The public garden named after Golda Meir will appear in Kyiv
Kyiv residents voted for the creation of a public garden named after Golda Meir in December last year.
Vitali Klitschko announced the quick completion of formal procedures at the recent premiere of the movie Golda, and yesterday the Kyiv City Council made the final decision.
The public garden named after the born in Kyiv famous woman, who became one of the founders of the State of Israel and the first female prime minister in its history, will appear on Borychiv Tik Street.
There were mass Jewish pogroms in the early twentieth century that swept the Russian Empire here, in Podil neighborhood, as well as on Basseina Street, where Golda Mabovitch was born in 1898.
Golda Meir shares her childhood memories of those events with the U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the movie Golda distributed by Film.ua, adding: “I am not that little girl hiding in the cellar from the pogrom-makers.”
The public garden named after the born in Kyiv woman, whose family was forced to immigrate to the U.S. in 1906, will appear on the plot of land, which was to be managed by the embassy of the russian federaton until 2047. In 1998, for a symbolic fee of 1 UAH per year, this plot of land was leased for 49 years. A new russian embassy, consulate and ambassador’s residence were planned to be built here.
Instead of them, a public garden named after Golda Meir will now appear on Borychiv Tik Street. It will be designed by architects from Germany with support of the Genesis Foundation.
