Green lungs of the capital. The best parks in Kiev

HOW TO GET THERE: Art. metro station "Kievskaya"

THE ADDRESS:moscow, From the Station across the crystal bridge.

This metropolitan park is located right next to the Kievskaya metro station. You go out through any exit, and you have a magnificent view of the European Fountain, which is located on Europe Square. We head towards it and climb up the translucent bridge. By the way, it is called "crystal" and is unusual in itself.

After the bridge, you need to turn left, go down a narrow, inconspicuous path and continue along it. On the way there is a large number of benches turned towards the Moskva River. You need to spend some time in this place and feel its atmosphere.

Your journey began at the ring metro station, amidst the hustle and bustle of the people, where the people are simply visible and invisible, next to the market with its usual confusion. And now, after that - suddenly a "paradise".

Relax on the benches, they are located quite high, which allows you to admire a wonderful view: barges sailing along the river, Moscow City skyscrapers.

Have a rest? You can go back. It is better to return just across the "crystal" bridge. It has a balcony. If you are not afraid of heights, be sure to stand on the edge.

In the dark, the bridge glows from the inside, which will add positive emotions to you. After the bridge, don't go straight to the metro, take a walk near the fountain. Go to the nearby grocery store and buy something to eat, then you won't have to buy expensive at the train station. The park near the Kievskaya metro station is cozy in itself, but not very quiet - the station, after all.

In the evening, romantic couples love to gather here. And do not be "greedy", be sure to tell your friends and family about this place. The joy just needs to be shared.

To actively relax and have fun with friends, visit Gorky Park or the Stuntmen's Base - it is just not a gift from Kievskaya, and just one metro station is the Moscow Zoo - not bad option where to go to the shop. Well, after that you can leisurely walk to the Old Arbat.

Shevchenko Park is a small park near the main building of the university in Kiev. About the creation of this park walks interesting legend... In 1876, the Emperor of Brazil Don Pedro II, traveling to Europe, visited Kiev incognito. One day out of three, spent in the Ukrainian capital, the emperor devoted to visiting Kiev University. They say that when he saw a vacant lot in front of the building, Don Pedro advised the accompanying officials to arrange a park there for students and university professors to walk.

They listened to the advice. The famous gardener Karl Christiani was commissioned to arrange the park. In 1890, the park was opened to its first visitors. At that time the park was called University. 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 at the same place and the park got its current name.

Today Shevchenko Park is one of the most equipped parks in Kiev. The park is decorated with an unusual fountain shaped like the Black Sea. Traditionally amateur chess players are going 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 Kiev is also located here. Although this building is over a hundred years old, it still functions.

Mariinsky park

Mariinsky Park is part of the Kiev Park Ring and is the oldest park in Ukraine. It is located along the Dnieper hills on an area of \u200b\u200babout 10 hectares. The general style of the park is designed in an English manner, although a lot of limes, maples and chestnuts naturally grow on its territory. Mariinsky Park is a unique monument of landscape art.

The Mariinsky Palace is a state residence where events are held at the highest level. Foreign guests are impressed not only by the architecture of the palace ensemble, but also by the park of the same name. In front of the palace, the park gradually turns into a square decorated with patterns, which ends with a semicircular observation deck, from which a magnificent view of the city's panorama opens. The entrance to the park itself is made in the form of an unusual Art Nouveau arch, from which a forged fence begins.

The park is the most popular place for romantic dates - Lovers' Bridge. 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, eerie places in the town. Therefore, apparently, the interest of tourists to this place is so great. In fact, the amusement park is one of the most contaminated places in Pripyat. And the fact that once this place rang with joyful voices, especially for children, and now it is quiet and gloomy, evokes thoughts of something unusual.

The park was located in the center of the city, on weekends and holidays it is just full of adults and children, there were always many attractions, and now it is just a frozen metal swing, boats, cars, a Ferris wheel. Like everything else in the city, it is overgrown with lush vegetation.

Khreshchaty Park (Merchant Garden)

In 1882, the city authorities decided to lease to the Kiev Merchants' Assembly the abandoned section of the Tsar's Garden behind the European Square. This is how the Merchant Garden appeared on the city map - nowadays Khreshchaty Park.

