Description of the attraction
This name means the historical area, which is located in the Goloseevsky district of Kiev. This mountain is located southwest of Vydubychi, on the banks of the ancient chronicle river Lybed. The mountain got its name due to the fact that the previously growing vegetation on it was extremely scarce (today the mountain is overgrown with forest and herbs listed in the Red Book). A century and a half ago, fortifications were erected on the mountain, but at the end of the 19th century the area became a suburb of Kiev, and in 1923, as a forest park, Lysaya Gora entered the city limits.
Bald Mountain has been known since ancient times. It was here that during the times of Kievan Rus pagan rituals were held many times. With the adoption of Christianity, pagan sacrifices on Lysaya Gora ceased, and part of the tract became the property of the Pechersky Monastery, which housed its apiaries here. This continued until the second half of the 19th century, when the lands of Lysaya Gora were bought out by the city authorities for military purposes. In 1872, despite the protests of the local population, the Lysogorsky fort was erected here, which was a complex system of ravelins, bastions, lunettes, tenals and retrenchments. From the end of the same century, the fort turned into a system of military warehouses and a prison. In the 30s of the twentieth century, Lysaya Gora turned into a military underground factory. Here, during the Second World War, after the occupation of Kiev by the Nazi army, there was a tank repair base, which was blown up by the Germans during the retreat.
Today Lysaya Gora is a historical, but also a cultural monument. This is largely facilitated by the long-standing legends that it was she who was chosen by otherworldly forces for their covens. It is not surprising that today on Lysaya Gora one can often meet representatives of various subcultures.
