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The history is made by people. The Ukraine is rich not only by its monuments of architecture historical events and the charms of nature. The real wealth of the Ukraine is in its people. In the soul of every Ukrainian there are astonishing feels of cordiality hospitality and kindness. The program «The Ukrainian people» makes the acquaintance of excursionists with working citizens of the Ukraine, their mode of life, gladness and troubles. There are three regions of the Ukraine which show the difference and common features of citizens of Kiev, Lvov and Donetsk regions. The program will be interesting to the people who see the colorfull cultural, historical and natural heritage of the Ukraine not only in the fabulous history of memorial places and architectural constructions but in the real people who make the history of the Ukraine nowadays.

GRAND TOUR UKRAINE

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THE SOUL OF THE UKRAINE

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THE HEALTH OF THE UKRAINE

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THROUGHOUT THE ORDER-BEARING DNEPROPETROVSHTSHINA

CRUISE THE DNIEPER AND THE BLACK SEA

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DONETSK – A CITY OF MILLION ROSES

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THE CARPATHIANS TRAM

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OVER THE MOUNTAINS

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THE CRIMEAN VOYAGE

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THE MENTAL CAPITAL OF UKRAINE

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Geography The Ukraine is the largest country whose area is completely situated of the territory of Europe. It is a second country in Europe by its territory. The total area of the territory of the Ukraine is 603 628 square kilometers. Climate The Ukraine is situated mostly in a temperate continental climatic zone. Subtropical climate is only in the South part of the Crimea. Season fluctuation in temperature is typical for the Ukraine: winter is temperate cold; summer is long, warm or hot: average temperature in July is 18-24 degrees above zero, in January is 8-4 degrees below zero. Subtropical climate of Mediterranean type is typical for South part of the Crimea. Language There are two languages in the Ukraine: the Ukrainian (official) language and the Russian language. Religion The prevalent religion in the Ukraine is Christianity which is presented by Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic religions. Judaism and Islam are presented considerable lesser. The dominating position takes by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy. The second place takes the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev Patriarchy. The third by value the Orthodox Church is the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church. There is also the Roman Catholic Church, 80% of its part is in Western Ukraine. Time Time in the Ukraine is plus 2 hours to Greenwich. Shops Groceries in the Ukraine work from 9.00 till 7.00 – 8.00 p.m. Some superstores work twenty –four hours a day. Manufactured goods shops work usually from 10.00 a.m. till 7.00 – 9.00 p.m. Currency and banks You can make currency exchange in the airport, banks and numerous currency exchange centers. On markets and in private shops you can pay by grivna. It is difficult to exchange currency in the south – west part of the Ukraine and in Western Ukraine. Here you can exchange currency only in the banks. Transport Most of the passengers in the cities are transferred by bus and trolleybus. There is the metropolitan in Kiev. The longest in Europe trolleybus avenue connects Simferopol and Yalta. Buses of intertown and suburban communication connect almost all settlements of the country. Souvenirs The Ukrainian souvenir is a beautiful and unusual present for all cases of life: birthday, wedding, house – warming and to giving as a gift. Oberegi. The tradition to adorn the house with the help of oberegi: ornated wreath, garland, spoons and so on comes from ancient Slavic people.

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Dolls. Beautiful dolls in the national Ukrainian suits. Dolls are made from wood, pine and ceramic. Suits are embroidered with muline stitching and adorned with wonderful ornaments of the Ukraine. Such dolls not only adorn any place but also remind about the beauty of the Ukrainian girls. Embroidery. Samples of ancient national embroidery strike us with simplicity and pithiness, variety and artistic skill and serve as inexhaustible source for development of decorative – applicative art. Pisanki. The Ukrainian traditional pisanki which are very popular when the Ukrainian people celebrate the biggest religious holiday – Easter. Pisanki are painted with oil paints using the Petrikovskaya painting technology. Painted plates with Ukrainian motives are beautiful gift and souvenir of the Ukrainian culture. We can admire of the pictures of the Ukrainian life, holidays, nature, national suits which are illustrated on the plates. Holidays There are the following public holidays in Ukraine: - the 1st of January – New Year; - the 8th of March – International women’s day; - the 1st of May – International day of work; - the 9th of May – Victory day; - the 28th of June – the day of the Ukrainian Constitution; - the 24th of August – the day of the Independence of the Ukraine. Food The Ukrainian kitchen was formed to the middle of the 18th century. Related polish and Belorussian kitchens influenced very much on national receipts of the Ukrainian kitchen. The influence of Old Russian kitchen is not seen because after the Tatar – Mongolian invasion the connection between the Ukrainian and the Russian people was lost. The Ukrainian food is popular among Slavic kitchens. Many dishes of the Ukrainian kitchen such as curds or fruit dumpling and borsch are considered international now. Typical Ukrainian dishes are curd or fruit dumpling, borsch, pampushki, different kinds of pancakes, zrazy, stuffed cabbage rolls, boiled rice with raisins and honey. Traditions The Ukrainian national traditions are embodiment of features of people character in its life, rules which accompany the person from his birth till death and are passed from grandfathers to grandson more then thousand years. Characteristic features of the Ukrainian people are benevolence, hospitality, amiability, respect to a woman, to senior, to the memory of dead forefathers, tenderness, and love to children, animals and nature. The melodiousness of the Ukrainian people, their sense of humor and artistry have become famous all over the world as well as their ability to create artistic pieces of work: embroidery and weaving, painting and carving which at all times adorn the life of the Ukrainian people.

