Volodymyrskyi Uzviz is one of the oldest streets in Kyiv, laid out at the beginning of the 18th century through Mikhailivska Gora at the request and at the expense of the residents of Podil. The construction of the Uzviz lasted for more than ten years and was completed only in 1844: the slopes of the mountain had to be strengthened, filled with soil and paved – this Uzviz became the first street in the city with a paved surface, for which it received one of its early names – Mostova. The modern name was fixed in 1944 in honor of the monument to Volodymyr the Great, which towers above the Uzviz on the Starokyivskyi plateau.
The Uzviz connects European Square with Postal Square in Podil and preserves several interesting monuments. At the bottom there is a monument to the first Kyiv tram: it was along this street on June 13, 1892 that the first electric tram in Kyiv and the entire Russian Empire passed. Building No. 2 is the former Merchants’ Assembly of 1882, which now houses the National Philharmonic. And even lower down are the stairs leading through Khreshchaty Yar to the Magdeburg Law Column on the banks of the Dnieper.