The oldest and most beautiful part of the capital – this is the Old City. It surprisingly combines architectural monuments of antiquity with modern business centers, small courtyards with spacious streets, and if you are looking for a really prestigious and picturesque corner in the Shevchenko district, you definitely need to buy an apartment in the center of Kiev. Here you will find a developed infrastructure , a variety of housing options (from majestic buildings of the 19th century to stylish comfortable LCDs of the 21st century), all types of public transport and, of course, the amazing atmosphere of the cultural and business heart of the city. after all, many people are eager to settle in this part of the city.
The secondary market of Kiev apartments is represented here by housing in more than 12 hundred houses: from elegant pre-revolutionary houses (for example , Malaya Zhitomirskaya St., 13/6 or Prorizna St., 9) and impressive "stalinok" (St. Trekhsvyatitelskaya, 3 or Kostelnaya, 6) to huge, modern residential complexes (here, for example, you can buy an apartment in a rented new building in «ARCH House» on Nikolay Pirogov St. / Bohdan Khmelnitsky St., 2/37b from "Ukrbudinvest and Co" (2014) or in a large residential complex "Zlatoustovsky" (2013) at Vyacheslav Chernovol St., 27, 29a, Poltavskaya St., 10, Dmitrievskaya St., 75, 55, Zlatoustovskaya St.
If you are planning to buy real estate in the center of the capital, you only need to choose: whether to purchase primary housing (this part of the city is very attractive for developers) or buy a secondary apartment.
p>Upper Town (this is the historical name of this area) –this is the beginning of the beginnings of the capital.Here stood the grand duke's palace, defensive ramparts rose, temples, churches and cathedrals were built (the first was the Church of the Tithes , and the grandiose St. Sophia Cathedral, built under Yaroslav the Wise, is still one of the most famous religious buildings in the capital).
This area was called the Upper City, as opposed to Podol – Lower city. If merchants and artisans settled mainly in Podil, then princes and their inner circle lived in the Upper Town. The central gate of the Kiev citadel was the Golden Gate.
Practically the entire Upper Town was destroyed in the 13th century, during the era of the Tatar-Mongol invasion.
The revival of this area dates back to the 19th century. At this time, a new development of the territory near the Golden Gate begins: profitable houses and mansions are being built, and the area is being redevelopment. This territory becomes the administrative center of the capital.
At the beginning of the 20th century. The lower and upper towns were connected by such an unusual type of transport as a funicular.
During the Great Patriotic War, the center of the capital was practically destroyed. In the post-war period, it was rebuilt: in particular, Khreshchatyk was rebuilt in the "Stalin Empire" style.
In the XXI century. a business, cultural and tourist center has been formed here. There are many stunningly beautiful architectural and historical monuments. The most famous of them – the majestic St. Sophia Cathedral, the picturesque St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral, the airy St. Andrew's Church, the Golden Gate, unusual for a modern person, the bright National University. T. Shevchenko, luxurious Opera House. T. Shevchenko and much more.
As for housing in Kiev in this area, it’s easy to find both apartments in old houses (for example, in pre-revolutionary buildings of 1917 on T. Shevchenko Boulevard , 46 or on Oles Gonchar St., 24b or "Stalinka" on Pushkinskaya St., 20 or B. Khmelnitsky, 68), and apartments in new houses. This, for example, is luxury VIP-level real estate in the new residential complex "H-Tower" on blvd. Tarasa Shevchenko, 28-30 from "Hilton" (2015) or in the neighboring residential complex "Diamant" on blvd. Tarasa Shevchenko, 27b (2009) or apartments in new buildings in the residential complex "Nobel Homes" on st. Gogolevskaya, 14 from "GEOS" (2015).
Sale of apartments in the central part of the capital is also carried out in the houses of the "special project" series; (for example, on Volodymyrska St., 51/53 or T. Shevchenko Boulevard, 38).
The approximate boundaries of the area are as follows: Pobedy Avenue, Khreshchatyk, Bulvarno-Kudryavskaya st. (former st. Vorovskogo), & nbsp; st. Sich Riflemen (former Artem St.), Andreevsky Spusk.
Soldatskaya Slobidka, Shulyavka, Podil (Podilsky District), Lipki, and behind them – Pechersk (respectively, Pechersky district), the center of Goloseevsky district, not far lies Solomenka (Solomensky).
Center of the capital – Independence Square. The main points of the area – Sofia and Mikhailovskaya squares. By the way, it is Mikhailovskaya Square that is the end point of the funicular movement going from Postal Square to Podil. The main streets – Vladimirskaya, Bolshaya Zhitomirskaya, Yaroslavov Val, as well as Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, Pushkinskaya, B. Khmelnitsky, Oles Gonchar, Mikhailovskaya, Mikhailovsky per. Also here are such streets and lanes as: Rylsky per., Desyatinnaya, Stretenskaya, Zolotovorotskaya, Nikolai Lysenko, Kiyanovsky per., Leontovich, Tereshchenkovskaya, Mikhail Kotsyubinsky, Alla Gorskaya, Leo Tolstoy, Zhilyanskaya, Georgievsky per., Chekhovsky per. ., Vyacheslav Lipinsky, Pavlovskaya, Nekrasovskaya, Bekhterevsky lane, Nesterovsky lane, Kudryavsky descent, Pankovskaya, Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya, Nazarovskaya. an amazing place designed as if it were a – part of a fairy tale or a cartoon: original benches, bright flower beds, colorful installations.
