Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street (Kiev)
| Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street Вулиця Богдана Хмельницького
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| View of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street from Khreshchatyk 25 residential building | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Kiev |
| Rajon | Shevchenko |
| Created | 1837 |
| Hist. Names | Lenin Street |
| Cross streets | Khreshchatyk , Volodymyrska Street |
| Buildings | National Museum of Natural Sciences of Ukraine , National Museum of Literature of Ukraine |
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 Theater Uniwersytet Golden Gate
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic , public transport |
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| Street length | 1640 meters |
The Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street ( Ukrainian Вулиця Богдана Хмельницького / Wulyzja Bohdana Chmelnyzkoho ; Russian Улица Богдана Хмельницкого / Ulitsa Bogdana Chmelnizkowo ) is a 1.5-kilometer-long street in the center of the Ukrainian capital Kiev . The street is one of the main arteries of downtown Kiev.
location
The street begins on Oles Honjar Street ( Вулиця Олеся Гончара ) and runs from there, slightly downhill and parallel to Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, which runs about 300 m to the south, in a south-easterly direction to Khreshchatyk , the boulevard of the capital.
history
1869 was built in 1837 as a cadet Street, the road to the governor of the Kiev Governorate of the city and honorary citizen Ivan Ivanovich Funduklei (1804-1880, Russian Иван Иванович Фундуклей ) in Funduklei Street renamed and was called after the seizure of the communists from 1919 to 1992 Lenin Street . The street was given its current name in honor of Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj in 1992. In the middle of the 19th century, the mostly wooden buildings were demolished and replaced by multi-storey stone houses.
Development
On the street are historical and listed buildings such as the central department store on the corner of Chreschtschatyk, the corner house No. 30/10 , built in 1900 in the Renaissance style, and the house No. 32 , built in 1913 in the Renaissance style and adapted to Art Nouveau . House number 15 is between 1914 and the building of the Olhynska School, built in neoclassical style in 1927, which today houses the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Ukraine and at number 11 in a late classical building is the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine . The Taras Shevchenko Opera House is located at the intersection with Wolodymyrska Street . The German embassy in Ukraine is at number 25, as are the embassies of Denmark and Sweden on the road. The Museum of the History of Kiev is at number 7. At number 68 is the Rolit House, built in the 1930s in the Constructivist style , where many famous writers lived during the Soviet era.
The street with a view of Khreshchatyk House 25 at its end
Museum of History of Kiev at No. 7
Museum of Natural Sciences at No. 15
Borys-Paton monument in front of No. 15
German Embassy at No. 25
Corner house house number 30/10
Embassy of Slovenia at number 48
The Rolit house at number 68
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street in the Kiev Encyclopedia , accessed May 19, 2015
- ^ Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (= Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 146 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
- ^ Website of the Museum of the History of Kiev , accessed on September 1, 2015
- ^ Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (= Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 155 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 49 ″ N , 30 ° 30 ′ 29 ″ E