Protasiv Yar

Protasiv Yar (Ukrainian: Протасів Яр) is a historical neighborhood located in Solomianskyi and Holosiivskyi (districts) of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located between Baikova and Batyieva Mountains. Protasiv Yar railway station is located in the lower part of the neighborhood, close to Lybid River. Yar means gully, and Protas is a male name, supposedly of a local villager or a former owner of the area. The forest area estimates approximately 30 ha. The local activists fought to protect this area from illegal construction for several years; in 2018 Roman Ratushnyi founded Save Protasiv Yar initiative, which was later institutionalised. In July 2022, the Kyiv City Council supported the decision to create a landscape reserve on both slopes of Protasiv Yar in Kyiv.

The State Archival Service of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державна архівна служба України, romanized: Derzhavna arkhivna sluzhba Ukraini) or Ukrderzharkhiv (Ukrainian: Укрдержархів) is a Ukrainian government agency that implements state policy regarding the keeping of archives and record, function of state system of documentation security fund as well as an inter-trade coordination on matters within its competence. In 2010, the service was reorganised based on the State Committee of Archives (DerzhKomArchiv). The agency is part of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine since 1999. Between 1947 and 1960, it belonged to the NKVD. Ukrderzharkhiv has been a member of the International Council on Archives since 1956.

Mikhail Ptukha (also transliterated as Mykhailo Ptukha; 7 November 1884 – 3 October 1961) was a Ukrainian statistician and demographer. He most notably helped found the Demographic Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which he was the dean of from 1919 until 1938 following its liquidation. Born in Oster in the Russian Empire Ptukha first started working in statistics during his years at the local gymnasium, working in the statistics section of the Chernihiv zemstvo bureau. In 1906 he entered the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University, where he graduated from in 1910, afterward studying abroad in Western Europe until 1914. In 1916 he defended his master's thesis, and in that same year, he began working for the newly created Perm University as a professor in political economy and statistics, which he did until the Russian Revolution. He moved back to Ukraine during the revolution, working as a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and the People's University of Ukraine. In 1919 he became the dean of the newly created Demographic Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and so in the 1920s he started working on collaborating the institute with the International Statistical Institute. During the Great Purge, he was arrested many times and eventually the institute was liquidated, which led him in 1940 to start working at the Department of Statistics of the Institute of Economics and become the Department of Social Sciences. He officially retired in 1950, although he continued to do statistical work until his death in 1961.

Ilya Shtilman (3 December [O.S. 20 November] 1902 – 11 August 1966) was a Soviet painter, art teacher and professor (from 1947) who was born and died in Kyiv.

Baikove Cemetery (Ukrainian: Байкове кладовище) is a historic cemetery memorial in Holosiiv Raion of Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a National Historic Landmark of Ukraine and is known as a necropolis of distinguished people. It was established in 1833. Among the buried, it includes Leonid Kravchuk, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Lesya Ukrainka, Slava Stetsko, Viacheslav Chornovil, Oles Honchar, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Danylo Lyder, Olena Pchilka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Oleksandr Bilash, Ostap Vyshnya, Ivan Mykolaychuk, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Leonid Telyatnikov, Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko, Oleg Antonov, Viktor Bannikov and Valeri Lobanovsky and the soldier that raised the soviet flag over Berlin: Aleksey Kovalev.

Kuchmyn Yar Street is a street located in the Batyieva Hora neighborhood, Solomianskyi District of Kyiv, Ukraine. It is located between Petra Krivonosa Square and Rozdilna street. The street was founded in the 19th century and was originally named Kuchmyn Yar. Between 1955 and 2017 street was named Krasnodonska. Kyiv City Council deputies at a plenary meeting on Oct. 12, 2017, supported the renaming of ten streets in Kyiv and gave names to 39 new streets. Kuchmyn Yar became the new name for Krasnodonskaa. The embassy of Saudi Arabia in Ukraine is located on number 1-3, Kuchmyn Yar Street.

The Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts (Ukrainian: Київська муніципальна академія естрадного та циркового мистецтва) is a Ukrainian institution of higher education, training stage and circus performers. Founded as a Republic-wide studio in 1961 in the Ukrainian SSR, it became a state school, and later the Kyiv State College of Circus and Variety Arts. In 2008 it gained the status of a Municipal Academy.The Academy has three faculty divisions comprising 190 instructors: the Circus Art Faculty, the Musical Art Faculty, and the Theatrical Art Faculty.

101 Tower is a 27-story high skyscraper in Kyiv, Ukraine, completed in 2012. The building was among the most prestigious office centers in Kyiv and included among its tenets the headquarters of Samsung in Ukraine and the visa department of the German Embassy. In October 2022 the building was seriously damaged russian airstrikes against Kyiv conducted as part of russias ongoing invasion of Ukraine and is currently closed waiting for reconstruction.

Ukrspecsystems (also written as UkrSpecSystems) is a Ukrainian company that make unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV).

Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture (Ukrainian: Музей видатних діячів української культури) is one of the museums in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to prominent Ukrainian Culture celebrities: Lesia Ukrainka, Mykola Lysenko, Panas Saksagansky, Mykhailo Starytsky. It was founded in 1987. The reason to create this museum space was the fact that in the late 19th — early 20th centuries at this area lived the families of such Ukrainian Culture celebrities as Lesia Ukrainka, Mykola Lysenko, Panas Saksagansky and Mykhailo Starytsky. The memorial buildings have been preserved till now; they are natural borders of the Museum's territory. Each of this houses has an exposition depicting the life and creative activities of the celebrity.

The Embassy of North Macedonia in Kyiv is the diplomatic mission of North Macedonia in Ukraine.

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Конституційний Суд України, romanized: Konstytutsiinyi Sud Ukrainy) is the sole body of constitutional jurisdiction in Ukraine. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine interprets the Constitution of Ukraine in terms of laws and other legal acts. The Court initiated its activity on 18 October 1996. The first Court ruling was made on 13 May 1997. On urgent matters the Constitutional Court rules within weeks, but on matters deemed less urgent it can take months.Decisions of the Constitutional Court are binding, final, and cannot be appealed.