The third component involves logistical design of tourism infrastructure network
to meet the needs of tourists, in particular, first order needs (tourist infrastructure
objects like points of street food, currency exchange offices etc.), second-order needs
(tourist infrastructure objects like souvenirs shops, press and informational materials
booths , tourist goods stores etc.) and the relevant logistics and transport infrastructure
to meet the needs of the infrastructural facilities of the first and second orders, as well
as collection and removal of waste. It should take into account the peculiarities of their
placement in a certain city territory.
The fourth component involves the logistic design of supply chains to provide
needs of first and second-order tourism infrastructure with the logistics and transport
components in their composition, taking into account the particularity of their location
in the city and the needs for collection and removal of tourist waste.
These issues are very relevant for Kyiv, where the increased tourist load on the
resource base of the city's tourism has already led to cases of physical destruction of
some of the most visited tourist objects. This applies not only to the old buildings of
Kiev, but also to those that have been recently restored. Such cases include for example
not only Samson's fountain on Podil, but also a monument to Magdeburg Law, located
on the Embankment Highway, not far from Postal Square. It is also known as the
Monument of Baptism of Ancient (Kyiv) Rus’ or the Lower Monument to St.
Volodymyr. The 18-meter-long column with a round gilded dome and cross on
pedestal of pavilion-chapel with arches was installed in the distant 1802 by the project
of the first Kyiv chief architect A.Melensky. The monument was erected in honor of
the return of Magdeburg Law to city of Kyiv, which gave the city government wider
powers. They gave him another meaning - it also meant the holy place from which the
baptism of city of Kyiv and whole Ancient Rus’ began. The fate of the monument
proved to be difficult, and its appearance changed periodically. So, in nineteenth
century іn the middle of the pedestal there was a well with "holy water", and later
octagonal fountain-bowl was installed here. In the Soviet era, the chapel was closed,
and the cross from its top was removed. The monument has been repeatedly brought
to an emergency, so it has experienced several restorations. Thus, to the 1000th
anniversary of the baptism of Kyiv Rus’ in 1988 the cross was returned to the column,
and an underground passage to the Dnieper-river was built nearby. Last time the global
reconstruction of the monument was made - to the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism
of Kyiv Rus’ in 2013: monument became white, and in the middle of the pavilion a
chapel and a fountain-bowl with a crane in the form of a "golden" cross were restored.
Only 5 years have passed away and now one can see an absolutely obscure picture:
inside the pavilion is dirty, the fountain does not work, the crane is absent. In addition,
the inscriptions left by the vandals are painted on the column and on the pedestal.
Despite this, the monument still impresses with its beauty and grandeur. After visiting
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