Attractions of Hostomel

The closed training ground for testing and demonstrating the promising urban monorail transport, proposed to the capital authorities by the company "Capway" in 2004, is located on the outskirts of Hostomel near Kyiv.

Initially, the cableway was a 300-meter overpass with a contact rail on steel supports, which moved a passenger car on rubber wheels manufactured by the Belarusian Belkomunmash plant. A car with 150 seats could develop a speed of up to 100 kilometers per hour. Due to a number of reasons, the project was never implemented in Kyiv.

Currently, the overpass has been dismantled, but the landing platform with the car has been preserved. The territory is protected, but tourists can have a short excursion.

The church in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was founded in Hostomel on the initiative of the colonel of the Haidamac platoon Semen Paliy.

The construction of the wooden temple, the elements of which have survived to our time, began in 1770 on the site of an older religious building. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Hostomel church underwent several reconstructions. The main construction works were completed in 1890.

In Soviet times, the church was closed and converted into a village club. Reconstruction work began in 1989, during which it was possible to preserve the wooden drum of the central bathhouse from 1890. Currently, the Intercession Church continues to be developed.

In July 2022, after the liberation of Hostomel from the Russian occupation, the residents of the city at a community meeting decided on the transfer of the Holy Intercession Church to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.