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Pylyp Orlyk Street

Pylyp Orlyk Street was laid in the early eighteenth century in the former Clove tract. In the project of Kyiv’ plan of 1787 it was designated as a part of the classical rectangular blocks in the Lypky area. During its existence period it was repeatedly renamed. The first name was Gymnasicheskaia, as in 1811-1857 the first male high school was in the Klovskyi palace. Maxim Berlinskiy and Nikolai Kostomarov tought here. Also an artist Nikolai Ge, historian M.Zakrevsky, literary historian Nicholas Storozenko and other celebrities were students here. And since the late 1840s it became Vinogradhaya, as it passed through the vineyard, which was located in that place. In 1869 it was renamed to Elizavetinskaya. This name of the street was in honor of the Russian Empress Elizabeth. From 1920 to 1938 it was known under Michailichenko Gnat Jurevich name, he was a writer and political figure. Since 1938 it was Chekistov street, by the way, Kyiv Emergency Commission situated here at that time. Since 1993, the name changed again, but it was at the last time. And the street becomes known under Pylypa Orlyk Stepanovich name (1672-1742). He was the Hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine from 1710 to 1714 and in exile from 1714 to 1742. Pylyp Orlyk was a close associate of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. A granite plaque with a bronze bas-relief of Philip Orlik is on the facade of the house number 1/15. During a long time Klovskiy palace is the compositional centre of the street. It was built in the mid-eighteenth century (architect P.Neelov). It was built for the members of the royal family, when they were visiting Kyiv. But the palace has been never used for this purpose. Only once, in 1744, the Russian Empress Elizabeth stayed here. Primarily, the printing-office of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was located in the palace, then, there was a military hospital, in the years 1811-1856 - the first male high school, and to 1917 - women’s religious school. During the Civil War the palace was destroyed and in 1930 it was restored again. Since 1982 the Museum of the History of Kyiv was there, and only since 2003 - Ukraine’s Supreme Court - the highest judicial authority in the Ukrainian court system. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the street was built up mainly with mansions, some of which survived to the present day. There are also the buildings of the Soviet period, built in 1930-1950. In the house number 4 in 1913 Nicholay Rodzyanko, the Chairman of the IV State Duma of the Russian Empire, stayed here. In 1917-1918 an architect Pavel Gollandskiy lived in the first house. In the fourth - Adjutant General George Bobrinskiy. For a long time the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was located in the houses number 3 and number 1/15. Then it moved to the 1, Mikhailovskaya street. The house number 16/12 is a club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its many creative teams. Pylyp Orlyk Street is a one more confirmation that Kyiv is a real reminder of history and one of the most beautiful places in the world. ©Vitaly Bakanov Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. August 2013

Shovkovychna Street

Shovkovychna Street is located in the historic district of Kyiv – Lypky. It begins from the Hrushevskogo street and goes down the Pechersk hill to the junction with Basseina and Mechnikov street. The building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine closes a flat part of the street. The lower part (from the odd side) is adjacent to the oldest of Kyiv – Alexanderska hospital. On its territory the Orthodox of St. Mychailo church was built. Since the end of the eighteenth century it was known as Aptekarska street. The name comes from one of the first Kyiv drugstore, which was at the intersection with the Hrushevskogo street. In the 1830s, after the completion of the paving of the street, it became known as Shovkovychna street. A huge mulberry garden was destroyed here during the housing of Lypky district. In 1869 the street was renamed to Levashovska, in honor of the Kyiv governor-general Valentyn Levashov, who in 1834 -1837created the Lypky plan. Since 1919, it began to bear the name of the German leader of the international communist movement Karl Liebknecht. Only in 1993, the street was returned the current historical name – Shovkovychna street. The street is mostly built up with residential buildings of the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries. Today one can see the buildings of historicism and modernism period, as well as houses of late constructivism (1930 years) and neoclassical (1950 years) style. Kyiv residents, of course, remember Shovkovychna Central Palace of marriages and births registration, which was in the house number 17, built in the style of the Venetian Renaissance. There is another very interesting building on the 17/2, Shovkovychna street – Shokoladhyi Dim. Brick red color, which the walls of the house are plastered, caused such name. A lot of famous people lived on the Shovkovychna street. A writer Wanda Vasylevska and her husband, playwright Oleksander Korneichuk, film director Alexander Dovzhenko and his wife - a film director and actress - Julia Solntseva and artist Oleksander Pashchenco lived in the house number 10. A poet Mykola Bazhan lived in the house number 19. The party and state leaders of the Ukrainian SSR lived at the house number 26, they are: Oleksiy Vatchenko, Oleksander Liashko, Stepan Mucha, Ivan Sokolov, Volodymyr Scherbitskyi. The first director of the Institute of Journalism of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, the writer Anatoliy Moskalenko lived in the house number 29. The writer Lubomyr Dmyterko lived in the house number № 32-34. Film director Volodymyr Denysenko, actress Natalia Naum, scientist Yosyp Shtokalo lived in the house number 36. The architect Yuriy Aseyev - in the house number 48. ©Vitaly Bakanov Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. August 2013

