Kyiv: Facts, Figures and Records

A selection of surprising facts from Kyiv′s city tours that will help you see the Ukrainian capital through entirely new eyes.

1. Longest street: Brovarska Avenue — approximately 14 km.
2. Shortest street: Inzhenerny Lane (near Arsenalna Square) — under 50 metres, with just 3 houses on it.
3. Oldest street: Volodymyrska Street — over one thousand years old.
4. Widest street: Khreshchatyk — 75 metres from building to building.
5. Narrowest street: Heorhiivsky Lane — the carriageway is only 5.4 metres wide.
6. Oldest tree: the Wilhelm Krister oak on Osypovskho Street — estimated at 600 to 700 years old.
7. Most densely populated district: Desnyansky — approximately 354,500 residents.
8. Least populated district: Pecherskyi — approximately 139,000 residents.
9. Deepest metro station: Arsenalna — 105 metres deep, the deepest metro station in the world.
10. Most beautiful metro station: Zoloti Vorota (Golden Gate) — ranked among the ten most beautiful metro stations on the planet.
11. Tallest structure: the TV tower in the Syrets district, built in 1973 — 380 metres tall.
12. Highest point above the Dnipro: Slavy Square — over 200 metres above river level.
13. Most popular souvenir: the Kyiv Cake (Kyivsky Tort), produced since 1956.
14. Largest educational institution: the National Technical University of Ukraine (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) — around 42,000 students and a total staff of over 50,000.
15. Most visited museum: the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra National Historical and Cultural Reserve — approximately one million visitors per year.
16. Oldest monument: the Magdeburg Rights Column on the Dnipro slopes, erected in 1802–1808, designed by architect A. Melensky.
17. Tallest monument: the Motherland Monument (102 m overall height) at the National Memorial Complex; sculptor V. Borodai; opened in 1981. In 2023 the Soviet coat of arms on the shield was replaced with the Ukrainian trident. One of the five tallest sculptures in the world.
18. Largest residential district: Troyeshchyna — approximately 240,000 residents.
19. Largest industrial enterprise: the Aviant plant — manufacturer of Antonov (AN) aircraft that fly on every continent.
20. Longest urban transport route: Tram No. 12 (Kontraktova Ploshcha metro — Pushcha-Vodytsia) — approximately 20 km.
21. Shortest transport route: the funicular railway — 222 metres.
22. Largest park: Rylsky Park (Holosiivsky district) — approximately 150 hectares, opened in 1958.
23. Most humid residential district: Vynohradar.
24. Driest residential district: Kharkivskyi.
25. World′s most unique monument (the only one of its kind): a monument to a rubbish truck, at 2 Hazoprovidna Street — erected in 2004 by municipal company Kyivspetztrans in gratitude to the city′s sanitation workers.
26. Ukraine′s first skyscraper: the Ginzburg Building (12 storeys, over 60 m) on Instytutska Street — the tallest building in the Russian Empire and the pre-war Soviet Union. Destroyed in 1941; the Hotel Ukraine now stands on the site.
27. Tallest modern building: the residential complex at 7 Klovskyi Uzviz — 168 metres tall.
28. Shortest and widest main street among European capitals: Khreshchatyk — only 1,300 metres long but a full 75 metres wide.
29. Smallest lift: in the building at 11-V Prorizna Street — the cabin floor is approximately 0.5 m², fitting just one person; installed in the 1950s at the personal request of an official who found climbing the stairs too difficult.
30. Smallest working church: the Church of Mary Magdalene, located in a basement at the courtyard of 43 Volodymyrska Street.