Tram final stop and a large flowerbed: what Kyiv's Sophia Square looked like in the 1950s. Photo

There was a tram final stop on Sophia Square in Kyiv in the 1950s, where the vehicles made a U-turn right around the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. In addition, there was a large flowerbed near the monument in those years, which, unfortunately, has shrunk considerably by now.

The old photo was published on the Telegram channel the Kyiv Istorychnyi community. You can look closely at this location in a 70-year-old photo.

"Sophia Square, 1950s," the post reads.

In the published photo, you can see that at that time there was indeed a tram stop here, which made a U-turn around the monument. In addition, the flowerbed near the monument was much larger than it is today.

Sophia Square is a square in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, Old Kyiv. It is located between Volodymyrska Street, Volodymyrskyi Pass, Alla Tarasova Street, Sofiiska Street, and Rylskyi Lane.

In 1036, Yaroslav the Wise defeated the Pechenegs on the site of the present-day Sophia Square. As a square, it was formed on a "field outside the city" after the construction of St. Sophia Cathedral (1036) and has been known as Starokyivska Square ever since. Since the times of Kyivan Rus, it has been the social center of the city, where town meetings were held. In the XVI-XIX centuries, there was a marketplace and fairs were often held here.

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