Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. Five-star Mayo edge out Cork to win Under-21 All Ireland football title Mayo 5-7 Cork 1-14. Welcome to the Alchemy Performance Assistant. Dear guest visitor, You tried to visit parts of the Assistant that are only available to subscribers or people with the. Kiev | national capital, Ukraine. City site. The city stands on the Dnieper River just below its confluence with the Desna and 5. Black Sea. The original location was on the high and steep right (western) bank, which rises above the river in an imposing line of bluffs culminating in Batyyeva Hill, 3. This precipitous and wooded bank, topped by the golden domes and spires of churches and bell towers and by high- rise apartment buildings, makes the city an attractive and impressive sight from across the Dnieper. Since World War II, Kiev has extended onto the wide, low, and flat floodplain on the left (eastern) bank. Climate. Kiev has a moderately continental climate. The average January temperature is 2.
F (−6 °C), and winter days with temperatures above freezing are not uncommon; in cold spells with a northerly or northeasterly airstream, temperatures may drop sharply, and an absolute minimum of −2. F (−3. 3 °C) has been recorded. Snow cover lies usually from mid- November to the end of March; the frost- free period lasts 1. Summers are warm, with a July average of 6. F (2. 0 °C) and a recorded maximum of 1. F (3. 9 °C). The mean annual precipitation is 2. June and July. City layout. Kiev: St. Sophia© Brykaylo Yuriy/Shutterstock. The city limits enclose an area of 3. Dnieper. It is divided into a number of administrative wards. The focus of Kiev is the area of the ancient Upper Town, crowning the high bluffs of the Dnieper. Although largely of postwar construction, this central area retains its old street pattern, and most of the surviving historical and architectural monuments are located there. First among these is the cathedral of St. Sophia, now a museum. It was built in the 1. Baroque modifications in the 1. Rus- Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture. It has a nave and four aisles and is crowned by five domes. The interior is magnificently decorated with frescoes and mosaics; it contains the tomb of Yaroslav I, the grand prince of Kiev during whose reign the cathedral was built. Kiev. Shostal Associates. Close by is the Baroque church of St. Andrew, designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and built in the mid- 1. Other historical relics in the central area include the ruins of the Golden Gate, also built in the 1. Yaroslav; the Zaborovsky Gate, built in 1. Desiatynna Church, or Church of the Tithes, built in 9. Grand Prince Volodymyr (Vladimir I). Within and immediately adjacent to the area of the former Old Town are many of the city’s museums, theatres, and public buildings as well as the principal shops. The axis of the centre is the street known as Khreshchatyk, which runs along the bottom of a small valley the sides of which have in part been landscaped with terraced gardens interspersed with tall, modern office and apartment buildings. The greenery of the gardens, the trees lining the street, the squares that it intersects—all combine with the variegated colours of brick, red and gray granites, and decorative ceramic tiles to give Khreshchatyk an attractive and colourful aspect much admired by Kiev’s inhabitants. Among important buildings on the street is that of the city council, where the elected deputies hold their meetings. Intersecting Khreshchatyk at right angles is the wide, poplar- lined Boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, on which stands the university with its eye- catching red- washed walls. There too is the cathedral of St. Volodymyr (still in use as a church), built in 1. Byzantine style and containing impressive paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Vrubel, and other artists. Notable among the many statues in central Kiev are those that commemorate the Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky and the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. North of the old centre is the former trading and Jewish quarter, Podil, with a rectangular pattern of streets and the old merchants’ trading exchange, the House of Contracts, built in 1. Also north of the old centre is the river port. South of the centre is the Pecherskyy district, along the top of the riverbank. This district contains many of the principal buildings of the Ukrainian government, including the glass- domed palace, built in 1. Supreme Council and the 1. Cabinet of Ministers. Nearby is the attractive Mariinsky Palace, built in 1. Elizabeth, reconstructed in 1. At the southern end of this district is the Kiev- Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), founded in the mid- 1. It was at the lavra that the monk Nestor helped compile the earliest surviving chronicle of the East Slavic state of Rus. The Cathedral of the Assumption (inside the walls of the monastery), blown up in 1. Trinity Church, of the same period, survives. Also within the walls are the 1. Church of All Saints and an impressive 1. A major feature of the monastery is the system of catacombs beneath it in which the mummified bodies of early monks and saints, including Nestor, are entombed. Although it is a museum open to the public, the Kiev- Pechersk Lavra is still in use as a monastery. South from the lavra is yet another monastery, the Vydubytsky, dating from the 1. World War II but later underwent restoration. All along the steep riverbank, fronting the Upper Town and Pecherskyy district, an attractively landscaped park has been laid out overlooking the Dnieper. With the views it affords, the park forms one of the most striking features of the city. It contains an open- air theatre, sports stadium, and restaurant, and a funicular railway climbs the 3. Also within the park are many memorials. Dominating the northern end is the statue of Grand Prince Volodymyr, who brought Christianity to Rus. The statue marks the place where in 9. Kiev were baptized en masse. The southern end, called the Park of Glory, has an 8. Unknown Soldier and a memorial garden. Also located in the park are the grave of General Nikolay Vatutin, commander of the Soviet forces that liberated Kiev in 1. Varangian (Viking) chief Askold. Around these central districts of Kiev stretch extensive suburbs of factories and residential neighbourhoods. As low priority was given to housing during the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule, the greater part of these suburbs was built after the Soviet leader’s death in 1. The neighbourhood units, known as microregions, consist of groupings of apartment buildings housing 2,5. Since the late 1. Most apartments have only two or three rooms, and population densities are therefore high, in the new residential developments as much as in the older central areas. The growing ownership of private cars poses problems in the provision of garage space in these new districts. A feature of development since World War II has been the rapid spread of the city on the low left (eastern) bank of the Dnieper, previously almost devoid of settlement. The left bank is linked to the main part of Kiev by a railway bridge and by the imposing Ye. O. Paton road bridge, which is 4,9. Between the neighbourhood units are substantial areas of parks and green space. These include the large botanical gardens of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the smaller university botanical gardens (established in the mid- 1. On the city outskirts are several areas of forest, which are much used for recreation. In the south is the Holosiivsky Park, dominated by deciduous trees, and to the north are nearly 1. Pushcha- Vodytsya Forest Park, mainly covered by coniferous species. A number of factors combine to make Kiev an attractive urban centre—the site, with its sharply contrasted relief and wide views across the Dnieper, the abundance of greenery in and around the city, and the many buildings of historical interest and beauty. TSNSnickers Worst Play of the Week. Defender Lawrence Olum passes it back to goalie Tim Melia, catching him off guard, and the ball goes into the net. The officials miss the goal however, and the play continues for the worst Play of the Week. Presented by.
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