Kiev is the capital city of Ukraine and one of the oldest cities in Europe, dating back to more than 1500 years. It has a very interesting, rich and very ancient history. City of Kiev was founded in the 5th century and has always occupied a special place in the history of Eastern Europe, was also a political and cultural capital of Kievan Rus in the 10th and 12th century, was the cradle of Christianity in the Russian Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. The timing of the first ancient settlements on the territory of modern Kyiv discovered during archaeological excavations dates back to the Late Paleolithic period (XV-XX millennium BC. E.). Major ancient sites in the area of the present Kirillov descent in Kiev - one of the most important archaeological finds of the late XIX century.