Description of the attraction
Landscape alley - under this name in Kiev, a recreation area is located, created on the very place where the defensive ramparts of the Upper City were previously located. In fact, the Landscape Alley is a car-pedestrian path that almost repeats the landscape design objects and the rampart route. The alley begins near the observation deck, located near the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and stretches to houses number 36-40, which is on Bolshaya Zhitomirskaya Street.
The alley appeared in the early 80s of the twentieth century, and its project was prepared by the architect Avram Miletsky. The main purpose of the construction of the Landscape Alley is to give tourists the opportunity to view the views of the Dnieper and Podil from the height of the Upper Town. At first, the alley was planned only as part of the Old Kiev reserve, in addition to it, the Archaeological Museum in the open air, the Museum of Urban Development and Folk Crafts of the nineteenth century, the building of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, the Museum of the Institute of Archeology were to appear. It was also planned to reconstruct Andreevsky descent and improve some of the Kiev mountains. Unfortunately, this grandiose project was not destined to materialize, the only thing that was brought to an end was the Landscape Alley. However, it alone was enough to make this place a real attraction in Kiev.
A special charm to the Landscape Alley was given by the arrangement of a children's park in it in 2009. Everything in this park attracts attention - and unusual shops in the form of a cat, a crow and a rabbit, and huge funny cats, fountains in the form of the heads of zebras and a baby elephant, a moaning cat lined with mosaics. This titanic and exciting work was done by the famous city sculptor Konstantin Skritutsky, and part of the funds for it was allocated by residents of the nearby houses.
