![]() Keep in mind, the building is very old, so you need to be extremely careful. If you seek for some adventures, you can try to get to the territory having previously agreed with the guards. That’s why Kiev stalkers often visit this place in search of thrill. The building of the chemical plant is now abandoned. Today, there are only reagents, flasks, documents and technical books scattered all over the place.Īlso in the plant laboratory you can encounter phosphoric anhydride, hydroquinone and other substances used in the chemical industry. In the 1990s, the plant was closed and the equipment was removed. ![]() The chemical plant was built around the same period but the exact date of construction is unknown. In 1971, the CHPP-5 was established here. The abandoned chemical plant – is located near the Vydubychi metro station. At the moment the building is abandoned and no reconstruction has been carried out. From the tower to the barracks of the military cantonists there was a defensive wall with Navodnitsky gates (not preserved). It was built like a barracks for two soldiers’ companies. It is a brick circular structure with an internal cobbled yard. In comparison with other towers it had small dimensions and was therefore called the “small tower”. Tower № 4 – the tower of the Vasylkiv fortification, built in 1833-1839 (Staronavodnytska Str., 2). – for the household needs of the military department. Since 1871 it was used to house a military correctional company, in 1880-188. In the centre of the courtyard is a two-storeyed rectangular building – barracks for keeping prisoners. It was a complex of buildings surrounded by a wall-carpet (the height of the wall is 7 m, the length of the side is up to 100 m), with a courtyard, angular prismatic towers, and also buildings for kitchen, baths and other household needs. (Konovalets Str., 44-g) and designed for holding prisoners (up to 900 people). Prison Castle – a construction in the structure of the Vasylkiv fortification, built in 1812-1817. Due to the legends of ghosts and mystical cases, young people of informal and alternative movements loved this place most of all. Sometimes there are night discos and performances of various youth musical groups. Today the theater is in an abandoned state. A cinema was built for 4000 seats at the base of the upper wall in 1949. There are galleries and gun loopholes inside the retaining walls. From the water tower, as well as through the lower and upper supporting walls, an underground passage leading to the Arsenal factory passed. ![]() The upper retaining wall was not of military importance, while the lower one closed the approaches to the Nikolayev chain bridge, guarding the Podolskie Nikolsky Gates. It was located between the metro station “Arsenalnaya” and the Mariinsky Park. During the fortification of the Pechersk fortress, two support walls were built for the ravine. The Green Theater – was built on the ruins of a fortress in the middle of the XIXth century. Today, the remains of the building partially covers the building of the metro station “Arsenalna”, and from the Mariinsky Park it is closed by dwelling houses. In the 1930s the thoroughfare of the Nikolsky Gate was laid. Later, on the site of the buried part of the moat and pulled down the defensive wall, starting from the gate, through the fortifications was paved the street. It is known that in the early XX century soldiers of the pontoon battalions were stationed in the Nikolsky barracks. After the abolition of the fortress, the gates were dismantled. In 1852 the front facade of the gate was decorated with lion masks and ornaments (preserved from the moat side). The building of the barracks with Nikolsky gate was divided into vaulted compartments-casemates with embrasures facing the external facade. The gate as a whole with the defensive barracks stood in a chain of fortifications, located around the Pechersk Upland on the isthmus, connecting Pechersk with the palace part.Ī brick wall with loopholes was connected to the workshops of the “Arsenal” plant (a fragment of the wall was preserved). The construction in the form of a stretched letter “M”, with loopholes and towers with crenellations, amazes with its unusual configuration and romantic forms. Nikolsky Gate with barracks are also known as “barracks on the isthmus”, because were built on the site of a natural isthmus. Nicholas (Nikolsky) Gate – a monument of fortification architecture, erected in 1846-1850 and were the main entrance to the Kyiv fortress (Ivan Mazepa Str., 1). The abandoned chemical plant The abandoned ice stadium The abandoned psychiatric clinic
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