Sights

Chocolate House is a two-storey high building. It was built in the style of the Venetian Renaissance by the order of Kiev merchant Semen Semenovich Mogilevtsev (1846-1917). The mansion was constructed by the famous architect Vladimir Nikolayev in 1890s.

Funicular - an inclined railway connecting this hilltop city with Podil. Built in 1902-1905 under the project of engineer N.K. Pyatnitskiy and N.I. Baryshnikov. A. Abragamson idea engineer.

Florovsky Monastery documented known since 1566 as consecrated in the name of St. Flor and Lavr, as in the same year, the Polish King Sigismund II August sent a letter Kyiv governor Prince Constantine of Ostrozhski. It spoke of the stipulation by the archpriest Gulkevich Jacob and his descendants the right to hold the priests have long existed in the monastery church of St. Flor and Lavr and fix it with the Greek custom and law, to make Orthodox services.

St. Sophia Cathedral is the greatest monument of Slavic and world culture, history, architecture and art. It is one of the major architectural sites of Kiev too. The significance of this monument is confirmed by its inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Damian Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Jeff Koons – here is not full list of cult figures of modern art, whose exhibitions were held in the halls, situated within this old city area, where «Pinchuk Art Center» has been located since 2006.

In the historic center, at the intersection of two crowded highways - Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street and Volodymyrska, Kyiv Cost architectural gem, the temple of the Muses - National Opera of Ukraine named by Taras Shevchenko.

You are to be impressed with «Chernobyl» National Museum conception as well as with its dramatic and expressive way of artistic means used there. «Chernobyl» National Museum is a very informative and technically equipped museum.

Memorial Complex «The National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945» is the largest museum complex in Ukraine devoted to the Second World War. It was opened May 9, 1981.

The building was built in 1882, designed by architect Volodymyr Nikolaev as urban space Merchants Assembly in connection with the fact that in 1863 in Kyiv was founded Branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. This year was a milestone in the history of musical life in Ukraine and Kyiv, which flourished in the first half of the XIX century.

This is one of the most interesting, spiritual, creative and original museums in Kiev. It is the most «Kyiv» museum dedicated to the most «Kyiv» street, besides the first private museum in Ukraine and also the nominee of the European Museum Forum of 2002.