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• Architecture · Shevchenkivskyi Golden Gate in Kyiv: History of the Ancient City Entrance Kyiv's Golden Gate, a mighty 11th-century defensive tower crowned by the Church of the Annunciation: its ruins, rediscovery, 1982 reconstruction and museum.
• Architecture · Shevchenkivskyi Hedgehog in the Fog Monument in Kyiv A wooden Hedgehog in the Fog studded with 5,000 screws sits near the Golden Gate in Kyiv. Learn the story of this beloved monument and why its sign says Horse.

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• Princes and rulers · бл. 978–1054 Yaroslav the Wise The prince under whom Kyiv became one of Europe’s great cities: he built the “city of Yaroslav” with the Golden Gate and St Sophia’s Cathedral, where he lies buried.

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• 10th – mid-13th c. Kyivan Rus Kyiv was the capital of Rus, the "mother of Rus cities". Under Volodymyr the Great and Yaroslav the Wise it became one of the largest and richest cities in Europe at the time.

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• 1910 · 40-A Volodymyrska Street Golden Gate before reconstruction The ruins of the 11th-century Golden Gate behind a fence, on a 1910 postcard. In 1982 a pavilion recreating the look of the old gate was built over the ruins.
• 1971 · Volodymyrska Street / Yaroslaviv Val The Golden Gate before the pavilion The ruins of the 11th-century Golden Gate in 1971: two walls with a passage between them, open to the sky. In 1982, for Kyiv’s 1,500th anniversary, they were enclosed in a…
• 1860s · 40-A Volodymyrska Street Ruins of the Golden Gate The ruins of the 11th-century Golden Gate: two masonry walls of the old passage on an earthen rampart behind a wooden fence, with a line of convicts drawn up nearby. The remains…

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• Places · December 2, 2015 The “NKVD Underground Prison”: Kyiv's Hidden Fortress Vaults Kyiv has always been a fascinating city full of historic landmarks: the Motherland Monument, the Golden Gate, Khreshchatyk, the Singing Field, the Landscape Alley. You can find…