Khreshchatyk
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Khreshchatyk is the main street of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. The street is 1.2 kilometres long, and runs in a northeast-southwest direction from European Square through the Maidan to Bessarab
Khreshchatyk in 2021
Kyiv Central Post Office in the 1900s
The demonstration on Khreshchatyk, March 1917
The remains of part of the street following its destruction in September 1941
Ginsburg Skyscraper
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The Ginzburg Skyscraper, or Ginzburg House, was a 12-story, 67.5 m skyscraper in Kyiv. Known as "Ukraine's first skyscraper" and Europe's tallest building before 1925 in terms of roof height, it was c
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…retreating Red Army troops. Among the notable buildings that were dynamited were the Kyiv City Duma, the Kyiv Stock Exchange, the National Hotel, and the Ginsburg Skyscraper. The street was rebuilt in a Stalinist neoclassical style after the end of the war, and has been renovated since Ukraine's independence. The area of…
Design of a skyscraper (1910)
A view of the walls
View from a skyscraper window
View of Kiev, the Ginzburg skyscraper on the right