Jardin de Kyiv, Urban park near Petit Palais, Champs-Élysées, France
The Jardin de Kyiv is a green space in the Champs-Élysées gardens of Paris's 8th arrondissement, laid out by Jules Vacherot for the 1900 Exposition universelle. Between Avenue Winston-Churchill and the garden stand a statue of a former British prime minister and a fountain whose three jets rise from a central spout within a shallow stone-edged basin.
The garden was laid out for the 1900 Exposition Universelle by Jules Vacherot (1862–1925), the exhibition's head gardener, along with the other gardens around the Petit Palais. The city long called it Jardin des Abords-du-Petit-Palais after the neighbouring museum. On 7 June 2023 the Conseil de Paris renamed it Jardin de Kyiv in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; it was inaugurated on 24 August 2023 by Anne Hidalgo and Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The garden was renamed jardin de Kyiv by a Paris Council decision of 7 June 2023, in homage to the Ukrainian capital after the Russian invasion. An inscription in the garden states that it honours the Ukrainian people. The new name was inaugurated on 24 August 2023 by Anne Hidalgo and Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The site is accessible through metro lines 1 and 13 at Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau station. Visitors can enter from Avenue Winston-Churchill or Cours la Reine and explore the space on foot.
The garden was inaugurated on 24 August 2023 by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko. An inscription in the garden states that it honours the Ukrainian people. The Paris Council had voted the new name on 7 June 2023, in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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