Discover Ukraine - Kiev Sightseeing

Your Ukraine Travel Planner and Guide

St. Sophia’s Cathedral and the surrounding 18th Century architectural monuments are of great interest to visitors to Kyiv. From Sophia’s belfry you can observe the majestic panorama of St. Michael’s Monastery of the Golden Domes and the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky. This impressive perspective adorns the city since 12th Century. Location: 24, Vladimirskaya st. Golden Gate metro station tel. 228-61-52 Open daily 10am-5 pm, except Thursday.

Andreevsky Spusk a street in historical part of Kiev, where you can feel the unique exotics of Kiev, its amazing images and traits. This street became a traditional place of holding different concerts, festivals of art and Days of Kiev. There are many picture galleries, shops of souvenirs, art exhibitions. Painter and other artists may sell their works in the open air.

St. Andrew’s Church, a beautiful Baroque style church designed by B.Rastrelli. It is surprisingly in harmony whith the surrounding hilly area. It stands at the top of Andrew's Hill in central Kiev.

Pirogovo Village Museum - One of the largest open-air museums in the world Pirogovo Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle is situated in a picturesque area within Kyiv city limits.

Khreschatyk Street. The main and the most popular street of Kiev is Kreschatik street. At the beginning of the last century it was only valley here, surrounded by a thick forest with a broke across it. From the North East the valley reached the Dnipro River and from the South East it went to the Lybid River. The large ravines gave the locality its name Kreschata Valley - Kreschatyk, meaning "crossed", because of the many ravines that crossed it. Nowadays it is a beautiful wide boulevard planted with chestnuts.
Everyone who ever visited Kyiv, has undoubtedly walked along this central thoroughfare, admiring it's architecture, fountains, greenery and blossoms of the famous Kyiv chestnut trees. The trees also provide welcoming shade during hot summer months, although on weekends and holidays, when the street becomes a pedestrian area, many prefer to frolic right here among outdoor festivals.

Kyiv Zoo
Address: 32, Peremohy Ave
Tel.: 236-60-54
Open daily
Kyiv Zoo was founded in 1908, occupies the area of 40 ga. Several thousand species of fauna are represented there. The Zoo has play-grounds with swings and side-shows.

Kyiv Planetarium
Address: 57/3, Chervonoarmiyska st.
Tel.: 287-27-81
Operates since 1980. Planetarium offers program with a star theater, popularization of study of the Earth and Universe, educational and feature slide shows.

National circus of Ukraine
Address: 2, Peremohy sq.
Tel.: 216-60-08
Open from September till June.
The circus was built in 1960. The building also includes the Variety, Circus school and the Museum of Circus.

National History Museum of Ukraine
Address: 2, Vladymyrskaya st.
Tel: 278-65-45, 278-48-64
Work time: 10am - 6pm. Day off is Monday
The Museum was founded in 1899. In the museum you may see rich archeological, ethnographic, numismatic collections, pieces of fine and applied arts. The Museum’s exposition tells about the history of Ukraine since the olden times till the present day. Its collection numbers over 600,000 exhibits.

National Art Museum
Address: 6, Grushevskogo St.
Tel: 278-74-54, 278-64-29
Work time: 9.30am - 6pm. Day off is Monday.
The Museum was opened in 1899 as Musum of antiquities and fine arts. It holds over 20,000 pieces of arts, including icons of the 12th- 18th centuries, pictures by Ukrainian artists of the 19th - 20th centuries, avant-garde art.

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, National Historical and cultural Preserve
Address: 21, Sichnevogo povstannya st., building 8
Tel.: 280-46-48, 280-30-71
Work time: 9.30am - 6pm.
Established in 1926 on the territory of Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra. Incorporated 122 architectural monuments of 11th - 20th centuries. The Preserve’s collection contains nearly 70,000 monuments of history and culture, mainly pieces of the Orthodox church art.

National Zoological Museum
Address:15, B.Khmelnytsky St.,
Tel: 234-70-16
Work time: 10am -5 pm. Days off: Monday, Tuesday.
The Museum was founded in 1919. There are more than 5,000 exhibits of animals are represented in the Museum.

Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life
Address: Pirogovo Village
You may get there by bus №548 (Bessarabskaya sq. in the center of the city), №496 (Lukyanovskiy market), №156 (Opera and Ballet Theater), №172 (Leningradskaya sq.)
Tel: 266-24-16, 266-55-42
Work time: 10am-5pm
One of the biggest open-air museums in the World. The museum was founded in 1960. It is situated in a picturesque place, on the area of 150 ha, and features the unique collection of folk architecture from all regions of Ukraine. In summer and fall the museum hosts special craft festivals.

Museum of History of Great Patriotic War Museum of the History of Great Patriotic War is devoted to events of Second World War 1941-1945. The statue of “Mother of the Motherland” is established in the territory of the open air museum.This World War II memorial complex, which opened in 1981, includes a museum with 18 different galleries, an internal flame, numerous exhibits of documents of military commanders, participants of the war, collection of orders, medals and letters, documentary evidences of the occupation and the liberation attract visitors' attention.The centerpiece of it all is of course the massive titanium statue of woman "Mother of the Motherland", 62m tall to be exact, grasping a 12-ton sword as a shield. The height of the monument is 108m. Honoring Soviet defenders during World War II, its Socialist Realism style is an interesting contrast to the nearby ancient golden domes of Pecherskaya Lavra. The museum totals 8,000 exhibits.Location: Sichnevogo povstannya st., building 44, Arsenalnaya metro station, Day off is Monday.

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