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.

Olga Martyniuk