Description
You will visit the memo, where the tragic events of 1941 took place
- This is a driving tour where you will have a chance to visit Babi Yar and St. Cyril’s Monastery.
- Walk on a route that has a tinge of sadness, as at Babi Yar there have been killed about 100 thousand of people. This is a large ravine to which shot people were dumped. The Kiev tragic place is in the list of the world’s Holocaust memorials and it is a reminder of the brutal actions of the Nazis.
- Visit the memorial “Menorah” to shot Jews, shot prisoners, shot Soviet citizens and children and to the victims of the Kurenivka mudslide in Kiev.
- Our guide will tell you in detail about these places and difficult occupational period of the capital by the German fascists and about the events that took place at Babi Yar in those terrible years.
- Discover St. Cyril’s Monastery, which pleases the eye with its grandeur. This is one of the most important shrines of Kievan Rus. This religious building is the heritage asset of the XII century.
- Discover ancient Russian frescoes and paintings that decorate the walls of the church. Also, the guide will tell that on this very place the famous Prince Svyatoslav of Kiev had been buried. The church is a historical and cultural museum and it is a part of the National Sanctuary “Sophia of Kiev”.
Information about your guide
Ordering this tour, you will be guided by a welcome, professional and dynamic person, who presents information in the most comprehensible way. This is a person who loves and knows the city of Kyiv inside out. He or she will recommend you the sightseeing attractions to visit in future, suggest the location of museums, theatres, entertainment centers, shops etc. Also don’t worry about all technical issues that may appear during the excursion, those are bathrooms, restaurants etc.
Languages
French
Arabic
Greek
Ukrainian
Russian
German
English
Sightseeing attractions
St. Cyril’s Monastery
Babi Yar
“A monument to Soviet citizens and prisoners of war and officers of the Soviet Army shot at Babi Yar by the German fascists”
“Path of a sorrow”
Obelus in memory of german prisoners of war
Memorial to shot children
Bolshaya Zhytomyrskaya str
Chemist’s Eisman I. estate
Public offices
Fire safety station with fire tower
Lvovskaya sq.
* Additional places of interest can be also included in this route. It may be discussed with your quide during excursion or with our manager by phone.
Feel comfortable with us
Guide’s tips as for the markets or shops.
Accommodation services.
Guide’s tips as for the restaurants.
50 UAH discount for a disabled person.
Guide’s tips as for museums.
Comfortable transport.
Special thing about this private tour
- The quide will conduct excursion individually for you or for your company.
- You have an opportunity to make changes to your route.
- You set the convenient time and place of starting and ending of the excursion.
- You set the duration of the tour.
- You can include into the excursion program visiting museums, restaurants or othe interesting places.
| Price for the driving tour (3-hours) | Ukr/Rus | Eng | Ger, Fr and other. |
| car (1-3 ps) | 5000 / 6000* grn | 6000 / 7200* grn | 7200 / 8600* grn |
| minibus (4-6 ps) | 6000 / 7200* grn | 7200 / 8600* grn | 8600 / 10400* grn |
| minibus (7-15 ps) | 7200 / 8600* grn | 8600 / 10400* grn | 10400 / 12400* grn |
| bus (16-25 ps) | 8600 grn | 10400 grn | 12400 grn |
| bus (26-34 ps) | 10400 grn | 12400 grn | 14900 grn |
| bus (35-40 ps) | 12400 grn | 14900 grn | 17900 grn |
* - price for business class auto
| Price for the walking tour (3-hours) | Ukr/Rus | Eng | Ger, Fr and others. |
| 1-15 ps | 3500 grn | 4200 grn | 5000 grn |
| 16-30 ps | 4200 grn | 5000 grn | 6000 grn |
A Bit of History
The route of this private driving tour around Kyiv passes through Velyka Zhytomyrska street, where you will see many ancient architectural monuments, after which you will get to Lvivska square. Yet at the time of Yaroslav the Wise at Lvivska square there had been built one of three main entrances to Kiev – Zhydivsky gate. Later there had been built Lvivski and Zhytomyrsky gates that had existed to the mid-19th century. After their demolition a square was formed. This square was called the Hay-square, as there had been the Hay Market till 1958.
While passing Artema str., during this private driving tour, you will learn about the old houses which have remained unchanged till now here and which housed famous Ukrainian scientist-philologist P.G. Zhitetsky, one of the leaders of Kiev Bolsheviks I.F. Smirnov-Lastochkin, writers S.V. Vasilchenko, I.S. Nechuj-Levitsky and many other famous personalities. And in 1926 this street got its present name in honor of a professional revolutionary, Soviet party and state leader Artem Sergeev.
The next stage of the private driving tour is Babi Yar. This is an area in the Shevchenko district. Prior to building up Babi Yar district, there had been one of the biggest ravines on the territory of Kiev, length of which was about 2.5 km, and the depth – about 50 m. Babi Yar has appeared in the list of Holocaust memorials. During the time of Nazi occupation of Kiev in 1941-1943 it was a place of mass destruction of the city’s civilian population, members of Kiev underground organizations and prisoners of war. There have been killed more than 100 thousand of Soviet citizens in Babi Yar. Here stands a monument to Soviet citizens and prisoners of war and officers of the Soviet Army shot at Babi Yar by the German fascists.
On a high mountain, where the creek Babi Yar went out to the Dnieper valley, Vsevolod II of Kiev founded St. Cyril’s Monastery and built a stone church in it in 1140. Following the example of Chernigov cathedrals it was decorated with arcature and fresco. The temple was built for the Princes of Chernigov dynasty and throughout the 12th century had been their burial place. In 1179 the wife of Vsevolod II, Maria, was buried there, in 1194 – his son, Sviatoslav III of Kiev, one of the protagonists of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”. Ordering this private driving tour, you will have the opportunity to visit this mysterious place.
In the district of St. Cyril’s Monastery there are the homonymous caves. First archaeologists have studied them at the end of the last century and in the vaulted galleries revealed stone instruments of labour, crockery and other traces of our ancestors.
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