Khreschatyk Street
Broad main boulevard of post-war Stalinist facades, closed to cars on weekends for shows.
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This audio guide to Khreshchatyk Street in Kyiv sets aside the parades and follows the city's showmen instead. It reaches back to a wooden playhouse of the early eighteen hundreds that hosted touring opera and ballet, then jumps to the first flickering cinemas of the nineteen hundreds and an entrepreneur named Serhiy Frenkel. Best heard near the corner with Prorizna Street.
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