Kyiv city

Mykhaila Dontsya street, 2

Museum of Living History “Mamayev Sloboda”

Mamaieva Sloboda (Center for Ethnology “Kozak Mamai”) is an open-air educational museum with a recreated architectural ensemble of the 18th century Naddniprana region. Located in the park Vidradnyi Solomiansky district of the capital (2 Mykhaila Donets Street) for seven kilometers meters from Khreshchatyk around the historical tract, in which the Lybid river begins.Now among the curly cherry orchards, surrounded by wicker tines, there is a Cossack “Sloboda”. In the center of the architectural ensemble, numbering 98 objects, there is a Cossack three-tiered wooden church in the name of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin with a bell tower, similar to those that stood on Zaporizhia Sich in the times of Bogdan-Zinoviy Khmelnitsky. Not far from the church A windmill is visible on an elevation in the middle of a small wheat field — a symbol of peaceful agricultural Ukraine. Further above the two lakes covered with reeds, lilies and water lilies are the estates of a titan, a Cossack jurer, a Cossack elder, a blacksmith with a forge, a potter with a pottery workshop, a fortune teller, a ham of a Jewish shopkeeper, as well as an apiary and a water mill. Estates consist of structures different in their economic purpose: these are storerooms, sheds, stables, cellars, barns, cloisters, sheds, etc. This traditional Ukrainian landscape is complemented by a bazaar square, a courtyard and a Cossack lodge.