Lipskay street

Lipskay street was laid out in the Clov tract in the late eighteenth century. The Linden alley was in that place. It passed through the grape and mulberry gardens. The general plan of Kyiv from 1787 bears witness to this fact. From the moment of it’s appearing the street was called Klovskaia. Only in 1830 it was renamed to Lipskay. However, in 1869, the street was renamed for a second time to Katherininskaia. Since 1919, the street was named after the activist of German and international labour movement, Rosa Luxemburg. Only in 1993, it returned its historical name - Lipskay. The street is apart of a rectangular plan, which characterises urban planning of classic period. Here the Mariinsky and Klovskiy palaces are situated. Modern buildings of the street represent different periods of the history. The houses № 2,4,10,16,18/5 are built in the style of historicism and modernism. But the building number 15 - Young Spectator Theatre, which was opened here in 1954, and the houses № 7/24, 8/21, 17 - the architecture of the Soviet period. It comes to one`s mind that after the war, hundreds of Kyiv` students gathered here from all parts of Kyiv. All of them were looking forward to new performances. Since 2004 the theatre has the status of "Academic Theatre". The theatre has two stages - with 408 and 80 seats. There were wonderful children and New Year performances. House number 2 - is a real reminder of history. The party and state leaders of the Ukrainian Soviet Union were lived there, they are: Vladimir Zatonskiy, Demian Korochenko and others. Sidor Kovpak, Hero of the Soviet Union, lived in the building No. 12/5. The house number 18/5 was the urban college named after Nikolai Bunge. Constructed according to the original design of architect George Shleifer, it is an integral part of historic buildings of Lipky. The college was known under the name of "The People’s College at the Limes." In Soviet times it was occupied by the bodies of the State Security Committee KGB. Now the Ukrainian Headquarters of Civil Defence is situated here. House No. 16 was built by the architect P. Hollandskiy project. It was ordered by the daughter of a well-known sugar manufacturer Theodore Tereshchenko. According to her husband she was - Countess Natalia Uvarova. In the early 1900s house number 10 belonged to E. Torkleru - a German citizen, a seller of sewing machines. This two-story brick house was built under the supervision of the military engineer Anatoly Ruban. Lipskay street, as well as, the rest of the central streets of Kyiv, attracts tourists from all over the world with its beauty, history and uniqueness. ©Vitaly Bakanov Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. July 2013

Basseina Street

This street, in the Pechersk district of Kyiv, is one of the few, which has preserved its original name. It comes from the so-called Basseinyi ravine. It was equipped at the end of the forties of the nineteenth century in the place where two streams - Khreshchatytskiy and Klovskiy - flow together. The drained pipes were laid from the ravine. Later, it was completely filled up, and the market square was built on that place. In those days a very active bidding took place. Even villagers from Bessarabia come here to sell fruit and wine. Hence the name of the street, which is adjacent to the square. In the seventies of the nineteenth century the street was mostly built up with wooden one-story houses, and therefore, according to the "Kyiv City Rules of streets division into categories," it was given the lowest rank - the fourth. And only on the border of the nineteenth- twentieth centuries a modern look of the street begins to form. The stone buildings with four storeys and above were built. There you can see the features of eclecticism and early modernism. They are especially expressive in the architecture of the house at 1/2, Basseina street. It is built in the renaissance style with elements of the Moorish style. Here, from 1899 to 1900, the hotel "Palais Royal" was located. Later it was renamed to the "Great Slavic" In the early twentieth century the "School on road foremen and construction business" was located there, an honorary trustee of which was the famous architect Alexander Kobelev. In the 1910s Michail Bobrusov lived and worked at this house. He was a construction manager of Bessarabskiy market. During the Soviet ruling, in the 1920’s, the building became an apartment building. The commercial apartment buildings were built at the beginning of the street from Bessarabskaia Square. The hotel "Orion" is of particular interest. It is built in the French Renaissance style. In the house number 5 Golda Meir, the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel, has spent her childhood. And after her a memorial plaque was made on the building. And a composer Reinhold Gliere was born and lived at the house number 6. A house down the street 15, Basseina draws attention also. It was built in 1954-1955, as the house of the Capital Construction Department of the Kyiv City executive committee. Architecture of the house has been very well integrated into the environment. A monument to the writer Sholem Aleichem was built in 1998, at the beginning of the avenue section of the street. Architecture of Basseina Street attracts visitors from all over the world. ©Vitaly Bakanov Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. July 2013