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THE PROGRAM GRAND OF TOUR Group: for 2-3 person Price: 720 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Arrival in Kiev. Meeting in the airport. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. The excursion «Ancient Kiev» begins near the monument to Yaroslav Mudry and Golden Gate – the main entrance into the ancient city, built in the 11th century. Further you go to Saint Sophia – the main temple of the Kievan Russia devoted to Sophia that is from Greek means «God’s wisdom». 2 day The excursion «Along Khreschatic». The excursion begins with contemplating the city panorama from view ground near the Arch of People friendship built in 1982, then you get down European square – the beginning of Khreschatic, the length of which 1200 meters. Three hours of excursion you will have dinner in the national restaurant and move to Lvov. 3 day Arrival in Lvov. Spare time. Evening excursion «Along the routes of medieval Lvov». The review excursion in the central part of modern Lvov, Lvov opera theatre, a monument to Shevchenko. Passing through the former gate, you will find yourself in medieval Lvov where you will get acquainted with its blocks, you will see Jesuitical Roman Catholic church, the gothic Lvov monument, Latin cathedral temple of Saint Maria. 4 day The excursion «High castle» and «Lichakovsky cemetery». You will get down the vaults of the chemist’s museum with its ancient apparatus. You will know the history of stones on Market-square. You will see the Russian block which was placed near the defense structures of the 14th -15th centuries, fragments of which you may see now. You will walk down the streets of the Armenian block, past its traditional sacked thing. You will see the Dominican Polish Roman – Catholic church. 5 day Transfer to Ternopol. On the way to Ternopol you will hear traveling reportage, you will have the excursion to the city of Zolochev. The old Russian city Radiche is considered to be the predecessor of modern Zolochev. Radiche was mentioned in historic sources in 1180. Radiche was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century and Zolochev had appeared in its place. It is known that in the 14th -15th centuries within the borders of the modern city there was a wooden fortress which was burnt by the Crimean Tatars but first written mention about Zolochev dated from 1423 when Yan Mendzik took it from the famous Kerdeevs in Galichina. Arrival in Ternopol. Hotel accommodation. 6 day The excursion «Ancient castles». The route Terebovlya – Chortkov – Buchach

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- Mikulintsy. You will know the history of the Ukrainian people, its victories and period of yoke. You will visit one of the most remarkable castles in the history of the Ukraine. 7 day Arrival in Kamenets – Podolsky. The Kamenets – Podolsky castle is situated out of the cities borders. It is situated near the only one entrance to the city. The first stone buildings of the castle were built in the XII-XIII centuries. In the XIV - XV centuries and XVI century it was repeatedly enlarged and rebuilt. Its look had been finally formed by the middle of the century. Tiles with vegetable ornaments of topic relief give an idea about the decorations of the castle’s rooms. You will rise to the highest tower of the fortress after this exhibition. Move to Simferopol. 8 day Arrival in Simferopol. Transfer to Yalta. Hotel accommodation. Evening walk along the sea – front of Yalta. Yalta has a long history. Mesolithic and neolitic standing of 5th -15th centuries, Tavrsky fortifications and burial grounds of the 5th century B.C, Greek and Byzantine sanctuaries, good roads, medieval fortress were discovered in the suburbs of the city. 9 day A visit to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, is well-known not only to botanists. It is a place for rest, a place for meeting with unique rosary in summer and for meeting with a large exhibition of chrysanthemums; in autumn it is a lot of people come, on foot along a lower seaside road, only six kilometers from Yalta. Besides there are the interesting museum, the most rare collection of cactuses, a tasting hall, a beach and a zone of a rest in the garden. 10 day The excursion to Livadia. The place is known to many people. The historical events of the end of the second World War are connected with Livadia. On the 4th of February 1945 the Yalta (the Crimean) conference of the leaders of three states – the USSR, the USA and Great Britain began its work in the great hall of the Livadian palace. The bloom of Livadia began when its lands became the Romanovs’ property. You will visit the Livadiysky Palace and you will get acquainted with the Romanovs’ history. 11 day The excursion to Bahchisaray – the capital of the Crimean Khanate. The excursion is accompanied by the account of an excursion guide. The pedestrian part of an excursion which lasted three hours is the review of the cave city of Chufut-Kale, the working Sant-Uspensky monastery. The dinner in a café at the foot of the mountain. The visit to the Khansky palace. 12 day Breakfast. Free day. Shopping. Move to Poltava. 13 day Arrival in Poltava. Free time. The excursion to Poltava. The program consists of visiting of the historical centre, a monument to Glory, a «white pavilion», a monument to Poltava dumpling, the Kotlyarevsky farmstead, the museum of Regional studies, monuments, connected with the history of the Poltava battle, interesting objects of architecture, the museum of long-range aircraft under open air, the acquaintance with modern look of the city. 14 day The excursion «By the famous places of Poltavskaya battle».The program consists of visiting of the monument to Slava, the monument to Kelin, the monument to perished Cossacks, the monument to rest place of Peter the Great, Spasskaya church, the «white pavilion», redoubts, the monument Sweden from Russians, the Sampsonievskaya church, common grave of Russian soldiers, the museum of the history of the Poltava battle, the memorable sign at the place of Peter the Great command post, the monument of Sweden from Russians, the monument at the place of Russian army crossing the Vorskla river at the village of Krotenky. The dispatch.

