Secret places of Kiev, which you will not find in a typical guidebook

Every town has some tourist zone, and for the most part all the excursions take place in the same places. As a result, all the same pictures, the same impressions, and many really worthy places to visit and so remain unknown. To fix this, we turned to the knowledge of those who live in Kiev and literally knows every piece of land the city.

1. Monument Hedgehog in the Fog

Who has not watched the cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog"? And in 2009 in Kiev at the intersection of Zolotovorotskoy, Reitarskaya and St George's Lane this living forever in the memory of the character was a monument. See live hedgehog with a bundle in his hand and aspiring look up - it's very nostalgic.

Address: street intersection Zolotovorotskoy, Reitarskaya and St George's Lane

2. cemetery tanks

Have you ever seen the cemetery of this military equipment? Multi-ton monsters of iron, once instilled fear and terror, could not win a person eternal companion - irrationality. In most of his pieces of equipment placed here they are in working order, but still worth a lot of money. However, this does not prevent them pointless to rust in the open.

According to witnesses at the sight the impression on the army unsorted machines as if they were only asleep waiting for something. Lovers look at everything with the minimum distance does not like the fact that the object modal: it guarded by the military with weapons and dogs, so enjoy Tanchico and other machinery will have to through a short fence.

Address: Darnitskiy district, residential district "Repair Base"

3. Kofeybus

retro atmosphere and aromatic coffee - that's the secret of the unusual Kiev coffeehouse called "Kofeybus". The institution is located in a 1963 bus, whose walls are plastered with old newspapers and decorated with postcards and badges with Soviet symbols.

In "Kofeybuse" sounds of jazz, and his menu - all kinds of coffee, latte to ice-coffee. All this creates a welcoming environment so that even in an institution operates a tradition of "suspended coffee".

Address: pr. Victory, 52/2

4. Flying deli

In Kiev, there is the Museum of Aviation, remarkable not only in the number of exhibits presented in it, but their uniqueness. For example, here is the first built Tu-104 with serial number 001, and another in the collection of the museum is a record for gain height - the MiG-25. His record of 37 kilometers is not beaten to this day, and all thanks to applied design solutions tricky.

As the cooling system (in flight at a height fuselage heated up to hundreds of degrees) design was used, operating at 200 liters of water-alcohol mixture. It is for this feature called the plane flying deli.

Address: Honey, 1

5. Trolleybus Museum coupons

This is probably one of the most unknown Kiev museums, though in its uniqueness question is simply impossible. The fact that this is, in fact, the only museum in which the collection of tickets for travel from 27 countries.

For all future visitors important to know an interesting subtlety: you bring with you a ticket to travel, which is not yet in the collection, you can get a tasty beer :) 0.5

Address: Proreznaya, 21

6. Pinchuk Art Centre

In 2006, the efforts of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation was founded an international center of art of the XXI century - PinchukArtCentre. The museum is located in the historic district of Kiev - Bessarabian quarter - and covers an area of ​​over 3,000 sq.m.

Pinchuk Art Center - a place where it joins the youth and talent. A new look at our lives reflect the work of young (and sometimes still unknown) artists. Every year the museum is visited by thousands pochetateley art and curious tourists.

Address: Most Vasylkivska / pool 1 / 3-2
About the project: pinchukartcentre.org

7. The museum park Pirogovo

National museums are required to attend to all who are interested in the culture and life of the country in which they arrived. Of course, we like to look at something beautiful, fascinating, dramatic, unusual, but if you do not know a story that is behind another object of history, it will be superficial familiarity and experience incomplete.

National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life "Pirogovo" is one of those places where you can not only see, but also to learn the features of formation and development of Ukrainian culture.

Site:pirogovo.org.ua

8. Children's Art Park

Landscape Alley - one of the most unusual places around Kiev, and the reason for this was the discovery of an extremely original playground, dubbed Art Park "Two Worlds".

This is a composition of sculptures, divided into two categories, bad and good world, with the idea turned so metaphorical that even adults are not always easy to understand what the world refers to one or the other an object.

As a clue here is placed at the entrance of a poem that explains the meaning of the sculptures and the entire fleet as a whole.

Address: Landscape alley

9. Mamaev Sloboda

All objects "Mamayeva Sloboda" are designed for use in the reconstruction of living history, that is, as much as possible to his priblezhonno functional purpose - namely, to promote the revival and original folk traditions, customs, rituals, forgotten work skills and crafts.

Ukraine - the country of the Cossacks, so "Mamaev Sloboda" - in fact it is the installation of the Cossack settlement of XVII century. Not by chance one of the first buildings, which is found there - hvigura, signal tower of the barrels filled with resin.

And this is just one of the interesting objects - a total of about 100 in the museum. Do not visit this place just can not be.

Address: Michael Donets, 2
Site:mamajeva-sloboda.ua/ru/o-slobode

10. pagan idols

The largest pagan temple is located deep in the Bald Mountain, near the metro station Vydubychi. Four three-meter idol decorate the clearing, which gradually accumulates other items of decor Old Slavonic, threatening to escalate into a temple complex.

Carved benches, animal heads and improvised columns made surprisingly soundly. According to local all of these attributes of the pagan faith are built by volunteers, mostly from the existing in Ukraine pagan communities. As a pagan idol can be seen on the Old Kiev Hill.

11. Kiev bird's-eye view

Every tourist wants to see them visited the city all at once, that is, with a decent height. In order to capture on camera people of the impressive panorama of looking for any significant elevation with a good view, and the capital's high-rises here can be very useful.

At Ave Krasnozvezdny 4 and is 25-storey building (90 meters), on whose rooftop observation deck with tables, Wi-Fi and binoculars.

Address: Ave. Krasnozvezdny 4-a

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Of course, our list includes not all deserving objects of Kiev. This magnificent city contains thousands of secrets, hidden from the guests eyes.

For more detailed information on the secrets of Kiev we suggest you do a kind of self: there is a site called "interesting Kiev", In which participants make their own community map the city showing all the interesting finding them (and from there we took most of the information and pictures).

It is enough to select the left side of the interface category "Secret Kiev", and then on the map will display all found objects.

We hope that we have drawn up a guide to help you fully enjoy those objects of Kiev, who are unlikely to see during a typical day of sightseeing.

If you feel that our list does well, very interesting and least to start with places emphasis Kiev, who must see to any visitor of the city, do not hesitate to point them in the comments.