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Motherland Monument
A steel giant with sword and shield on the bluffs above the Dnipro, over the museum of the Second World War.
US travel advisory: Level 4, Do Not Travel · checked 2026-11-03- Open
- The grounds always; the museum is closed Mondays
- Price
- Free; paid for the museum
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Lavrska Street 24, KyivDirections
- Getting There
- A 10-minute walk south of the Pechersk Lavra.
Why Go
The statue and its base stand 102 meters tall. Built in 1981, it carried the Soviet hammer and sickle on its shield until 2023, when Ukraine replaced it with its own trident. Below it, the war museum tells the story of the Second World War in Ukraine and of the war being fought now.
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