Hotel Ukrayina
| Hotel Ukraine | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Ukraine |
| Address | 4 vulytsia Instytutska Kiev, Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 50°26′54.75″N 30°31′37.95″E / 50.4485417°N 30.5272083°ECoordinates: 50°26′54.75″N 30°31′37.95″E / 50.4485417°N 30.5272083°E |
| Owner | State Management of Affairs |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 21 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | A. Dobrovolsky |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 371 |
| Parking | 69 |
| Website | |
| www.ukraine-hotel.kiev.ua | |
Hotel Ukraine (Ukrainian: Готель Україна; Russian: Гостиница Украина), also referred to as Hotel Ukrayina, is a four-star hotel located in central Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The hotel was built in 1961 as the Hotel "Moscow" in a location which originally was occupied by Kiev's first skyscraper, the Ginzburg House. The construction of the hotel finished the architectural ensemble of Kiev's main street the Khreshchatyk which formed the post-war reconstruction of central Kiev. The hotel is state-owned and belongs to the State Management of Affairs.
The area of the location where the modern building sits is significant to the history of Kiev and its geography. Historically, when Kiev still had military fortification walls surrounding the city which ran along the modern Khreschatyk street and in the area of the Pechersk Gate, now located in today's Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. The layout of the roads leading to the gate can still be observed at the five small streets coming out of the northern part of the square.
Overlooking the Pechersk Gate from the south was an offspur of the Pechersk plateau with two roads on both sides linking the Pechersk with old Kiev. One of which, modern Institutska Street, was known since days of Kievan Rus' as the Ivanovo road and the other (modern Horodetska) lead to a large market that was to the south. A beautiful Linden wood covered the surrounding hills forming a picturesque view from the city walls.
Eventually, the military fortification was pulled down, and as the 18th century drew to a close, development of the picturesque area quickly began turning the Ivanovo road into Ivanovskaya Street (renamed in 1820s to Bigechevskaya when an estate of General Bigechev was constructed on it). At the same time, the other side of the offspur also received its share of development, and the Linden tree forest was transformed into a park with a lake (in the modern location of the Ivan Franko square); all of this was inside the grounds of a massive estate that was bought in 1862 by Kiev University medicine professor of F. Mering. To gain additional profits, Mering allowed part of the park to be converted for the use of workshops and storage. When Mering died in 1895, it was possible to divide the estate into several quarters, due to the formation of the estate's service driveways. One of these driveways became the modern Olhinska street, which effectively placed the offspur in the geographical layout that survives today, with the Olhinska street cutting off the offspur in the south.
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