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The soul of the Ukraine Group: for 2-3 person Price: 450 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Arrival in Kiev. Hotel accommodation. The excursion in ancient Kiev – the antique center of the Slavdom, the capital of the mighty Kievan Russia. You will open for yourself the beauty and greatness of the ancient city – this harmony of monuments to antiquity and modern architecture and nature. You will see architectural assemblies of the 11th, 12th and the 17th centuries: the Vladimir cathedral, the Sophia cathedral, the Golden gate and many others. 2 day Kiev – the centre of the orthodoxy. The Kiev – Pecherskaya Lavra is the centre of Russia, the Ukraine and whole Eastern Slavdom and besides it is the museum – reserve of rare architectural and artistic value. You may visit the miniature museum, rise to the church tower, visit the unique work of nature and human hands – the Lavrsky caves. 3 day The excursion program «The history and architecture of the Kiev – Pecherskaya» – the architectural complex which makes grand impression even nowadays. On sunny days reflections of many cupolas and belfries dazzle eyes. The most structures of the monastery are of the 17th and 18th centuries and they are a remarkable style of the Ukrainian baroque in architecture. 4 day Leaving the apartments. The excursion program to Pirogovo. The state museum of popular architecture and life in the Ukraine is an architectural and scenery complex in the open air of all historical ethnographic regions of the Ukraine. The museum was founded if the settlement of Pirogovo in the outskirts of Kiev in 1969. Almost thirty exhibits of architecture on the territory of more than 150 hectares. Move to Ternopol. 5 day Arrival. The review excursion program in Ternopol. A visit to the Arrival. The review excursion program in Ternopol. A visit to the World Mariisky ecclesiastical centre in the settlement of Zarvanitsa. The prayer for happiness and health near the wonder – working icon of the Zarvanitskay God’s Mother. Transfer to Pochaev. Hotel accommodation. 6 day The excursion program «Near the sources of the Pochaev monkhood» – Volin which is the most ancient land among Christian lands of

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Ancient Russia; it would have the rights to mark the millennium of its christening after Kiev. You will know about miracles of God’s Mother, about long and glorious history of the Pochaev cloister if you take part in the excursion. 7 day The excursion program «God’s embrace». As a rule Lavra wakes up early before down: at half past four in the morning he goes along the corridors of the building, wakes up monks to pray using a hand bell. But devoted himself to the prayer a monk serves not only for himself. Reverend Ioan Lestvichnick said: «The light for laymen is a monk, the light for monks is a angel». Anyone who steps over the threshold of the Pochaev – Uspenskaya cathedral pays attention to the bronze gilded ark situated behind a little brass fence to the right of the first column. This image imprinted here indicates on the memory of miracle which was on the Pochaev mountain in 1240, the miracle of God’s Mother in the fiery pillar. Above the ark there is a bronze icon – case with bas-relief representation of this phenomenon. 8 day The excursion «The icon coronation». In practice of the Roman Catholic church the icon coronation means the same as the saint coronation, as formal canonical acknowledge of this indeed wonder – working icon. Leaving the apartments. Departure to Donetsk. 9 day Arrival in Donetsk. Transfer to Svyatogorsk. Hotel accommodation. The excursion to the Svyatogorsk – Uspensky monastery of 17th-19th centuries which is situated on the right bank of Seversky Donets, the place which long since bears the name Saint mountains. In the 15th century monks made his way through soft cretaceous rocks and on its top they built a cave church. The documents of 1526, 1538-39, 1555 and 1571 mention The saint mountains as one of Donetsk patrols. For the first time the cloister was mentioned in 1624 in tsar letters patent on land property. Cloister’s buildings were mainly built along the river bank at the foot of cretaceous rock and only the Nikolaevskaya church was on its top. There are a lot of passages and cells in the whole mountain under the church. People lived and hid there during hostile raids. 10 day A visit to the cave complex of the Svyatogorskaya Lavra. The most ancient monuments in Lavra are the caves of the cretaceous rock. The caves were made by the hands of unknown hermits and they looked like complicated labyrinth of underground passages in the church and the necropolis. Along the road of almost one kilometer long small hollows for icons in cretaceous rock, arched niches rather big cretaceous churches attract your attention. In the middle of the 19th century, the caves were restored by monks of Svyatogorsk monastery for passing. Earlier and now the entrance to the cave structures begins in the lower pavilions of pilgrims. When you enter into this rather big underground passage made in cetaceous rock you will feel the atmosphere of cleanness and peace. Passing curve route with numerous turns you come to the review ground near the Nikolaevsky temple leaving behind more then five centuries history of Svyatogorsk. 11 day Morning prayer in the Svyato – Uspenskaya cathedral. Nowadays the Svyato - Uspenskaya Svyatogorskaya Lavra is the greatest ecclesiastical centre overfed orthodox flocks of Donbass, the Ukrainian large village and settlements, the south of Russia. The monastery is known far behind the Donbass region borders. Leaving the hotel. Departure.

