European Square (Kiev)
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European Square (Ukrainian: Європейська Площа, Yevropeys’ka Ploscha, literally: European Square) is a square situated at the north-eastern end of Kiev's famous Khreschatyk street. The square was known under at least 9 different names during the last two hundred years.
[edit] Former Names
- Originally, the square was called the Horse’s Square (Konnaya Ploschad), because its location was used for horse trading.
- After the 1805-1806 construction of the first theater in Kiev by the architect Andrey Melensky that was located at the current place of Ukrainian House the square used to be called Theatre Square (Teatralnaya Ploschad).
- In 1851, when the Yevropeysky Hotel was built to the designs of the architect Vikentiy Beretti, the square was officially renamed to European Square ('Yevropeyskaya Ploschad), the name that was returned to it in the post-Soviet times.
- Between 1869 and 1919 the square was called Tsar Square (Tsarskaya Ploschad , due to the monument of Alexander II of Russia erected there. During that time the square could also be referred to as Aleksandrovskaya for the same reason.
- In the Soviet times the square was renamed to the Third International's Square (Ploshcha Tretioho Internatsionalu).
- In 1944 the square was renamed Stalin Square (Stalinska Ploshchad).
- And in 1961, the square was named Ploscha Leninskoho Komsomolu or the Lenin's Komsomol Square.
[edit] Attractions
- Hotel Dnipro
- UNIAN news agency building
- Ukrainian House (Ukrayinskyi Dim) conference and exhibitions hall built in the end of the 1970s as a Lenin Museum
- Kiev Philarhmony (building nineteenth century)
- Parliamentary Library of Ukraine
[edit] External links
- European Square at Kiev History Site (English)/(Russian)/(Ukrainian)
- An optimistic avenue in Vokrug Sveta (Around the World), November, 2005. (Russian)
- Yevropeyska Ploscha in Wiki-Encyclopedia Kyiv (Ukrainian)
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