A 52-metre granite column in the centre of Maidan Nezalezhnosti, topped by a gilded bronze figure of Berehynia — a folkloric protectress holding a guelder-rose branch. The monument was erected in 2001 for the tenth anniversary of Ukrainian independence and replaced the Lenin who had stood here through the Soviet years.
It is not a monument in the sense of a place to visit so much as the city's central pin — the point everyone meets at, photographs themselves in front of, and lays flowers near. Read it as part of the larger Maidan square.