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22 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Kyiv, Ukraine

Updated January 11, 2024

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The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv displays installations made of weapons and equipment from the war.

How Ukraine’s Museum Curators Are Risking Life and Limb to Document the War

Working to preserve memory, as history unfolds in real time.
by Tom Mutch
In late April, the city of Kyiv dismantled the workers’ statue beneath the Arch of the Peoples’ Friendship.

Toppling Ukraine's Russian and Soviet Past

In the midst of the current invasion, the country is grappling with how to commemorate its history.
by Pavlo Morkovkin
The mosaic panel “Blacksmiths of the Present,” on a wall at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Kyiv, was created in 1974 by artists Galina Zubchenko and Grygoryi Pryshedko.

Preserving Ukraine’s Soviet Past, One Mosaic At a Time

“We’re trying to collect everything before it’s gone.”
by JoAnna Haugen

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