Ivan Franko Street, Kyiv


Ivan Franko Street or Ivana Franka Street  is a street in the Shevchenkivskyi District of the city of Kyiv, in the Afanasiivskyi Yar neighbourhood. It runs from Yaroslav's Wall Street to Taras Shevchenko Boulevard.
Ivan Franko Street is connected with Vyacheslav Lypynsky Street, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street, and the Botanical Square, where the A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden as well as St Volodymyr's Cathedral are located.

History

The street appeared in the second half of the 19th century, formed from two streets — Afanasiivska and Nestorivska. Afanasiivska Street was first mentioned in 1855, and its name came from Afanasiivsky Ravine, over which the street was built. The name Nestorivska, in honour of Nestor "the Chronicler", was given to the street during the 1869 renaming of Kyiv's streets. However, in official documents dating back to the 1880s, the street was also referred to as Nesterovska. In 1889, both streets were merged under the common name Nesterivska.
In 1926, in connection with the 10th anniversary of the death of the poet and writer Ivan Franko, the Nesterivska was renamed Ivan Franko Street. The current revised name is from 1944.

Buildings of historical and architectural value, architectural monuments

Houses No. 1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 29, 31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 were built in the 2nd half of the 19th century - 1st third of the 20th century.

Personalities

House No. 4 belonged to the sister of the famous scientist Mykola Kashchenko and writer Adrian Kashchenko.
In 1904–1913, the composer lived in house No. 18.
In the early twentieth century, Otto Schmidt lived in house No. 26.
Academician Volodymyr Ikonnikov lived in house No. 31.
In house No. 33 lived the bridge engineer Mykola Beleliubskyi and in 1918–1919 - the writer Konstantin Paustovsky.
In 1880–1882, the building on the territory of the present-day estate No. 19 housed the drawing school of Mykola Murashko.

Institutions and establishments