Only a photo remains: the network remembered how Hlybochytska Street in Kyiv looked in the 1970s

The network showed how Hlybochytska Street in Kyiv looked like in the 1970s. Some houses are no longer there – they were demolished.

This was reported in the Facebook group “Thirst. It's interesting in Kyiv” and showed an archival photo of the street.

Hlybochytska Street. Old building. The buildings were demolished at the end of the 1970s”, – this is how the authors of the page about the history of Kyiv captioned the photo.

The street has been known since the end of the 18th century as part of the route from Podol to Zhytomyr Road, which was also called Bykhovskaya Road from the small town of Bykhovshchyna on this track. The street got its name from a stream called Hlybochytsia, the stream has been known since the time of Rus. A street was laid along the bed of Hlybochytsia.

For a long time, Hlybochytska was disorderly, but in 1906 the local authorities took up the improvement of the street, and already in 1909 tram tracks were laid along it.

Building along the street began to take shape at the beginning of the 19th century. The houses on the street were mostly one- or two-story. According to the painting of the streets of Kyiv, the street belonged to the lowest 4th category. Only in the last quarter of the 19th century, construction of two- to three-story brick buildings began here.

In the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, industrial buildings were erected along the street. Part of the street was dominated by the buildings of the Pokrovsky nunnery, on Hlybochytsa there was a wooden gate with the entrance to the territory of the monastery.

In the 1960s, the reconstruction of the street began, and the historic residential buildings were demolished. The topography of the Shchekavytsia slope at the point where it joins the Hlybochytsky tract has also been changed. The street was earmarked for development by industrial enterprises. Several residential complexes are being built on the street, and the industrial buildings are planned to be gradually demolished.