What Independence Square in Kyiv looked like from 1910 to 1984. Rare photos

Independence Square is one of the most famous squares in Kyiv and one of the centers of social and political life in Ukraine. However, thanks to these old photos, we can see how this location has changed over 74 years.

The rare photos were published in a Facebook community. In the past, vagrants and domestic animals roamed the area.

"The main square of Kyiv (1910-1984)," the post reads.

The published photos show what Independence Square looked like in the early 20th century, most likely in the period after World War II and in the mid-1980s.

Independence Square is the central square of Kyiv. Until the end of the tenth century, this place, like the entirety of today's Khreshchatyk, was called Perevisyshche and was a swamp. There was the Liadska Gate leading to the Upper Town where Sofiiska Street now begins. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it was a wasteland, the so-called Kozyne boloto. Defensive ramparts surrounded it, at the foot of which a dam was built and a water mill stood.

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