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Unusual Attractions in Kyiv

Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

Golden Gate of Kyiv

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Rodina-Mat : Mother Motherland

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Museum of the Great Patriotic War

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

Peeing Colors in Kyiv

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

House with Chimaeras

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

Arsenalna Metro Station

The deepest metro station in the world.

Museum of Unnecessary Things

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

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In late April, the city of Kyiv dismantled the workers' statue beneath the Arch of the Peoples' Friendship.

Toppling Ukraine's Russian and Soviet Past

In the midst of the current invasion, the country is grappling with how to commemorate its history.

by Pavlo Morkovkin

The mosaic panel "Blacksmiths of the Present," on a wall at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Kyiv, was created in 1974 by artists Galina Zubchenko and Grygoryi Pryshedko.

Preserving Ukraine’s Soviet Past, One Mosaic At a Time

“We’re trying to collect everything before it’s gone.”

by JoAnna Haugen

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