Lysa Hora (Kyiv)

The mount supposedly takes its name from the fact that its top was (some slopes of the hill are still) not covered by trees.

According to the Slavic legends, the Lysa Hora hill is the largest and most famous location of the mystical "bald mountain"[citation needed] — a traditional site of the witch gatherings.

Due to its relatively remote location, from 1906 the fortress was used as an execution place for convicted political prisoners of the Tsarist government.

Over 200 people were executed there by hanging between 1906 and 1917, one of them was Dmitry Bogrov, the assassin of Pyotr Stolypin.

The fortress saw fierce fighting during the World War II, when a unit of local defence volunteers resisted the Nazi offensive on Kyiv.