Here it is easy to find an elite VIP housing or buy a stalinka. In the Upper Town there are both apartments in old houses and housing in new buildings: here you can buy a new building from the developer in the residential complex "Patriarch Hall" on st. Saksaganskogo, 80 or nearby in the residential complex "Royal Tower" on st. Antonovich (Gorky), 34b / st. Saksaganskogo, 37d or buy a new apartment in elite special projects of the 2000s. This LCD "Ambassador House" on st. Ivana Franko, 4b, residential complex "Da Vinci" (2007) on the street. Oles Gonchar, 35, st. Kudryavskaya, 13-19 (2000), st. Patorzhinsky, 14 (2003), st. Bohdan Khmelnitsky, 58a (2013), st. Oles Gonchar, 26 (2005), st. Irininskaya, 5/24 (2005), etc.
New buildings in the center of Kiev began to appear en masse during the construction wave of the 2000s. Nowadays, it is also profitable to buy one-room apartments in Kiev in a pre-revolutionary house (for living or renting out) or to sell luxury real estate.
If you want to buy an apartment in Kiev in a truly comfortable part of the capital, then you will definitely like the Old Town.
There is everything here: majestic temples – for example, Vladimirsky Cathedral or Pokrovsky Monastery, cultural institutions (for example National Opera of Ukraine and National Circus of Ukraine or museums: Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine, Literary and Memorial Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Museum of City History , Postal Museum, National Museum of Literature of Ukraine, Museum of Russian Art, Pinchuk Art Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.). It is not by chance that this part of the city is considered a cultural center: in addition to museums and architectural monuments, there are several theaters (for example, the National Academic Theater of Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka, the Kiev Gray Theater, etc.) and galleries (Gallery "Ancient City", Gallery Florentine mosaic, Gamma Gallery, etc.).
Historical center – it is not only cultural institutions, but also a shopping and entertainment area. Here are located TsUM, shopping center "Metrograd", shopping center "Globus 1 Line", shopping center "Arena-class", shopping center "Ukraine" on the square Victory, Bessarabian market. As well as a wide variety of cafes, restaurants, coffee houses: "Barkas", "Opera", "Murakami", "Beluga", "Drova", "Karetny", "Crimea", "Portofino" , «Chocolate», «Sushistik» etc. There are also nightclubs here (for example, "Sorry, Grandmother", "BumBumRoom", etc.)
There are also convenient green areas in this part of the city: this is the botanical garden named after. A. Fomin, Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko Park, Vladimirskaya Gorka Park, Zolotovratsky Square, Kyiv Intellectuals Square, Landscape Alley Park etc.
Of course, there are many shops, bank branches, Fora supermarkets here; and Billa, several gyms and fitness clubs, medical institutions, as well as hotels, educational and scientific institutions, travel agencies, business centers and numerous monuments: Princess Olga, B. Khmelnitsky, Yaroslav the Wise, etc.
Also, official institutions are located in this part of the city: embassies, the Kiev City Council, the Kiev City Administration, the Economic Court, etc.
The center has its own problems: for example, the lack of playgrounds, small courtyards (and many houses do not have their own territories at all) and, most importantly, the lack of parking spaces. Some residential complexes have their own parking lots, so if you are interested, for example, in selling apartments from a developer inexpensively in the Saksagansky residential complex on st. Saksaganskogo, 70a (2014), then a pleasant addition to cozy housing will be the opportunity to purchase or rent a parking space.
In the Old Town you can find all types of public transport: buses, trolleybuses , trams, minibuses. The most traffic-saturated streets – T. Shevchenko boulevard, Vladimirskaya, Khreshchatyk, Bulvarno-Kudryavskaya.
On Khreshchatyk, you can take the 24th or 114th bus. By the way, this street is closed for traffic on weekends and holidays.
On Vladimirskaya st. bus No. 114a runs.
On Independence Square you will find stops of trolleybuses No. 6, 16, 18, buses No. 24a, 114a.
On Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, you can take the 433rd minibus or by buses No. 114 and 114a.
Local metro stations - Ploshcha Lev Tolstoy, Teatralnaya, Universitet, Independence Square, Golden Gates.< /p>
If you are planning to buy an elite apartment in the center, then you may be interested in a new apartment in the club house "Gogolevskaya, 47" from "Reality" or in a rented Delux-class club house on the street. Ivana Franko, 24.
There are a lot of new buildings in this part of the city, so buying a property in a new building here is very easy. For example, you can buy an apartment in a new building in a rented house on the street. Gogolevskaya, 43 (2015) or st. Turgenevskaya, 46/11 (2012, occupied) or buy apartments in installments from the developer in the residential complex «Garden City Residence» on st. Zlatoustovskaya, 30a from "Property from Kovalskaya".
Of course, in general, the prices for apartments in Kiev on the secondary market are higher than the cost of real estate in neighboring areas of the city (especially in the area of such streets as Vladimirskaya, Desyatinnaya, Yaroslavov Val, Grinchenko, Proreznaya, Pushkinskaya, Khreshchatyk). If you are going to buy a 1-room apartment in Kiev in this area, then you should pay attention to the local "Stalinka" (79 O. Gonchar St. or 31a Vorovskogo St.), pre-revolutionary houses (for example, T. Shevchenko Boulevard, 46 or Chekhovskiy Lane, 3), a few "Khrushchev" houses; (St. Gogolevskaya, 11/39).
If you are looking for more spacious housing: for example, you want to buy a 3-room apartment, you can buy a resale (numerous pre-revolutionary houses – O Gonchara, 88b or Shevchenko Boulevard, 46; strict and spacious "Stalin" - Vorovskogo St., 31a; rare "special projects" of the XX century – B. Khmelnitsky St., 39) or purchase new buildings in Kiev.
The prestige of the area, its well-being and transport equipment determine the fairly high price of housing in this region: even a one-room apartment in the center in an old house can cost more than a spacious apartment in a new house on the outskirts or in an undeveloped area. Selling luxury apartments in the Old Town will be easier if you use the resources of the Internet.
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