Fountain of the city founders

50.449944444444 30.525027777778Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 30 ″ E

The Fountain of the City Founders ( Ukrainian композиція-фонтан засновникам Києва ) is a monument and a landmark on the Majdan Nesaleschnosti , the central square of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, inaugurated on November 21, 2001 .

The fountain is a memorial to the legendary founders of Kiev, Kyj, Shchek, Choriv and Lybiddie , who adorn the fountain as a group of sculptures. The sculptor was Ukrainian sculptor Anatoly Kushch , who was also the sculptor of the Independence Monument of Ukraine and the bronze sculpture of Archangel Michael on Lyadsky Gate . The architects were the Ukrainian Olexander Komarowskyj, Ruslan Kucharenko and O. Stukalow.

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ 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. 34 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
↑ Monument to the founders of Kiev on Independence Square , accessed on February 25, 2014 (Ukrainian)

[Kiev-1] 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. 34 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).

[2] Monument to the founders of Kiev on Independence Square , accessed on February 25, 2014 (Ukrainian)