Kiev Apartment and First Impressions

I'm very excited about my Kiev apartment. I have the whole place all to myself. Someone very clearly lives here, but I guess it's a second or maybe summer apartment. It's well stocked with good stuff like electronic appliances, oatmeal, sugar, toilet paper, and cleaning supplies, etc. Photos left to right, are of: entrance into apartment with salon in front and kitchen hall on left; salon from entrance; salon view from back (notice my Ukraine map cleverly hung up without tape); bathroom; kitchen inside; kitchen from entrance. (Sorry about the weird layout. Can't fix it).

Even better than the apartment is its location, in the geographic center of the city and within walking distance of the old town and all the city's major attractions. On one end of my little street is the Golden Gate, the 11th century original entrance into Kiev. At the other end the highest copula of St. Sophia's Cathedral can be seen. It's only a 5 minute walk to St. Sophia's square and the main streets of Kiev (Volodomirskaya and Kreshatyk). The bottom two large photos were taken from the center of St. Sophia's Square. On one side of the square is St. Sophia and opposite from it is the monument to Bogdam Chmelinsky and St. Michael's up the road.