<p>A view of Hlybochytska street in the

early twentieth century. The street was laid along the Hlybochytsia

river and connected the road leading to Zhytomyr and Podil (Verkhniy

Val and Nyzhniy Val streets). In the early twentieth century the

first industrial objects started to be built on this street; in 1909

a tram line was laid but due to roughness of the neighbourhood’s

relief and its comparative remoteness from the central part of the

city the street remained sparsely populated.Several small peasant’s

houses can be seen in the picture: traditionally, the Kurenivska and

Lukianivska areas were semi-urbanized farmer’s territories where

factories and working settlements appeared in the late nineteenth

century. Above on the left, there are buildings of the convent of the

Intercession of the Holy Virgin. The relief of Hlybochytska street

was changed more than once; consequently, the Hlybochytsia river was

entirely put into a tube, as it was the case with a lot of other

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