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Donetsk


2011
01.08

Donetsk is a city in eastern Ukraine. it used to be the unofficial capital and largest city of Donbass. The city’s name is often simplified to Donetsk, the city has 1,566,000 people living in it. It is the 4th largest city in Ukraine.

Spurs Hotel

Spurs Hotel

The city and surrounding area are heavily urbanized. There’s a lot of heavy industry, especially coal mining, but the city is actually quite green and surprisingly lightly-polluted for a major industrial city. Donetsk has a very high standard of living. While the most people in western Ukraine speak Ukrainian, most residents of Donbas are Russian-speaking Ukrainians and native Russians. Russian is dominant in Donbass. if you are thinking of coming to this part of Ukraine, then Donetsk is certainly worth a visit! you will find it a vibrant and interesting city, it doesn’t have the old world charm of other cities in Ukraine, yet it’s inhabitants make up for this in many ways! how you may ask? well that’s for you to discover isn’t it!


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    Nikolayev


    2011
    01.08

    Over 210 years of its being Nikolayev (another name Nikolayev and Ukrainian name is Mykolaiv or Mytolayiv) was able to make a good name for itself like an important business and political center, having become Southern cultured center of Ukraine.

    Nikolayev

    Nikolayev

    Its citizens love their wonderful place which has enormous potentials of economical development and wellbeing.

    The history of this city began in 1789 when building of the shipyard was developed in the lade of Ingul river. That was Prince G.A.Potyomkin who kept a vigilant eye on this process and after a year a small place arouse in the southern part of Ukraine which was named Nikolayev.

    Nikolayev contains more than 500 thousand of inhabitants and takes the ninth place by the quantity of population at the present time in Ukraine.

    The main part in the structure of Nikolayev industry belongs to engineering and metal-working among which it is marked down such branches as shipbuilding and energy machine building. Nikolayev industrial enterprises provide about 50% of the whole content of Ukrainian shipbuilding production, more than 90% of manufacturing of state gas turbines, and 80% of argil accounting for aluminum.

    The main branch shipbuilding is introduced by three large shipbuilding plants which are able to build and supply any kind of ships. They are state enterprises and called “Chernomorsky shipbuilding plant”, “Shipbuilding plant of 61 communars” and “Ocean”. Ship tanks, dry cargo carriers, refrigerators, trawlers, warships of different types are direct materials of these powerful plants.

    In addition some establishments of electrical and electronic industry, completed with high master stuffs, are located in the city.

    Wide spread transport infrastructure, which includes sea and river ports, railway communication, two airports and freeway in conjunction with powerful industrial base, research and designed institutions, construction department, make significant potential for the city’s wellbeing.

    The most important part in the provision of vital activity in the city belongs to support and development of the science, education, culture and health care.

    Nikolayev is a famous center of higher education and science. Every year its institutions release about 2,5 thousand of high degree specialists. And the most interesting fact is that half of these crafts could be got nowhere in the country. Ukrainian State Sea Technical University, which prepares stuffs in the field of the newest technology of ship production, Nikolayev National Pedagogical University, Nikolayev department of Kiev State Institute of Culture and Agrarian Academy should be marked down among leading institutions of Nikolayev.

    There are seven colleges and junior technical schools, polytechnic collage, building collage, four higher schools, including medical and musical ones. About 73 thousand of young people go to 80 comprehensive schools. Lately some changes in the system of secondary level school education happened which consisted in the intention of giving mutual conditions for learning to the most capable children. Two humanitarian gymnasiums were created with this purpose. One gymnasium was built with pedagogical grade. Information-mathematical, physico-mathematical and two economical lyceums work in Nikolayev as well. A school of midshipmen is attached to Ukrainian State Sea University.

    Nikolayev has considerable resources of health care. It has 16 hospitals for grown ups and 5 ones for children, 5 maternity homes, 14 day hospital centers and policlinics, 7 health centers.

