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The guest from the foretime “Post-Soviet Ukraine”
The guest from the foretime
“Post-Soviet Ukraine”
Tour route: Kyiv-Rusanivka-Paton Bridge-the Monument of the founders of Kyiv-Leonid Bykov and the the unknown Soldier-Kyiv Pechersk Lavra-The Museum of Miniatures-National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War-The Arch of Diversity-Boyarka-Dovzhenko Film Studio-Pirogovo.
Also we can suggest very fascinating program in English for the guests from China.
Day one
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Surrounded with water from all the sides, Rusanivka looks like park but not like regular building estate. Three of the four streets of the island are green boulevards and the esplanade, and also a lot of cafes and restaurants along it with an amazing view from the shore at Lavra and Motherland. Real estate development in the island began in 1961 and was finished at 1974. The multi-storey Rusanivka became an elite micro district with developed infrastructure, beaches, recreation areas and for half a century retains the reputation of an exemplary housing estate.
Paton Bridge
Paton Bridge, one of the oldest bridges in Kyiv which was projected by the world-famous soviet scientist-mechanic and engineer Eugene Paton. His offspring proved to an everyone that welding can and should be used in the construction of the bridges, and also glorified its author throughout the world.
The history of the Paton bridge, indirectly, began in 1904 when the city authorities decided to connect the Mariinsky and Khreshchatyi parks. On the site where they had to be connected there were systematical landslides and it was previously decided to make there an underground passage, but not an alley. To project this underground passage was invited the professor of the Moscow Engineering School of Communications Eugene Paton, who was already 34 years old at that moment.
The Monument of the Founders of the Kyiv
The Monument to the Founders of Kyiv it is a symbol of the capital of Ukraine, which impersonates its longstanding history. It was opened in spring of the year 1982 in Navodnitsky Park on the Dnieper esplanade near by the Paton Bridge. This event was timed to the 1500th anniversary of the founding of the Kiev. The sculptural composition is made in the form of the boat, with the figures of the brothers Kiy, Shchek and Horeb and their sister Lybid installed on it, who are the legendary founders of the city.
The Monument of Leonid Bykov with a walk to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The monument of Leonid Bykov, dedicated to military pilots, is in Kiev near by the Alley of Glory. Leonid Bykov is represented in the image of Captain Titarenko from the movie "Only Old Men Are Going to Battle". He just returned from the flight and sat down on the cockpit of his plane. Around the monument there is an open space, like a take-off field, the Dnieper is in the distance, and quite nearby there is the Alley of Glory and eternal fire. The author of the monument is Vladimir Shchur. Leonid Bykov is a director, actor and screenwriter of Soviet cinema. The films which made him very famous are: "Maxim Perepelitsa", "Aleshka’s love", "Only old men are going to battle", "One-two, soldiers were going...". He died on the 11th of April in the year 1979 in a car accident near by Kyiv.
Stopping at the Lavra. The Museum of Micro miniatures.
The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra originates in 1051, when monk Anthony settled in these places in a cave, dug out on a mountainside. Soon, adherents joined him and began to expand the caves, and later, when the underground monastery ceased to accommodate all the brothers, they started to build the first aboveground buildings. The name of the monastery occurs exactly because of the caves, because the word "laurel" means "status" and it was given only to the large and influential monasteries, the sizes of which were similar to the small cities, and which had their own small streets (from Greek language the word “laurel” means “street”).
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The grandiose memorial complex "National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War" (formerly the Museum of the Second World War) was built in 1981 on the Pechersky Hills above the Dnieper, and to build it the terrain was significantly changed. A colossal 62-meter statue of the Motherland (102 m. together with the pedestal) is made of the special stainless steel and assembled with a special crane. The fathers of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra insisted to make the sword in the hand of the statue was made 3 meters below than the cross of the Lavra bell tower. The citizens of the Kyiv are unconcerned about the monument because there are a lot of legends all around it. You can climb to the circular viewing platform on a pedestal (37 m) using inclined elevator, and then, using the vertical elevator you can get to the chest level and to then to the upper edge of the shield by the stairs (92 m), which is perceptibly rocking in the wind. (If we will have enough time, we will be able to climb to the pedestal (it costs 50hrn from one person)).
Day two
The Arch of Diversity and a trip to Boyarka to the places where was made movie "How the Steel Was Tempered".
The Arch of Diversity is a landmark of Kyiv which is located in a Khreshchaty Park on the right high bank of the Dnieper river. It was opened in 1982 after four years of construction and was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. The sculptural and architectural composition replaced the Summer Stage that was there…
The first feature film "How the Steel Was Tempered" was shot by A. Dovzhenko Studio in cooperation with the Ashkhabad Film Studio in 1942 (8 parts, 2,529 m, 93 minutes). It was written and directed by Mark Semyonovich Donskoy. The main role was performed by the actor Viktor Peresta-Petrenko who went to the front and died heroically after shooting the film. The screen version of N. Ostrovsky's novel "How the Steel Was Tempered" reproduced the pages of the history of the Civil War in Ukraine. And it was main reason why the director focused on the military feat of Pavka Korchahin. Hero was characterized by constant internal readiness to exploit. Mark Donskoy singled out the episodes in the film associated with the struggle for Shepetovka. And these episodes were main in the film, because the film was made at the time when Hitler attacked the territory of our homeland…
Day Three
The Dovzhenko Film Studio and the Pirogovo open-air museum.
During the excursion to the Dovzhenko film studio we will see a huge territory of the film studio, which occupies more than 13.5 hectares, also we will see six shooting pavilions of it, we will look at all the conditions that are created for full-fledged work on the film and television projects. There is a pavilion with an area of 2520 square meters at the film studio, which is one of the largest in Europe, and it was built under Soviet rule.
The open-air museum "Pirogovo": - more than 100 houses from different regions of Ukraine, built at different times, will burst upon your eyes in one of the largest open-air museums in Europe, which is located at the southern outskirts of Kiev. Besides previously inhabited houses, located at the territory of 147 hectares there are 5 churches, 3 bell towers, 18 mills, 3 forges, a rural school and other folk architecture, which arouses great interest among citizens of the Kyiv and other visitors. Here you can spend your time with a great pleasure at any season, as well as learn a lot of new things.
Note: every day there is a 5-hour bus and walking tour accompanied by a professional guide (who speaks English). The remaining free time you can spent walking along the ancient streets of the capital, and also at the streets where the revolutions took place, or for shopping in the best shops of the capital of Ukraine. Accommodation in hotels 3-5* - upon request. Nutrition in the cafes and restourants with traditional kithchen.
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