After the construction of the building of the Merchant Assembly in front of the park, its territory gradually began to be put in order. In 1901, the Summer Theater with a shell stage was built in the garden, where musical performances were given for everyone. This place was very popular among the people of Kiev. In 1982, the stage was demolished, and in its place was opened the "Arch of Friendship of Peoples" - a monument dedicated to the unification of Ukraine and Russia, the most noticeable architectural element of the park.

The first two water towers of Kiev (built in 1872 and 1876) are located in Khreshchaty Park. Today, after restoration, the towers house the Water Museum and the Water Information Center.

On the territory of the park, in a building that looks like a toy castle, the Kiev Academic Puppet Theater is located. Park paths near the theater are decorated with sculptures of famous fairy-tale characters.

Park of Eternal Glory to WWII Warriors

The Park of Eternal Glory in Kiev is located on 18.3 hectares, representing a magnificent ensemble of a complex of man-made monuments inscribed in the ancient landscape of the slopes on the banks of the Dnieper.

Multilevel, with three viewpoints on the left bank of Kiev and a view of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, it is located in the historical part of Kiev-Pechersk, from Askold's grave to the Lavra.

Glory Park is a place of memory of people, there are no entertaining attractions and even tents with food or cafes, people come to the glory park to honor the memory of war heroes and for aesthetic enjoyment of the views of Kiev, it is also one of the 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 Kiev is memorial Complex, which includes the alley of heroes, with the buried 35 heroes of the Great Patriotic War, an eternal flame - lit in 1957 from the fire on the "Mamayev 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 a memorial to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 built in 2008 ...

Koncha-Zaspa Park

Koncha-Zaspa is a forest-park zone of Kiev, which is picturesquely spread out on the right bank of the Dnieper. It is from here that wonderful views of the Dnieper bays open.

Coniferous and deciduous trees, bushes of buckthorn, hazel, blackthorn and barberry grow in the park. Between the bushes there are beautiful meadows and blue Lakes, among which the largest are the Koncha and Zaspa lakes, which gave 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 Kiev 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 numbered 311, 313 and 314.

Kiev city park

The regular garden, which laid the foundation for the future City Park, appeared in Kiev in the 17th century. Peter I himself took part in its creation, by whose order several vineyards and fruit trees were planted on the left bank of the Dnieper.

On the basis of this garden in 1763 a park was arranged, which was named the Tsar's Garden. Its ensemble was created by the park masters Fock and the Hoffmeister under the guidance of the famous Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Alleys were laid in the garden, pavilions, greenhouses were built, many trees were planted, brought from all over Ukraine. The area of \u200b\u200bthe park where the Dynamo stadium stands today was called the "Valley of Roses"; there was a lake on the site of the stadium in those days.

By the end of the 19th century, the Tsar's garden fell into decay. In the course of a large-scale reconstruction, in 1902-1912, the park was divided in two by the Petrovskaya Alley, over which an openwork park bridge was thrown. In the valley of roses a chantant café "Chateau de Fleur" was opened, attracting a huge number of the Kiev public.

Today the City Park is part of the Dnieper River, which stretches along the entire embankment Central Park culture and recreation of Kiev.

Pechersky landscape park

Pechersky Park is a landscape park in Kiev, it was created in 1981 on the slopes of the Dnieper. The total area of \u200b\u200bthe park is 43.7 hectares. During the creation of this park, the slopes between the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the new museum and the Naberezhnoye Highway were ennobled, asphalt paths were laid along its territory, recreation areas, steps were equipped, flower beds and lawns were laid. In the late 1980s, in the central part of the Pechersky Park, the Singing (Singing) Field was built, and since the 90s, an annual city flower exhibition has been held here.

On the territory of the forest park there are such beautiful trees as Norway maple, horse chestnut, birch, hornbeam and decorative and valuable species of shrubs.

The Song Festival Grounds is a traditional place for cultural events; concerts, festivals and exhibitions are regularly organized here. Every summer the national music festival "Kraina mriy" is held here.

The Kiev administration plans to arrange landscape expositions from around the world near the Song Festival Grounds in the Pechersk Park.

