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Vul Kobylyanskoy
When you’ve had enough of Chernivtsi’s barmy traffic, head for the tranquillity of vul Kobylyanskoy, a pedestrianised street running between vuls Holovna and Shevchenka. It’s certainly the city’s most attractive thoroughfare hemmed with beautiful Art Nouveau facades containing musi
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Iosofatova Valley
The forested Iosofatova Valley beneath the Chufut-Kale plateau hides a breathtaking and spooky sight. Thousands of moss-covered gravestones covered in Hebrew script stand, lie upturned or lean at precarious angles in the shade of ancient oak trees. For over a millennium the Karaite
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Museum of Folk Architecture and Life
This open-air museum displays different regional styles of farmsteads, windmills, churches and schools, which dot a huge park to the east of the city centre. Everything is pretty spread out here and a visit involves a lot of footwork. As an exhibition, it doesnt hold a candle to Ky
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Latin Cathedral
With various chunks dating from between 1370 and 1480, this working cathedral is one of Lviv’s most impressive churches. The exterior is most definitely Gothic while the heavily gilded interior, one of the city’s highlights, has a more baroque feel with colourfully wreathed pillars
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Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve
The lions share of the marshy, bird-laden Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Europes largest wetlands, lies in Romania. Few tourists enter from the Ukrainian side, but those that do are rewarded with extremely affordable half- to full-day boat tours through the deltas unique waterways
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Lutsk Castle
Lutsks 14th-century castle stands surrounded by ornate 17th-century churches and homes and is in fairly decent shape for a Ukrainian fortress. Known as Lubarts Castle after the Lithuanian prince who ordered it built, it has sturdy 13m-high ramparts topped with three tall towers, on
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Pirogov Chapel
The second-most famous embalmed corpse in the former Soviet Union (after Lenin in Moscow) rests in the basement of a chapel in the suburb of Pyrohove about 6.5km southwest of central Vinnytsya. Nikolai Pirogov was a Russian medical pioneer who invented a type of cast as well as a r
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Bul Taras Shevchenko
The towns verdant showpiece, complete with landscaping, fountains and mature trees, is a popular hang-out and a pleasant spot for an evening corso. Heading north you cannot fail to notice the neoclassical Shevchenko Theatre , one of the regions grandest neo-Classical edifices. At t
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Cold War Museum
The towns quirkiest sight lurks across the bay from the main promenade. The concrete opening in the harbour wall is the mouth of a natural underwater cave that the Soviets turned into a secret nuclear submarine factory officially known as Facility-825. Today you can breach the huge
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Dzhuma
Built in 1552, the landmark mosque is attributed to Mimar Sinan, the architect of Istanbuls famous Blue Mosque. Although not in Backhysaray, it was considered the main mosque of Ottoman-ruled Crimea. It served as a venue for enthroning Crimean khans, who disembarked in Yevpatoriya
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Pushkin Museum
This is where Alexander Pushkin spent his first days in Odesa, after being exiled from Moscow by the tsar in 1823 for mischievous epigrams. Governor Vorontsov subsequently humiliated the writer with petty administrative jobs, and it took only 13 months, an affair with Vorontsovs wi
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Pokrovsky Monastery
Just west of pl Konstytutsiyi, the gleaming domes of the Pokrovsky Monastery (Intercession of the Virgin) are visible from miles away. The predictably peaceful grounds (enter from pl Konstytutsiyi) have two attractive churches. The smaller and more important of the two is the blue,
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St Volodymyrs Cathedral
Although not one of Kyivs most important churches, St Volodymyrs Cathedral arguably has the prettiest interior. Built in the late 19th century to mark 900 years of Orthodox Christianity in the city, its yellow exterior and seven blue domes conform to standard Byzantine style. Howev
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Krasna Ploshcha
Life in Chernihiv revolves around the huge Krasna pl (Red Sq). As with its Moscow namesake, there is nothing remotely bolshie in the word red, which simply meant beautiful in old Slavonic. In the park extending southeast of the square along vul Shevchenko rises the St Paraskevy Pya
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St Georges Cathedral
On the way between the city centre and the train station stands the historic and sacred centre of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, which was handed back after 44 years of compulsory Orthodox control. Constructed in 1774–90, this yellow building is pleasant enough, especially s
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Tsarsky Kurgan
Eight hundred metres from the Adzhimushkay Defence Museum, there is a monument from a completely different epoch. This empty, 4th-century-BC burial mound is thought to be the grave of a Bosporan king. Its exterior is Scythian, but its symmetrical interior was built by the Greeks. T
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Museum of Western & Eastern Art
Housed in a beautifully renovated (at least on the outside), mid-19th-century palace, the museums star turn used to be one of 12 known versions (most likely not the original) of Caravaggios brilliant painting The Taking of Christ . However, in July 2008 the canvas was cut from its
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Izolyatsia
The new and much lauded contemporary art space occupies a former electric insulator factory standing at the foot of a particularly picturesque slag heap. It hosts a number of international resident artists who draw inspiration from the industrial dystopia of Donbass. Musical and ed
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Boyim Chapel
Just off pl Rynoks southwest corner, the blackened facade of the burial chapel (1615) belonging to Hungarian merchant Georgi Boyim and his family is covered in magnificent if somewhat morbid carvings. Atop the cupola is an unusual sculpture of Christ sitting with his head in one ha
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Usta
Ten years ago Crimean Tatar handicrafts were on the verge of extinction, but Ayshe Osmanova resolved to rescue her peoples culture from the precipice. Retrieving old manuals from the Khans Palace, she taught herself the ancient art of Crimean embroidery and was soon teaching the cr
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