Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Kyiv, Ukraine

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 9.4 km
Ascend 310 m
Descend 339 m

Explore Kyiv in Ukraine with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in KyivIndividual Sights in Kyiv

Sight 1: Печерський ландшафтний парк

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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)

797 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Navodnitsky Park

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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)

967 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: Church of the Elevation of the Cross

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Church of the Elevation of the Cross Ростислав Маленков / CC BY 3.0

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross or the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross is an architectural monument of the XVIII century, the most significant building of the ground complex above the Near Caves of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Three entrances lead from the church to the caves.

Wikipedia: Хрестовоздвиженська церква (Києво-Печерська лавра) (UK)

714 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Eternal Glory Park

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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)

518 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Monument of Eternal Glory at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Monument of Eternal Glory at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial located in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, dedicated to the soldiers of the Red Army killed in the Second World War. It is situated at the Memorial of Eternal Glory inside the Park of Eternal Glory. The memorial is a 27 meters high obelisk, with an eternal flame burning at the tomb. The Alley of Heroes leads to the tomb.

Wikipedia: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Kyiv) (EN)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду

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The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine. The museum was opened on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008. It gained the status of a national museum in 2010. The museum is located on the Pechersk Hills on the right bank of the Dnipro river in Kyiv, adjacent to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

Wikipedia: National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (EN)

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Church of the Saviour at Berestove

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The Church of the Saviour at Berestove is a church located immediately north of the Monastery of the Caves in an area known as Berestove. Although it is situated outside the Lavra fortifications, the Saviour Church is part of the Lavra complex and the related World Heritage Site.

Wikipedia: Church of the Saviour at Berestove (EN)

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Lavra

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Kyiv City Gallery of Lavra - Main Municipal Gallery of Kyiv at: ul. Lavrska, 1, in the historic building of the Prov setting store of the Kiev fortress. Opened in 1996. Since 2013, the Kyiv City Gallery of Lavra has been headed by Director Tatiana Mironova, Art Station, Laureate of the Plato Biletsky Conshu Prize in 2021.

Wikipedia: Лавра (галерея) (UK)

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: All Saints Church

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The Church of All Saints above the Economic Gate is a temple as part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, an architectural monument of the XVII century. Built at the expense of Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1696-1698 in the Ukrainian Baroque style, the interior paintings were made at the beginning of the XX century. under the direction of Ukrainian artist Ivan Yizhakevych. It is dedicated to the holiday, which is celebrated on the first Sunday after Trinity.

Wikipedia: Церква Всіх Святих (Києво-Печерська лавра) (UK)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine

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Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine Ростислав Маленков / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine is a museum that is a branch of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. The theme of the exposition is historical and artistic monuments made of precious metals and precious stones. It is located on the territory of the National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra".

Wikipedia: Музей історичних коштовностей України (UK), Website

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine

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Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine Halibutt / CC BY 2.5

The Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine is a museum in Kyiv, located on the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Reserve (Lavra).

Wikipedia: Музей книги та друкарства України (UK)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: The National Folk Decorative Art Museum

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The National Folk Decorative Art Museum

The National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. It is located on the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve in the premises of the former chambers of the metropolitan and the adjacent house Church of the Annunciation, which are architectural monuments of the XVIII - early XX centuries.

Wikipedia: Музей українського народного декоративного мистецтва (UK)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: The Gate Church of the Trinity

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The Gate Church of the Trinity is a historic church of the cave monastery of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Originally being built as in the church style of Kievan Rus', the Gate Church of the Trinity is now decorated in the Ukrainian Baroque style, having been reconstructed many times through its history.

Wikipedia: Gate Church of the Trinity, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (EN)

1682 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 14: Музей історії туалету

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The Toilet History Museum is a private museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, that contains the largest collection of toilet-related souvenirs and items in the world, including historic chamber pots, squatting pans, and urinals. The museum was founded in 2006 by a Ukrainian couple who worked in the plumbing business and is currently housed in a building within the Kyiv Fortress. In 2016, the Guinness World Records recognized it as "the largest collection of souvenir toilet bowls in the world".

Wikipedia: Toilet History Museum (EN)

1454 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 15: Kyiv fortress

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The Kyiv Fortress or Kiev Fortress is a historical and architectural monument complex of Russian fortifications in Kyiv, Ukraine built from the 17th through 19th centuries. Construction began after the 1654 Council in Pereiaslav, on the site of the already existing fortified monastery of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Located on the hills of the high right bank of the Dnieper, bounded on the north by the Klovsky ravine, on the south and west – by the slopes of the Lybid River valley.

Wikipedia: Kyiv Fortress (EN)

1860 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 16: Planetarium

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Kyiv Planetarium in Kyiv, Ukraine is one of the largest planetaria in former Soviet states. Opened on January 1, 1952, by the initiative of the scientist-astronomer Serhiy Vsekhsviatskiy (1905–1984), the planetarium has a dome of 23.5 meters in diameter, and seats 320 people.

Wikipedia: Kyiv Planetarium (EN)

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