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Main >> Buildings
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Buildings
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| Golden Gate |
Golden Gate(Zolotie Vorota) is one of the few buildings of Kievan Rus which remained till our days. It is included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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| House with Chimeras |
This remarkable building decorated with the fabulous figures of animals and chimeras like as they were took from peaked roofs of Notre Dame de Paris can be easily called the most unusual Kiev building. On the roof of the building are sitting good-natured toads with nereids, heads of rhinos and antelope are built into walls, drain pipes look like snakes and elephant trunks. Constructed on a steep slope house astonishes by one more details - from the front side it has only 3 floors and from back side whole 6!
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| House of Weeping Widow |
The characteristic property of this two-storey building is a sad female face sculptured on the facade. When it is raining the drops of water are flowing on the chicks of a stone beauty and it seems like she is crying. The name of the building descends from this stone bas-relief. But who is the person portrayed and why she is crying is still a mystery for the city historians.
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| Maryinskiy Palace |
Mariinskiy palace in Kiev is a President’s of Ukraine mansion-house, it is also called President Palace — here solemn state events, rewarding, receptions and meeting of official delegations are held.
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| Richard Lion-Heart House |
One of the most known buildings of Andreevskiy spusk and all Kiev — Richard's Castle. This house designed in English Neo-Gothic style looks like medieval castle and has truly mysterious story.
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| Opera House |
The National Opera House stands in historical part of the city, on the cross of two crowded street - Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Vladimirskaya.
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| Kovalevskiy's House |
This house in Arabic style which looks like the medieval castle was erected in 1911-1913 on demand of Nikolay Kovalevskiy and became his family manor.
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| Knight House |
The pointed capstan-tower of this building resembles by its silhouette a medieval castle, winged monsters are hanging above the entrance, and in a porch there is a word «Salve!» inlayed with mosaic (in Latin it means «Hello!»).
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| Makovskiy's clinic |
On the front of the building there is a carved inscription “Surgical Hospital of Ignatiy Makovskiy, the Doctor of Medicine”, it is framed by two bas-reliefs – half-stripped woman figures with wings; at the bottom, over the first floor, there is a lion statue on the cliff, baring one's teeth.
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| Karaim Kenassa |
This building is constructed in Mauritian-Arabic style about 100 years ago. Before now it was a property of karaim community - Jewish religious community which esteems Old Testament instead of Talmud.
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