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Places 9

• Museum · Podilskyi Museum of the Hetmanate in Kyiv: The Mazepa House in Podil Housed in a late 17th-century building known as Mazepa's house in Podil, Kyiv's Museum of the Hetmanate preserves relics of the Cossack era and Ukraine's hetmans.
• Museum · Shevchenkivskyi Museum of Kyiv History: From Podil to Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street The Museum of Kyiv History tells the city's story from Kyivan Rus to modern times. Learn how the museum was founded, moved several times and what its collection holds.
• Architecture · Podilskyi Samson Fountain in Podil: Kyiv's Legendary Sacred Spring The Samson Fountain in Kyiv's Podil: legends of a sacred spring, the city's first water supply, its demolition in 1934 and its recreation in 1982.
• Walk · Podilskyi Kontraktova Square Podil's main square: a market since princely times and home to the great Contract fairs of the 19th century, still framed by Hostynyi Dvir, the Mohyla Academy and Pyrohoshcha…
• Walk · Podilskyi Andriivskyi Descent: A Walk Through Kyiv's Historic Street Walk Kyiv's Andriivskyi Descent from Podil to the Upper Town: Bulgakov's house, Richard's Castle, St. Andrew's Church and the stories behind its old buildings.
• Museum · Podilskyi National Chornobyl Museum A museum of the 1986 disaster housed in an old Podil fire station — from declassified files and liquidators' belongings to its partial destruction by a Russian missile in 2026.

All 9: places

People 1

• Patrons and entrepreneurs · бл. 1575–1642 Halshka Hulevychivna A Volhynian noblewoman who in 1615 gave her estate on Podil to the Kyiv Brotherhood for a monastery and school — the date from which Kyiv-Mohyla Academy counts its history.

Eras 1

• 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.

Photo memories 14

• 1888 · Podil Podil from St Andrew's A panorama of Podil from the porch of St Andrew's Church. Kulzhenko captioned the Third Gymnasium and the churches of St Nicholas the Good and the Protection; on the horizon are…
• 1998 · Poshtova Square, River Station Podil from the Dnipro The River Station and cruise ships at Podil on 19 July 1998, "still without modern high-rises", as the author put it, below the green slopes of Volodymyrska Hill.
• 1900s · Kontraktova Square, Podil Kontraktova Square Kontraktova Square in Podil in the early 20th century, with a tram, horse cabs, shops and St Andrew's Church on the hill. In the modern photo St Andrew's Church rises above the…
• 1888 · Verkhnii Val Street, Podil Zhytnii Market Zhytnii Market in Podil seen from the surrounding hills: rows of shops and stalls, Podil churches and the Dnipro beyond, and St Andrew's Church on the hill to the right. Trade…
• 1890s · Naberezhne Highway, Podil Piers on the Dnipro The riverside near Podil at the end of the 19th century: landing stages, barges, steamers and stacks of firewood on the sandy bank. The Dnipro was then the city's main trade…
• 1905 · Petra Sahaidachnoho Street, Podil A tram on Oleksandrivska Street Podil's Oleksandrivska Street (now Petra Sahaidachnoho Street) on a 1905 postcard: a tram, shop signs, No. 20/2 on the left and No. 37 on the right. It is still Podil's main…

All 14: photo memories

Films 1

• 1961 · Viktor Ivanov Chasing Two Hares Andriivskyi Descent, St Andrew’s Church, Volodymyrska Hill, Podil

Magazine 2

• Kyiv life · December 5, 2013 Kyiv's First Maidan: The 1905 Storming of the City Duma …Looted Jewish shops in the Hostynyi Dvir (Merchant Court) on Podil. Photo from 1905 Meanwhile, Kyiv was effectively left without authority. The frightened Governor General Nikolai…
• Kyiv life · April 30, 2013 How Deep Is the Dnipro River in Kyiv? …level dropped sharply. Before that, low-lying areas, mainly Podil, were often flooded. The last major flood came in 1970, when Hydropark was almost entirely under water and…