Kiev Independence Square
The central square of Kiev. Located between Kreshchatik, streets Boris Grinchenko, Sophia, M. Zhytomyr, Myhailivska, Kostelnaya, Institutskaya, architect Gorodetsky and lane Shevchenko. And here are great Kiev hotels. You can book some apartment at qualityapartments.net. Until the end of 10 century this area, as well as all Khreshchatyk, was called Perevisesche and was a forest thicket. Where now starts street Sophia was Lyadska pomfret, which led to the upper town. On the territory of the area in the 18 century were built of stone walls, the so-called Cave gates that existed prior to 1833 in the late 18 century. In the early 19 century Independence Square was a wasteland – the so-called Goat swamp. In the 30 years of article 18. here there were first of wood, but in the 50′s – stone houses. Until 1871 the area, which then was called Hreschatitskoy, was the market, there were circuses, carnivals. Since 1876, after the construction of the City Council (architect A. J. Scilla, destroyed in 1941 during the Second World War), the area became known as the Duma. In March 1919, the area pereymenovali on Soviet, 1935 – Kalinin. In the 50s years. 19 Art. Square house was built of the Noble Assembly (architect O. Beretti, now in its place the Central Council of Trade Unions). The house Gudowski, which until 1979 stood between the streets of Moscow and St. Michael’s Zhytomyr, 1859, he lived Shevchenko. In one room houses the City Council for some time worked as an art school MI spine. The house number 2 in February 1919 she worked the Soviet Commandant of Kiev, who headed the MO Schors. In 1922 the area was a monument to Karl Marx (sculptor J. M. Chaika). In 1976 – 77 area was renovated and renamed the area of the October Revolution. In 1977 the area was a monument to the Great October Socialist Revolution (1990s dismantled). In 1991, the area received its present name in honor of the proclamation of Ukrainian independence.