Lysa Hora (Bald Mountain), Kyiv

Lysa Hora (literally 'Bald Mountain' or 'Bald Hill') is presented in the supplied sources as a hill in Kyiv notable for its folkloric associations rather than confirmed archaeological detail. The sources state that the hill has been linked to pagan vestiges, though no archaeological specifics, dates, or primary reports are provided. Culturally, the site is significant because it is tied to Nikolai Gogol's tale often rendered as 'The Night of Ivan Kupala' ('La Nuit de la Saint-Jean' in the provided French-language excerpts), which stages a witches' sabbath, and Modest Mussorgsky's orchestral piece 'A Night on Bald Mountain' — the latter is reported in the sources to have been inspired by a walk on Lysa Hora and by Gogol's story. One archival source contains additional speculative and ideologically charged commentary about the site's past and modern parallels; that material is uncorroborated and has been treated as uncertain and excluded from the core folkloric account. The supplied material does not include eyewitness accounts of apparitions, sounds, or physical phenomena occurring at the hill itself; the primary supernatural motif in the sources is literary and folkloric: witches gathering for a sabbath. The remark that 'on y trouve des vestiges païens' (pagan remains are found there) appears in the sources but lacks detail about what those remains are or who documented them. The supplied references also show that 'Lysa Hora' is a common toponym in the region and that other places share the name; the present entry focuses on the Kyiv hill as the cultural-literary location named in the provided notes.