Krychevsky designed the traffic viaduct that was planned to connect the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars.
At the meeting of Kyiv Architecture Department on September 6 Heorhiy Dukhovnychyi presented the project of a shopping mall with offices and apartments at Saint Volodymyr Descent.
The contest was international and featured participants from different countries: ipv Delft from Netherlands, Buro Happold from United Kingdom, Asadov Architectural Studio from Russia, Leuppi & Schafroth Architekten from Switzerland, RR Architectes from Spain and two projects from Ukraine, one from Soyuzdorproekt and one from Kyivdormostproekt.
[7] The order to build a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge was issued by Kyiv City State Administration in February 2017, the project's architect had to be decided in a contest.
[8] In October 2018, Proektni Systemy LTD was chosen as a winner with a project of Andriy Myrhorodskyi, it featured a 210 meters long steel bridge with glass elements.
[9] In November, SpetsAvtoBud had won the tender to build the footbridge, structural steel with ultimate tensile strength of 420 MPa for the construction was fabricated in Azovstal and Okean.
[14] On 24 November 2021, in Saint Volodymyr Hill Park near the bridge, the bronze scale model of it was opened as a part of the program of popularization of tourism among the disabled people.
[15] When the bridge was under construction, Ukrainian Ministry of Culture sent a letter to Kyiv City State Administration to ask for canceling the project because of Volodymyr hills being an object of UNESCO Word Heritage.
[16] The administration refused to stop the construction stating that its location is outside of the Sofia Cathedral's buffer zone which makes it completely legal.
[19] Andriy Myrhorodskyi called Stefanie's accusations 'complete nonsense' because his company was working on the footbridge project since 2010, making the plagiarism impossible in this situation.
[22] On 5 July 2019, Vitaly Klitschko sued the owner of 1+1 TV channel Oleksandr Tkachenko for journalists 'manipulating' to lie about corruption during the construction of the bridge.
[25] In July 2019, Mostovyi Tsentr research and production enterprise was ordered to test the bridge's safety by Kyiv City State Administration.
1+1 TV channel's Television Service of News interviewed the director of Instytut Mista analytics and research center Oleksandr Serhiienko who stated that only first of three glass layers received damage and it was caused by oscillations and temperature drops rather than vandalism.
[27] On 28 January 2024, ICOMOS expert Olha Rutkovska stated that one of the piers of the bridge is misplaced interfering with the Khreshchatyk brook that flows in the underground collector which causes a soil subsidence at Poshtova Square where reconstruction was on hold due to the dispute with archaeologists.
Originally, it was supposed that they were shot with rifles from underneath,[31] but the Municipal Guard stated that it was a result of a 'group of unknown people actively jumping on it'.
A group of young people listening to Russian rap in their car drove through the pedestrian bridge in the night while filming it on camera.
[52] On 10 May 2023, another piece of glass from the bridge was sold from Prozorro's charity auction; received money was used to fund Kyiv's newly formed rifle battalion.
[53] On the night of 28 May 2023, Kyiv suffered the largest Shahed drone attack since the beginning of the war, with one explosion reportedly heard from the city center.
The video was shot in Kyiv and among the other locations featured the Shevchenko University Red Corps and the St. Volodymyr descent Glass Bridge that were recently damaged by Russian missile strikes.