<p>A view of Hlybochytska street in the<br />

early twentieth century. The street was laid along the Hlybochytsia<br />

river and connected the road leading to Zhytomyr and Podil (Verkhniy<br />

Val and Nyzhniy Val streets). In the early twentieth century the<br />

first industrial objects started to be built on this street; in 1909<br />

a tram line was laid but due to roughness of the neighbourhood’s<br />

relief and its comparative remoteness from the central part of the<br />

city the street remained sparsely populated.Several small peasant’s<br />

houses can be seen in the picture: traditionally, the Kurenivska and<br />

Lukianivska areas were semi-urbanized farmer’s territories where<br />

factories and working settlements appeared in the late nineteenth<br />

century. Above on the left, there are buildings of the convent of the<br />

Intercession of the Holy Virgin. The relief of Hlybochytska street<br />

was changed more than once; consequently, the Hlybochytsia river was<br />

entirely put into a tube, as it was the case with a lot of other<br />

Kyiv’s small streams.</p><p>Olga Martyniuk</p>