From busy McDonalds, Nuclear disasters, the shortest main street and the movie Home Alone, Kiev really is one of the most interesting cities you’ll travel to.

1. McDonald’s located at the Kyiv train station is the 3rd most visited McDonalds in the world with workers handing over 2.2 million orders.

2. Kiev metro station, Arsenalna, is the deepest metro station in the world with a depth of 105 meters.

3. Kiev known to Russians as the “mother of Russian cities”.

4. Kiev is one of the greenest capital cities in the world.

5. The name Kiev is translated as belonging to Kyi, who was one of four legendary founders of the city, along with brothers Shchek and Khoryv, and sister Lybid.

6. Kyiv was severely damaged during World War II, but by the mid-1950s it had been restored, and in the second half of the 20th century it enjoyed a well-developed economic and cultural life.

7. Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra, also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kyiv. Since its foundation as the cave monastery in 1051 the Lavra has been a preeminent center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

8. The shortest main street among all capitals in a world, and in the same time one of the widest and most beautiful is Khreschatyk street in Kyiv. It’s length is 1225 meters (4,019 feet).

9. Ukraine is the world’s fifth largest consumer of alcoholic drinks.

10. The popular Ukrainian Christmas folk song Shchedryk was used in the movie Home Alone, it is also known as Carol of the Bells.

11. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster which happened 62 miles north of Kiev was the largest nuclear disaster in history.