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Funicular named after A. V. Ivanoff. Sloping railway connects the high part of the city and Podol. It was built according to the project of the engineers N. K. Pyatnitsky and N. I. Baryshnikoff in 1902-1905. The idea of the creation of the funicular belonged to the engineer A. A. Abragamson. It was inaugurated ion the 7th of May 1905. Originally it was named Michailovsky mechanical lift and connected the upper terrace of Vladimirskaya hill and Borichev Tok Street. The railway was 200 meters long. In 1928 the funicular railway was reconstructed and its way was added 38 meters more tending to present Petro Sagaydachny Street. In 1958 new equipment was set in the mechanical hall on the upper station. A journey of the carriage takes 2,5-3 minutes. In 1986 the reconstruction of the funicular railway was completed (the architects Y. Y. Vig, V. I. Ejoff, A. S. Chupak, the engineers V. A. Reznikoff, N. P. Nayko).
Kiev. Cyclopediñ enchiridion 1986.
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