Kreshchatik Street

Kreshchatik Street is a unique symbol of Kyiv, its heart and the center of many cultural and political events. Its length is about 1200 meters and width is 72 meters. The street has had this name since 1837. Some time before Kreshchatik was a one unit with Bolshaia Vasilkovskaya street. From 1923 to 1937 it had been named after Vatslav Vorovskyi. This Bolshevik, journalist and diplomat was shot by White Russians in 1923. Kreshchatik Street lies in the valley between the Pecherski and Starokievski hills and includes three squares: Bessarabskaia, "Maydan Nezalezhnosti" and Europeiskaia squares. In the eleventh century the fortification of the Upper Town and Lyadski Gates were situated in the current "Maidan Nezalezhnosti" area. Ivanovsky road led from here to Pechersk. The most beautiful buildings of Kreshchatik, that have put it among the greatest European cities (Krakow, Warsaw, Dresden, and others), were built in the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries. Functionally, the most important building was the City Council (it is not saved), that was built near the present "Maidan Nezalezhnosti" in 1876. In the first Soviet plan of the city (in 1937) Kreshchatik stayed the main street of Kyiv. During the Great Patriotic War almost all the buildings of Kreshchatik were destroyed. The exception was the block between the present Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street and Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. The street was reconstructed during 1948-1957. The post-war housing development of Kreshchatik is a unique phenomenon in the development of architecture of Ukraine. Classical architectural motifs and forms served as the basis. They are clearly visible in such buildings as the hotels "Ukraine" and "Dnipro", the house of Ukrainian Cooperative Unions, Central department store, the building of Kyiv City Council, Ukrainian House, Passage, ministries and living buildings... A lot of famous and interesting people lived on Kreshchatik. Among them: the bookseller M.Ogloblin (house number 12), the artist Sergei Grigoriev, actor Vladimir Dobrovolsky (house number 13), singer Peter Bilynnik, Boris Hmyrya, Nikolai Grishko, actress O.Kosenko, writer Vladimir Nekrasov, artists Yuri Timoshenko (Tarapunka ), Natalia Yakovenko, film director Sergei Yutkevich (house number 15), opera singer Elizabeth Chavdar (house number 21), actor Vladimir Dalsky (house number 25), actor and director Yuri Lavrov (house number 27), opera singer Vsevolod Timohin (home number 29). The artist Mikhail Vrubel and the famous hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadskiy lived in the house number 40/1. On July 24, 1990 in the front of the Kyiv City Council (house number 36), with a huge gathering of people, the national blue and yellow flag of Ukraine was raised for the first time. And in 2001a monument in honor of independence of Ukraine appeared at "Maidan Nezalezhnosti". ©Vitaly Bakanov Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. July 2013

Registration of Foreigners in Ukraine. A Temporary Residence Permit for Those Invited for Work