Sights of Kiev

The park was founded in 1743 by the architect V.V. Rastrelli on the basis of the old Regular Garden at the Tsar's Palace, founded by Peter I. The City Park is the oldest of the Kiev Pechersk parks, located between Khreshchaty and Mariinsky parks. Area - 11.7 hectares. It was originally planned as a "French" type park and inherited the style of the Versailles Park.

On the alleys of the park, park sculptures are installed for the writer Lesya Ukrainka and the brilliant actress Maria Zankovetska (1974, sculptor Galina Kalchenko, architect Anatoly Ignaschenko). In 1955, the bust of the composer Mikhail Glinka, installed in 1910 in front of the building of the music school destroyed by the war, was moved to the park. 1982-1983 a summer concert stage was built, covered with an original canopy (architect Yuri Seregin).

In September 1973 was installed monument to Lesya Ukrainka. The monument was created by the sculptor G.N. Kalchenko, architect A.F. Ignaschenko. It depicts a bronze figure of a poet, 5 meters high stands on a pedestal of black labradorite, near the monument is a fountain surrounded by a group of trees brought from hometown poetess. Total height monument 10 m.

The real name of the poetess - Kosach Larisa Petrovna (1871-1913) - Ukrainian poetess, playwright and public figure. A significant part of her life was connected with Kiev. For the first time Lesya Ukrainka visited the city in 1876 with her parents.

During her next visits to Kiev, she lived on Streletskaya Street No. 15 and No. 26, Fundukleevskaya, on the street. Saksaganskogo № 97 (1899-1910 there is a museum of Lesia Ukrainka) № 101 (1911 and 1913) № 115 (1910) st. Tarasovskaya No. 14 (1889) Vetrov street (Nazarievskaya street) A memorial plaque to the poetess was installed on the last six houses. In 1907, Lesya Ukrainka married the folklorist K.V. Kvitka, the marriage took place in the Ascension Church in Kiev.

The poetess died in Sumari (Georgia) and was buried at the Baikovo cemetery. In 1922 a street named after her, 1961 - boulevard, 1965 - square.

Address: blvd. Lesi Ukrainka, 12 (on one of the main squares of Pechersk and Kiev, at the intersection of Lesi Ukrainka boulevard and Kutuzov street)

Khreshchaty Park

It descends picturesquely along the steep slopes above the Dnieper. It was founded in 1881 as a merchant's garden. In the park there is an open concert area, where performances of musical orchestras and art groups take place in summer. The central decoration in the park is a monument Friendship between nations, dedicated to the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. The monument is a huge arch in the form of a metal rainbow with a diameter of 30 meters, under which there are bronze figures of Ukrainian and Russian workers, as well as a granite image of the participants of the Pereyaslav Rada 1654. Behind the monument is located observation deck with a wonderful view of the Dnieper and Podil. (M. "Maidan Nezalezhnosti")

Marininsky park

Named in honor of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, who in the 1870s allocated funds to equip the park on the site of the parade ground for military exercises. The original layout of the park is an excellent place for recreation and entertainment. Rich and varied vegetable world parka. In the immediate vicinity of the park there is the Marininsky Palace, hotels, foreign missions. (M. "Arsenalnaya")

Marininsky Palace In 1744, Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I, during her visit to Kiev, herself chose the place for the construction of the palace.

The Mariinsky Palace was built in 1750-1755. designed by B. Rastrelli. The eminent Russian architect I. Michurin supervised the construction of the palace.

The main facade of the Mariinsky Palace faces the Mariinsky Park. This park was founded in 1874. The winding alleys are inscribed in the landscape of the park.

On the opposite side of the palace is the City (Tsar's) Garden, founded in 1743 on the basis of the old Regular Garden (founded by Peter I). His style is classic: a network of straight alleys that intersect at right angles.

We invite you to admire the panorama shot on the square in front of the Mariinsky Palace

The palace complex has a strictly symmetrical composition. The main two-story building and one-story side wings form a wide courtyard.

The architecture of the palace is designed in the Baroque style: expressive volumes, rich plastic facades.

During its long history, the Mariinsky Palace has been reconstructed several times. Significant reconstruction was carried out in 1868-1870 after a large fire that destroyed the wooden second floor and all the ceremonial rooms.

During the restoration of the palace, a stone floor was added, the facades were filled with new details, and the interiors were reworked in the forms of classicism with elements of the Baroque and Renaissance.

