Pechersky Park is landscape park in Kiev, it was created in 1981 on the slopes of the Dnieper. The total area of the park is 43.7 hectares. During the creation of this park, the slopes between the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the new museum and the Naberezhnoye Highway were ennobled, asphalt paths were laid along its territory, recreation areas, steps were arranged, flower beds and lawns were laid. In the late 1980s, in the central part of the Pechersky Park, the Singing (Singing) Field was built, and since the 90s, an annual city flower exhibition has been held here.
On the territory of the forest park, there are such beautiful trees as Norway maple, horse chestnut, birch, hornbeam and decorative and valuable species of shrubs.
The Song Festival Grounds is a traditional venue for cultural events; concerts, festivals and exhibitions are regularly organized here. Every summer, the national music festival "Kraina mriy" is held here.
The plans of the Kiev administration include the arrangement of landscape expositions near the Song Festival Grounds in the Pechersk Park different countries the world.
Mariinsky park
Mariinsky Park is part of the Kiev Park Ring and is the oldest park in Ukraine. It is located along the Dnieper hills on an area of about 10 hectares. The general style of the park is in the English style, although many lindens, maples and chestnuts naturally grow on its territory. Mariinsky Park is a unique monument of landscape art.
The Mariinsky Palace is a state residence where events are held at the very high level... It's not just architecture that impresses foreign visitors palace ensemble, but also a park of the same name. In front of the palace, the park gradually turns into a patterned square, which ends in a semicircular observation deck, which offers a magnificent view of the panorama of the city. The entrance to the park itself is made in the form of an unusual arch in the Art Nouveau style, from which a forged fence begins.
The park is home to the most popular spot for romantic dates- Lovers' Bridge. It connects the Mariinsky and Khreshchaty parks. Newlyweds leave locks with their names and colored ribbons here.
Amusement park in Pripyat
An amusement park in the city of Pripyat in Ukraine is now one of the strangest and, as they say, creepy places in the city. Therefore, apparently, the interest of tourists to this place is so great. In fact, the amusement park is one of the most contaminated places in Pripyat. And the fact that once this place rang with joyful voices, especially for children, and now it is quiet and gloomy, evokes thoughts of something unusual.
The park was located in the center of the city, on weekends and holidays it is simply full of adults and children, there were always many attractions, and now it is just a frozen metal swing, boats, cars, a Ferris wheel. Like everything else in the city, it is overgrown with lush vegetation.
T.G. Shevchenko University Park
Shevchenko Park - small park at the building of the main building of the university in Kiev. About the creation of this park walks interesting legend... In 1876, the Emperor of Brazil Don Pedro II, traveling across Europe, visited Kiev incognito. One day out of three, spent in the Ukrainian capital, the emperor devoted to visiting the Kiev University. They say that when he saw a vacant lot in front of the building, Don Pedro advised the accompanying officials to arrange a park there for students and university professors to walk.
They listened to the advice. The well-known gardener Karl Christiani was entrusted with the arrangement of the park. In 1890, the park was opened to its first visitors. At that time, the park was called University. Soon it was renamed Nikolaevsky (a monument to Nicholas I was erected in the center of the park). In 1939, a monument to Taras Shevchenko was erected at the same place and the park got its current name.
Today Shevchenko Park is one of the most equipped parks in Kiev. The park is decorated with an unusual fountain in the shape of the Black Sea. Traditionally, amateur chess players are going to play a game or two near it. Recently, a monument to the "Classical Grandmother" was erected in the park. The building of the very first public toilet in Kiev is also located here. Although this building is over a hundred years old, it still functions today.
Khreshchaty Park (Merchant Garden)
In 1882, the city authorities decided to lease out to the Kiev Merchants' Assembly the neglected section of the Tsar's Garden behind the European Square. This is how the Merchant Garden appeared on the map of the city - nowadays Khreshchaty Park.
After the construction of the building of the Merchant Assembly in front of the park, its territory gradually began to be put in order. In 1901, the Summer Theater with a shell stage was built in the garden, where musical performances were given for everyone. This place was very popular among the people of Kiev. In 1982, the stage was demolished, and in its place was opened the "Arch of Friendship of Peoples" - a monument dedicated to the unification of Ukraine and Russia, the most noticeable architectural element of the park.
The first two are located in Khreshchaty Park. water towers Kiev (built in 1872 and 1876). Today, after restoration, the towers house the Water Museum and Water Information Center.
On the territory of the park, in a building similar to a toy castle, the Kiev Academic Puppet Theater is located. The park paths near the theater are decorated with sculptures of famous fairy-tale characters.
Kiev city park
The regular garden, which laid the foundation for the future City Park, appeared in Kiev in the 17th century. Peter I himself took part in its creation, by whose order several vineyards and fruit trees were planted on the left bank of the Dnieper.
On the basis of this garden, in 1763 a park was arranged, which was named the Tsar's Garden. Its ensemble was created by the park masters Fock and the Hoffmeister under the guidance of the famous Bartolomeo Rastrelli... Alleys were laid in the garden, pavilions, greenhouses were built, many trees were planted, brought from all over Ukraine. The area of the park where the Dynamo stadium stands today was called the "Valley of Roses"; there was a lake on the site of the stadium in those days.
TO late XIX century the Tsar's garden falls into decay. During a large-scale reconstruction, in 1902-1912, the park was divided in two by the Petrovskaya Alley, over which an openwork park bridge was thrown. In the valley of roses, a chantant café "Chateau de Fleur" was opened, attracting a huge number of the Kiev public.
Today, the City Park is part of the Central Park of Culture and Leisure of Kiev, which stretches along the entire embankment of the Dnieper.
Koncha-Zaspa Park
Koncha-Zaspa is a forest-park zone of Kiev, which is picturesquely spread out on the right bank of the Dnieper. It is from here that wonderful views of the Dnieper bays open.
Coniferous and deciduous trees, buckthorn, hazel, blackthorn and barberry bushes grow in the park. Between the bushes there are beautiful meadows and blue Lakes, among which the largest are the Koncha and Zaspa lakes, which gave the name to the entire park. The name of the park has no definite explanation; there are many legends that can hardly be called true.
Koncha-Zaspa is one of the largest and most popular Kiev recreation centers, where sanatoriums, restaurants and expensive buildings are located.
You can get to the park from the Vydubychi metro station by bus number 43 or minibuses numbered 311, 313 and 314.
Park of Eternal Glory to the Warriors of the Great Patriotic War
The Park of Eternal Glory in Kiev is located on 18.3 hectares, representing a magnificent ensemble of a complex of man-made monuments inscribed in the ancient landscape of the slopes on the banks of the Dnieper.
Multilevel, with three viewpoints on the left bank of Kiev and a view of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, it is located in the historical part of Kiev-Pechersk, from Askold's grave to the Lavra.
Glory Park is a place of memory of people, there is no entertainment attractions and even tents with food or cafes, people come to the park of glory to honor the memory of the war heroes and for aesthetic enjoyment of the views of Kiev, it is also one of the favorite places for newlyweds. Many of them do not forget to leave a bouquet of flowers at the eternal flame, in memory of the heroes.
Glory Park in Kiev is memorial Complex, including the alley of heroes, with the buried 35 heroes of the Great Patriotic War, the eternal flame - lit in 1957 from the fire on the "Mamayev Kurgan", a memorial stele over the grave of the unknown soldier, made of granite, 27 meters high, a monument to the hero of the USSR, a combat pilot I. Kozhedub, and the memorial built in 2008 to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.
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