    Nikolayev is well known by its sport schools’ traditions. Higher school of physical culture and sport, higher school of sport skill and 24 sport schools for children and juveniles make preparation of sportsmen in this city.

    There are three stadiums such as Palace of Sport which is called “Zorya”, sport complex “Nadia”, sport combine “Gart”, regional chess club for all the sportsmen and solicitous people.

    There is fertile spiritual and cultural potential here. The oldest art theatre of Russian drama and collective of regional philharmonic attract the biggest attention among the citizens. The activity of different cultural clubs contributes the development of folk art. There are two Palaces of Culture here, 10 cultural centers and 8 clubs. Museums, exhibition’s halls and art salons work as well.

    The list of Ukraine Airway Companies: Ukraine International Airlines, Volare Airways, Air Travel, Lvov Airways, Niclolayev Airways, Crimea Airways, Aerostar, Donbas Airways, Aerosvit, Ukrainian Cargo Airways, Ukrcopter Airways.

    The list of Ukraine Airports: Berdyansk Airport, Borispol International Airport (Kiev), Vinnitsa Airport, Dnepropetrovsk Airport, Donetsk Airport, Zaporozhzhye Airport, Ivano-Frankovsk Airport, Izmail Airport, Kerch Airport, Zulyany Airport (Kiev), Kirovograd Airport, Kramatorsk Airport, Kryvyy Rih Airport, Lugansk Airport, Lvov Airport, Mariupol Airport, Nikolayev International Airport, Odessa International Airport, Poltava Airport, Rovno Airport, Severdonoetsk Airport, Simferopol International Airport, Sumy Airport, Ternopol Airport, Uzgorod Airport, Kharkov Airport, Kherson Airport, Cherkassy Airport, Chernovtsy Airport, Chernigov Airport

    The list of the main Ukraine bus and railway directions: Lugansk, Donetsk, Sumy, Nikolayev, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Kerch, Zaporozhe, Kherson, Kirovograd, Cherkassy, Kiev, Chernigov, Odessa, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitsky, Rovno, Ivano – Frankovsk, Ternopol, Lutsk, Lvov, Uzhgorod, Melitopol. Crimea: Simferopol, Sevastopol, Sudak, Evpatoria, Feodosia, Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Alupka, Alushta, Jankoi, Kharkov.


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      Vinnitsa


      2010
      10.16

      Vinnitsa city center

      Vinnitsa city center

      Vinnitsa – one of the oldest Ukrainian cities, which is situated on the Yuzhny Bug river. It is more than 600 years old today. Vinnitsa is one of the biggest industrial and cultural cities of Ukraine, the centre of the Vinnitsa region and the Podolsk economic zone. The architectural monuments of 18-20th centuries – the cathedrals and the churches – are open today, including the renovated St.Mykola’s Church, one of the best examples of wooden falk art. There are 5 museums, 2 theatres and a Philharmonic Hall in Vinnitsa.

      The origin of the name Vinnitsa has not been ascertained definitively. Somebody simply affirms, That it has derived from the name of the little river Vinnytchka, a tributary of the South Boug. In 1871 the railway Kyiv – Odessa has been layed across Vinnytsa. It favored significantly subsequent economic and cultural development of the city. In 1797 the population of Vinnytsa makes 30 000.



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        Simferopol, Kerch, Evpatoria – Crimea


        2010
        07.29

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        Yevpatoriya City Information

        Evpatoria or Yevpatoriya is a city located on the Crimean Peninsula north-west of Simferopol. With a population of 108,000 inhabitants, it is one of the major Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a rail hub, and a resort town.

        Evpatoria has an ancient history. The original settlement was built by Greek settlers around 500 BC. Along with the rest of the Crimea, it was a dominion the King of Pontos, Mithridates VI (Eupator Dionysius), from whom the city’s modern name derives. From the 7th century until the 18th century the city was ruled by Asian / Turkic rulers including Khazars, Cumans, Mongols, the Crimean Khanate, and the Ottoman Empire. During this period the city was known as Gusliev (beautiful settlement). Yevpatoriya became a Slavic city in 1783 when the Russian Empire finally conquered Crimea.

