Pechersky Landscape Park how to get there. Park of Eternal Glory to WWII Soldiers
Pechersky Park is landscape park in Kyiv, it was created in 1981 on the slopes of the Dnieper. total area park - 43.7 hectares. During the creation of this park, the slopes between the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the new museum and the Naberezhnye Highway were landscaped, asphalt paths were laid across its territory, recreation areas, steps were arranged, flower beds and lawns were laid out. At the end of the 1980s, the Pevchee (Singing) Field was built in the central part of Pechersky Park, and since the 90s, an annual city flower exhibition has been held here.
On the territory of the forest park grow such beautiful trees as Norway maple, horse chestnut, birch, hornbeam and decorative and valuable species of shrubs.
The singing field is a traditional place for cultural events; concerts, festivals and exhibitions are regularly organized here. Every year in the summer there is a national music Festival"Kraina Dry".
The Kyiv administration plans to arrange landscape exhibitions near the Singing Field in the Pechersky Park different countries peace.
Mariinsky Park
Mariinsky Park is part of the Park Ring of Kyiv 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 linden, maple and chestnut trees naturally grow on its territory. Mariinsky Park is a unique monument of landscape art.
The Mariinsky Palace is a state residence that hosts events at the highest level. It's not just the architecture that impresses foreign guests palace ensemble, but also the park of the same name. In front of the palace, the park gradually turns into a square decorated with patterns, which ends in a semicircular observation deck, which offers a magnificent view of the city panorama. 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 contains the most popular place For romantic dates- Bridge of Lovers. It connects the Mariinsky and Khreshchaty parks. Newlyweds leave locks with their names and colored ribbons here.
Amusement park in Pripyat
The amusement park in the city of Pripyat in Ukraine is now one of the strangest and, as they say, creepy places in the city. That is why, apparently, tourists are so interested in this place. In fact, the amusement park is one of the most contaminated places in Pripyat. And the fact that this place once rang with joyful voices, especially children’s, and is now quiet and gloomy, brings to mind something unusual.
The park was located in the center of the city, on weekends and holidays it was simply full of adults and children, there were always many attractions, but now they are just frozen metal swings, boats, cars, and a Ferris wheel. Like everything else in the city, it is overgrown with lush vegetation.
University Park named after T.G. Shevchenko
Shevchenko Park is a small park near the main building of the university in Kyiv. There is talk about the creation of this park interesting legend. In 1876, the Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro II, who was traveling through Europe, visited Kyiv incognito. The emperor devoted one day out of three spent in the Ukrainian capital to visiting Kyiv University. They say that when Don Pedro saw a vacant lot in front of the building, he advised the officials accompanying him to arrange a park there for students and professors of the university to walk around.
The advice was heeded. The arrangement of the park was entrusted to the famous gardener Karl Christiani. In 1890, the park was opened to its first visitors. At that time the park was called University Park. 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 in the same place and the park received its current name.
Today, Shevchenko Park is one of the most well-equipped Kyiv parks. The park is decorated with an unusual fountain made in the shape of the Black Sea. Amateur chess players traditionally gather 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 Kyiv is also located here. Although this building is over a hundred years old, it is still functioning.
Khreshchaty Park (Merchant Garden)
In 1882, the city authorities decided to lease to the Merchant Assembly of Kyiv a section of the Tsar’s Garden behind European Square that had fallen into disrepair. This is how the Merchant Garden appeared on the city map - now Khreshchaty Park.
After the construction of the Merchant Assembly building in front of the park, its territory gradually began to be put in order. In 1901, a Summer Theater with a shell stage was built in the garden, where musical performances were given to everyone. This place was very popular among Kiev residents. In 1982, the stage was demolished, and in its place the “Arch of Friendship of Peoples” was opened - 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 Kyiv (built in 1872 and 1876). Today, after restoration, the towers house the Water Museum and the 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.
Kyiv City Park
The regular garden, which laid the foundation for the future City Park, appeared in Kyiv back in the 17th century. Peter I himself took part in its creation, on whose orders several vineyards and fruit trees were planted on the left bank of the Dnieper.
On the basis of this garden, a park was built in 1763, called the Tsar’s Garden. Its ensemble was created by the park masters Foca and Chamberlain under the direction of the famous Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Alleys were laid out in the garden, gazebos and greenhouses were built, and many trees brought from all over Ukraine were planted. The area of the park in which the Dynamo stadium stands today was called the “Valley of Roses”; in those days there was a lake on the site of the stadium.
TO end of the 19th century centuries, the Royal Garden falls into decay. During a large-scale reconstruction, in 1902-1912, the park was divided in two by Petrovskaya Alley, over which an openwork park bridge was thrown. The Chateau de Fleur café was opened in the Valley of Roses, attracting great amount Kyiv public.
Today the City Park is part of the park that stretches along the entire embankment of the Dnieper Central Park culture and recreation of Kyiv.
Koncha-Zaspa Park
Koncha-Zaspa is a forested area of Kyiv, which is picturesquely located on the right bank of the Dnieper. It is from here that wonderful views of the Dnieper bays open up.
The park is home to coniferous and deciduous trees, buckthorn, hazel, thorn and barberry bushes. Between the bushes there are beautiful clearings and blue Lakes, among which the largest are lakes Koncha and Zaspa, which give 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 Kyiv 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 number 311, 313 and 314.
Park of Eternal Glory to WWII Soldiers
The Park of Eternal Glory in Kyiv is located on 18.3 hectares, representing a magnificent ensemble of man-made monuments inscribed in ancient landscape slopes on the banks of the Dnieper.
Multi-level, with three viewing platforms on the left bank of Kyiv and a view of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, it is located in the historical part of Kyiv-Pechersk, from Askold’s grave to the Lavra.
Glory Park is a place of memory of people, there are no entertainment attractions or even food stalls or cafes, people come to Glory Park to honor the memory of war heroes and for aesthetic enjoyment of the views of Kyiv, it is also one of 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 Kyiv is memorial Complex, which includes 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 "Mamaev 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 combat pilot I. Kozhedub, and the memorial to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, built in 2008.
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