7 AM, good morning Kiev!

Yevropeiska square.



National opera house.

Dnieper river.

Cool, a funicular!



Volodymyrska hill park.

Monument to Volodymyr the Great.



Entrance to St. Michael's golden-domed monastery.





10 AM mass with singing monks and all.





Typical Soviet style monumental buildings, avenues and squares.

St. Andrew’s church, closed for restoration.

But beautiful nonetheless.

Mykhailivska square.

Sofia bell tower in the distance.



Khmelnytsky monument in Sofiivska square.

St. Sophia’s cathedral, a UNESCO site.

Oldest church in Kiev.

The whole complex is a national conservation area.

Climb the bell tower.

200 steps up and hopefully the same down.





Klovski Descent 7A, tallest building in Ukraine.

Sofiivska square.

St. Michael's.



St. Sophia’s.



True, nobody likes salad.

Dog watch.

Golden Gate dates back to around 1050 AD.





St. Volodymyr’s cathedral.



Universytet station, one of the world's longest escalators at 87 m (286 ft).



Busy afternoon.

The massive Khreshchatyk street.

Ginormous sidewalks.

Maidan Nezalezhnosti - Independence square.

Center of town, and site of violent protests in the past.



Independence monument.



Founders of Kiev monument.









Khachapuri at Suluguni restaurant, better than in Georgia.

uuh what kind of hotel did I pick, only 2 hours with discount?

Yevropeiska square.

Chernobyl?

Arsenalna subway station.

Arsenalna station is the deepest in the world at 106 m (348 ft).

Mariinskyi park.



Konstytutsii square.

Mariyinsky palace.

Friendship of Nations arch.





Dnieper river and beaches.

View from Khreshchaty park.

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