Kiev mid-20th century

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Shevchenko Boulevard, Fall 1941
(The current name of the boulevard is from 1919)

In these post-war population lived in dugouts Darnitsya, 1950



The Supreme Council, 1941



Rusanivka during a flood in April 1970



Vladimir descent, the end of the 1950s



Post-war reconstruction Downtown, 1950



In the background - under construction Circus (Victory Square), 1959



Dnieper embankment. At the point where the image can be seen bearing the old Chain Bridge, is now Metro Bridge (early 1960s).



Area Lenin Komsomol (now - European area), 1950



The same area in 1970



Behind the photographer - metro Chernihiv, December 1970



Bereznyakov buildings, street view Enthusiasts, November 1967



Cinema Kiev, the beginning of the 1960s



German colony on the corner of Krasnoarmejsky (now - Big Vasylkivska) and Zhylianska



Khreschatyk, 1944



Leningrad area, in November 1958



Meter factory Bolshevik (now - Shuliavska) 1962



Paton Bridge, 1959



Dnieper Embankment (now - quay highway), 1959



Some park, I can not say more. So rested our ancestors 50 years ago.



Crossroads of the Kharkiv highway and street Hasek, August 1962



Lenin Komsomol Square (now - European Space), a view of the hotel "Intourist" (the modern name of the hotel - "Dnepr"), 1962



The area of ​​the October Revolution (now - Maidan Nezalezhnosti - Independence Square), May 1985



Victory Square, 1960



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



Victory Square, 1961



Prospect Mira, 1963



Mira Avenue in front of the Leningrad area, 1959. On the left side of the fence today is a department store (or already shopping mall) "Darnitsa»



The ruins of the Chain Bridge, 1943-44.



Near the University Shevchenko street intersection and Vladimir Tolstoy, 1978



Fireworks over the footbridge, 1960



Svyatoshin, 1959



PSAs, 1970



Dnipro metro station, 1965



Komsomolskaya metro station (now - Chernihiv)



Dnipro metro station, 1960



University subway station, 1960.



Construction cinema Kievan Rus, 1981



Construction of the subway station Dnipro, the end of the 1950s



So in 1942 looked Dnieper embankment. Away - destroyed the Chain Bridge



Darnitsya, 1967



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



Area Kalinin, 1960. So in those years Maidan Nezalezhnosti called



So in the 1960s, was Victory Avenue



Vladimir Street, Spring 1944



The same Vladimir in summer 1959



Street of the Comintern in 1959. Away - Central Train Station



Street Uritskogo 1959



Shevchenko University and college students, 1957

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Dnieper embankment, 1955.



Dnieper embankment and Trukhanov Island, 1957
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