Kyiv City Hall and the Great Patriotic War Museum is going to offer a new amusement for Kievans and tourists, who love extreme. For only 800 hryvnia you will be tied with the rope and raised to the top of the shield of the Kyiv famous Statue of Motherland.

A real submarine SS-130 will be brought to Kyiv from Kherson, where a museum complex called “Peremoga” (Victory) dedicated to naval topics will be created. This submarine was given to Ukraine as a gift by Russia in 2000.

Kyiv authorities are going to choose one of the parks in the Ukrainian capital, where monuments of the Soviet era will be placed. For this purpose they offer a park of Alexander Pushkin. It is suggested to place monuments in sectors, which will display different periods of the Soviet history.

On the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, October 14, 2009, the march of OUN UPA is planned to be held in Kyiv under the slogan “Bandera is our hero! Pokrova is our holiday!”. It will start at 3pm near the monument of Taras Shevchenko. At the end of the march there will be a concert where leading Ukrainian rock groups will take part.

On Wednesday morning, 8th October, nearly all left bank of Kyiv was in smoke. A burn smell could be felt even in Posnyaki district. The fire has started on sludge fields of Bortnychi Aeration Station where sewage is cleaned (near Gnedin village, Boryspil district, Kyiv region).

A unique wall-paintings of XVIII and XIX centuries have been open to the public in St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. Since 60s these paintings have been hidden under a special layer of whitewash, as they say they were too bright in comparison with more ancient frescoes.

Kyiv City Administration decided to prolong the term of traffic limitation on Khreschatik Street from 31st August to 31st December 2009 not only for cars, but also for pedestrians.

Probably in a few years a big 250 meters high View Tower might appear next to the Friendship Arch (Arka Druzhby Narodiv) in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It’ll look a little bit like Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow, Russia. Kyiv View Tower will be a central station of a ropeway.

Special Ukrainian police will be watching all those who smokes or drinks in public places and also litters around.
It is planned to establish a tourist police in the capital of Ukraine. Such police will control parking of the tourist buses, will check if tourist guides have the license for the tourist activity and also will look after the monuments and cultural heritage, etc.

Morning river tram route is cancelled in Kiev. Now, city river ships will run only in the evenings. The cancellation reason is very simple: the river tram was nearly empty in the mornings , so there was no sense to keep in going. Instead, another evening route has been open. The ship will run from the berth at Obolon embankment (next to Prirechnaya Street) to Poshtova Ploscha and back.