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Winter Wonderland in Kyiv
This year’s winter in Ukraine was the classic of the season – snowed in streets invite residents for outdoor activities and carry the sparkling magic of the coldest time of the year. The best way to spend your snowy winter day off in Kyiv would be skiing, skating, sleighing, making a snowman, or having a snowball fight in a park. If that is not extreme enough, one can engage in an unconventional picnic in the freezing temperatures, rolling downhill on a tire, and ice fishing.
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Mamaieva Sloboda
One of the biggest traditional holidays in Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Epiphany (coincides with baptism of Jesus), took place at Mamaieva Sloboda, - a complete replica of a historical Ukrainian Cossack village. The historical center often hosts gatherings of modern day Cossack men. It was designed to mimick the natural environment, architecture and lifestyle of the ancient warriors - cossacks, who once lived in Ukraine. The holiday gathered hundreds of visitors who enthusiastically participated in the renowned traditional bathing ceremony (a form of christening in holy water), and enjoyed the variety of traditional Cossack dishes while watching and participating in the old Ukrainian folk dances.
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Ukrainian Christmas
With kolyada (Christmas carols), vertep (traditional Ukrainian Christmas theater), kuttya (the main dish of the Holly Dinner that is prepared only for Christmas), pampushky (traditional Christmas donuts), varenyky (traditional dumplings) and an endless number of other foods, sweets, and goodies that stretch across Ukrainian dining tables during the biggest holiday of the year, a Ukrainian Christmas commences.
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Euro-2012
Step by step Ukraine gets closer to an unprecedented event in its sports and cultural life. European Football Championship EURO 2012 will be here in less than seven months. As a co-host of the Championship, Ukraine has selected four cities with more than adequate arenas to invite these renowned football teams and their fans.
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Christmas Bazaar
The 19th Holiday Bazaar organized by the International Women’s Club of Kyiv took place in the Ukrainian capital on December 3, 2011. Over 15,000 people and 38 foreign embassies participated in the event. The main purpose of the Bazaar was to raise charitable funds for the needy women, children, disabled and elderly people of Ukraine.
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Festival Chervona Ruta
For the twelfth year in a row, the Ukrainian festival Chervona Ruta has opened the stage for the new talents performing Ukrainian music of different genres. The number of this year’s participants has set the record, bringing together 850 young musicians and performers. New to this year’s festival is the collaboration of performers from all regions of Ukraine.
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Lviv Arena
The stadium seats filled quickly with spectators who came to watch thousands of performers in coordination with a myriad of lights, and music show featuring famous Ukrainian pop-star Ruslana and American singer-songwriter Anastacia. With the roar of the crowd and the explosions of confetti, the new soccer stadium of western Ukraine, built to host Euro 2012, was opened.
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Chrysanthemums in Kyiv
The ten districts of Kyiv created flower compositions utilizing three thousand chrysanthemums. The flower exhibition was opened for several weeks welcoming city’s residents and guests of the Ukrainian capital. Along with professional works presented by the landscape designers, there were compositions created by the students from Kyiv’s schools.
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Major EURO-2012 Arena - Olympiysky
The premium class sports complex Olympiysky in the heart of the Ukrainian capital reopens after a major reconstruction. One of the world’s largest sports venues will host the final match of the top level football event – the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. The opening featured many high profile guests including the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Ukrainian football star Andriy Shevchenko, boxing world champion Vitaly Klitchko, as well as pop diva Shakira, who gave a concert at the stadium.
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Roshen Dancing Fountain
A unique musical illuminated floating fountain opened in the Western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on September 4, 2011. The fountain is the world’s only floating fountain mounted in the natural body of water and by its technical parameters can only be compared to one such water facility in the world – the Dubai Fountain.
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Lviv
is a city that is considered a capital of Western Ukraine, was founded in 13th century and currently is on the UNESCO world heritage list. It was founded by the King Danylo Galytskyi and named in honor of his son Leo. For this reason the emblem of the city has been Leo. The city has lived through many historical and architectural epochs, which are represented in the buildings that the city center has in amply. Among the many interesting places are the Opera House, the hall of which is considered to be among the most beautiful in Europe, the Dominican Cathedral, build in the Baroque style where organ music can be heard on the week-ends, the Armenian Church, one of the earliest buildings in L’viv, which served as a meeting place for Armenian community, main building of the L’viv Ivan Franko National University, which used to be the seat of the local Austrian representation, the Market Square with the City Hall and its Tower, from which central part of the city can be observed, the High Castle, a hill that used to be a home of the king’s castle, and from which panoramic view of the entire city opens up. L’viv is a city of contrasts and various cultural trends and will be of interest to any visitor.
