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Gagarin Park
Flanking the Teteriv River about 1.5km south of the city centre, this park is a hive of activity in the summer months and serves up great views of the river gorge and the forest beyond, accessible via the Berdychivsky bridge over the gorge. To reach the park from maydan Rad, follow
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Saint Peters and Pauls Cathedral
The Jesuit complex on vul Kafedralna was designed in the early to mid-17th century by Italian architect Giacomo Briano. The stately, newly renovated facade of the cathedral dates from 1640, the renovated interior – painted in pink and yellow tones – resembling a massive Easter egg.
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Kharkiv History Museum
You can’t miss the large granite sculptural ensemble commemorating Kharkiv’s designation as the first capital of Soviet Ukraine on 24 December 1917. Nearby are several anti-aircraft guns and tanks. These are associated with the Kharkiv History Museum , which occupies the big red-br
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Mystetsky Arsenal
Once a storage for gunpowder and harnesses, these days it is a playground for visionary curators – each exhibition becomes an event of national importance. Eclecticism rules – exhibitions feature both new and old art. Unfortunately, the place often closes for months on end in the i
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Dominican Monastery
Vul Dominikanska cuts south from Polish Market Sq, linking it with the Armenian Quarter. Here youll find the Dominican Monastery complex, some parts of which date from the 14th century. The buildings suffered serious damage during WWII but are now under constant restoration. The mo
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Folk Architecture & Life Museum
Next door to Uzhhorod Castle, this is one of the tidiest open-air museums in the country, albeit small. Highlights include several Hutsul cottages with their bench-lined walls, a complete timber school and the timber 18th-century Mykhaylivska Church (St Michaels Church), rescued fr
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Pochayiv Monastery
Its ornate golden domes rising up from the surrounding plain, Pochayiv Monastery is a beacon of Ukrainian Orthodoxy (Moscow Patriarchate) on the edge of a largely Ukrainian Catholic region. Indeed, it’s the country’s second largest Orthodox complex after Kyiv’s Kievo-Pecherska Lavr
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Avtomotovelofototeleradio Museum
Big name for a small museum but worthwhile for anyone with a wistful soft spot for the days of Soviet mass production. This octagonal building near the main bridge over the river (on the city-centre side) houses some interesting classic cars (Trabant, Zaporozhets, Moskvich, Lada),
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Kalynivsky Market
With its own police station, bus station and dedicated bank branches, this 33-hectare bazaar is like a town unto itself. As a conduit into Ukraine for goods from neighbouring countries, it attracts tens of thousands of shoppers a day and is a frenetic, wonderful phenomenon. Take an
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Spaska Church
A block northwest of maydan Soborny up vul Parizskoyi Komuny is the quaint Spaska Church (1705), with its rebuilt bell tower. Its faced by an odd monument to Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great) across the street on vul Parizskoyi Komuny. Further up vul Parizskoyi Komuny is another monum
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Museum of Forest Ecology
This old-school museum stands on the hill behind the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve headquarters building. The exhibition is surprisingly informative, rich and colourful as well as slightly kitsch, so in-between sniggers at the odd moth-bitten, taxidermied sheep, youll learn a bit fr
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Taras Shevchenko Park
Around 20 minutes walk south from maydan Vichevy, the citys main stretch of green is a great place to shake out the picnic blanket, hire a rowboat on the lake or chill with an ice cream to do a spot of people-watching of a balmy eve. The approaches to the park are lined with refurb
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Podillya Antiquities Museum
This imaginatively presented museum with English explanations takes visitors through the archaeology of Podillya in six easy steps. You begin in a Stone Age cave and end in a courtyard of sculpted Slavic gods, passing through Trypillian, Scythian and early Slav dwellings along the
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Genovese Fortress of Cembalo
All that remains of the 15th-century Genovese fortress are three semi-ruined towers on top of a strategic hill, guarding the mouth of the harbour. But the view of the bay and the sea coast, stretching to Cape Aya, is breathtaking. The fortress was the site of the last stand of Bala
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Poltava Battle Museum
The Poltava Battle Museum is by the Peter I statue. Inside are displays relating to the battle, including maps, paintings and Peter I’s original uniform. There’s nothing (beyond one paltry portrait) to document the Cossack forces under hetman Ivan Mazepa. Aside from the museum, the
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Holocaust memorial
About 500m north of the Theatre of Opera and Ballet on pr Chornovola is the Holocaust memorial, a vaguely cubist statue of a tormented figure looking skyward. The Lviv ghetto began here after most of the citys Jews were killed or deported to Belzec in the Great Action of August 194
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Genovese Citadel
Not nearly as spectacular as its Sudak counterpart, and neglected by the authorities, this is still a beautifully melancholic place where you can get away from the crowds and check out several medieval Armenian churches scattered around the premises. The fortress is in the western
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Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
Declared a Unesco Biosphere Reserve in 1992, this protected area is made up of six separate locations, four of which can be found around Rakhiv. Some 90% of the reserve is made up of virgin forest, home to rare flora and fauna. About 5km southwest of Rakhiv the main road leads to t
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Kara
The Kara-Dag Nature Reserve bio-station is on the outskirts of Kurortne hamlet. Anyone is free to visit the aquarium, dolphinarium and botanic gardens, but for environmental reasons you’re not allowed on the main part of Kara-Dag territory without a guide. Note that animal welfare
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Museum of the Great Patriotic War
While the Museum of the Great Patriotic War was built belatedly in 1981 to honour Kyivs defenders during the great patriotic war of WWII, it seems to be straight out of the 1950s, with gloomy lighting and huge display halls covered in creaky parquet flooring. This is a sombre and s
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