Kiev of the middle of the last century

Street names change, the streets themselves change, but the general "shell" of the city remains unchanged - today we will turn our historical gaze to the photos of Kiev in the middle of the last century.

Historical photographs are always interesting, because you can see familiar or even native places on them as you did not find them because you were not born, or as you remember them from childhood. Today, Kiev, an ancient city that has experienced (and is still experiencing) a stormy and eventful fate, has fallen into the "historical lens". Let's see what Kiev was like in the middle of the last century.

The Supreme Soviet, 1941

German column at the corner of Krasnoarmeyskaya (now Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya) and Zhilyanskaya streets, 1941

Shevchenko Boulevard, autumn 1941 (the current name of the boulevard has been since 1919)

This is how the Dnieper Embankment looked in 1942. In the distance - a destroyed Chain bridge

Ruins of the Chain Bridge, 1943-44

Vladimirskaya Street, spring 1944

Khreshchatyk, 1944

Stalin Square, May 1947. In 1961, it will be renamed Lenin Komsomol Square, and in 1991, already in independent Ukraine, the square will return one of its historical names — European (as it was called from 1851 to 1869).

Post-war restoration of Khreshchatyk, 1950

In such dugouts lived the post-war population of Darnitsa, 1950.

Lenin Komsomol Square (now the European Square), 1950s

Dneprovskaya embankment, 1955

Shevchenko University and student youth, 1957

Dneprovskaya embankment and Trukhanov Island, 1957

Vladimir Descent, late 1950s

Construction of the Dnipro metro station, late 1950s

Leningradskaya Square, November 1958

Paton Bridge, 1959

The embankment of the Dnieper (now - the Embankment highway), 1959

In the background is a circus under construction (Victory Square), 1959.

Vladimirskaya Street, summer of 1959

Comintern Street, 1959. In the distance - the Central Railway Station

Uritsky Street, 1959

Prospect Mira in front of Leningrad Square, 1959. To the left behind the fence today there is a department store (or already a shopping complex) "Darnitsa"

Svyatoshino, 1959

Dnipro metro station, 1960

Metro station "University", 1960

This was the Dnipro metro station in the first 5 years of its operation, June 1961

Victory Square, 1961

The intersection of Kharkiv highway and Gashek Street, August 1962

Lenin Komsomol Square (now European Square), view of the Intourist Hotel (the modern name of the hotel is Dnipro), 1962

Metro "Plant Bolshevik" (now — "Shulyavskaya"), 1962

Prospect Mira, 1963

Dnipro embankment. In the place where the supports of the old chain bridge are visible in the photo, there is now a Metro Bridge (early 1960s)

Cinema "Kiev", early 1960s

Some kind of park, I can't say more. This is how our ancestors rested 50 years ago

Victory Square, 1960s

This was the Victory Avenue in the 1960s

Salute over the Pedestrian bridge, 1960s

Kalinin Square, 1960's. So in those years the Maidan Nezalezhnosti was called

Dnipro metro station, 1965

Darnitsa, 1967

Bereznyakov building, view from the street of Enthusiasts, November 1967

Lenin Komsomol Square (now the European Square), 1970

Rusanovka during a flood in April 1970

Komsomolskaya metro station (now Chernihiv), 1970

Behind the photographer's back is the Chernihiv metro station, December 1970

Social advertising, 1970s

Near Shevchenko University, the intersection of Vladimirskaya and Tolstoy streets, 1978

Construction of the cinema "Kievan Rus", 1981

October Revolution Square (now Maidan Nezalezhnosti - Independence Square), May 1985