Maidan Nezalezhnosti is the central square of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. One of the city's main squares, it is located on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko Raion. The square has been known under many different names, but often it is called by people simply Maidan ("square"). The square contains the iconic Independence Monument.
View of Maidan Nezalezhnosti in 2013 before Euromaidan; the Independence Monument in the foreground
Much of the square was destroyed in the Second World War.
During the times of the Soviet Union, the square was also called Kalinin Square
Maidan Nezalezhnosti after the declaration of Ukraine's independence
Khreshchatyk is the main street of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. The street is 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) long, and runs in a northeast-southwest direction from European Square through the Maidan to Bessarabska Square and the Besarabsky Market. The offices of the Kyiv City Council, the Post Office, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting, the TsUM department store, and the Ukrainian House, are all located on Khreshchatyk.
Khreshchatyk in 2017
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
