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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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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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Ivan Gonchar Museum
30/10/15
Ivan Makarovich Gonchar Biography
Ivan Makarovich Gonchar (1911 – 1993) was a renowned public figure, cultural activist, talented sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and self-taught ethnographer and collector of Ukrainian folk art and culture. Already as a youth in the flames of wartime v...
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Pinchuk Art Centre
30/10/15
Pinchuk Art Centre, from the richest businessmen in Ukraine
This international centre for contemporary art of the 21st century is one of the largest private museums in Eastern Europe and one of the most known world brands of the Ukrainian capital. It was opened by Vict...
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National Museum of Taras Shevchenko
30/10/15
The name of Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) is dear not only to the Ukrainians all over the world. His poems were translated in many languages and inspired many people to struggle for freedom and independence. Everything about the incredible life and creative abilities of this major ...
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National Museum of Russian Art
30/10/15
Kiev Picture Gallery based on the private collections. It is located in the house built in mid-1880s that belonged to Fedor Tereschenko (1832-1894) – influential public figure, merchant, one of the famous dynasties of the “sugar barons of Ukraine”, well-known patron of arts...
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National Museum of Fine Arts of Ukraine
30/10/15
The museum was founded in 1899 on the initiative of the Association of Antiquities and Fine Arts. The building itself is an architectural monument of the late 19th century; it was constructed by famous Kiev architect Vladislav Gorodetskyi. At that time there was hardly any concept of U...
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Museum of Sports Glory of Ukraine
30/10/15
Ukraine, motherland of best
The museum was opened in 1970 and it was the first one of that kind in the USSR. More than 3 000 exhibits tell about the history of sport events in Kiev starting from the first Russian Olympic Games that were organized in our city in 1913. Numerous photos ...
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Museum of Modern Art
30/10/15
First Museum of Modern Art in Ukraine by Sergei Tsypko
This museum was founded by Sergei Tsypko, businessman, jeweller and art-sponsor in 2005. It was the first such private museum in Ukraine. Its founder spent 20 years in collecting the works of famous and unknown names. The collection n...
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