• Kiev Pechersk Lavra
  

  
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra or Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev.
  
  

• Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev
  

  
  Holy Sophia Cathedral is a cathedral temple of Kiev Metropolis in 1037-1299 and second one after the Church of the Tithes. Today, it is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus' and a multi-structural complex-museum.
  
  

• Maidan Nezalezhnosti
  

  
  Maidan Nezalezhnosti is the central square of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine. One of the city's main squares, it is located on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko Raion.
  
  

• Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex
  

  
  The Olympic National Sports Complex is a multi-use sports and recreation facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, located on the slopes of the city's central Cherepanov Hill, Pechersk Raion.
  
  

• Mother Motherland, Kiev
  

  
  Mother of the Fatherland or, and more commonly referred to as, 'Mother of the Motherland' is a monumental statue in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev.
  
  

• Mariyinsky Palace
  

  
  The project of the Palace was designed by the famous architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who also developed Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. Mariyinsky Palace adjoins the neo-classical building of the Verkhovna Rada, and currently functions as an official ceremonial residence of the President of Ukraine.
  
  

• Khreshchatyk Street
  

  
  The main drag of the city centre. It is closed to traffic on some weekends and full of entertainers and people wandering around. A big happy crowd and very conducive to peoplewatching.
  
  

• Ivan Kupala Night
  

  
  Midsummer is known since in ancient times among the Slavs as a celebration of the Sun. People belted with girdles of flowers, put on wreaths of grass. They danced odes, sang songs. Old men with rubbing dry sticks caught "live fire", made fires, in the middle of which there were placed the pole with a fortified burning wheel - symbol of the sun.
  
  

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