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St Michaels Gold
St Michaels Gold-Domed Monasterys fascinating history is explained in great detail (in Ukrainian and English placards) in a museum located in the monasterys bell tower. The museum also explains the sad history of the neighbouring Tryokhsvyatytelska Church, destroyed by the Soviets
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Poltava Museum of Local Lore
Located on the southeast edge of Zhovtnevy Park, the museum exhibits random archaeological and cultural artefacts, its collection almost overshadowed by its gorgeous Art Nouveau building (1903), adorned with the ceramic crests of each district capital in the Poltava oblast. Outside
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City Garden
Odesas main commercial street, pedestrian vul Derybasivska, is jam-packed with restaurants, bars and, in the summer high season, tourists. At the western end of the street is the pleasant, recently reconstructed City Garden, surrounded by several restaurants. Youll find various tou
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Cape Fiolent
The southernmost tip of Sevastopol municipality is a spot of a rare, Le Grand Bleu type of beauty. But this aesthetic pleasure comes at a cost – an 800-step descent from the cliff-top Georgievsky monastery to the citys most scenic beach – Yashmovy. Reaching Fiolent is not easy, eit
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National Museum and Memorial to the Victims of Occupation
This infamous building on vul Bryullova was used as a prison by the Poles, Nazis and communists in turn, but the small and very moving ground-floor exhibition focuses on Stalinist atrocities in the early years of WWII. Left exactly as it was when the KGB bailed out in 1991, the bru
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Regional Museum
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St Bridgets Monastery
In the 18th century this working monastery was once a convent where the nuns were so strict about their no-male-on-the-premises rule that they didnt allow firefighters in when the building was ablaze. The result was a huge fire that destroyed much of the original timber town. Today
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Voloshins House
Poet Maximilian Voloshin came to live on this bay beneath the anthropomorphic shapes of the Kara-Dag mountains (which his friends claimed looked like him), and his home turned into a meeting place for intellectuals of all professions and political convictions. He stayed here even w
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Mithridates Hill
The first thing to do in Kerch is to take the 432 stairs up the central Mithridates Hill. The view from the summit is brilliant, and on the lee side the ruins of the ancient city of Panticapaeum have been revealed in an ongoing archaeological dig.Back on the central pl Lenina, chec
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Ratusha
Polish Market Sq is lorded over by the tall 14th-century Ratusha (Town Hall). The renovated peach-hued building now houses three single-room museums that are of limited interest unless you are into coins, medieval justice or the Magdeburg legal system, but there is a decent bar on
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Museum of Ethnography, Arts & Crafts
This unimaginatively curated museum has a few interesting pieces of furniture, Czech glass, Art Nouveau posters (Mucha, Lautrec) and various 19th- and 20th-century decorative items from across Europe, the whole caboodle scattered throughout an interestingly run-down palace. The eth
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Korpusny Park
The focal point of the city centre is the circular Korpusny Park, laid out in the early 19th century in an attempt to emulate the grand planning ideals of St Petersburg. Eight streets radiate off the plaza, and in its centre rises the Iron Column of Glory , topped by a golden eagle
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Chekhovs Dacha
Tired of being a local celebrity in Yalta, Chekhov sought refuge in this little Tatar farmhouse tucked in a solitary cove under the Genovese Cliff. The melancholy of this place inspired him to create one of his best plays – The Three Sisters . There is nothing much to see apart fro
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Panteleymonivskaya Church
Near the train station you cant help but spy the five silver onion domes of this Russian Orthodox church, built by Greek monks with stone from Constantinople in the late 19th century. According to legend, every time the Soviets painted over the churchs elaborate frescoes, they woul
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Ayvazovsky Gallery
Born in 1817, the most celebrated son of Feodosiya and of its Armenian community, Ivan Ayvazovsky became the official painter of the Russian Navy, assigned with recording all of its victories and defeats on canvas. Mesmerised by the sea, he seemed obsessed with cataloguing all of i
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Museum of Political Prisoners
A block back from bul Shevchenka, this former KGB prison is where several prominent members of UPA and OUN were held, tortured and shot in the years of Soviet repression following WWII. The prison only closed in 1986 and became a museum in the mid-1990s. The dank cells and other sp
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Salo Museum
For the uninitiated, salo is the raw pig fat that Ukrainians love to slip down with vodka and use an an ingredient in national dishes. This museum is a more a gallery in a restaurant where you can pay homage to salo at the salo monument and wonder at pieces of modern art and sculpt
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Devlet
The site where Crimean Tatar khans originally settled in Bakhchysaray now consists of a modest museum, ruins of a public bath, a mausoleum where 18 members of the khan dynasty were buried, and the main highlight – Zyndzhyrli (Chain) Medrese. The eponymous chain is hanging at the sc
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Spaso
Novhorod Siversky is the site of the idyllic Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery - a complex of wood-shingled buildings and golden-domed churches surrounded by charming 19th-century country homes and perched over the leafy banks of the Desna River. The monastery dates back to Igor’s era
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Uspensky Monastery
Stop for a moment and say aah! at possibly the cutest little church in a country absolutely jam-packed with them. Part of the small Uspensky Monastery, the gold-domed church has been built into the limestone rock of the surrounding hill, probably by Byzantine monks in the 8th or 9t
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