The work was carried out under the guidance of the academician of architecture K. Maevsky. The year of their completion - 1870 - is minted in a cartouche on the facade facing the park.

The Mariinsky Palace was badly damaged during the Second World War: the bomb that hit it destroyed the central part of the building.

In 1945-1949 the palace was rebuilt under the leadership of the Ukrainian architect P. Aleshin.

In 1979-1982, after careful research work, the palace was restored. The ordering of the territory is made on the basis of drawings approved by B. Rastrelli in due time.

The shape of the fountains, the pattern of green spaces have a character traditional for the XVIII century. The fountains are decorated with paired sculptural compositions - copies of sculptures from the middle of the XVIII century, which are kept in the museums of the country.

From the lobby of the palace to the second floor, where the ceremonial halls are located, there are marble steps.

Important elements of the decoration of the Mariinsky Palace are objects of decorative and applied art, as well as furniture and chandeliers (old and made by modern masters in the spirit of the XVIII-XI centuries), paintings by famous masters of painting.

In some rooms, small fragments of wall paintings by the artist K. Alliaudi have been preserved.

The wonderful parquet floor of the palace was recreated during the last restoration. Composed of precious woods, it amazes with the beauty of the pattern and the perfect craftsmanship.

Today this historical building represents our country in the world as a state residence. It is called the Presidential Palace.
It hosts solemn state events - awards, receptions, presentation of credentials by ambassadors of foreign states, summits and meetings of official delegations at the highest level.

The park covers an area of \u200b\u200b9.5 hectares. The park was created on the basis of the Anosovsky (Commandant) garden, laid out in 1894.

After the war, Anosovsky Garden turned into a wasteland. Dozens of monuments and gravestones dismantled from Askold's grave were thrown at its foot from the side of the Dnieper. On the way to the Lavra, there were also several crypts. The place itself was, as it were, intended for burials and expressions of sorrow for the dead. By the way, something similar happened here during the Civil War.

In 1918, on the outskirts of the Anosovsky garden, near the rampart, the Bolsheviks shot the archimandrite of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Vladimir. There is a version that Ukrainian poets Vasily Chumak and Gnat Mikhailichenko, who were shot in 1919 by Denikinites, are also buried on the slopes of the park.

In 1957, the park was installed memorial with the monument of Eternal Glory at the tomb of the unknown soldier... The monument is a 26-meter obelisk, near the foot of which is the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, an eternal flame burns above it.

A wide alley leads to the monument, on the sides of which there are 34 graves of soldiers who died in the battles for the Motherland, in particular the heroes of the battles for Kiev.

(M. "Arsenalnaya")

Goloseevsky Park

One of the largest parks in Kiev, covers an area of \u200b\u200balmost 150 hectares. There are several lakes where you can go boating and fishing, as well as a large forest area, where Maslenitsa festivities take place in winter, and attractions are open in the warm season. On the territory of the park there is a museum, which was opened in memory of the work and life of the Ukrainian poet Maksim Rylsky. A great place to stay.

Landscape park

Near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra on the territory of the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War there is a beautiful Landscape park (an area of \u200b\u200babout 30 hectares), where flower exhibitions are held on holidays, concerts and festivities take place under open air on the Song Festival Grounds in the center of the park.

Park "Vladimirskaya Gorka"

One of the most picturesque parks in the city, Vladimirskaya Gorka, is located on the Dnieper terraces of the Kiev hills. The park was founded in the middle of the 19th century, its area is 10.6 hectares. This popular vacation spot is green, cozy, with old gazebos and beautiful views through the clearing in the foliage. After the graduation party, many Kiev schoolchildren greeted the sunrise in this romantic park.

Monument to Vladimir the Great It was installed on the lower terrace of Vladimirskaya Gorka at an altitude of 70 m above the level of the Dnieper in 1853 in honor of the Grand Duke of Kiev Vladimir Svyatoslavovich (sculptors V.I.Demut - Malinovsky and P.K. Klodt, architect K.A.Ton). The bronze figure of the prince (height - 4.5 m; cast in St. Petersburg) in a mantle with a cross and a grand prince's cap in hand rises on a 16-meter cast-iron pedestal and a square stylobate of cast-iron slabs, which looks like an 8-sided chapel of the pseudo-Byzantine style. On the pedestal there is a bas-relief "Baptism of Rus" and the coat of arms of Kiev - the Archangel Michael. The monument was restored in 1953-1954.

