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Places 4

• Walk · Shevchenkivskyi Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk St (from European Square to Besarabska Square)
• Architecture · Pecherskyi House with a Star, Khreshchatyk 25: History of Kyiv's Postwar Tower The House with a Star at Khreshchatyk 25 was Kyiv's tallest building from 1954 to 1981. Discover its history, design, early sketches and the Druzhba cinema.
• Architecture · Shevchenkivskyi Central Post Office A post-war “palace of the post” with a colonnaded portico at the corner of Khreshchatyk and Maidan Nezalezhnosti: Ukraine’s main post office and a witness to the 1989 tragedy and…
• Walk · Shevchenkivskyi Prorizna Street in Kyiv: History of Its Names and Monuments Prorizna St (from Khreshchatyk up to Volodymyrska St)

People 1

• Writers and poets · 1911–1987 Viktor Nekrasov …for a Babyn Yar memorial; he lived in the Passage at 15 Khreshchatyk until forced into exile in 1974

Eras 2

• 19th c. – 1917 Imperial Kyiv …railway, the first tram, philanthropists' sugar fortunes and Khreshchatyk as the main street
• 1917 – 1991 Soviet Kyiv The turbulent years of the Ukrainian Revolution, when Kyiv was the capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic, gave way to seven decades of Soviet rule — repression, war and Babyn…

Photo memories 32

• 1897 · Khreshchatyk, near Bessarabska Square Khreshchatyk and the Grand Hotel National Khreshchatyk on an 1897 postcard: the Grand Hotel National on the right, horse cabs on the cobbles and utility poles and wires above the street.
• 1938 · Khreshchatyk at Arkhitektora Horodetskoho Street Khreshchatyk before the war The corner of Khreshchatyk and Horodetskoho Street in 1938, with pre-war buildings and a line of trees. In September 1941 the buildings on this corner were destroyed by explosions…
• 1942 · Khreshchatyk at Arkhitektora Horodetskoho Street Khreshchatyk in ruins The ruined Main Post Office and Grand Hotel seen from Horodetskoho Street in 1942. The rubble on Khreshchatyk was not cleared during the occupation. On the right, the same spot in…
• 1943 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk after liberation November 1943: Soviet infantry march along the ruined Khreshchatyk after the liberation of Kyiv. The street was rebuilt from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
• 1963 · Khreshchatyk metro station Khreshchatyk metro station entrance The glazed surface entrance of Khreshchatyk metro station in 1963, three years after Kyiv's first metro line opened. The entrance still operates in the same place, in a building…
• 1974 · Khreshchatyk Khreshchatyk, 1 May 1974 Khreshchatyk on 1 May 1974, with its post-war buildings and a broad line of trees along the street.

All 32: photo memories

Magazine 9

• Kyiv life · February 14, 2013 House with a Star on Khreshchatyk: A Photo Story A photo story of Kyiv's House with a Star, the 1954 high-rise at Khreshchatyk 25: early designs, 1950s photos and the landmark crowned with its famous spire.
• Places · January 3, 2016 What Kyiv Looked Like 100 Years Ago, Part 1 Ten photos of Kyiv from the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Khreshchatyk with its tram, Bessarabska Square, the Polytechnic and other long-vanished city views.
• Kyiv life · April 1, 2013 Kyiv Central Post Office Mystery: The 1989 Collapse and the Number 13 In August 1989 the portico of Kyiv's Central Post Office on Khreshchatyk collapsed onto passersby. The tragedy, the rumors and the legends of the number 13.
• Places · December 2, 2015 The “NKVD Underground Prison”: Kyiv's Hidden Fortress Vaults …landmarks: the Motherland Monument, the Golden Gate, Khreshchatyk, the Singing Field, the Landscape Alley. You can find many unique places here, as long as you know where to look…
• Kyiv life · October 11, 2014 History of Sport in Kyiv: From First Clubs to the 1913 Olympiad …Captain Brouns opened a gymnastics and fencing hall "on Khreshchatyk, in the house of the merchant Bagreev." These foreigners, chasing sensation and publicity, tried to promote…
• Kyiv life · July 1, 2014 Symbols of Kyiv: The Stories Behind the City's Icons …to us. Images such as the Kyiv boat, the chestnut trees on Khreshchatyk, Chicken Kyiv and others entered the lives of Kyivans and became part of the city's brand. Where did Kyiv…
• Kyiv life · March 17, 2014 Kyiv's Unbuilt Government Center: The 1934 Plan …Proletarian Garden option (the former Merchants' Garden, or Khreshchatyk Garden; architect V. Zabolotnyi and team) proposed opening Khreshchatyk up to the Dnipro, with Government…
• Kyiv life · December 11, 2013 Bessarabska Square in Kyiv: What Was There Before Lenin …cemetery here, which was closed in the early 19th century as Khreshchatyk was being built up. The cemetery made itself known again a little later: when the city's Bessarabka sewer…

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