Hrushevsky Street (Kyiv)

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{{Short description|Street in Pecherskyi District, Ukraine}}

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| name = Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Street
{{nobold|Вулиця Михайла Грушевського}}

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| image = Mykhaila Hrushevskoho street in Kyiv.jpg

| caption = Hrushevskyi street near Mariinskyi Park (2011)

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1919–1934: Revolution st.

1934–1991: Serhii Kirov st.

1941–1943: I. Mazepa st.{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Вулиці і площі Києва в часи німецької та російської окупації |trans-title=Streets and squares of Kyiv in times of Soviet and German occupations |url=http://oun-upa.org.ua/articles/occupation.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109155010/http://oun-upa.org.ua/articles/occupation.html |archive-date=9 November 2013 |language=uk |script-website=uk:ОУН-УПА}}

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| length_m = 1540

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| location = Pecherskyi District,
Kyiv, {{UKR}}

| direction_a = south

| terminus_a = Arsenal Square

| direction_b = north

| terminus_b = European Square

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Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Street or simply Hrushevskyi Street{{Cite episode |title=Kiev: The Story of Hrushevsky Street |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q3c1f |access-date=20 February 2022 |series=The Fifth Floor |network=BBC |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=21 January 2014 |title=Police Attempts to Dismantle Barricade on Kyiv's Hrushevsky Street |work=Kyiv Post |agency=Interfax-Ukraine |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/euromaidan/police-attempts-to-dismantle-barricade-on-kyivs-hrushevsky-street-335308.html |access-date=20 February 2022}}{{Cite news |last=Englund |first=Will |date=22 January 2014 |title=Ukrainian President, Opposition Leaders in Talks After Violent Clashes Escalate |language=en |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/01/22/8bfbda5a-8330-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html |access-date=20 February 2022}} ({{langx|uk|вулиця Михайла Грушевського |translit=vulytsia Mykhaila Hrushevskoho}}) is a street in central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

The street is named after Ukrainian academician, politician, historian, and statesman Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Hrushevsky wrote his first academic book on the history of Bar, Ukraine, titled Bar Starostvo: Historical Notes: XV-XVIII.{{Cite book |last=Hrushevsky |first=Mykhailo (Михайло Грушевський) |title=Barsʹke starostvo: Istorychni narysy (XV-XVIII st.) |date=1996 |publisher=In-t ukrayinsʹkoyi arkheohrafiyi ta dzhereloznavstva im. M.S. Hrushevsʹkoho |isbn=5-12-004335-6 |location=L'viv |script-title=uk:Барське староство: Історичні нариси (XV–XVIII ст.) |trans-title=Bar Starostvo: Historical Notes (XV-XVIII, St.)}}

Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Street is located in the government quarter Lypky neighborhood of the Pecherskyi District. It houses the Supreme Council Building, Government Building and the Parliamentary Library. It is adjacent to Mariinskyi Park which contains Constitution Square.

The street acts as a border between the Pechersk and Lypky neighborhoods. At the European Square this street connects to Old Kyiv. There is a noticeable ascent that starts at the European Square and continues on all the way to the intersection with Garden Street next to the Government Building.

History

{{details|2014 Hrushevsky Street protests}}

The street was established sometime in the 1810s as part of the greater Alexander Street which included such modern streets as Sahaidachny Street, Volodymyr Descent, Museum Lane. The street was established along an old Ruthenian path called "Ivanivsky Road". After the return of the Soviets to Kyiv in 1919, the whole of Alexander Street was renamed Revolution Street. After the transfer of the capital from Kharkiv to Kyiv in 1934, the street was split and today's Hrushevskyi portion was renamed as Kirov Street.

It was one of the main sites of the Euromaidan protests in 2014.{{Cite news |date=20 January 2014 |title=15 Journalists Injured in Clashes on Hrushevskoho Street |language=en |work=Interfax-Ukraine |url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/186657.html |access-date=20 February 2022}}

Connecting streets

  • Peter's Alley
  • Museum Lane
  • Serf's Lane (Kriposny provulok)
  • Garden Street
  • Silken Street
  • Linden Street
  • Constitution Square (pedestrian plaza)

Attractions

=Monuments=

  • Monument to Valeriy Lobanovsky
  • Monument to Grigory Petrovsky (demolished in 2009)
  • Nikolai Vatutin monument (demolished in 2023){{in lang|uk}} [https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2023/02/8/7388429/ Minkult allowed the dismantling of monuments to Chkalov and Vatutin in Kyiv: the first is already being demolished], Ukrainska Pravda (8 February 2023)
    {{in lang|uk}} [https://life.pravda.com.ua/culture/2023/02/9/252774/ Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished], Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (9 February 2023)

=Research institutions and museums=

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See also

Further reading

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  • {{Cite book |last=Kudrytskyi |first=A. V. |title=Kyiv, A Historical Overview |date=1982 |publisher=Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia |location=Kyiv |language=uk}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Savchuk |first=Galina |title=The Streets of Kyiv |date=1996 |publisher=Kyiv}}

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