Small but very beautiful park... Located at the intersection of st. Vladimirskaya and blvd. T. Shevchenko.

In the center monument to the Ukrainian poet T.G. Shevchenko (sculptor M. Manizer). The monument was unveiled in 1939. It was opened on March 6 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the poet's birth in the park opposite the Kiev University. The figure of T. Shevchenko is cast from bronze and installed on a pedestal: from red granite, on which the words from his "Testament" are carved. The playground and the "patch" for chess lovers are especially popular. In the eastern part of the park, the original old fountain "Black Sea" has been preserved, the pool of which, indeed, repeats the Black Sea with its outlines.

It has been open for public visits since 1964 and covers an area of \u200b\u200bover 130 hectares.

In the National Botanical Garden. N.N. Grishka created collections of flowers, decorative, medicinal, fruit, vegetable, spicy aromatic, fodder and industrial plants from all botanical and geographical regions of the world, which have over 10 thousand species, forms and varieties, unique in terms of qualitative and quantitative composition. These huge collections are of immense scientific and economic importance. In particular, the Garden contains one of the world's best collection of dogwood forms, the largest collection of oak, maple, linden, birch, walnut, lilac, and wild fruit plants in Eastern Europe. All collections are especially valuable for the conservation of plant diversity ex sіtu. In greenhouses, some rare tropical species grow and even those that have already disappeared in natural conditions.

In the NBS them. N.N. Grishka created one of the world's largest collections of living plants of the temperate zone of Eurasia, which includes 1178 species from 113 families, including trees, bushes and semi-shrubs - 317 species, herbaceous plants - 861 species.

A part of this collection are rare and endangered species that grow on the site "Rare plants of the flora of Ukraine": 59 species of endemics, 33 - relics, 136 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine and 33 species are listed in the Red Book of Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan , Georgia and other countries.

Thanks to the unique botanical and geographical principle according to which plants are represented in the National Botanical Garden, phytocenoses have formed over the more than 60-year period of the existence of geographical areas that recreate natural vegetation (typical landscapes and even relief) of certain regions of Eurasia. These are such exposition sites as "Forests of the plain part of Ukraine" (12.0 ha), "Steppes of Ukraine" (2.5 ha), " Ukrainian Carpathians"(6.0 ha)," Crimea "(2.5 ha)," Caucasus "(5.75 ha)," middle Asia"(3.5 ha)," Far East"(6.0 ha)," Altai and Western Siberia"(1.8 hectares).

The arboretum on an area of \u200b\u200b30 hectares contains a unique collection of trees, bushes and lianas - 1062 species, varieties and forms, which are presented on the sites: "Gymnosperms", "Birch Grove", "Beech", "Pink", "Walnut-linden-maple "," Legumes "," Magnolia Garden "," Lilac Garden ".

The collection fund of tropical and subtropical plants is of particular value - 3094 samples. The pride of this collection is the collection of orchids, aroids, bromeleys, begonias, liliaceae, heathers and succulents. The collection of orchids alone exceeds 450 species, forms, varieties and hybrids.

The only collection of flower plants in open ground in Ukraine (about 4000 species and varieties), which presents all groups of flower crops - collections of astilba, hyacinths, gladioli, dahlias, lilies, irises, peonies, tulips, chrysanthemums, asters, cannes, lawn and decorative herbs.

Introduced plants that are used by humans are of great practical importance. They are located at the collection and display areas "Kormovye" (240 taxa), "Spicy aromatic" (106 taxa), "Vegetable" (80 taxa), "Medicinal" (318 taxa) and "Fruit" (110 taxa).

Located in the southeastern part of the Pechersk region above the Dnieper. Timiryazevskaya, 1, tel. 295-41-05

Syretsky dendrological park

Founded in 1875

Tiraspolskaya, 43, tel. 442-45-52

The park is located next to the Kiev National University, which was founded in 1839. A huge glazed climatron 30 m high (1977) attracts attention, inside of which the oldest palm trees in Ukraine grow. More than 8 thousand different plants grow on the territory of the park, including 143 specimens included in the Red Book of Ukraine. The botanical garden covers 22.5 hectares of land. It is a pleasant place to walk and relax.