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The people of the Ukraine Group: for 1 person Price: 599 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Arrival in Lvov. Hotel accommodation. The excursion «Ancient Lvov». 2 day The excursion «Great people of the Ukraine» is in the program of the excursion. You will know about the great persons in the history of the Ukraine, you will get acquainted with biographies and creative work of people of Lviv region. 3 day The excursion the «Western culture of the Ukrainian state». 4 day The visit to Lvov cafeteria where the festive dinner for excursionists will be organized. Leaving the apartments. Move to Donetsk. 5 day Arrival. Hotel accommodation. The excursion «The past, the present and the future». You will know about the history and about the development of the Eastern Ukraine, about industrial potential of the Donetsk region. 6 day The excursion «The great people of the Ukraine» is in the program of the excursion. You will know about the history and the way of life of the great people of the Ukraine. In many spheres the people of the Ukraine have left their tracks in the history of the development of the independent Ukraine. During the excursion you will get acquainted with biographies and life victories of Donetsk athletes, painters, metallurgists, engineers and many other creative people of the Ukraine. 7 day The excursion «the Donetsk land» is in the excursion program. The survey of the diorama of the Klebanobykskoe natural preserve, lowering to the Salt’s mines where at the depth of 300 meters you will visit the deepest salt mine of the Ukraine which is of 27 meters depth. 8 day A visit to Donetsk restaurant where festive dinner will be suggested to excursionists. There will be traditional dishes of the Eastern Ukraine. Leaving the apartments. Move to Kiev. 9 day Arrival in Kiev. Hotel accommodation. The excursion «Kiev is the capital of Ancient Russia». During the excursion you will know a legend about Kievan Russia, about the history of the formation of Kiev –grad. Only in our excursion program you will know about the capital of the independent Ukraine.

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The heart of Ukraine Group: for 4-6 person Price: 390 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Arrival to Odessa. Transfer to the hotel. Afternoon city tour. This tour will be interesting to tourists from different countries, as well as Odessa - the city brought in all the best of the culture of the West and East. The program of tours and visits Deribasovskaya Opera House. 2 day Excursion «Odessa catacombs - the mystery of history». In a small village Nerubayskoe tourists can see the mysterious catacombs - hundreds of miles of underground roads, which were formed during the construction of the city of more than 200 years ago. And also visit the underground guerrilla Fame Museum, which resembles human feats of the Great Patriotic War. 3 day Odessa Crime. Tour of the oldest streets and places associated with famous Odessa gangsters, swindlers, and violators of public order. 4 day Departure to Uman. Accommodation at the hotel. Tour of the old part of town. 5 day Visit dendro-park «Sofiyivka» was founded in 1796 by the operator of the city of Uman, a Polish magnate Stanislav Potocki, named in honor of his wife Sophia Witt-Pototskaya and presented it to the day name in May 1802. 6 day Visit dendro «Sofiyivka». Thanks komponirovaniyu different tree species, their association with water, rocks and architectural structures, created and perspectives of different types of plans dendro (main avenue, English Park, the Champs Elysées and others). Polish writer Stanislaw Trembetsky in 1806 dedicated to the park poem «Zofiówka», which later was transferred to several other languages. Visit dendro Sofiyivka - you will have the feeling that the heart of Ukraine is located here. 7 day Check out. Free time. Departure.

