Tornado of Chernobyl tragedy crippled the fates, took health, left the pain and emptiness. People selflessly fought with the consequences of the disaster. The National Museum "Chernobyl" exhibition says about this tragic event. It is located in the premises of the Podolsky fire station of Kiev.
If you have been in the Shevchenko lane, near Independence Square, I’m sure that you have been surprised: how among the metropolitan multiplicity, glass bank buildings, Kiev "skyscrapers", trendy shops and expensive cafes survived this colorful house of the first half of the nineteenth century (w
Kiev in the frame of Yanush Korchak Days. Last year, the 70th anniversary of the death of the great humanist was celebrated in Treblinka, and 100th anniversary of the foundation of his House for orphans in Warsaw.
Water-informational center (Museum of water) is situated at a picturesque location on one of the Kyiv city center’s hills.
The estate of the original light-yellow brick church building of Mary Magdalene bordered (at approximately the site of metro "Polytechnic Institute" now) with the university.
Sundials are the most ancient mechanisms for determination of time. Mechanical clocks are considered to be very complex device. Another thing is sundials: a simple stick and shadow on a flat disc. However, like many antique mechanisms sundial is much more difficult than the mechanical one.
The bell tower of St. Michael's Monastery built in the years 1716-1719 in place of disassembled wooden bell tower in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The bell tower has three tiers and 23 bells.
The traffic artery(from which the main academic building was photographed) has been known as Zhytomyr and Brest-Litovsk highway since the first half of XIX century.
Among the landmarks, surviving in Eastern Europe, world-famous St. Sophia Cathedral is the oldest one. Artists who erected the cathedral and decorated its walls mosaics and frescoes used the techniques that were based on Byzantine traditions.
Our city is beautiful at any time. But most of all visitors gathers here, apparently still in the spring, when the Kyiv white-pink chestnuts are blooming in April, because Kyiv is called the city of chestnuts.