Comintern, 1. (M. "University"). Guided tours: 234-60-56

Botanical State Garden of the National Agrarian University

General Rodimtseva, 2, tel. 267-88-40

Kiev zoo

Since June 16, 1992, by the law of Ukraine No. 2456-XII, the Kiev Zoo is included in the list of the nature reserve fund of state significance.

The Kiev Zoo was established at the initiative of the Kiev Association of Nature Lovers in 1908. At that time, the zoo was located on the territory botanical garden St. Volodymyr University (now Shevchenko University).

The animals were donated or brought from expeditions by university scientists. In winter, representatives of the fauna of hot countries were placed in warehouses railway station Kiev Commodity. Over time, the collection of animals grew so much that it ceased to fit in the territory of the botanical garden allotted to it, in addition, loud cries of animals disturbed the people who lived nearby. Therefore, in 1911, the question of transferring the zoo to another place was raised, and in the same year the City Duma allocated large territory on the then outskirts of the city.
The relief of this area was very difficult, all in ravines with humps and not suitable for housing or industrial construction, but perfectly suited for a zoo - the complexity of the relief was rationally and successfully used, lakes for waterfowl were arranged in the former ravines, the perspective is clearly visible from the upper points ...

All this time, the city Duma did not allocate funds for the maintenance of the zoo, and it existed at the expense of private donations. Moreover, the entrance to the zoo was free. But after the 1917 revolution, the zoo was nationalized and became the property of the state. Before World War II, there were about 1,500 animals in the zoo, but during the Nazi occupation it was devastated, the most valuable specimens of animals were loaded onto a train and sent to Germany, and a German military garrison was located on the territory of the zoo itself.

After the liberation of Kiev, the zoo was reconstructed. New enclosures gradually appeared. In 1982 the "Island of Animals" was built. In the period 1998-2003, the Aviary enclosures appeared - a kind of area for keeping rare birds - black vultures, and the Continent of Bears.
In 1983, the Kiev zoo received the status of a state and was included in the list of objects of the nature reserve fund, in 1996 it became a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums and actively participated in international programs for the reproduction of rare and endangered species of animals. Now the collection of the zoo contains about 3,500 animals, representatives of 400 species. More than 130 species of trees and bushes grow on the territory of the zoo.

The Moscow metro opened on May 15, 1935 with the Sokolniki - Park Kultury line, and over the two decades of Stalin's years it has grown with new stations, the rich interiors of which resemble an art gallery. 44 stations of the Moscow metro are recognized as objects cultural heritage... Since 1955, in connection with the decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the elimination of excesses in design and construction", the metro building abandoned expensive decor in favor of standard projects. The walk along the old metro began in Sokolniki, continued with winding squiggles along the Sokolnicheskaya, Koltsevaya, Zamoskvoretskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines and ends today at the Kievskaya Koltsevaya and Park Kultury stations.

Station "Kievskaya" ring line was opened on March 14, 1954 as part of the section "Belorusskaya" - "Park Kultury" and closed the circle line under construction.
1970-1980: https://pastvu.com/p/81144

In 1953, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev took over as the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, and among his first acts was the perpetuation of the great fate of the people of Ukraine in the Moscow metro. At that time, none of the two existing "Kievskys" satisfied him. According to the results of the announced competition, 40 projects were presented, in which the Kievites won.

Architects E.I.Katonin, V.K.Skugarev, G.E. Golubev worked on the project of the station, the interiors were designed by artists - A.V. Myzin, G.I. Opryshko, A.G. Ivanov.

Eighteen pylons are decorated with smalt mosaic panels dedicated to the history of Ukraine and the friendship of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples.

