A new public garden appeared in Kyiv

Kyivites are planting the Heavenly Sotnia Public Garden in a courtyard at 24 Mykhailivska Street, which is located right between My­khai­­liv­ska Square and Independence Square. As Yevhenia Kuleba, an ini­tiator of the garden’s crea­tion, told the press, this place had been fenced off by a green construction fence since 2006, slowly turning into a dump. However, people pulled the fence down during the tragic Euro­maidan events in February 2014 and used it to bolster the bar­ri­cades in the main square of the country. Meanwhile, re­si­dents of the adjacent houses, having seen this trash-strewn waste­land, have decided to turn this place into a public garden that will be comfortable for both child­ren and adults. They have called it the Heavenly Sotnia Pub­lic Garden, created a page on Facebook for it, and organized a collective cleaning-up effort. The initiative has been sup­port­ed by over a thousand people in total since. For example, people planted a public vegetable gar­den for children, drew pictures and engaged in other activities there on June 21-22. The initia­tors plan to hold many more inte­resting events at the public garden.