Tag: history
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National Museum of Medicine
The National Museum of Medicine of Ukraine is a fascinating place to visit. It was founded in Kiev in 1973, showcasing the progress of medicines and medical treatments that were developed in Ukraine from historical times up to our day.
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Mukachevsky Palanok
There are only six extremely well preserved castles in Europe at present, and one of them is the Mukachevsky “Palanok” Castle in Ukraine. It is located in the Zakarpattia Oblast on a hill which stands at a height of 68 meters. The hill is known as the Zamkova or Castle Mount, and it is from here that the castle presents a formidable image to the surrounding landscape. Mukachevsky Castle is ...
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Odessa Catacombs
The City of Odessa in Ukraine is home to more then one million people. It is also where tourists will find the Odessa Catacombs: a maze of underground tunnels that makes up a distance of approximately 2,500 kilometers. Amazingly, these underground tunnels make up a large network that is hidden beneath the city. The Odessa Catacombs developed over a long period of time taking almost two ...
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Andriyivsky Uzviz
Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is a delightful city to visit. There are so many attractions and historical sights to see there, you will definitely need a couple of days to get through it all. One of these well-known attractions is the Andriyivsky Uzviz or, as it is endearingly called by the local residents, 'the most charming street'. Thousands of tourists come and visit this fascinating ...
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Kiev State Musical Theater
When we think of theatres we generally think of a place that produces shows which are predominantly designed to cater for adults and although children and teenagers do attend, productions are never really designed with only this part of the audience in mind.
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St. Nicholas Cathedral
The St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral has always been regarded as the second most important Roman Catholic Cathedral in the city of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It was during the period of 1899 to 1909 that it was constructed in the Gothic style you see today. However, its origins were from the twelfth century and it was designed in what was known commonly during those times as “the ...
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Sevastopol
The beautiful city of Sevastopol is located on the Crimean Peninsula and is made up of four districts, namely Nakhimiovsky, Balaklavsky, Leninsky and Gagarinsky. Sevastopol has a population of about 400 thousand people who come from as many as twenty-six different nationalities. The local population here speaks mainly Ukrainian or Russian and a large majority attends the Eastern Orthodox ...
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Ridna Khata
The Ridna Khata Gallery in Kiev is not so much a gallery as it is a museum. Really, the building is an exquisite mixture of the two institutions, as here history, culture and art are combined in an effortless mixture of color and texture. What exactly does the Ridna Khata Gallery in Ukraine display? This is probably one of the few places in the world where you will be able to examine ...
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Tyoschin Most
Tyoschin Most is an attractive little footbridge which is a popular attraction in Odessa and is also one of the most featured backgrounds in wedding photos for people living in the area. The inclusion of this little attraction in wedding photographs is certainly appropriate since its construction was also tied to matrimony. Tyoschin Most in Ukraine makes for an interesting detour on any ...
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Chernihiv
It is believed that Chernihiv, the capital of the Chernihiv Oblast, first existed in the ninth century according to archaeological evidence excavated in the area, which included unearthed settlements and artifacts from the immensely powerful state, Khazar Khaganate. However, the first formal mention of Chernihiv came in the 907 Rus’-Byzantine Treaty. By the end of the 10th century, Chernihiv ...
