Arka Svobody Ukrayinsʹkoho Narodu
Giant titanium rainbow arch above the Dnipro, once a Soviet monument to friendship with Russia.
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This guide to the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People in Kyiv starts on an April morning in 2022, when a crowd gathered under the titanium rainbow and a crane moved in on the bronze workers standing beneath it. It reaches back to the Soviet anniversary the monument was built for in 1982 and the treaty of 1654 it was meant to honour, and to the mayor and one of its own designers who spoke that day. Best heard standing beneath the arch, facing the river.
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