Pereyaslavl Rada 8/18 January 1654

Battle of Poltava

Pushkin in Ukraine

Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko in St. Petersburg

Lenin's "Iskra"

1905 in the Donbass

The proclamation of Soviet power by V. I. Lenin in Smolny. October 1917

Struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine

Kalinin and Ordzhonikidze at the opening of Dneproges

Tractor brigade of the first MTS

Reunification of the entire Ukrainian people in a single Ukrainian Soviet state

Folk festivities in Kiev

Liberation of Kiev Soviet Army... 1943 year

Fireworks of Victory in Moscow. May 9, 1945

Socialist competition between metallurgists of the Urals and Donbass

Friendship of Russian and Ukrainian collective farmers

Order-bearing Ukraine, the republic of workers and peasants, is in bloom

The Commonwealth of Nations - the Source of the Prosperity of the Socialist Homeland

On the end wall of the central hall of the station there is a large panel with stucco molding in the form of flags and a mosaic portrait of Lenin in the center. Around - the lines of the anthem of the USSR, and under the portrait - a Lenin quote: "The indestructible eternal friendship of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples is a guarantee of national independence and freedom, prosperity national culture and the prosperity of the Ukrainian people, like other peoples of the Soviet Union. "

The station was the last and most "rich" in the images of J.V. Stalin. As many as five of his profiles could be seen in the design of the station on the mosaics “Proclamation of Soviet power by VI Lenin. October 1917 "," The reunification of the entire Ukrainian people in a single Ukrainian Soviet state "," Victory salute in Moscow. May 9, 1945 "," Friendship of Russian and Ukrainian collective farmers "and at the very end of the station was placed a large profile of Lenin-Stalin, which was replaced by a small portrait of VI Lenin.

Curiously, fossilized coral twigs can be seen in marble. You can read more about this on the site "Paleontology of the Moscow Metro": http://www.paleometro.ru/metro29.php

The Park Kultury station (radial) was opened on May 15, 1935 as part of the first launch section of the Moscow metro - Sokolniki - Park Kultury with a branch Okhotny Ryad - Smolenskaya.

1935: http://www.oldmos.ru/old/photo/view/27264

The northern lobby is decorated with a mosaic panel depicting Maxim Gorky

On the morning of March 29, 2010, a terrorist act was carried out at the station, killing 12 people. The explosion occurred at rush hour, at a time when two trains arrived at the station at once and there were many passengers in the metro.

South vestibule (not preserved). 1935: http://www.oldmos.ru/old/photo/view/96178

South lobby. 1960 (an overpass is being built in the foreground): http://www.oldmos.ru/old/photo/view/94014

Fragments of the lobby decoration

Station "Park Kultury" (ring) was opened on January 1, 1950. Architect I.E. Rozhin. In the first years of its existence, the station was often indicated on the schemes under the name "Gorky Park of Culture". To get into favorite place rest of Muscovites in the 1930-1950s, the townspeople had to go to the opposite bank of the Moskva River along the long Crimean bridge. From time to time, ideas arose to rename the station to "Krymskaya" or " Crimean bridge".

The pylons of the station hall are decorated with 26 bas-reliefs made of white marble by S.M. Rabinovich, depicting the rest of the Soviet youth.

In Moscow, near the Kievskaya metro station, there is a park with a view of the European Fountain, located on Europe Square. The park opens before your eyes from any exit from the station. You can see the park with different eyes from the river, which will make it possible to make a wonderful yacht restaurant in Moscow for city guests and Muscovites. After walking through the park, everyone wants to climb the Crystal Bridge - an unusual translucent structure.
If you turn left behind the bridge, you will notice a barely perceptible narrow path.
After passing along it, on the way there will be many benches, deployed "facing" the Moscow River. You definitely need to stay here for some time to feel the atmosphere of this place.
Just now we were crowding at the station, among people, noise and hustle and bustle, where there is nowhere for an apple to fall, and next to it is a market with the usual bustle and bustle of people. After all this, suddenly - comfort and tranquility, right in the middle of the metropolis.

The benches are placed high enough to be able to admire the view of the river surface, passing barges and tall skyscrapers of Moscow City. Returning back, it is better to go the same way, across the Crystal Bridge, which, by the way, has a balcony. You should definitely stand at the edge of the balcony and view the landscape.
With the onset of darkness, the bridge lights up from the inside, which will only embellish ecological tourism in Moscow.
After the bridge, you can first walk near the fountain, go to a store not far from here and buy something to eat, because the same products are more expensive at the station. Now you can head to the metro station. In the meantime, couples in love and tired Muscovites wishing to take a walk after work will begin to fill the park near the Kievskaya metro station.