• The name Kiev is said to derive from the name Kiy, one of four legendary siblings who founded the city in the 5th century
  • Kiev was the largest town in XI century Europe, fifty times the size of London, ten times the size of Paris
  • In the Ukrainian village of Mezhireche archaeologists have found the oldest map in the world chipped onto a mammoth bone
  • In 1934 Ukrainian was recognized as the third (after Persian and French) most beautiful language ​​in the world according to several criteria: vocabulary, phonetics, construction of sentences and phraseology
  • Khreshchatyk Street, Kiev’s main street, is both the widest (75 m) and the shortest (1300 m) in Europe