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Soledar Salt Mine
You can visit the mine all year round. From Artemivsk take a taxi or a Soledar marshrutka from the bus station (35 minutes) and ask for the shakhta (mine). There are plenty of trains from Donetsk to Artemivsk. Going with a tour agency from Donetsk makes things easier but costs a co
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Dominican Church
At the western end of vul Hetmana Sahaydachnoho, where it opens up into maydan Voli, the dirty-cream and grey Dominican Church and monastery complex hoists the citys finest silhouette. Built in the mid-18th century, its symmetrical twin towers rise from a baroque facade and the int
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Main Fountain
The dominating feature on maydan Vichevy is the fountain, a popular meeting spot. If you descend the steps below the fountains main bowl, you can stand beneath the cascading water without getting wet – a little factoid of which locals are inordinately proud, especially those posing
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Transfiguration Church
This light-yellow, gold-domed church dating from 1758 is worth checking out for its dim and atmospheric painted interior.
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St Barbara Church
Berdychiv has links to two great 19th-century literary figures: Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv (1857), and Honoré de Balzac (of all people) was married to Polish noblewoman Ewelina Hańska (1850) in this rose-tinted neoclassical church. Look out for the brass plaque celebrating
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Akkerman Fortress
The ‘White City on the Dnister’ is an ordinary industrial port, but with an impressive fortress built by Moldavians, Genoese and Turks in the 13th to 15th centuries. Today the castle is among Ukraine’s largest and best preserved. You can walk along most of the walls, which stretch
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Rizdva Khrystovoho Church
Ternopils most attractive ecclesiastical interior belongs to the 17th-century Church of the Nativity. Inside this oasis of calm, the nave explodes in gilded colour, musty murals and polished-brass incense burners. Outside stands a very visible monument to the 1932–33 famine (many a
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The whole town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, with its 23 museums, has been declared a historical preserve. The highlight is the outdoor, 32-hectare Folk Architecture Museum . Annoyingly, you must pay about 2uah extra to view each of the traditional houses on display. The park is a 15
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Naval Museum
In the naval museum you can breach the huge nuclear-blast-proof doors and wander some of the 600m of the former repair docks, mess rooms and thankfully now empty arsenal on a one-hour-long guided tour. When MTV launched in Ukraine in 2007, this is where it held the party. But take
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Lanzheron Beach
Perhaps to copy Brighton Beach, New York – where half of Odesa seems to have emigrated – the authorities built a boardwalk at the beach closest to the city centre. It looks modern and attractive, but it is small and hence often crowded. Lanzheron is reachable on foot via Shevchenko
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Apteka Museum
This pharmacy museum is located inside a still-functioning chemists shop dating from 1735. Entrance into the eerie pidval (basement) is by request only. Bottles of medicinal wine with a high iron content can be bought here (temporary tooth discolouration is all part of the fun); ju
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Berdychiv Castle
The impressive brick-walled complex hogging the horizon as you approach Berdychiv from Khmelnytsky is widely known as the castle (krepost), but its actually a 17th-century Carmelite monastery. The fortress-like defensive walls and towers were built in the late 18th century. Sadly,
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Vorontsov Palace
At the western end of bul Prymorsky, back up the stairs and to the right, is the derelict Vorontsov Palace. This was the residence of the citys third governor, built in 1826 in a classical style with interior Arabic detailing. The Greek-style colonnade behind the palace offers bril
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Panorama of Sevastopols Defence
The focus of Sevastopols wartime memories, this is a circular building, its inner wall covered in a mammoth-sized painting. Supplemented with 3D props, it brings to life the 349-day siege of Sevastopol. Entry is only as part of a group tour, leaving at allotted times. English- or G
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Yegiya Kapay Synagogue
Once the heart of a thriving Jewish community, this synagogue was closed by the Bolsheviks, then pretty much all the Crimean Jews were exterminated by the Nazis. Now revived, it once again serves as a spiritual and cultural centre, which runs an excellent Jewish restaurant and occa
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Dniproges Dam
At 760m – two and a half times longer than the famous Hoover Dam – the wall of the USSRs first dam certainly represented a monumental engineering feat when constructed under US supervision in 1927–32. Its still impressive, although stained by years of local pollution. It is best vi
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Russian Magistrate
There are some interesting old buildings on vul Pyatnytska, which branches off Armenian Market Sq. The large structure with a distinctive metal dragon projecting from its facade is the old Russian Magistrate, now the headquarters of NIAZ Kamyanets , the body overseeing K-Ps conserv
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Khrestovozdvyzhensky Monastery
About 3km east of Korpusny Park is the early 18th-century Khrestovozdvyzhensky Monastery (Elevation of the Cross). The main cathedral is one of only two in the country with seven cupolas, rather than five (the other is St Michaels Monastery in Kyiv). The complex is a long (30-minut
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Ternopil Lake
Don your best fake D&G, grab a bottle of hop fizz and head to the lake, the place to see and be seen on summer evenings. Created in the 16th century as part of the defence system for the now all-but defunct castle, there are regular boat trips across it, aqua-zorbing on it, a b
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History Museum
South of Shevchenko Park is pl Zhovtneva (pl Oktyabrskaya), site of the excellent History Museum, which has large visually attractive rooms dedicated to the Cossacks, the Russian empire, the Civil War and Holodomor. Adjoining the museum is a diorama , an 840-sq-metre painted canvas
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