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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…
• 1929–1931 · 26 Kostiantynivska Street, Podil Zhovten cinema before opening The constructivist building of the Zhovten cinema in Podil shortly before its opening, in a photograph from the cinema's own archive. One of Kyiv's oldest cinemas, it survived an…
• 1934 · Kontraktova Square, Podil The demolished Samson Fountain The Samson Fountain on Kontraktova Square, a 1749 pavilion over a spring that had supplied Podil with water for centuries, was pulled down in 1934, leaving its dome amid the…
• 2022 · Kontraktova Square, Podil Samson Fountain protected 25 March 2022: the statue inside the Samson Fountain on Kontraktova Square is packed with sandbags, while the rotunda, recreated in 1982 after the 18th-century original, remains…
• 1852 · Andriivskyi Uzviz St Andrew's Church by Roger Fenton …2026: the slope below the church is now built up, and from Podil it rises above the rooftops
• 1895 · Volodymyrskyi Uzviz A tram on the descent Oleksandrivskyi (now Volodymyrskyi) Uzviz in 1895: a tram heads down to Podil past the filter house of the city waterworks. Ukraine's first electric tram began running here in…
• 1912 · Trukhaniv Island A boat off Trukhaniv Island The view from Trukhaniv Island to Podil: a boat with passengers, steamers at the piers and St Andrew's Church on the hill. The island then had its own settlement, which was burned…
• 1913 · Kyiv Street cobblers …were a familiar sight on Kyiv's streets, especially in Podil and near the markets
• 1998 · 23 Andriivskyi Uzviz St Andrew's Church St Andrew's Church (1747–1762, Bartolomeo Rastrelli) above the rooftops of Podil on 15 July 1998. It has since been restored and in 2018 was handed over to the Ecumenical…