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Pivdennyi bridge in Kiev/Ukraine.
Revision of an older image: www.flickr.com/photos/philippdase/23402042109/
Купола Свято-Вознесенского Флоровского женского монастыря и вид на Подол с Замковой горы.
В левой верхней четверти фото хорошо видно рабочую башню и силосный корпус зернохранилища - Элеватор - визитка киевского Подола на Набережно-Крещатицкой улице. Каждый силос вмещает в себя около 600 т зерна. Элеватор состоит из 44 силосов.
На горизонте, выше линии элеватора и ниже линии многоэтажек Троещины виден Петро́вский железнодорожны́й мост. (название моста связано с прежним названием района - Петровка). Сооружён в 1916—1917 годах как мост имени Императрицы Марии Фёдоровны, или Мариинский, открыт в январе 1917 года.
The famous Kyiv Alley of Artists on Andreevsky Descent
The Alley connects Andreevsky Descent and St. Volodymyr’s Hill passing from the funicular line at its upper station along the hill on which St. Andrew's Church is built.
This place has already been called "Kyiv Montmartre"
Here you can find many works on Kyiv and Ukrainian themes, portraits, still lifes, breathtaking seascape paintings, abstract art, and much, much more.
The Kyiv Funicular is a steep slope railroad on Kyiv Hills that serves the city of Kyiv, connecting the historic Uppertown, and the lower commercial neighborhood of Podil through the steep Volodymyrska Hill overseeing the Dnieper River. The line consists of only two stations.
A view on the city from the observation deck of St. Andrew's Church. Kyiv
In the foreground:
The famous Andriivsky Descent, a historic descent connecting Kyiv's Upper Town neighborhood and the historically commercial Podil neighborhood. The street, often advertised by tour guides and operators as the "Montmartre of Kyiv", is a major tourist attraction of the city.
The tall light house built in the English Gothic style is “Richard the Lionheart's Castle"
This poeticized name of the house, a monument of the early 20th century,
was given by Kiev residents in honor of the English king Richard the Lionheart, the hero of Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe".
The house in the form of an ancient castle stands on the complex relief of the former chronicle mountain Uzdykhalnitsa below St. Andrew's Church. The monumental facades are decorated with architectural elements of fortress-castle structures - different types of towers, spires, crenellated ends of the walls, etc. On the left side of the house rises a high tower with fortress features.
The monument to Hetman Mazepa is the first rotating monument in Ukraine dedicated to Hetman Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa, installed on January 19, 2009 on the observation deck, near the Kyiv Palace for Children and Youth, from the side of the Alley of Heroes of Kruty. According to other sources, the sculptural composition is called "Eternal Kyiv". The sculpture was created by Frank Meisler, a world-famous Israeli sculptor.
The monument is installed in such a way that when viewed from the palace, it is opposite the domes of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, on the territory of which several churches were built with funds from Mazepa.
The monument is a flying dove mounted on a ball, which is framed by reliefs of cathedrals and churches built with funds from Hetman Mazepa. The dove consists of two parts, connected at the beak, which symbolizes the unity of the Left-Bank and Right-Bank Ukraine. The tail of the dove, consisting of two halves, wraps around the ball and Mazepa's churches. The entire composition is mounted on a granite pedestal and rotates around its axis.
Andriyivskyy Descent (Ukrainian: Андріївський узвіз) is a historic descent connecting the Upper Town neighbourhood and the riverside Podil neighbourhood in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The street, often advertised by tour guides and operators as the “Montmartre of Kiev”, is a major tourist attraction of the city and a national landmark of Ukraine. This is the lower end, near Kontraktova Square in Podil.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Saint Sophia Cathedral — Christian Cathedral in the centre of Kyiv, a monument to Ukrainian architecture and monumental painting ages 11, one of the few surviving buildings of Kyivan Rus. One of the main Christian shrines of Eastern Europe, the historical center of the Kyiv metropolis. Today it’s an outstanding architectural monument and a popular museum. Saint Sophia’s Cathedral are recognized by the UNESCO heritage.