Attractions of Kyiv

The Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker is the first in Ukraine to be built on water.

It is located near the Saint Illya Church in Podil (a number of historians believe that the baptism of Rus took place in this place). Construction near the Kyiv river station was started in 2003 at the initiative and at the expense of the Ukrrichflot company, and a year later the church was consecrated.

The church in honor of the heavenly patron of annuals was erected in the Dnipro water area on stilts, 15 meters from the embankment. The height is 23 meters.

The 43-meter obelisk "Kyiv Hero City" was installed in 1982 on Halytska Square (formerly Peremohy Square, Yevbaz), where two of the most beautiful highways of the capital of Ukraine diverge - Taras Shevchenko Boulevard and Beresteyskyi Avenue.

On September 15, 2023, the elements that were subject to the Law on Decommunization were removed from the obelisk - the Soviet stars on the sides of the high marble stele and the annotation board in Russian were removed, and the inscription "1941" was changed to "1939", the year when the Second World War began war.

The open observation deck of the "Oleksandrivskiy" residential complex is located on the roof of a 25-story high-rise building.

From a height of 100 meters, a large-scale panorama of the entire right-bank part of Kyiv opens.

The observation deck is equipped with chairs and binoculars. Visitors are provided with free Wi-Fi, coffee/tea, blankets.

The observation deck "Red Yard" was opened in one of the botanical gardens named after Hryshko - on the place where in the 11th century there was a country residence of the great prince of Kyiv Vsevolod, son of Yaroslav the Wise.

The Red Yard fortress was built in 1071, 25 years later it was burned down by the Polovtsy, but it was soon restored and still served the grandson of Vsevolod - Yuriy Dolhoruky.

The observation deck "Red Yard" is stylized as a fortress from the time of Ancient Rus: wooden gates, palisade, watchtower, wooden platforms and a path. From here there is a wonderful view of the Dnipro, the Potona Bridge, the left bank, the Vydubytskyi Monastery and the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.

Entrance through the territory of the botanical garden named after Hryshko.

The aquarium of the Ocean Plaza shopping mall in Kyiv is considered to be the largest in Ukraine.

The giant artificial reservoir with acrylic windows has a volume of 360 thousand liters. All the main galleries of the shopping complex have access to the 16-meter panorama of the aquarium.

Visitors can watch sharks, stingrays, moray eels, groupers, starfish and other inhabitants of the underwater world free of charge.

Kyiv Oceanarium "Sea Tale" (Morska kazka) in Darnytsia opened in 2012 in the shopping center "Children's World".

In the first gallery in the form of a sunken wooden ship there is an exposition of the coral complex. An underwater tunnel at a depth of 2 m leads to the second hall - all underwater life takes place in front of visitors. In the next hall you can see corals of acropolis, jellyfish, flocks of chrysipters, fish-surgeons, as well as an aquarium with more than 20 species of clownfish. The next gallery is home to fish-thinkers, several species of dangerous moray eels, seahorses, and a green sea turtle.

One of the pearls of the aquarium is the outdoor pool with starfish and stingrays, which can be touched by hand.

The Office of the President of Ukraine is the main government institution of the country.

The austere building in the style of classicism was built for the headquarters of the Kyiv Special Military District on the basis of two buildings of the 19th century. After the war, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was located here.

Since 1991, the building has served as the residence of the President of Ukraine. Until 2005, it was called the Administration of the President. During the reign of Viktor Yushchenko, the Administration was renamed the Secretariat, then returned its name. During the administration of Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the Administration was renamed again - to the Office of the President of Ukraine.

The name of Bankova Street, where the Office is located, has become synonymous with the center of supreme power. The street is open for free passage, but is closed during official events.

Excursions can be organized. Opposite is the famous "House with chimeras".

The museum of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio invites you to get acquainted with the work of the legend of Ukrainian cinema - film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

On the territory of the film studio, the setting of the director's personal office is reproduced: a table under a green cloth, an old telephone, an openwork lamp. The exposition presents Dovzhenko's personal belongings, rare posters of his films, declassified documents from party archives.

