The monument to Bohdan Khmelnitsky was dedicated on June 23, 1888 in Sophia Square.
Its total height is 10.85 meters.
The monument is dedicated to the Cossacks’ leader Bohdan Zinovy Khmelnitsky (1595-1657) who headed the Ukrainian’s people liberation struggle against the Polish yoke in the middle of the 17th century.
The struggle was crowned by the glorious victory of the Cossacks’ Army over the Polish-Lithuanian Army in 1648.
The monument stands at the place where Kiev residents
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