Andreevskaya Church

On your walk from downtown, there is a long avenue with a number of different merchants hawking everything from paintings to statues of Stalin. The merhcants operate on the street below the church even in the dead of winter.

The baroque St. Andrew’s Church (Ukrainian: Анрiївська церква) or the Cathedral of St. Andrew was built in Kiev in 1747–1754, to a design by the imperial architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Overlooking the ancient Podil district from a steep hill, this exuberant and colourful structure is one of the city’s best known landmarks.