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The Golden Gate of Kiev
30/10/15
Golden Gate, Kiev “visit card”
Every big city has main places of interest that become its “visit card”, for Kiev it is the Golden Gate. What you can see now – it is the reconstruction made in 1982 when Kievans celebrated the 1500th anniversary of the cit...
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Prince Vladimir
30/10/15
The monument to Prince Vladimir is one of the city symbols. Majestic figure of Great Kiev Prince who baptized the Kievans in 988 is placed high on a hill over Dnieper. Especially for the construction of the monument the whole hill and its slopes were reinforced, dra...
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National Museum “The Fortress of Kiev”
30/10/15
Like any old city Kiev had a strong fortification system in the past. Big fortresses were built in the 10th-13th, 15th-17th centuries, but all of them have not survived, and only some elements of the last one that was constructed in the 18th – 19th centuries still can be seen...
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National Museum of History of Ukraine
30/10/15
It is one of the most famous and oldest museum centers in Ukraine. It was founded in 1899 as a division of the city Museum of Antiquities and Arts. The present building of the museum was given to the museum in 1944 some months after Kiev was liberated from the German occupation. Its location...
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Mariinskyi Palace and Park
30/10/15
Mariinskyi park and palace history
A building adjacent to the Parliament is of completely different style and of different epoch. It is known as “Mariinskyi” palace facing the “Mariinskyi” park. Its history in its own way reflects the history of Ukraine within the ...
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Kiev Opera House
30/10/15
Shevchenko National Opera House of Ukraine
The official name of the theatre is “The Taras Shevchenko National Opera House of Ukraine”. It is one of the oldest theatres in the country and its history is much older than the building itself. The first permanent opera company was...
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The National Folk Decorative Art Museum
30/10/15
75,000 artifacts of Ukrainian traditional folk
The museum is located on the grounds of Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery in the house of the former Metropolitan's residence. The museum collection was established in 1899 as part of the collection of the newly founded City Antiquity and Art...
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The Microminiatures museum of Nickolai Siadristyi
30/10/15
The museum collection presents the works only of one author – Nickolai Siadristyi (Ukr. - Mykola Siadristyi), the man who could “shoe a flea”. The key element of his art is that all works are handmade and made with the use of special technology invented by the author. During 50 ...
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St. Vladimir Cathedral
30/10/15
The Kievans always cherished idea to rear a cathedral in honor of the Great Prince Vladimir who introduced Christianity in 988 and who was later canonized. In 1852, metropolitan Philaret of Moscow suggested that a large cathedral should be built in Kiev to commemorate the 900th&nb...
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St. Andrew Church
30/10/15
Centre of the Eastern Orthodox faith
The Church was built in honor of Saint Andrew who is recognized as the "Apostle of Rus". According to the chronicle “The Tale of Bygone Years”, Saint Andrew came to the Dnieper river’s...
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