Kyiv: A Guide

Readers are offered a reprint of a unique book — a guide to the city of Kyiv in 1930. Its editor, the outstanding Ukrainian art critic and conservationist Fedir Ernst played the leading role in implementing the publication. The publication has 340 articles, 243 of which were written (partially in co-authorship) by F. Ernst himself. The rest of the articles for the guide were written by prominent scientists of the 1920s and 1930s: Vasyl Bazylevych, Petro Kurinnyi, Vsevolod Zummer, Mykhailo Rudynskyi, Oleksa Novytskyi, Mykola Makarenko, Yevheniia Spaska, and others. The foreword to the modern edition was written by the famous Ukrainian historian Sergiy Bilokin.
The publication returns the face of Kyiv, which has not yet suffered architectural losses from the ideological influences of the Soviet totalitarian system.

The edition contains 842 pages and 151 illustrations, and a map of Kyiv in 1930 (made by P. Tymoshok).