1. Cascade

In preparation for the 300th anniversary of the city in 1955, a cascade ladder was built in the western part of Shevchenko’s garden. A fountain flowed along the cascade, and from the upper observation platform a picturesque view of the valley of the Lopan River opened. The fountain still works.

2. Area of Architects

The square is located at the intersection of Pushkinskaya, Sovnarkomovskaya and Darwin streets (the metro station “Architect Beketov”). August 23, 2009, on the Day of the City, on the square, the exhibition of seven wonders of Kharkiv was solemnly opened. Here is the famous monument, citizens call it the Fountain of Lovers, which is also referred to as “Buchenwald” or “Dystrophic”.

3. Lopanskaya Embankment

In 2010, after reconstruction, it became one of the favorite places for recreation of Kharkiv citizens. Here is a new suspension bridge, as well as the most recently opened boat station “Strelka”. Citizens and guests of the city like to walk here and spend free time. Here you can ride along the rivers Kharkiv and Lopan.

4. Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after N. Lysenko

The building was built extremely long: 21 years (1970-1991). The architecture of the building is built on the contrast of the large overhanging “slab” of the two upper floors and the complex plastic of the entrance halls, foyer and other rooms of the lower floors. Now in front of the opera house there are magnificent fountains.

5. Zoo

State Zoological Park in Kharkov. The oldest in Ukraine, the third in age in the Russian Empire, the twentieth in the world. It was opened in 1896, for visitors in 1903. It is in the garden of Shevchenko. Before the war, in the zoo there were over five thousand animals. At the time of liberation, August 23, 1943, in the zoo survived: four bears, five monkeys and one wolf. More than five thousand animals died. Nineteen animals from the Red Book live in the Kharkov Zoo.