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The health of the Ukraine Group: for 4-6 person Price: 345 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

Truskavets – Lvov Truskavets one of the most beautiful balneological health resorts in Eastern Europe is situated in picturesque places to the north of the foothills of the Eastern Carpathians. Owing to soft sedimentary rocks heights have rounded flat tops and gentle slopes. Hills surrounded the health resorts of the Eastern Carpathians. Owing to soft sedimentary rocks heights have rounded and flat tops and gentle slopes. Hills surrounded the health resorts are covered with coniferous and leaf bearing forests. The springs of mineral waters are in the gorge situated between vales of the rock rivers Vishnitsa and Vorotische which cross Truskavets. The rivers are shallow, the stock of water are filled up in them, mainly at the expense of atmospheric precipitations and snow thawing in mountains. There are no industrial enterprises in the immediate nearness of the city, polluted the air and natural water. That is why Truskavetst is considered to be one of the most pure cities in the Ukraine. 1 day Arrival in Lvov. Transfer to Truskavets. Accomodation in the health resort. A walking excursion in Truskavets. The official date of the balneological health resort foundation is considered to be 1827 when an apartment for the first bathes was constructed here but since 1833 after investigations of the Lvov pharmaceutist Teodor Torosevich the use of Truskavets waters for inner application had begun. Dinner, free time. 2 day A trip to Lvov. The excursion «By the streets of ancient Lvov». The survey of the square Rynok – the heart of the city, the city hall, the Chemist’s shop, the Dominican cathedral (one of the remarkable monuments to baroque), the complex of the Armenian block – little parts of the East. Dinner in a café. A visit to the Bernardinskay monastery, the Roman – Catholic church of Yesuits, Vekselyarov square, ruins of the synagogue «The Golden rose». Return to Truskavets. 3rd – 15 days Treatment, the reception of medical procedures, a walk in fresh air. Three times complex meals at the restaurant of the health resort. 16 days The excursion «The old Russian fortress – Tustan». The route of the excursion is through the settlements of Urich and Shodnitsa. The duration of the excursion is four hours, the distance is 35 km. The program includes the panorama of the foothills of the Carpathians, the city of oil-industry workers – Borislav, mineral springs of Shodnitsi, the rock massif of the Tustan fortress, salubrious spring – Obereg. 17 day Leaving the apartments. The excursions to the cultural – architectural reserve Lychakovskoe cemetery. Dinner in a café. A visit to museum of brewer, tasting of Lvov bear. Move to the Lvov Railway station.

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Cruise the Dnieper and the Black Sea Group: for 2-4 person Price: 899 € per person. Include: - Arrival and departure transfer - Accommodations for 11 nights in all outside cabins - Three full meals daily (starting with dinner on the day of embarkation and finishing with breakfast on day of disembarkation) 1 day Upon your arrival in Kiev, transfer to the port for embarkation. A welcome drink and crew introduction will precede dinner. 2 day After breakfast, depart on a sightseeing tour of this ancient and beautiful city including a visit of the renowned St. Sophia Cathedral and the gargantuan statue of Mother Ukraine. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure. 3 day After breakfast, depart for a tour of Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra and Tombs. Founded in the 11th century, the complex contains many unique, ancient religious relics. The afternoon is free. Tonight, set sail. 4 day This morning, enjoy a walking tour of Kanev featuring the tomb of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's famous poet and painter. 5 day After breakfast, depart for a walking tour of the city center highlighted by buildings reminiscent of Stalin's Soviet era and return to the ship for lunch. Celebrate Ukraine National Day with cooking lessons, lectures and other various activities provided onboard. Enjoy the passing vista as you continue your Ukraine Cruise to Zaporozhye. 6 day Today, enjoy a morning city tour of Zaporozhye, including the Cossack History Museum. After lunch on board, enjoy some free time before setting sail in the late afternoon. 7 day Upon arrival in Kherson, enjoy a boat trip along the Dnieper Delta. In the afternoon, enjoy on board lecture and activities while sailing towards Sevastopol. 8 day This morning, depart on your city tour including the Panorama Museum. After lunch on board, enjoy some free time in this exciting city. 9 day After breakfast, depart on your excursion to Yalta including the views of Swallows Nest and a tour of the Livadia Palace, where Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt decided the fate of the post WWII world. 10 day Enjoy the morning on board. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon city tour featuring the main attractions of this beautiful and cosmopolitan city. 11 day Enjoy a full free day at leisure in this exciting city. Tonight, gather for the Captain's Farewell Dinner.

