Trade Unions Building (Kyiv)
The Trade Unions Building, or Budynok Profspilok, is a large office building in Kyiv, Ukraine. Located on the city's main Khreshchatyk Street, its façade faces the central Maidan Nezalezhnosti square and contains the city's main clock tower.
Trade Union Building, July 2013.
Trade Unions' Building and Independence Square, September 1991, just weeks after the August Coup and before Ukrainian independence. Note the hammer and sickle emblem on the building.
Trade Union Building surrounded by Euromaidan protesters, 1 December 2013.
Giant advertising screen on the façade of Trade Unions Building broadcasts Vitali Klitschko addressing the crowds at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti, 3 December 2013.
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
