On August 23–24, the new 3.5-hectare city park on the Dnipro embankment, next to the River Mall shopping center, will host the autumn cycle of Ethnofest “Harvest.” The program includes performances by the Hryhoriy Veryovka National Academic Choir and the ShchukaRiba band, lectures, and children’s areas.
The park is located in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv and is designed as a venue for leisure and cultural events. The first festival at the new location, Ethnofest “Vytoky,” has already taken place after the opening and attracted thousands of guests, according to the organizers.
The River Mall shopping and entertainment center opened in Kyiv in 2019, with a total area of about 140,000 square meters; the new park near the embankment was built with funding from the River Mall shopping and entertainment center.
A new 3.5-hectare city park has been opened in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv next to the River Mall shopping center on the Dnipro embankment. The project was implemented entirely at the expense of the investor, River Mall, according to the shopping center’s press service.
“We believe that the city needs not only infrastructure but also meaning. That is why River Mall invests not only in retail space but also in open public spaces,” added the shopping center’s administration.
The architectural concept was developed by Tetiana Speranska in collaboration with the shopping center’s architects. The park is designed as a space for leisure, events, and walks on the banks of the Dnipro River.
Immediately after its opening, the location became the venue for the first event — the Vytoky Ethnofest, organized jointly with the Zagoriy Foundation.
The event was part of the cultural project vytoky.com and included traditional rituals, performances by folk groups, craft workshops, and interactive activities for children. According to the organizers, thousands of residents of the capital attended the festival.
According to the shopping center, the next event — the autumn cycle of Ethnofest called “Harvest” — will take place in the park on August 23–24. The program includes performances by the Hryhoriy Veryovka National Academic Choir and the ShchukaRiba band, bread baking workshops, lectures, a fair of traditional Ukrainian bread makers, children’s areas, and more.
The River Mall shopping and entertainment center, with a total area of 140,000 square meters, opened in the capital in 2019.
Since 2014, 570 squares and parks have been created and renovated in the capital, including Peremoha, Sovky, and Nyvky, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
“Since 2014, we have renovated and created a total of 570 parks and squares. From now on, Kyiv residents and guests of the capital, as well as families who took refuge in our city during the war, can walk along the breathtaking slopes of Volodymyrska Hill, the modern Kurenivskyi Park, and the renovated Peremoha, Sovky, and Nyvky parks, a new recreation area in Troyeshchyna, as well as a real green diamond of Kyiv – Natalka Park, which has already become part of a large recreational area that we continue to create in Obolon,” Klitschko wrote on his Telegram channel on Wednesday on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his mayoralty in the capital.
Klitschko has been the mayor of Kyiv since June 5, 2014.
