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Museum of great patriotic war

This World War II memorial complex, which opened in 1981, includes a museum with 18 dif­ferent galleries, an eternal flame, numerous exhibits of documents of military commanders, participants of the war, collection of orders, medals and letters, documentary evidences of the war witnesses, unique things of the occupation and the liberation attract visitors' attention.

The centerpiece of it all is of course the mas­sive titanium statue of woman «Mother of the Motherland», 62m tall to be exact, grasping a 12-ton sword and a shield. Honoring Soviet defend­ers during World War II, its Socialist Realism style is an interesting contrast to the nearby ancient golden domes of Pecherska Lavra.