The ancient city of Kiev has been in its place for many hundreds of years. In times immemorial, it was around him that the Slavic state – Kievan Rus – began to be formed. For hundreds of years it was he who was the focus of trade in all the surrounding lands, and there are still a lot of monuments of bygone days.
According to legend, Kiev was named in honor of Kia – one of the three brothers who founded the city.
The parking of ancient people in place of modern Kiev existed already 25 000 years ago.
One of the symbols of Kiev is a chestnut leaf, as these trees grow throughout the Ukrainian capital.
The station of the Kiev underground “Arsenalnaya” is the deepest in the world, its platform and the surface of the earth is divided by 105.5 meters. The townspeople believe that the secret passages connect the station with the Arsenal plant and a secret bunker for the country’s leadership.
Another station of the Kiev subway, the Golden Gate, entered the rating of the most beautiful metro stations in Europe.
Kiev was the first city in the Russian Empire, where the electric tram line was laid. Here a century later, the first high-speed tram line appeared in the USSR.
In the 1960s, a Kiev engineer invented a trolleybus train – soon 296 such trains began to run along the streets of Kiev, allowing over 800 drivers to be released. The idea of the Kyivite was also introduced in 20 other cities of the Union.
The oldest Kiev street – Vladimirskaya, laid more than 1000 years ago, the longest – Brovarsky Prospect (stretches for 14 kilometers).
The highest structure in Kiev is the television tower, built in the 1970s. The transmitters installed on it are placed at an altitude of 380 meters.
The most popular tourist destination in Kiev was and remains the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which is visited annually by more than a million people. In her museum, a savage flea is kept, and in the caves on its territory relics of saints rest.
The shortest transport route in Kiev is followed by a cable car, the terminal stations of which are only 222 meters apart. For comparison, the longest tramway route No12 can cover a distance of 20 kilometers.
The outlines of the right-bank part of Kiev from a height resemble a person’s profile.
In the St. Andrew’s Church in Kiev there are no bells – in ancient times Kyivans were afraid that the bell-ringing could lead to the return to these places of underground rivers, capable of flooding the whole district.
During the existence of the Kiev Maidan on the square were installed 6 monuments, 3 fountains and one gallows.
In Kiev, the only monument in the world garbage truck. It is said that the car, installed on the pedestal in 2004, is still in working order.
In the 11th century, Kiev was the largest city in Europe – the number of people in Kiev was 50 times higher than the number of residents in London and 10 times higher than the population of Paris.
The founder of Moscow, Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, rests in one of the Kiev churches, not far from the Lavra.
In Kiev there are more than 2300 streets.
Many believe that the Bald Mountain in Kiev is devoid of vegetation because of the witches’ coven on it, but this is just a mystical legend. In fact, the trees on the hill massively cut down for the preparation of firewood, and soon they did not remain at all.
The oldest monument in Kiev is a monument to the Magdeburg Law, established in the early 19th century.
On Osipovsky Street the oldest tree grows in Kiev – the age of oak is 600 to 700 years.
Khreshchatyk was called the street of Vorovsky for 14 years.
On the street Gonchar in Kiev is still the building of the hospital, in which Peter Stolypin died.