        Most popular for its sandy beaches and shallow water, which is ideal for sunbathers and swimmers, the city is alive with tourists from May until October. Most visitors come for the sun and the sand, some come to cleanse and rehabilitate ailing bodies in one of many sanatoria (health resorts), while a few come to see the rich history that goes back more than 25 centuries.

        Crimea

        Crimea

        Simferopol City Information

        Simferopol is the political, administrative and cultural center of Crimea and is located in the middle of the Crimean peninsula. “Simferopol” is a Greek word and means “a town-collector”. Actually, all Crimean’s roads collect in Simferopol. So whatever you would like to go in Crimea you should almost for sure visit Simferopol first.

        Simferopol was founded on April 28, 1784 after Crimea was joined to Russia by Katherine II. There was a small Tatar town named Ak-Mechet. Till now downtown of the city consists of two parts: Tatar and European, and you will easy notify the differences if you take a short tour around the city.

        Population of the capital of Crimea is about 400,000 people. It is quite a small and quite a big city at the same time. You can easily walk to any part of it in 40-45 minutes.

        Simferopol has a pretty large public transportation system, a big railway station, and an airport. You can get any point of Crimea from Simferopol. There is the trolleybus track (the longest in the World at more than 90 km) which goes from the airport to Yalta.

        Kerch City Information

        Kerch is the city located in Crimea. It is very old city – people celebrated 2500′th birthday of it in 2000.

        Kerch peninsula having always been a crossroads of marine and overland trade routs has preserved the remains of different cultures and civilizations in monuments of Antiquity, Middle Ages and new time. World archeological and architectural treasury includes the excavation of antique settlements and funeral crypts of Bosporus State capital – Pantikapei. The masterpieces of Bosporus funeral architecture are the Imperial barrow; church of John Predtechi – one of’ the best known monuments of the . Byzantian architecture of IX-X centuries; fortress Yenikale – monuments of Turkish Empire. All these objects tell you about great skill of the ancient architects, mode of life and culture, history of many peoples, inhabited Kerch ‘ peninsula, which is named as archeological reservation.


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          Vilkovo- Venice of Ukraine


          2010
          07.29

          The Ukrainian Venice

          Vilkovo is a charming and unusual town on the Danube river delta very close to the Romanian border. It was settled in the mid 1700’s by ‘Old Believers’, Russian that fled the new empire to escape religious persecution. This area in those days was under Turkish rule, but this was better for the old believers than what they had fled.

          Vilkovo is very close to the Danube Biosphere Reserve.

          The ‘Old Believers’ created islands by drawing reeds and mud from channels they dug, the channels became their roads and the islands their homes. Because of this the town has come to be known as “the Ukrainian Venice”. Villagers still use the canals to move around the town wondering the ’streets’ in canoes and by foot on wood plank walkways. Nearby is the newer part of town with regular streets and apartment buildings. This really is a fascinating part of Ukraine, with the town’s unique historic feel and lifestyle and the original flair of Old Believer culture.

          Vilkovo

          Vilkovo

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          Vilkovo – is a confluence of the Danube and Black Sea, the Pearl of the Danube lowland,

          Experience Unique Beauty!
          “Ukrainian Venice”, which is located directly beside the sea on the border with Romania. What is unusual about this town, is that an old part of town is situated on the water. There is a water instead of streets, people are being displaced mainly in the original Ukrainian “gondola” (manufactured here), and motorboats. And how do you like the mane of street Belgorod channel 24? This is something like a central avenue. Imagine, you are on the boat, you see bleached clean houses around, small gardens, fertilizers, silt, wood laying on the sides of channels 1-2 m wide. Channels are crossed by simple wooden bridges. Top bridges are not fixed. If the boat is transporting oversized cargo, then they remove the top of the bridge, and when the boat passes, they put it back .


