Eastern Ukraine - Ukraine - page 409

Drinking & Nightlife
27 Irish Pub D1

Entertainment
28 Churchill's Music Pub D3
29 Jazzter C4

Shopping
30 Ye C5

Sights

Ploshcha Svobody SQUARE
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( Derzhprom) Locals claim that this huge expanse of cobbles is the second-largest in the
world after Beijing's Tiananmen Sq. At 750m long it's indisputably huge and is certainly
Kharkiv's most unique sight.
Planned as an ensemble of Ukrainian government buildings when Kharkiv was the re-
publican capital, it was laid out between 1925 and 1935. The late-1920s Derzhprom
OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP at its western end was the first Soviet skyscraper, a geo-
metric series of concrete and glass blocks and bridges. On the southern side of the square
is the university OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP (early 1930s), formerly the House of
Planning, which displays classic Soviet aesthetics. Lenin still proudly stands in the midst
of it all, looking as though he's just about to take a bow - perhaps someone should tell
him the show ended way back when.

Ploshcha Konstytutsiyi SQUARE
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( Istorychny Muzey) If you are looking for a meeting point in Kharkiv, nothing beats the
spot under the giant thermometer OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP that adorns
Istorychny Muzey metro exit to pl Konstytutsiyi. Just west of the square, the gleaming
domes of the Pokrovsky Monastery OFFLINE MAP

GOOGLE MAP (Intercession of the