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Kharkiv
is the second largest city in Ukraine, former formal capital and cultural capital of the Soviet Ukraine, founded in the end of the 17th century. Kharkiv is a very dynamic city with important branches of industry, such as aviation and military equipment, many leading research institutions. Though the city is quite young, it has some architectural monuments that could be of interest. These include Pokrova cathedral, the oldest of the surviving building, which was built in 1689, and represents a typical Ukrainian church style. Second biggest square in Europe is located in Kharkiv, which has the length of 670 meters and width of 96 meters. The famous Ukrainian Law Academy of Yaroslav Mudryy is located in Kharkiv. Another important architectural building is the Uspenskyy Cathedral, which was built in the Russian Baroque style. To honor the victory of Russian forces over the French army, a new bell tower with a golden dome was erected. It still remains the tallest building in Khrakiv and has a height of 89.5 meters. Each hour from the tower bell people can hear the sound of the chimes. The hall of the cathedral has the organ installed, which hosts the concerts of the organ and chamber music. Kharkiv is a young but beautiful city and could be of interest to any traveler.
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Yalta
is a resort city located in the south of Crimean peninsula, a tourist attraction that has its origins from 12th century, located in the area of other Ancient Greek remnants. It has been attracting tourists from many countries during the summer holidays. The Greater Yalta combines several smaller resort towns that offer great summer vocational opportunities, beaches and mountain recreation. There is the longest mountain trolley-bus line in Europe, which connects Yalta with Simferopol (85 kilometers), above which located are the lands of the wineries, among which the most known is “Massandra.” The most known street of Yalta is the Lenin’s shore drive, which nowadays is the most important street of the city with many cafes, restaurants, and shops. Within the area of the Greater Yalta there are several castles, among which “Swallow‘s nest” draws a lot of attention, as it is a very beautiful made of white stone castle located at the seashore. Though Yalta is not that big, it offers great opportunities for business in recreational sphere and great vocational deals at the seaside and in the mountainous area.
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Odesa
is a city that is considered a capital of the south of Ukraine. It is a big seaport and Seagate to Ukraine. It was founded in the end of the 18th century and bears the architectural influence of the east in its buildings as well as Mediterranean style influenced by French and Italian styles. It is famous for its Potemkin Stairs, which lead from the seaport up to the ensemble of buildings of Classicism style with the statue of Duc de Richelieu. This ensemble changes into the Primorskiy Boulevard – a favorite place with tourists and city inhabitants as it is full of architectural ensembles and is considered one of the most beautiful in Odessa. Another favorite place is Deribasivska street, which was named after the first city mayor. The Greek square adjoins the street and is closed for traffic, which makes them a favorite place for pedestrians and hosts many restaurants, clubs, cafes and other attractions. There is also the City Gardens, which is a usual place for meeting of the artists. Odessa seaport also features the ultra-modern style hotel, which is located right on the pier and for some seems a perfect fit whereas for others a building out of place. In addition to all this, Odessa has many popular entertainment districts, among which the most famous is Arcadia. This district is full of hotels, sanatoria, disco clubs and cafes, which are open 24/7 during the summer time, and of course there are beaches, which attract tourists in the summer. Odessa is a city to conduct business and have a pleasant sea city vacation.
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Kyiv
is biggest and most industrially developed city and business center of Ukraine and a capital of the country. It was founded around 5th century and has been playing a very important role in the life of the country. All state authorities and governmental buildings as well as international and many domestic companies’ headquarters are located here. Naturally, Kyiv is the vibe of the country which sets the pace for its development, and is the center of attention from residents and foreigners. Besides being the industrial and business center of Ukraine, Kyiv is full of historical sights that attract tourists from all over the world and are a part of the UNESCO world heritage list. The sights are located all over the city and represent different eras of its existence. Among the most famous are Kyivo-Pecherska Lavra, Sofiyivska Church, Myhkaylivska Church, Governmental buildings (such as the Parliament, Ministry of foreign Affairs, Mariyinskyi/Presidential Palace), St.Andrew’s church and Andrew’s hill, on which folk art items can be purchased, the main street of the capital – Khreschatyk and Independence square, many other historic buildings and monuments as well as various streets full of architectural styles. Kyiv combines every trend that is or has been present in Ukraine.
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Lutsk
is a city with great significance to the history of Volyn' principality, which after union with the principality of Galychyna became the successor to a state and glory of Kyivska Rus. Lutsk is a small city with interesting history, founded in 11th century. It was an ancient Lithuanian King Lubart's castle, in which royal family resided at the same time. Also of interest can be St. Peter's and Paul's Cathedral and Dimitry's church, which is one of the oldest monuments of the Christianity. There is also neo-gothic Lutheran church and synagoge. Lutsk is a city of historical and religious trends that interwined in a small place, as here you can see religious buildings of orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism and Judaism next to each other.
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