Pam'yatnyk Zasnovnykam Kyyeva - Kyyu, Sheku, Khoryvu I Sestri Lybedi
Copper-clad boat carrying four legendary sibling founders, set above a fountain on the riverbank.
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This guide to the Monument to the Founders of Kyiv, on the Dnipro embankment, follows the city's legendary siblings Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and Lybid, and a medieval monk who took issue with one popular story about the eldest brother. It moves between the chronicle's hills and pine forest and the copper boat sculptor Vasyl Borodai raised here in 1982. Stand at the railing facing the bow, where Lybid leans out over the water.
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