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Rodina Mat
Theres not much to say about Rodina Mat (literally Nations Mother, but formally called the Defence of the Motherland Monument). However, from certain parts of Kyiv its highly visible and so requires a high-profile explanation. Especially when youre approaching from the left (or eas
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Dytynets
From Krasna pl its a three-minute walk southeast along pr Myru to the old historic core, known as the Dytynets (citadel in old Russian). Today its an informal park dotted with domed churches overlooking the Desna River. The highlight is the 12th-century Boryso-Hlibsky Cathedral , w
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Babyn Yar
On 29 September 1941, Nazi troops rounded up Kyivs 34,000-strong Jewish population, marched them to the Babyn Yar ravine and massacred them all in the following 48 hours. Victims were shot and buried in the ravine, some of them still alive. Over the next two years, many more people
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Livadia Palace
Its not the most sumptuously furnished Crimean interior, but Livadia Palace reverberates with history. Its the site of the 1945 Yalta Conference, where dying US president Franklin Roosevelt and heat-allergic British prime minister Winston Churchill turned up to be bullied by Soviet
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Andriyivsky Uzviz
According to legend a man walked up the hill, erected a cross and prophesied: A great city will stand on this spot. That man was the Apostle Andrew, hence the name of Kyivs quaintest thoroughfare, a steep cobbled street that winds its way up from Kontraktova pl to vul Volodymyrska.
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Former Armenian Church
A few steps off pl Rynok stands this eye-pleasingly symmetrical baroque church built by the Armenian community in 1762. Beyond the golden doors the interior is a typically fragrant affair busy with head-scarved babushkas lighting beeswax candles and praying before gilt icons.
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Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection
The citys punctiliously renovated Greek Catholic cathedral is a fine example of baroque symmetry crafted in the mid-18th century. Huge bronzes of St Volodymyr and Princess Olga stand by the entrance, solomnly ushering the faithful into the beautiful, dimly lit and mustily aromatic
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Kharkiv Art Museum
Kharkivs most famous museum owns one of many versions of Ilya Repins Zaporizhsky Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, which is found in a room full of Repin paintings in the museums permanent collection. The entire collection of romantic paintings here is of a high stan
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Shevchenko Park
Central Shevchenko Park is one of those post-Soviet parks where you can sit for hours watching families boarding the kiddy train, listening to some remarkably talented buskers, and pondering the shortness of some skirts and height of most heels. Not sure what the national poet migh
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Lenins Embankment
Everyones favourite pastime in Yalta is walking up and down the seafront nab Lenina and the pedestrian zone along the Uchan-su River , where youll find a small History Museum and a Catholic church . A popular attraction here is a flimsy plastic-bucket-style chairlift that swings ab
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Odesa Opera & Ballet Theatre
The jewel in Odesas architectural crown was designed in the 1880s by the architects who also designed the famous Vienna State Opera, namely Ferdinand Fellner and Herman Helmer. After being closed for several years amid botched reconstruction efforts, the theatre reopened to great f
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Central Botanical Gardens
The long, steep hill running along the Dnipro River from Olympic Stadium and Mariyinsky Palace to Rodina Mat continues south for several kilometres, eventually becoming the Central Botanical Gardens. The gardens fastidiously manicured grounds are criss-crossed by a network of paths
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PinchukArtCentre
The rotating exhibits at this world-class gallery feature elite names in the world of European contemporary art and design, all financed by billionaire mogul Viktor Pinchuk. Works by world giants like Antony Gormley, Damian Hirst and Ai Weiwei have exhibited here. Dont miss the vie
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Pysanky Museum
Kolomyyas most eye-catching attraction is a monster concrete Easter egg, which sits rather self-consciously on the towns main square. Inside and in an adjoining building youll discover a museum dedicated to the traditional art of egg painting, with examples from Ukraine, Romania, t
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Taurida Central Museum
Crimeas largest museum consists of three main sections. The first is a collection of golden artefacts, produced by Hellenized Alano-Goths in the princedom of Feodoro – currently Mangup-Kale . It is located in a guarded premises on the ground floor and can only be accessed with a gu
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Potemkin Steps
A woman yells at a tidy line of soldiers as they take aim. Officer commands: Fire!. It takes many painful seconds for her to collapse and release a pram with a baby, which starts slowly tumbling down the steps – these very steps. All of that never happened during the real Battleshi
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Holodomor Memorial
At the far end of Vichnoy Slavy Park, centred around a Soviet-era war memorial, you will find a monument from an entirely different epoch. President Viktor Yushchenkos pet project, it is dedicated to almost four million victims of the famine, artificially induced by Stalins policy
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Mikhaylovskaya Battery
A massive piece of fortification seen across the bay from central Sevastopol, the battery served as a hospital when the Russians withdrew to the northern side of the bay during the Crimean War. It has recently been transformed into a museum dedicated to Sevastopols military history
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Museum of Hutsul Folk Art
This well-curated exhibition of Hutsul artefacts is probably the best of its kind in Ukraine. Decorated stove tiles and other ceramics, musical instruments, carved wooden tools, boxes, furniture, traditional and embroidered folk dress, woven wall hangings and an interesting collect
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Menorah Centre
Vaguely reminiscent of MI6 headquarters in Vauxhall, this giant structure looming over the remains of the Old Town is the slick new heart of the citys Jewish community. It was built over the citys old synagogue, of which only the original facade remains – the interior is completely
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