The old Kiev - also named 'Mother Of The Russian Cities'.
The business street vul. Volodymyrs'ka forms the north-south-axis and simultaneously is it the main axis of the city.
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Podil is connected with the Upper Town also through a funicular, which leads to the cloister Saint Michael directly.
At the shore of the Dnepr located, Podil represents the trading center Kievs. It is the most northern district. Up to the end of the 19. century it was the only district, where Jews was allowed to stay. If you go with the metro to the station Kontraktova Plosca, you are already in the center of Podil. Here will you see in immediate proximity:
The monument 'Mother's Homeland' is the center of the memorial for the national war 1941-45 and is 68 m high and stands on a 40 m high pedestal.
(The Statue Of Liberty in New York is 35 m high and stands on a 65 m high pedestal)
The metrostation 'Majdan Nezaleznosti' is the meeting place for young people and is also a good landmark for strangers.
Until in the 18. century the Chrescatyk was a green valley and popular hunt area of the Kiev's people. Only at start of the 19. century became the lonesome valley an urbane district. About 1880 the houses were already three stories high and banks and stores originated. The Chrescatyk had developed itself from a small path into the most important street of Kiev. 1891 drove the first horse streetcar here, already one year later the first electric streetcar drove on the Chrescatyk. 1934, after the street was furnished with an asphalt blanket, the trolleybusses had replaced the streetcars. Today the Chrescatyk forms with the Majdan Nezaleznosti (Place Of The Independence) in the center, the spot of the Kiever life. An important role plays the underpasses, where often hawkers sell a great variety of articles. You can buy from a lottery ticket up to tickets for the theater. Street musicians earns their meager bread here. The spectrum is rich and extends from single women who sing Russian songs until to whole bands with percussion and keyboard.
The platforms at the railway station in Kiev seems rather modest and have already a western appearance on the basis of the modernization. However a surprise is the old counter foyer, which is decorated with paintings.
If you leave the railway station through the regular exits of the platforms, a trellis of taxi drivers, which offer their services unobtrusively, are ready.
Some meters further, at the roadside, women often offer quarters. Because of the frightful prices of the established hotels, it is absolutely a consideration to accept such an advantageous offer in the Ukraine.
In Kiev I had occupied a private quarters. Kitchen, sitting room, bath, toilet, anteroom - for less than € 40.-. The apartment had windows to the backyard and was directly in the center located.
For orange marked points are photo series available on this site.
For orange marked points are photo series available on this site.
The most southern district. Here besides the opera house, the university and a range of museums, also the railway station (metrostation 'Voksal'na') is there. The railway station is worth seeing like many others in Eastern Europe. Differently than the railway station in Western Europe are they not locked at night.
The reason is, that it is not uncommon in the Ukraine, to spend a night on the railway station. Because one drives normally wide routes, the connections often are out of order or the tickets are sold out for a corresponding train, are so called 'kimnata materi ta dytyny' (rooms for mother and child) available on all bigger railway stations.
This social equipment stands today, more than early, each traveler as service offer to the disposal. They offer silence for some hours, the possibility to put down the luggage and sometimes even to take a shower.
Gastronomically Kiev does not offer too much. For the small hunger or thirst at intervals exist only a little assortment.
Additional the fastfood stores, which often offer more than only hotdogs, like sandwiches, salads, coffee and cakes, originate pubs just slowly, which for 'Bistro' is the best name.
They have most different flair, are shaped in conformity with western model and are almost exclusively visited by young people under 30 years.
While the food was cheaply during the day, so it becomes essentially more expensive in the evening. A dinner for one person costs approximately between € 25.- to € 30.-.
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