes steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, railway cars, other types of rolling stock and track equipment.

Wikipedia: Виставка рухомого складу історичних локомотивів та вагонів (Київ) (UK)

Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the church of work of Ipolitan Nikolaev in Kyiv, on Solomianets. Built on the order of the city community of Kyiv during 1895-1897 in memory of Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galician Plato (Gorodetsky). It is located at the corner of the streets of Patriarch Mstislav Skrypnyk and Stadionna. In 1905-1919 the head of the church was the creator and first metropolitan of the UAOC Vasyl Lipkivsky. Until 2018, the church belonged to the UOC KP. As of May 2022 in the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

Wikipedia: Покровська церква (Солом'янка) (UK)

The 9P110 is a Soviet combat vehicle from the 9K14 Malyutka self-propelled anti-tank system. It was created on the basis of the BRDM-1 armored reconnaissance and patrol vehicle.

Wikipedia: 9П110 (RU)