Ukraine's most central, park=like multi=lane downtown thoroughfare. Lined by parklike space with benches filled with citizens, workers, shoppers, strollers, lovers, buskers, religious proselytizers abd oothers from Ukraine and abroad, Kreshchatyk Blvd. at one end it is contiguous on both sides with mAIDAN (mY dON) or 'Indepence Park which both were occupied by onr trnt city houding anti-government protesters who threw out the administration of a corrupt president who appeared about to give Ukraine's new-found reeedom and to next-door, autocrat led Russia.