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West culture Group: for 2-4 person Price: 399 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

Lvov – Chernovtsi – Kamenets – Podolsky 1 day Arrival in Lvov. Hotel accommodation. Survey hiking in Lvov during which you will have an opportunity to taste real aromatic Lvov coffee in a traditional café, to see the panorama of Lvov from a high castle, to walk by narrow medieval streets of the city, to see the famous saint Yura cathedral – the residential of Greek –Catholics.You will visit the ancients cemetery in Europe – Lichakovskoe: Crying Madonna, Ordon’s, Banana’s, Franco’s, Shashkevich’s, Ivasyuk’s tombs. Tasting of traditional drink will help you to feel an unusual taste of freshly brewed «live» beer. Spare time. 2 day Hiking in medieval Lvov: city fortification of the XIV th –XV th centuries, Uspenskaya church ensemble – the monument of renaissance architecture, the cloistral church of God’s Body, the Dominican order – the monument of the XVIII th century, chemist’s shop – museum, the one in the Ukraine with the laboratory of alchemists which was restored and basements of the 18-th century, the ensemble of square Rinok which is a pearl of the Renaissance, the Latin katedra – the ancients monument of the XIV th century in gothic style, Armyanskaya street ensemble, Freedom avenue – the unique ensemble of eclectic and modern, the Opera and Ballet theater – Galitskiy «temple of High art». Night removal to Chernovtsi. 3 day Hiking in the main building of the Chernovetsky national university – the former residence of Bukovina and Dalmatsiya metropolitan (the monument of the XIX th century architecture). Visit to regional national history and art museums. 4 day General excursion in Chenovsti – O. Kobilyansky street (earlier it came into ten the most beautiful streets of the Soviet Union), the House – ship, the Organ hall, the Nikolaevsky cathedral, State university (it was a palace complex of Bukovina metropolitan before). Dinner. The excursion program in the city of Hotin . You will visit the fortress and also the panorama of Hotinskaya battle. Remove in Kamenets – Podolsky. 5-th day General excursion in Old city. There are deep rocky canyon in the centre in the city, the Castle bridge, Petropalovskaya and Nikolarvskaya churches, Goncharnaya and Kushnirskaya towers.

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The Carpathians tram Group: for 5-7 person Price: 399 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

Lvov – Rogatin – Galich – Sinevir – Manyava – Shipot waterfall – Kosif – Kolomiya – Goshev – lvov 1 day Arrival in Lvov. Meeting at the railway station by a representative of the company. Rogatin – motherland of Roksolana (Nastya Lisovskaya), the most famous wife of Suleyman II the Splendour. Galich is the capital of Galitsko – Volinskoe principality. The excursion to the Galitsky castle ruins, the excursion to the museum «Krilos» which is Galitsky Knyazhes residence. Arrival in Ivano – Frankovsk. The excursion in Ivano – Frankovsk. This is the city situated in the heart of the Europe – town hall, the Resurrection cathedral, the Armenian church. Hotel accommodation. 2 day The excursion in Sineverskoe lake – «Sea eye». It was formed in post - glacial period after covering of river valley by land - slides. The cavity was filled up with mountain steams water. Arrival in Pilipets. The visit to the most beautiful waterfall Carpat - Shipot. The visit of the most beautiful waterfall of the Carpathians – Shipot. 3 day Departure in Manyava. The monastery which is opened now «Manyavsky Skit» memorable since 17-th century, which is situated in the forest canyon. We will visit also unique in Ukraine «Bear’s museum», which was opened in Manyava. The walking excursion to the largest waterfall (of 22 meters) of the Carpathians – Manyavskiy waterfall. 4 day Departure in Kolomiya. The excursion in the city – the main avenue, the city hall, the wooden church of the16-th century. Visit to the national art of Gutsulschina and Pokutie «Gutsulschina» museum. The museum «Pisanka» is the only one in the Ukraine which is in the Giness’s records book. Removal to Kosov – the heart of Gutsulschina, the excursion in the largest gutsulky goods trade fair. You will have an opportunity to meet with national craftsmen of «pisankarstva», pottery and carving in the workshops. 5 day Removal to the city of Dolina. You will have an interesting and fascinating journey by «the Carpathians tram» - 75 kilometers of adventures!!! More than 100 year ago the Austrian magnate Popel built the unique Ukrainian narrow way for the train. You will meet with primeval nature of the Carpathians, you will visit healing springs «Naphtusya», will plunge into small Switzerland of the Ukraine. Removal in the village Goshev. You will visit Goshevsky Vasilianskiy cloister. Approximately at 20.00 the arrival in Lvov.