Group and individual tours are available.

Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex (NSC) is the main sports arena of Ukraine. It is the main venue for home football matches of the national football team of Ukraine.

The Central Stadium of the city of Kyiv (formerly the "Republican Stadium") is located in the very center of city, at the foot of Cherepanova Hill. Its slope served as the basis for the construction of the southern and eastern tribunes of the Red Stadium named after Lev Trotskiy, which was first opened in 1923. Already in 1936, according to the project of the architect Mykhaylo Hrechyna, the reconstruction of the stadium began with bringing the capacity to 50,000 spectators, but due to the Second World war, the opening took place only in 1946.

After another reconstruction in 1966-1968 with the completion of the second tier of stands, the stadium began to accommodate 100,000 spectators, becoming one of the largest in the USSR and Europe. It was modernized twice, and in 2011, the Olimpiyskiy NSC Stadium opened after a complete reconstruction for the Euro-2012 football championship.

The central part of the stadium is a large sports arena with a football field, athletic tracks and two-tier stands for spectators. The capacity was reduced to 70,000 seats due to the expansion of aisles to sectors, VIP boxes, places for commentators and places for people with disabilities. A canopy of modern material was built above the stands, covering all seats.

In 2013, the Olimpiyskiy NSC History Museum was opened, where posters of historical matches, balls used by great athletes, 3D models and interactive installations of events, rare exhibits from the 1980 Olympics and much more are presented.

Excursions are available by appointment, during which visitors are shown the Olympic courtyard, the arena and the football players' locker rooms.

The complex also houses the Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Museum and the Klitschko Brothers Sports Achievements Museum.

The monument to Mykhaylo Samuelovych Panikovsky, a character in the novel "The Golden Calf" by Ilf and Petrov, is located in the center of Kyiv, at the beginning of Prorizna Street.

It was at the intersection of Khreshchatyk and Prorizna that, according to the text of the novel, the "big blind man" worked before the revolution: "I used to go out on Khreschatyk in glasses and with a cane and asked a gentleman to better help the poor blind man cross the street. The gentleman took me by the hand and led me. On another sidewalk, he was missing his watch, if he had a watch, or his wallet."

The monument to Panikovsky was erected in 1998 at the initiative of the bank "Etalon". Sculptors Volodymyr Shchur and Vitaliy Sivko gave the nationally beloved character a portrait likeness of Zinoviy Gerdt, who played the role of Mykhaylo Samuelovych in the film "The Golden Calf" directed by Mykhaylo Shveytser. Panikovsky is depicted as a blind man crossing the road wearing dark glasses and a cane. With one foot he hastens to step on the coin lying on the cobblestone. On the sole of his shoe is depicted a figure of three fingers - shish.

Park of culture and recreation "Peremoha" (Victory) is located in the Dniprovsky district of Kyiv, near the Darnytsia metro station.

Founded in 1965 and re-planned in 2008.

"Peremoha" Park is directly related to military history. On the main avenue, a memorial complex was built, indicating the most important stages of the Second World War, and a monument to the partisans who died during the defense of Kyiv. The main attraction is the Mound of Immortality. Earth for its creation was specially brought from various countries where Ukrainian soldiers fought.

On the territory of the park, more than 82 hectares, there is a pine forest with park alleys, a decorative lake with arched bridges and an island, attractions, sports grounds, an indoor skating rink "Kryzhynka", a concert and dance hall "Rovesnyk". Panoramas of the left bank of the capital can be seen from the observation wheel (about 30 meters).

The park named after Ivan Bahryany in Kyiv dates back to 1899, when the head of the garden commission of the City Duma, Romyshevskyi, proposed to join the area on the former Brest-Litovsk highway to the city limits and to establish a country park here.

