A beautiful Linden wood covered the surrounding hills forming a picturesque view from the city walls.Įventually, the military fortification was pulled down, and as the 18th century drew to a close, development of the picturesque area quickly began turning the Ivanovo road into Ivanovskaya Street (renamed in the 1820s to Bigechevskaya when an estate of General Bigechev was constructed on it). One of which, modern Institutska Street, was known since days of Kievan Rus' as the Ivanovo road and the other (modern Horodetska) lead to a large market that was to the south.

Overlooking the Pechersk Gate from the south was an offspur of the Pechersk plateau with two roads on both sides linking the Pechersk with old Kyiv. The layout of the roads leading to the gate can still be observed at the five small streets coming out of the northern part of the square. Historically, when Kyiv still had military fortification walls surrounding the city which ran along the modern Khreschatyk street and in the area of the Pechersk Gate, now located in today's Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. The area of the location where the modern building sits is significant to the history of Kyiv and its geography. The hotel is state-owned and belongs to the State Management of Affairs.

The construction of the hotel finished the architectural ensemble of Kyiv's main street – the Khreshchatyk – which formed the post-war reconstruction of central Kyiv. It was built in 1961 as the Hotel 'Moscow' in a location which originally was occupied by Kyiv's first skyscraper, the Ginzburg House. Hotel Ukraine ( Ukrainian: Готель Україна), also referred to as Hotel Ukrayina, is a four-star hotel located in central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

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