Andriivskyi Descent wasn't allways popular among the citizens of the capital - it became so after the first celebration of Kyiv Day in 1987.
This is stated on the page "Spraga: it is interesting in Kyiv" in Facebook.
It's noted that until 1980 Andriyivsky Descent was a quiet street where citizens and guests of Kyiv walked on weekends.
There were pottery workshops at the bottom of the descent, but it didn't last long. However, later creative progressive people began to gradually gather on Andriyivsky Descent and organized the first vernissages there.
At first, the works of artists were censored, and then exhibited for public viewing. There was also a "youth wing", where young people could exhibit their works for a few hours, but they had to wait in line.
Andriivskyi Descent became more and more popular after 1987, when Kyiv Day was celebrated there for the first time, loudly and cheerfully.
"Artists painted sitting directly on the ground, musicians sang, Fedir Tetianych, famous for his performance art, walked around in a "space" tinfoil suit and exclaimed: "Freepulja!". Tetianych's searches and artistic solutions were then in a common field with the world art, but then for many people the artist still remained an incomprehensible and surprising author, that attracts the attention of the public", - reminds the author of the message.
Earlier we wrote about one of the oldest residential buildings in Kyiv.