Circus Kywe

Location: Victory Square, 2

Phone: +38 (044) 486 38 56 office: +38 (044) 486 39 27

Hours: ticket office open daily from 10:00 to 20:00

Getting to the National Circus of Ukraine: the nearest station. Metro University, from her walk down the boulevard Shevchenko in the direction of increasing numbers to the square. Victory

The circus in Kiev on Victory Square - is a major circus in Ukraine, because it is the largest throughout the country. In the arena of the circus in Kiev were and are not only Ukrainian circus stars, but also world-famous circus arenas. To date, the state circus circus artists of different genres, his own ballet company, as well as a band.

Hall of the National Circus in Kiev is designed for 2000 seats, performances take place here in the first nine months of the year, the rest of the troupe tours extensively. Typically, the circus program consists not only of classical numbers, and attractions, as well as the performances of an experimental nature, as the Kiev circus performers delight audiences never tire of various innovations in the already favorite theme of the program.

Until the mid-19th century Kiev could not boast of a stationary circus. There were regular circus performances, but the artists have used wood decorations that can be easily analyzed and were very mobile. Sometimes put a temporary circus, which is covered with a tarpaulin to protect the spectators from rain and snow. The story of a stationary circus in Kiev began from the moment when, in 1868 the Frenchman Auguste Bergonie bought a plot of land with an area of ??1059 square meters. blacks, located at the intersection of Fundukleyev and New Elizabeth (the current streets of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and Pushkin). At this point, now is the building of the National Academic Theatre of Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka. A few years later, in 1874, the Austrian Ignatius Sobbot sets are the building made of wood, which is intended for equestrian performances. Sobbot he acted as a horse trainer. A year later the land owner decides to build here the first stone circus in Kiev. Circus building was designed by architect famous Kiev VN Brown. Thus, the circus Bergonie, which at that time was called the "Alcazar", opened on December 28, 1875, and became its director, Prince W. Obolensky. Submissions, which gave it a circus, enjoyed great popularity among Kiev citizens and guests of the city. Here, a team of leading artists (60), regularly held performances of actors from the Neapolitan theater of San Carlos, as well as famous British clown - brothers Hanlon-Lee, who were authors and executors of the rooms, combining in their little show-and gymnastic programs clowning tricks. In the state of the circus as the number of 35 musicians, is operated stables for 40 horses.

In 1876, after the close of the circus Alcazar in the same building served Circus Jules Leonardo. If at first circus troupe led by leading artists who performed and number, and were engaged in economic activity over time at the head of a circus troupe became wealthy merchants. In the history of Ukrainian circus come a time when the public became suspicious and wary of the talents of his countrymen, forcing many Ukrainian artists come up with a foreign sounding pseudonyms. The well-known horse trainer Manzhelli - is none other than the trainer Shevchenko, and jugglers Trapoli - family Kovalenko. Based on the commercial profitability of such steps, the owners of the circus or even come up with their own artists to new foreign names.

It is a mistake to think that at the beginning of the 20th century Kyiv was just a circus. In 1903 the circus was built, the leading number of which were trained horse. After the war, the circus opened at the corner of Grand and Saksaganskogo Vasylkivska. There were such luminaries circus as Durov and Kyo. In the popular clown and animal trainer Michael Zolli, sparkling in the arena of the circus, there was also a company with its menagerie of 200 animals.

However, the biggest and most famous circus in Kiev is a circus, bred in Victory Square. The building was designed by the architect on the project in Kiev V.Zhukova its grand opening was held on November 5, 1960. In 1998 the Kiev Circus became the National Circus of Ukraine, thus obtaining official confirmation of the status of the main circus of the country. In recent years, the circus in Kiev reached a qualitatively new level of demonstration rooms, because it was purchased and installed new lighting equipment, improved material base.

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