Ukrainian House
Modernist white exhibition hall built as a Lenin museum, with a stained-glass dome over its atrium.
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This guide to the Ukrainian House in Kyiv looks past its plain white walls to the years between 1978 and 1982, when it rose on European Square as the city's branch of the Lenin Museum. It follows the builders as they gathered stone, metal and machinery from across the Soviet Union, and the sculptor Valentin Borysenko at work on the figure meant to stand inside. Best heard on the square, facing the facade.
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