Businessman Opens Restaurant in Kyiv Cave Monastery

A businessman and the head of the Viche Party, Ihor Didkovskyi presented to his daughter a private restaurant which is to be opened in the Kyiv Cave Monastery, next to Ivan Honchar Museum.

A businessman and the head of the Viche Party, Ihor Didkovskyi presented to his daughter a private restaurant  which is to be opened in the Kyiv Cave Monastery, next to Ivan Honchar Museum. So reported ТSN with reference to a program Secular Life.  

When the program’s administrator inquired if administrative resources were used in this matter, Didkovskyi answered: “No one helped me.”

In answer to the presenter’s question if it is possible to be allocated a plot for a restaurant in the monastery, Didkovskyi answered that restaurant has no land of its own. “The restaurant is a part of the museum and Chapter 13 of the law “On Museums” mentions recreation zones of museums…”

According to Didkovskyi, the gift cost him 1 200 000 UAH. He said it was “not much.” The businessman is also a collector and owner of the largest collection of the Scythian gold consisting of 21 items. “It is my private property which constitutes  a non-state part of the museum stocks of Ukraine,” noted the businessman.