Square of Ukrainian Heroes

Square of Ukrainian Heroes (Ukrainian: Площа Українських Героїв, romanized: Ploshcha Ukrainskykh Heroiv), is a city square in Kyiv, Ukraine formed by a triangle shaped intersection of three streets: Velyka Vasylkivska, Hetmana Pavla Skoropadskoho and Yevhena Chykalenka.

It was laid out at some point during the second half of the 19th century, originally unofficially known as Shuliavka Square from the erstwhile name of Skoropadskoho Street which led to a village of that name outside the city.

[1] In 1891 the street was renamed Kravaievska after prominent Kyiv doctor Volodymyr Karavayev[2] and in 1920 Tolstoho after the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.

[4] By the end of the 19th century the square started receiving typically urban architecture, most prominently a revenue house designed by famous architect Władysław Horodecki, at the present day address Velyka Vasylivska, 25.

However, it fell into disrepair during the Soviet period, and by 1937 it underwent emergency repairs, stripping it of its neorenaissance and baroque decorations.