Bessarabska Square

50°26′32″N 30°31′14″E / 50.44222°N 30.52056°E / 50.44222; 30.52056

The Besarabskyi Market (1910-1912) was designed in the Ukrainian Modern style with constructivist elements.

Diagram of the Bessarabska Square with the surrounding four streets.

The Bessarabska Square (Ukrainian: Бессарабська площа, Bessarabska ploshcha) is a square located at the southwest end of Khreshchatyk, the main thoroughfare of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located in the city's Shevchenkivskyi District (district), at the busy intersection of Khreshchatyk, Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, Velyka Vasylkivska Street, and the Krutyi Descent streets.^[1]

Until the late 1840s, the square was located on the outskirts of town, where immigrants from Bessarabia in the southern regions of Ukraine would come to sell their products.^[2] Nowadays, the Bessarabska Square is one of three squares of the Khreshchatyk street complex, the others being the Maidan Nezalezhnosti and the European Square, located in the street's center and northeastern end, respectively.