Soon the Duma made a decision to allocate 58 acres of land. The following year, 1899, was the 100th anniversary of the birth of O. Pushkin, so they decided to name the park Pushkinsky. The plan of the park was developed by the chief city gardener Ivan Zhukovsky. In the fall of 1902, a grand celebration of the first tree planting took place in Pushkinsky Park - 2,000 saplings were planted.

In 2007, the park was reconstructed - landscaping works were carried out, young trees were planted: red oak, chestnut, ash, mountain ash, conifers, flower gardens and landscape compositions were arranged. The outdoor lighting system was also reconstructed, paths were paved and benches were installed.

In 2023, as part of de-Russification, by decision of the Kyiv City Council, Pushkinsky Park was renamed in honor of the Ukrainian poet Ivan Bahryany.

Currently, the park named after Ivan Bahryany occupies an area of 19.45 hectares, 60 species of trees and shrubs grow on its territory.

Park-Museum "Ukraine in Miniature" is an open-air exhibition of models of the most famous sights of Ukraine in Kyiv.

Collected in the park area on the banks of the Dnipro, on the territory of the Hydropark. The exhibition opened in 2006 as the park "Kyiv in miniature". About 50 models of famous Kyiv buildings, monuments and structures on a scale of 1:33 have been collected on an area of 1.8 hectares. All models are made of modern synthetic material, but require regular maintenance due to environmental exposure.

At the moment, the "population" of mini-Kiev is almost 1,000 figurines of residents. It has its own Khreschatyk and Independence Square, and the mini-Dnipro is crossed by four bridges: Northern, Pedestrian, Metro, and Southern. In the parks and squares of the mini-city there are monuments to figures of culture, politics and art of Ukraine, and five planes from different countries of the world landed at the airport.

Recently, the exposition has been replenished with models of the most famous monuments of other cities of Ukraine. Among them are the famous Crimean palaces, Chernivtsi University, Kachanivka palace and park complex, Donbas Arena stadium and others.

Park-museum "Ukraine in miniature" works all year round.

Literary Memorial Museum-Apartment of Pavlo Tychyna was opened in 1980 in the house where the prominent poet and statesman lived in Kyiv from 1944 to 1967.

It was during this period that he worked as Minister of Education, then was Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Soviet Ukraine. Tychyna's apartment was located on the second floor, but the museum was originally located on the first floor, and only in 1990, on the 110th anniversary of the poet, the museum was given his memorial apartment №3.

The exposition of the museum is deployed in five rooms of the apartment, in which the authenticity of the interiors and the atmosphere is preserved as much as possible, which creates the effect of "the presence of the owner". The main part of the exposition consists of memorial items of Pavlo Tychyna, which were handed over to the museum by his wife Lydia Petrivna.

His books, musical instruments, art collection and personal drawings are stored in the study. The master bedroom and the room of Pavlo Hryhorovych's mother-in-law, Kateryna Kuzmivna Paparuk, are very cozy. Pavlo Tychyna Memorial Library has more than 20,000 items of printed materials. The exposition of the living room reflects the life of the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia of the middle of the XX century. It is here that the museum holds various creative events.

The souvenir shop offers books by Pavlo Tychyna, souvenirs with the museum logo.

In the same building is the Literary Memorial Museum-Apartment of Mykola Bazhan, who was a neighbor of Tychyna.

The pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Volodymyrsky descent in Kyiv is called the "Klitschko Bridge" in honor of the initiator of the project, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.

It was opened for Kyiv City Day in 2019, and since then it has immediately become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the capital. The reinforced concrete bridge on four piers has a length of 212 meters (in some sources – 216), the height of the highest pier is 32 meters. The bridge has a winding canvas, on each of the two main bends there are viewing platforms with glass windows in the floor and observation binoculars.

A pedestrian and bicycle bridge connects Volodymyrska Hill with the Arch of Friendship in Khreshchaty Park. It is a key part of the tourist route through Kyiv parks from Landscape Alley to Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.