Consularrider’s Kyiv Cycling Videos

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Riding cobblestones at Komarivka. This is still the T1015 and it looked like the main route bore left here so I initially skipped the cobblestones until my Garmin told me I was “OFF COURSE!”

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Last one, I promise. This was on the T1015 through the woods between Komarika and Bilka.

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I done this more than any other ride while I’ve been in Kyiv.

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A couple of notes of things in the clip.

0:11 L’vivs’ka Square on the right
0:53 St Sophia’s Cathedral, oldest standing church in Kyiv, now a museum. Statue of cossack Bohdan Khmelnystky
1:15 Small statue of Hedgehog in the Mist on right, don’t blink, you’ll miss it
1:30 A loop around the Zoloti Vorota (Golden Gate) reconstructed in 1982
2:25 turning onto vul Kreshchatyk
2:36 passing Maidan Nezalezhnosti
2:55 European Square, Ukraine House on the left (former All Union Lenin Museum), National Philharmonic on the right, straight ahead the Friendship of Nations Arch
3:15 This downhill SUP was all ice for a couple of months this winter
3:43 Parkovyi Pedestrian Bridge
4:05 Trukhaniv Island.

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This is just on the middle portion of Trukhaniv Island, mostly the main paved road, but also two off road segments. The speed limit on the paved road is 20 km per hour, I’m averaging about 25 on my fat bike.

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This starts on the Parkovyi Bridge and then the SUP 300 foot climb up the bluff
1:35 Leo Restaurant
1:50 Friendship of Nations Arch, and yeah, I rode the stone railing next to those steps, sure
2:25 Water tower of 1870s water works, highest point in Kyiv
2:46 Hidden on the right is Dynamo Kyiv Stadium
3:15 Again hidden on the right is Mariyinsky Palace
4:25 The obelisk mid-left through the gap in the trees is the Monument to Unknown Soldier from the Great Patriotic War
4:45 Holodomor Memorial, Famine of 1932-1933
4:53 Remnant old defensive earthworks
5:00 Pechersk Lavra complex on left, Mystetskyi Arsenal on right now an art museum
5:30 Confused about my turn :rolleyes:

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More riding in central Kyiv, a good part through the Lipki area with turn of the century (19th to 20th) mansions.
1:45 The building on the right housed the Cheka/NKVD/KGB
1:55 Mansion of Nikolaly Kovalevsky, 1912 with Armenia influence, on the right and 4:49 on the left
1:55 “Chocolate Mansion” about 1900 on the left and again on the left at 4:50
2:05 No info on the intricate pink mansion undergoing restoration on the left
2:17 “House of the Weeping Widow” 1907 on the right
2:22 Attempt to see the “House with Chimeras” 1901 across from the building of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration so the street is blocked off
3:20 Turning onto Heroyiv Nebesnoyi Sontni Alley (former Instiytuska St) renamed in honor of the “Heavenly Hundred” who were killed during the Euromaidan.
3:30 On the left after the pedestrian bridge is the Former Institute forNoblemaidens built in 1838, NKVD headquarters 1934 to 1941, destroyed during WWII and rebuilt during the 1950s
4:00 Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred. There are also many informal tribute along this uphill stretch from Independence Square
4:18 National Bank of Ukraine 1902-1905 on the left
5:10 Very nasty and rough downhill cobblestone stretch

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Last part of today’s ride (still rode another 8 miles, but the card was full) and probably my last Kyiv video.

:12 Looping around the Bessarabskiy Rynok (Market) on the left
:55 Loop through Taras Shevchenkio Park

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