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            Odessa


            2010
            03.29

            Odessa is the most charming city in Ukraine. Anyone who agues otherwise has never strolled its captivating streets nor broken bread with its jovial citizens. As a tribute to its charm, eight cities in the US, two in Canada and one in Brazil were named Odessa. There’s also Lake Odessa and even Odessa the planet somewhere out there in the cosmos. However, none of these tributes shine as vibrantly as Odessa, Ukraine: The Pearl of the Black Sea.

            Odessa Opera House

            Odessa Opera House

            Throughout its history Odessa has lured travelers, artists, poets, wealthy entrepreneurs and radical dissidents. Officially founded in 1794 by Catherine II, the Empress understood that a port on the Black Sea was necessary for the expansion of communication and commerce with Europe. The city was not erected on empty ground, however. Archeological findings have revealed the existence of an ancient Greek   settlement. Following the Greeks, the Kyivan Rus, the Golden Horde, the Lithuanians, the Ottomans, the Tatars and the Poles all made use of Odessa’s ideal location. The area finally fell into Russian hands during the Russo-Turkish War (1787 – 1791), and was later annexed under the Treaty of Jassy in 1792.

            Unlike many of its contemporary Russian cities, the construction of Odessa was well planned. Duc de Richelieu, a French dissident who served in the Russian Army and later became one of the city’s first governors, is credited as the city’s visionary designer. The city boomed throughout the 19th Century, and attracted an incredibly diverse population. Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Romanians, Greeks, Gagauzians, Albanians, Italians, Frenchmen and Germans all added their own unique vision to the city’s unparalleled character. By the beginning of the 20th Century, Odessa had become the third most important city in the Russian Empire behind St. Petersburg and Moscow. Odessa continued to thrive during the period of Soviet industrial explanation, and by the mid 1950’s had become one of the world richest grain harbours. Despite the incursion of industrial enterprises, Odessa has remained a stunning, invaluable cultural centre and a place of inexplicable appeal.

            Ukraine has been given a unique opportunity to transform and ascend to a new level of development. On April 17, 2007 Ukraine and Poland were awarded the chance to co-host the Euro 2012 football competition. As one of the country’s getaway cities, Odessa will definitely benefit from the expected surge in interest…


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              Kiev


              2010
              03.29

              Welcome to Kiev (in some issues written Kyiv) – capital of Ukraine . What is the first question in the beginning of your new trip? Certainly, it is a question of accommodations, it is a choice of а hotels. We suggest you to take advantage of the daily rent apartments Kiev- private hotel service. Accommodation in Kiev apartments in center will make your staying more simplified, will allow you to save in cost of residing, to receive the greater comfort, a domestic cosiness and freedom. All our apartments are located in the center of Kyiv on affinity with historical and cultural monuments, restaurants and night clubs, business centers, popular hotels, embassies of the foreign countries. You have an opportunity to have accommodation Kiev apartments in the very center- resining in capital of Ukraine and to find out the city life from within. For daily rent we can offer one-, two-, three- and four-rooms apartments in Kiev center location.

              We give our visitors a number of additional services , such as airports and stations pick- up and transfer to accommodation point (Kiev apartments and hotels), rent a car with a driver (Kyiv or Ukraine), etc. Also is available 24-hrs guests information support (russian and english languages).

              You can visit historical and cultural sights during your standing in Kiev, find out and observe a city’s history since to old times of the Kyiv Russia. If you want to spend your time in a “free atmosphere”- just glance some cosy Kiev restaurants or drop into a “hot” Kiev night life. Do you have some questions? How to book Kiev apartments? We hope, that you can find answers by means of MY DIRECT MO8:+38 097 73 222 39|ANDREW| , devoted to the booking and residing. Also we shall be glad to give you any useful information and to help to receive only the best impressions from staying in our Kiev apartments.

              All of them have high quality of repair and are completely equipped with home appliances (air-conditioners, cable or satellite TV, refrigerators, etc.). Also there are equipped with “alternative hot water supply”.



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