What is Maidan Nezalezhnosti?
{{unreliable sources|date=February 2021}} {{coord|50|27|0|N|30|31|27|E|type:landmark|display=title}} '''Independence Square''' or '''Maidan Nezalezhnosti''' is the national public square of [[Ukraine]]. The square is located in [[Kyiv]], the capital of Ukraine. Most of the buildings in the square were ruined in [[World War II]]. Today the square is a center of public performances and political activity. The [[Kilometer Zero]] of Ukraine is located in the square. It is located between Khreshchatyk, Borys Hrinchenko, Sofiyivska, Mala Zhytomyrska, Mykhailivska, Kostyolna streets, Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred Street, Architect Gorodetsky Street, and Taras Shevchenko Lane. == History == Until the end of the 10th century, this place, like the whole present Khreshchatyk, was called Perevisysche and was a swamp. Where Sofiyska Street now begins, there was the Lyadska Gate, which led to the Upper Town. In the 18th century, stone fortress walls and the so-called Pechersk Gate were built on the territory of the Maidan, which existed until 1833. In the late XVIII — early XIX century was a wasteland — the so-called Goat Swamp. Defensive ramparts approached it, the edge of which was filled with a dam and a water mill. In the 1730s, the first wooden houses appeared here, and in the 1850s — stone houses. In 1869 the place was named Khreshchatyk Square. Until 1871 there was a market on the square, circus performances and festivities took place. In 1851, the first large brick building was erected on the square — the building of the Noble Assembly (architect Oleksandr Beretti; now the building of the Federation of [[Trades union|Trade Unions]] of Ukraine). In 1876, after the construction of the City Duma according to the project of the architect Alexander Shile (destroyed in September 1941 by Soviet radio-controlled mines), the square was renamed the Duma. === 20th century === 1912 — The Ginzburg Skyscraper, the first skyscraper in Ukraine, is built near the square. September 1913 — a monument to Peter Stolypin was in fr