Black Sea

Kyiv


A bit of a last resort if you need to be in Pechersk, where accommodation pickings are slim. It occupies the ground floor of an otherwise abandoned high-rise on an unpopulated side street. If you want peace and quiet, look no further, but look elsewhere if service or style are factors.


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1. Mystetsky Arsenal

0.42 MILES

Once a storage for gunpowder and harnesses, these days it is a playground for visionary curators – each exhibition becomes an event of national importance…

2. Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra

0.44 MILES

Tourists and Orthodox pilgrims alike flock to the Lavra, set on 28 hectares of grassy hills above the Dnipro River in Pechersk. It's easy to see why…

3. Ivan Honchar Museum

0.44 MILES

This Pechersk-based facility is more than a museum, it's a crucible for preserving Ukrainian folk culture in the 21st century. In addition to permanent…

4. Museum of Microminiature

0.47 MILES

Beneath the Great Bell Tower on the south side of the Upper Lavra, the Museum of Microminiature provides something even for atheists within this holiest…

6. Historical Treasures Museum

0.58 MILES

This museum in the Upper Lavra, behind the Dormition Cathedral, has an astounding collection of precious stones and metal found or made in Ukraine. The…

7. Holodomor Victims Memorial

0.61 MILES

At the far end of Vichnoy Slavy Park, which is centred around a Soviet-era war memorial, you will find a shrine from an entirely different epoch. Former…

8. Great Patriotic War Museum

0.71 MILES

Located at the base of the towering Rodina Mat, this museum was built belatedly in 1981 to honour Kyiv's defenders during the Great Patriotic War (as WWII…