1. Andrew's Descent (Andreyevskiy spusk) one of the
ancient paths connecting the Upper Town, its central part, with a trade hem.
The street is the Museum of One Street, Mikhail
Bulgakov Museum (Dom Turbinykh), Memorial House-Museum Kavaleridze. Near the
top of the lane is pereulok Desyatinnyy, Bolshaya Zhitomirskaya Street, below - Kontraktovaya
Street. Borichev current and st. Sagaydachnogo. The modern name of Andrew's
descent (Andreyevskiy spusk) was built on the top of the street in the middle
of the XVIII century St. Andrew's Church.How to get there: drive to the station Metro Area Postal (Pochtovaya Ploshchad'), ascend by cable car to the Mikhailovsky Square (Mikhaylovskaya ploshchad') and walk down the street. Vladimirskaya (or Trekhsvyatitel'skaya) to St. Andrew's descent; drive to the station Metro Kontraktovaya ploshchad', pass Samson fountain, past the Uspensky sobor rise to the Andreyevskiy spusk.
2. Statue "Rodina-mat'" ("Motherland"),
which stands in Kiev on the right bank of the Dnieper.
Refers to the "National Museum of the Great
Patriotic War of 1941-1945.". In 1981, the Victory Day complex opened CPSU
General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
Address: str. Ivan Mazepa (January Uprising (Yanvarskogo
vosstaniya)), 33 (the area of the museum of the Great Patriotic War).
How to get there: drive to the subway station “Dnepr”,
“Druzhby narodov”, “Pecherskaya”.
3. Pirogovo - historical place in the territory of
Holoseievski district of Kiev, taking its name from the eponymous village,
existing here at least since the seventeenth century.
Another ancient name of the village in the official
sources - Pirozhov or Pyrohivka.
There is the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of
Ukraine, open-air museum, where a documentary authenticity presented artefacts
all regions of Ukraine.
Address: Pirogovo village, street Krasnoznamennaya 1
How to get there:
from the subway station "Lybidskaya" -
trolleybus number 11
from the Leningrad Square, subway station
"Friendship of Peoples" - Taxi number 172
from the subway station "Akademgorodok" -
Taxi number 576
from the Bessarabian Market - Taxi number 156
from the subway station "Lukyanovskaya" -
Taxi number 496
4. Ploshchad' Nezavisimosti/Nezalezhnosti (Independence
Square, colloquial version of "Maydan") - the central square of Kiev.
Located between Khreschatyk, streets Boris Grinchenko,
Sofiyevskaya, Malaya Zhitomirskaya, Mikhaylovskaya, architect Gorodetsky, Kostel'naya,
Institutskaya and lane Shevchenko.
Location: subway station Maydan Nezalezhnosti
5. “Nikolayevskiy kostel” (Nicholas Church), House of
Organ and Chamber Music - Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas in Kiev, used
since 1980 as the House of Organ and Chamber Music.
Address: Bol'shaya Vasil'kovskaya street, 77
How to get there: from the subway station Republican
Stadium pass for Bol'shaya Vasil'kovskaya street in the direction of increasing
numbers. Located between the subway stations Respublikanskiy Stadium and Palace
of Ukraine.
6. In November 1982 in Khreshchatyi park (then
Pioneer) was built in Kiev Arch of Friendship of Peoples, whose construction
lasted for four years.
Construction of the monument was tied to the
anniversary of the USSR, proclaimed December 30, 1922. It is a monument
dedicated to the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. Arch of Friendship of
Peoples consists of three elements: the arch itself in the form of a huge
rainbow, a bronze sculpture of two workers and sculptures made of granite scene
Pereyaslav.
Address: Yevropeyskaya Square, Kreschaty park.
How to get there: from the Subway station Maydan
Nezalezhnosti throe the Yevropeyskaya Square to Kreschaty park.
7. Mariinsky Palace - a picturesque palace in Kiev on
the right bank of the Dnieper.
Located next to the building of the Verkhovna Rada is
the ceremonial residence of the President of Ukraine. The palace was built by
order of Empress Elizabeth in 1744. The project Baroque was designed by
Bartolomeo Rastrelli, the most famous architect in Russia of the Elizabethan
era. Under the leadership of one of the students Rastrelli, Ivan Michurin, and
a group of other architects, the palace was completed in 1752.
How to get there: from the Subway station Arsenalnaya,
from Arsenal Square turn onto the street Hrushevskoho or from the European
Square turn left into the street and walk up Hrushevskoho street.
8. Golden Gate (Zolotyye vorota) - one of the few
monuments of defensive architecture of Kievan Rus from the reign of Yaroslav Mudriy.
Yaroslav Mudriy area of the city is actively growing,
which required the construction of new fortifications - built powerful shafts
with reinforced wooden crates, deep ditches.
City of Yaroslav Mudriy surrounded
embankments with a total length of 3.5 kilometers, were they present street
center of Kiev - from Lviv Square (where the Lvov gate) along the Yaroslav
shaft street to the Golden Gate, down to Independence Square (where there were
Lyadsky gate) and again going up to St. Michael's Gate ploschadi. Golden Gate
represent fortress tower with a wide (7.5 m) passing through. Inside passage is
a powerful pilasters, relied on a set of arches. The height of the preserved
walls reaches 9.5 meters.
Address: Vladimir Street, 40a
How to get there: drive to the subway station “Zolotyye
vorota” (Golden Gate)
9. Sobor Svyatoy Sofii (St. Sophia Cathedral) was
built in the XI century in the city center on the orders of Yaroslav Mudry.
At the turn of XVII-XVIII centuries was externally
rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style. Inside the cathedral, numerous ancient
frescos and mosaics, including the famous mosaic Virgin Orans. Sophia Cathedral
was the first, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an architectural monument in
Ukraine.
Address: Vladimirska Street, 24
How to get there: take the to the subway station “Zolotyye
vorota”, down Vladimirska Street to St. Sophia's Square; drive to the Subway station
“Maidan Nezalezhnosti”, go down the street. Sophia 2 quarter to Sophia Square
10. Kiyevo-Pecherskaya Lavra - one of the first of the
founding of monasteries in Rus.
Founded in 1051 by Yaroslav Mudriy monk Antony, a
native of Lubech. Co-founder of Pechersky Monastery was one of the first
students Anthony - Theodosius.
Prince Svyatoslav II Yaroslavich gave the monastery
a plateau above the cave, where he later increased beautiful stone temples
decorated with paintings, cells, towers and other structures. From the
monastery associated with the names of the chronicler Nestor (author of
"The Tale of Bygone Years"), the artist Alypy. In the Near and Far
Caves Monastery lie incorrupt relics of the saints of God, as the abbey and
burial of the laity (for example, the tomb of Peter Stolypin).
Address: Ivana Mazepy street, 25
How to get there: drive to the subway station Arsenalnaya.
When you exit turn left and walk 10 minutes or drive any vehicle to the Museum
of the Great Patriotic War or Kiyevo-Pecherskiy Reserve
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