A foreign citizen may temporarily stay in the territory of Ukraine on the following terms: 1. When entering Ukraine from a visa-system country you may stay for a period of visa validity. 2. When entering Ukraine from a visa-free-system country you may stay for 90 days out of 180 since your first entering. But if a non-resident is supposed to stay in Ukraine for a longer period of time a Temporary Residence Permit is needed. Initially a passport document of a foreign citizen is registered by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine upon first crossing the border. In order to get a temporary residence permit a foreigner is to have an official invitation from an employing company in Ukraine. The first step in getting a temporary residence permit is submission of following documents to the State Migration Service authorities (the city OVIR): 1. Foreigner’s application according to a set form 2. Statement of liability of a host party 3. Original of a foreigner’s passport 4. Translation of a passport into Ukrainian with Translation Agency Certification 5. Copy of appointment order of a person responsible for cooperation with foreigners in enterprise 6. Copy of a person-in-charge passport. 7. An Employment Permission – original and copy 8. Payment receipt of OVIR services and stamp duty for Temporary Residence Permit issue: 34.00 UAH, 21.30 UAH, 52.49 UAH. 9. 1-year insurance policy for individuals from non-CIS states (is not needed for Russians and Belorussians) 10. 4 photos of a foreigner signed on the back (full name and surname) 11. Copy of a passport page with record of last border crossing 12. Copy of identification code. Temporary Residence Permit is issued within 14 days. Then it is to be registered in a regional OVIR within 10 days since its issuing. The next step, № 2. A visit to ZhEK (State Office of Houses Maintenance) At this point it is necessary to provide the Rent Agreement with apartment owner’s assistance. A foreigner or his/her authorized person and owner of the apartment have to be both present in ZhEK. An owner has to show a passport officer following documents: • Apartment entitling document (sales agreement, gift agreement and so on): original + copy • Owner’s passport: original + copy • Leasing Agreement + copy Form 15 (application on a registration in the apartment ) is filled in in ZhEK. It is signed both by owner and foreigner. №3. A regional OVIR. Having received Form 15 in ZhEK and initialled it, you may go to a regional OVIR, where a seal of registration is directly attached to a Temporary Residence Permit. Documents you should remember to take with: • Form 15 and arrival cards received in ZhEK • Original of Temporary Residence Permit • Copy of Leasing Agreement There can be a surprise in a regional OVIR: an inspector may require original of Apartment entitling document. In such a case owner’s presence is needed. Also you may ensure yourself against any risks and beforehand prepare notarized copy of sales agreement. Validity term of Temporary Residence Permit concurs with Employment Permission term. Usually it makes one year. Before an expiry of Temporary Residence Permit (minimum one month) it is necessary to submit documents for extending to the State Migration Service authorities. Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. June, 2013

Real-estate tax… Hurray!!! Not to be paid in 2013!!!

On the 4th of July, 2013, Verhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law on Amendments to the Tax Code regarding residential real estate at the second reading. Under the law # 2405, individuals will pay a tax for the current year in 2014. Under the law, sizes of residential real estate, to which tax benefits will be applied, have also been reconsidered. They will be applied to owners of apartments with total area not more than 120 sq.m., houses with total area not more than 250 sq.m., apartments and houses starting from 370 sq.m. Those Ukrainians having already paid real-estate tax have a possibility to get paid money back if they submit an application to tax office of local authorities. There are no reasons to worry, Ministry of duties and revenue reports. Taxpayers have three years for applying for getting their money back. Tax officers added that paid money could be credited for tax payment in 2014. As for reasons of adopting such a law, officials explain that they need time for forming taxpayers list. Real estate agency "Teren Plus". Luxury apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown, apartments for daily rent. Property rent, houses for rent, offices for rent. Property management, relocation services. July, 2013

Property Leasing Agreement

Dear visitors of our site! You will be able to find very important information for yourselves in this section. The matter is that while leasing or renting an apartment you need to feel most protected. And for this purpose it is necessary to sign the qualitative and professionally prepared leasing agreement. Thus it has to be legally competent and correspond to effective legislation. It is important to know that verbal agreement will never guarantee you confidence in stable and long-term rent. You have to understand that a professional realtor as, for example, managers of Teren Plus agency will be able to help with preparing of such agreement. However, if you cannot contact our managers you can use standard version of the Contract provided here. We want to emphasize that this contract is not a usual version which some search machine will give out to you. It is the contract in which all difficulties and disputable issues met by us, and experience at real estate market within 17 years are reflected. It perfectly protects both the lessee and the lessor and provides comfortable process of renting and mutual understanding of the parties. Teren Plus agency. Apartments for rent in Kyiv downtown. Daily rent. Offices for rent. Management. Relocation services. June, 2013