Kiev Planetarium

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Coordinates: 50°25′53″N, 30°31′00″E Kiev Planetarium (previously: Republican Planetarium) in Kiev, Ukraine is one of the largest planetaria in the CIS (former Soviet states).

Opened on January 1, 1952 by the initiative of the scientist-astronomer Serhiy Vsekhsviatskiy (1905–1984), the planetarium has a dome of 23.5 meters in diameter, and seats 320 people.

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