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Ternopol rafting Group: for 5-7 person Price: 399 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Meeting in Ternopol. A review excursion in the central part of Ternopol, the park of Glory, Shevchenko park. A voyage along famous Ternopol lake. A visit to the hydro park «Limpopo». A dinner in a café. The excursion to the cities of Terebovly – Mikulintsky. The survey of remains of the Terebovly fortress and the Mikulitsky castle. The settling in the rest base. 2 day Morning gymnastics. Breakfast. The excursion «By cascade of Silver waterfalls» to the source of living and death water. Dinner. The time during which you may swimming in the lake, shooting in the shooting gallary using bows and paintballs , taking horse, driwing by quadrocycle and bicycle or playing billiards. Discotheque. 3 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. Preparation and raft on pontons on the Strip river (6-8 persons). Dinner. Participation in the sport competitions or swimming in the lake. Supper. 4 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. One day excursion program during which you will know about the legends and the history of the rock «Seven springs» the unique place by its beauty and nature, the name for which speaks for itself. You will visit «Rusilevsky Waterfalls» - the cascade of 20 extremely beauty waterfalls and from 0,5 till 12 meters high. The unique beauty of these works of nature is supplemented by cherry-red and blue-green spheres of rocks on the canyon slopes of the Strip river. Then you will come down the canyon using a rope. The dinner in the nature. Coming back to the rest base. Supper. Discotheque. 5 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. The excursion to the mouth of the Strip river till the settlement of Sokolets where you will see a wooden church and a wooden mill. A picnic in nature near the camp –fire. Coming back to the rest base. 6 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. Rest is near the cascade during the whole day. The arrangement of the tent city, a camp-fire for food preparation. The Chervonogradsky waterfall is the strongest and biggest waterfall (6 meters high, 4 cascades) on the flat territory of the Ukraine. When it is a good weather you can swim here. Dzhurinsky canyon, where the waterfall is situated goes down ten the most beautiful places of the Ukraine. Not far from the canyon there are hills of defense structures of the 17-th century and from this place you can hear water rumble which eloquently shows the greatness of these sights. If you wish, you will have an excursion to the waterfall «Girl’s tears».

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7 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. It is a free day in the base. You will have a rest according to your interests. Participation in sport events competitions. Dinner. Free time. Supper. Discotheque. 8 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. The excursion «Mlinky cave» is the unique with its originality. The studied part of the cave is 30 kilometers long. The cave is the most popular in Ternopol and it consists of labyrinth system of empty places of crystal gyps where remarkable halls, labyrinths and galleries are created. Dinner is on the camp-fire. The picnic is in nature. Move to the place of Buchach. The excursion «Buchach is the pearl of the Western Ukraine». The survey of the castle of the 14 th century, town hall the relief of which was carried out by Ioan Pinzel, the visit to the Vasiliansky cloister and other original monuments of the Ukrainian West. Supper. 9 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. The excursion to Lvov, Bukovel, Pochaev, Hotin, Kamenets – Podolsky at your choice. A dinner in a café during the excursion. Coming back to the base. Supper 10 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. It is a free day in the base. The rest is according to your interests. The participation in the sport events, contests. Spare time. Supper. Discotheque. 11 day Morning exercises. Move to the Belche – Zoloto settlement. The preparation of the floating equipments, instructing. There will be a raft along the Seret river on the route Belche – Zoloto – Lisichniki. During this trip there will be the excursion «Monastery is a sacred thing above the Seret». The survey of the Pechersky temple of the IX th century «heathen sacred thing» with a sacrificial store before the entrance the prayer in the old church of Honest Cross and near the cross of family happiness. Dried ration is on the dinner which will be in the picturesque place of the canyon of the Seret river. Supper. Discotheque. 12 day Morning exercises. If you wish you may choose an excursion to Lvov, Bukovel, Pochaev, Hotin, Kamenets – Podolsky. The dinner is in a café during the excursion. Return to the base. Supper. 13 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. Move to the Gubin settlement - to the beginning of a raft. Instructing on safety arrangements and preparation of swimming facilities. A draft along the Dnestr. A stop for a dinner near a camp-fire. Swimming in the Dnestr river. The excursions to the old water mill. Return to the base. Supper. 14 day Morning exercises. Breakfast. A rest is according to your interests: swimming in the lake summing up of the rest near a camp-fire in the picturesque place in the rest base. Leaving the apartments. An excursion to the ancient Rucomish. The survey of the cave temple (the chapel of God’s coffin), remains of cells, Saint Anufry Churches (XVIII). The city of Chertkov. The excursion in the centre of the city. The survey of the Chertkov castle and one of the oldest wooden churches – Uspenskaya (1584). The observation of not less interesting relics of an ancient architecture – the Voznesenskaya church (XVII) and one of the most beautiful in the Ukraine – the Dominican Roman – Catholic church, the churches of Saint Patroness near the Saint spring of the Saint Upper Apostuls Peter and Pavel Cathedral. A finish of the excursion and leaving for home. .The firm may change the program of the traveling. Before making

a reservation the price of traveling should defined more exactly.

