Park the Vladimirskaya hill is a visiting-card of Kiev. The ancient name of this mountain - Mikhailovskaya, derived from the St. Michael monastery was founded here in 1108 for a long time the mountain was almost bald, trees do not grow here. Only in 1840, commissioned by City Hall on the mountain started to create a park - a military engineer Leshevsky drafted improvement of steep slopes, masterminded the upper and lower terraces. The top is located at Michael's Monastery, the average was intended for the monument of Prince Vladimir, and the bottom is the envelope of the foot of the mountain road from Khreschatiku to hem. In 1853, the grand opening of the magnificent monument to St. Vladimir, who baptized Rus. Since then, the hill became known as Vladimir. Vladimirskaya Gorka is the first in Kiev park free for all visitors, other parks were surrounded by a fence and they were allowed only for the money. And if other urban gardens visited only with the beginning of the warm spring days, with the observation platform of Vladimir's Hill beauty beheld round. The famous gazebo laced on Vladimir Hill came through Moscow merchant Vasily Kokoreva, millionaire and oil magnate. Impressed by the beauty of Kiev, in 1863, he donated the Kiev authorities to $ 100 for arrangement of pavilions on the upper cliff slides. Money in the bank for temporary storage and somehow forgot about them for many years. Money enough for the whole 2 - one on top of the review site of Vladimir's Hill, and the second at St. Andrew's Church. In the 1900's on Vladimir Hill appeared innovation - Michael electric hoist, which is now called a funicular railway. In 1902 Vladimir Hill has another attraction - the round pavilion, within which showed a panorama of "Golgotha" which was a scene of Christ's crucifixion. After a year and a half of the panorama was taken in Kiev to Odessa and then in Kiev, and later she went back to Kiev. After the revolution, building panoramas taken apart, and the canvas was transferred to the Kiev Institute of Art for art students. Today, the park Vladimirskaya Gorka is still a favorite spot of townspeople and guests of Kiev.