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Khanenko Museum

Olena Lysenko — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 03:09:01 +0000

Khanenko Museum is a former private mansion of Khanenko family, prominent Ukrainian collectors and philanthropists, which was turned into a museum. In the early 20th century, the Khanenkos’ private art collection was considered one of the best on the territory of the former Russian Empire.

The story of the art collection is quite fascinating because it has survived Soviet and Nazi occupation (nowadays, the museum continues working hard to find and reclaim looted property). We recommend you to read more about it on the museum’s website.

It holds a large collection of European paintings, sculptures and applied arts, rare pieces of fine arts and traditional crafts of Western, Southern and Eastern Asia, art of the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece and Rome, Russian and Ukrainian icons, Ukrainian folk arts, archeological objects.

15, Vulytsya Tereshchenkivska St, Kyiv, Ukraine

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St. Andrew’s Church

Olena Lysenko — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:41:20 +0000

Designed by famed Italian architect, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, St Andrew’s Church is one of Kyiv’s best-known examples of Baroque architecture. Featuring 18th century iconostatis that contain over 60 paintings and icons, the church was built in just seven years between 1747 and 1754.

Since 2019, the year that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gained independence from the Moscow Patriarchy, St Andrew’s Church has been given over to the Patriarch of Constantinople for ceremonies. It also serves as the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s embassy in Ukraine. In 2020, the church reopened to the public after a major five-year long reconstruction that restored its external facades and interiors.

23, Andriivskyi descent, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Ar-Rahma Mosque

Olena Lysenko — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 01:48:29 +0000

Located in the heart of Tatarka, a neighbourhood home to Kyiv’s Muslim community, Ar-Rahma Mosque is the city’s biggest mosque. Gradually built over four years because of the slow inflow of funding, it was completed in 2000.

46, Lukianivska St, Kyiv, Ukraine

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House of Writers

Olena Lysenko — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:29:20 +0000

Constructed in the early 1930s by by Vasyl Krychevsky for the local literary elite, the House of Writers or RoLit is an apartment complex that was once the home of famous authors including Volodymyr Sosiura, Pavlo Tychyna, Oles Honchar, and Ostap Vyshnia, amongst others.

Like a large mirror, RoLit, reflects all the many tragedies of twentieth century Ukrainian literature. Writers loyal to the regime lived side by side those their contemporaries who were being closely monitored by the KGB. The inhabitants suffered through three waves of Stalinist repression; many writers being shipped off from the complex to prisons and concentration camps for committing ‘ideological errors’. Such was the state of paranoid amongst the residents, some slept partially clothed with packed suitcases by their sides, in case they heard the muffled steps of KGB officers creeping towards their rooms in the early hours of the morning.

Although the rooms by contemporary standards are small, at the time of construction they were considered luxurious, fitted as they were with telephones and sought-after amenities. A rooftop café was envisaged in the original plan but never built due to a lack of funds. Instead, time-starved writers could dine at a canteen next to the house, which served meals that would have been difficult to cook in their tiny kitchens.

SEEKYIV says:

“Nowadays, it’s a regular residential house. Pay attention to the commemorative plaques on the facade”

68, Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St, Kyiv, Ukraine

Admission free

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Kyiv Velodrome

Olena Lysenko — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:11:08 +0000

One of the oldest sports facilities in Kyiv, the city’s velodrome has undergone a series of radical changes since it was constructed in 1913. Initially just a site for cycling competitions, it later also became the host to the Polar Star cinema during the summer months. After being damaged extensively in the Second World War, the velodrome’s track was re-laid with wood in the 1980s, allowing cyclists to reach evermore extreme speeds. But by 2009, the structure was on the verge of collapse because of severe damage inflicted by the construction of a nearby luxury housing block.

Through a series of large-scale public campaigns, the velodrome was eventually saved by a group of activists, cyclists, and architects, who mobilised a series of clean-ups, lectures, and film screenings to help fund its reconstruction. Nowadays, an enormous mural of a cyclist by the Canadian artist Emmanuel Jarus looms over the area, which has regained its position as a popular collective cycling space and local hangout.

We recommend you to visit a great food spot near Kyiv Velodrome, where you can try Vietnamese pho at Tin Tin, pizza at Pie Spot, mexican tacos at Chica Poblana.

Photos: 1 – Kyiv Velodrome in 2021; 2 – Pie Spot pizza; 3 – Save Kyiv Velodrome protests, 2014; 4 – Track Cycling Training by Avanhard sports society, 1960s

SEEKYIV says:

“A small hint from us: if you climb on the third floor of the building that borders the velodrome, you’ll get a nice panoramic view from another perspective”

15, Vyacheslava Lypynskoho, Kyiv, Ukraine

Admission free 

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Palace of Marriage

Olena Lysenko — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:22:21 +0000

A postmodernist wonder, the inelegantly named Central Palace of Special Events offers an amusing display of excess: heavy curtains, magnificent red carpets, a wealth of marble, and an orgy of tapestries. Although now surrounded by giant tower blocks, the palace still contains a spirit of late 20th century chic.

11, Peremohy Ave, Kyiv, Ukraine

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The Naked Room

Olena Lysenko — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:14:20 +0000

The Naked Room is a contemporary art gallery on Raiterska Street, the hip thoroughfare known for its bars, coffee houses, and concept stores. Housed in a fin de siècle building, the gallery showcases the works of contemporary Ukrainian artists. Previous exhibitors have included Pavlo Makov, Sasha Kurmaz, and Viktor Marushchenko. Alongside its exhibition space, the Naked Room contains a bookshop and an alluring bar. The gallery was founded in 2018 by curators Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko and Swiss-British film director Marc Raymond Wilkins.

SEEKYIV says:

“One of Kyiv’s most important art spaces and our most beloved gallery. It always feels very welcoming. Marc Raymond Wilkins is our national treasure“

Admission free

21, Reitarska St, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Dzherelo

Olena Lysenko — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:11:18 +0000

A former pump house, Dzherelo is a 24-hour art space, inviting visitors into a discussion about public art, Soviet architecture, and the chaotic lives of individuals in the metropolis. Curated by the Wet Hole group (Dana Kosmina, Alina Kleytman, Nikita Kadan), it contains a sequence of video artworks, viewable through its large windows.

SEEKYIV says:

“We are so excited that this pavilion will be preserved! For years, we hoped that someone will give it a second life. Thanks to curator’s enthusiasm, it works again”

16, Bohdana Khmelnytskoho St, Kyiv, Ukraine. Go through the arch near Kyivproekt

Admission free

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