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Hotel Ukraine in Kiev

Monday, 6 April 2020 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General, Hotels Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Hotel Ukraine, is a four-star hotel located in central Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The hotel was built in 1961 as the Hotel “Moscow” in a location which originally was occupied by Kiev’s first skyscraper, the Ginzburg House. The construction of the hotel finished the architectural ensemble of Kiev’s main street – the Khreshchatyk – which formed the post-war reconstruction of central Kiev. The hotel is state-owned and belongs to the State Management of Affairs.

The area of the location where the modern building sits is significant to the history of Kiev and its geography. Historically, when Kiev still had military fortification walls surrounding the city which ran along the modern Khreschatyk street and in the area of the Pechersk Gate, now located in today’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. The layout of the roads leading to the gate can still be observed at the five small streets coming out of the northern part of the square.

Overlooking the Pechersk Gate from the south was an offspur of the Pechersk plateau with two roads on both sides linking the Pechersk with old Kiev. One of which, modern Institutska Street, was known since days of Kievan Rus’ as the Ivanovo road and the other (modern Horodetska) lead to a large market that was to the south. A beautiful Linden wood covered the surrounding hills forming a picturesque view from the city walls.

What could have been a rightful masterpiece was destroyed by Khrushchev’s campaign and supposedly already out of date for the 1960s fashion. Hence it never became the token of Kiev that many hoped it would be. In fact over the next thirty years, its class was never deemed high enough, and save for a good view onto Kiev’s centre the Hotel was always seen as average. In 2001, it was renamed Ukrayina, in honour of the 10th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine. Classed as four-star, the Hotel remains average, in fact some of the rooms are on long-term rent to television companies who take advantage of the view on many central Kiev’s buildings that it offers.

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