Paton Bridge is with 1543 meters the longest of the Dnipro bridges in the city. It was the first fully welded steel construction of such length in the world. It was opened in 1953 and it was the longest bridge in Europe at that time. The bridge was named after Evgeny Paton, the famous welding engineer who developed the technology for the structure. He died a few weeks before the construction was completed, never seeing his masterpiece.The bridge currently has 3 traffic lanes in both directions and one reversible lane connecting Pechersk to the Left Bank.
Moskovskyi Bridge is 816 meters long, was designed by the architect A. V. Dobrovolsky and engineer G. B. Fux and was built in 1976. The bridge is connecting Petrovka to the densely populated north-eastern residential neighborhoods. From the moment of its construction the bridge was built as a high-speed motorway, which it remains to this day.
Metro Bridge engineered by G.B. Fux and Y. Inosov was built in 1965. The bridge is used for both the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line of Kiev Metro and automobile traffic. It links the central Hydropark island as well as the left and right banks.
Pivdennyi Bridge (southern bridge) designed by the architect A. Gavrilov and engineered by G. B. Fux was built in 1990. It is the second metro bridge in Kiev, serving both the Syretsko-Pecherska metro line and automobile traffic. The bridge currently has 3 traffic lanes in both directions. It connects the Vydubychi to the rapidly developing left bank Darnytsia neighborhood, completing the southern end of the "inner circle" road route.
Monument to Kyj, Shchek and Khoryv and their syster Lybid - the legendary founders of KyivThe monument was unveiled in 1982 at the foot of Pechersky plateau on the bank of the Dnipro. It depicts the legendary founders of Kyiv -- the brothers Kyj, Shchek and Khoryv and their sister Lybid. The sculpture is a boat with the three brothers standing in the stern, two are holding spears and Kyj holds a large bow. Lybid stands tall and strong in the bow, the wind is gracefully liftingher cloak.
Monument to film actor Leonid Bykov.
Gorgeous panorama of all Kiev.
The cylindrical Salut hotel, located across from Glory Square and an eternal flame at the World War Two memorial Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the giant highly visible from the Dnieper hills Mother Motherland statue standing in the WWII museum are one of Kiev's well recognized modern landmarks.
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