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Over the Mountains Group: for 5-7 person Price: 295 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Meeting of group in Ivano-Frankovsk. A transfer in Pasechna. We go along picturesque small river Buhtivets under steep rocks. In 7 km from the beginning of a route we go down to Buhtivets waterfall. The waterfall has height nearby 10 m and is very picturesque. Near to it there are some more fineer falls. Further we rise on ridge Dil (966), the road goes through a beechen wood. With poloniny on a crest of a ridge the wonderful kind on Gorgany ridges and village Manjava opens. Descent in with Manjava goes on abrupt road to a coniferous wood. We spend the night in a wood near small river Manjavka. 2 day Today we shall see Manyava waterfall (height nearby 16m). The waterfall is in a shady canyon and we shall examine it both from above and from below. Further through a coniferous wood we go on ridge Chortka (1250). Having passed some kilometers on wild covered a light forest and bulk stone to a ridge, we go down on picturesque polonina Ripna where we shall spend the night. 3 day Continuation of movement. Through cuttings down covered by a raspberry we pass under ridge Stanimir (1580) and it is risen on it. On a picturesque glade we shall organize a lodging for the night. 4 day Through picturesque poloninu we go down on pass Maksimets. We rise on pass Havre between Gorganskimi tops Havre (1551) and Korotkan (1675). Through a dense coniferous wood alternating with poloninami we leave on poloninu Rushchina where is sources of the important inflow of Dnestr of the-river Bystritsa. At presence of time the same day it is radially risen on mountain Sivulja (1818) and Lopushna (1836) which is the maximum point Gorgan. We spend the night on polonine Rushchina. 5 day On old Polish-Czechoslovak border (nowadays border Ivano-Frankivska and Zakarptska areas) we will rise on mountain Talpich (145) and further walk along ridge Taupshirka (1464). On the mixed wood we descent on pass of Legions named in honour of victims during first world war of the Polish legionaries. On this picturesque pass we spend the night. 5 day Along small, but picturesque small river Rafajlovets spuskaemja in village Bystritsa, whence we leave to Ivano-Frankovsk.

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Wild Gorgany - Trekking tour Group: for 5-7 person Price: 295 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

Carpathian Hiking Tours Gorgany it's a mountain ridge in Carpathian. Gorgany it's a savage land. Mountains covered by virgin fir-tree and beam-hornforests with rich flora and fauna. Here you can face wild nature instead of crowds of hikers. 1 day Arrival to Ivano-Frankifsk. Meeting at railway station.Transfer to Osmoloda village. Ascent to Matahiv mountain ridge. Overnight. Auto 70km, Hiking 6km 2 day Ascent to the stone placer of Igrovec (1804m) summit. Descent to the polonina Pogar. Overnight. Hiking 12km 3 day Lopushna summit(1694m), highest summit of Gorgany ridge - Sivulya(1836m), Mala Sivulya summit(1818m) Overnight near old frontier post on polonina Rushina. Hiking 12km 4 day Gorge Peklo, traverse of Tavpshirka ridge, Pass of the Legions. Overnight on polonina Pantir. Hiking 18km 5 day Ttraverse of Bratkivska mountain ridge with ascent to Gropa(1758m) summits. Beginning of descent Hiking 18km

Durnya(1704m),

6 day Bystrica village, Transfer to Ivano-Frankifsk. Hiking 10km, Auto 70km Tours: all tours we suggest are standards and reckoning to the ordinary person, without special training. We can always change them and make taking into account all your wishes. The duration of the tours and their complication are not a dogma. You can test yourself in every season of the year. Experienced guide-instructor is working with a group. Average time for everyday walking is 6 hours. In the route the members are living in tents. The feed is cooking on the fire. During all route the members carries things and public burden themselves, carry the water, take part in preparation of the fire-wood. During the time of the route the comforts (toilet, douche) are not stationary (nature level ). When you order the tour we try to take into account all your wishes about routes, feed and service. Feed: full board (three times a day). Example menu is: soup, milk products, different jumbles, macaronis, tea, in limited are season vegetables and bread. The members: you can go as one, as with family (children) or friends. You can also take part in tours with your domestic animals. Usual size of the group from 3 to 10 persons

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The Crimean voyage Group: for 4-6 person Price: 455 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Arrival. Transfer in Yalta. Hotel accommodation. Visit to the Nikitsky botanic garden. This ancient scientific Crimean institution was based in 1812 by the outstanding scientific - botanist H.H. Steven. There are about 30 thousands types, sorts and hybrids of plants in the collections of the Nititsky botanic garden. Walk along sea front during sunset, short report about the city. 2 day The excursion « Sea voyage» according to the route Yalta – Partenithe – Alushta – Novy Svet – Sudak. Visit to the Genoese fortress. The excursion in Novy Svet. Dinner in a café. A visit to the winery factory. Tasting. Return to the hotel. 3 day The excursion in Livadia. Visit to the Livadiysky Palace situated on the territory of the former tsar property «Livadia» was bought in 1861 by emperor Alexander II. 4 day The excursion in «Swallow’s nest» by a yacht according to the rout Yalta – Golden beach – Foros. You will have an opportunity to have a swim in open sea. The excursion in Foros, the Laspi bay. Return to the hotel. 5 day The excursion in Ay-Petri – the excursion in the Cold cave. Walk around Ay-Petri mountain pasture. From Greek it is translated as Saint Peter. The mountain is of 1234,2 meters high. You can see the beautiful panorama of the sea side from a perspective ground. A way down by a cable way. 6 day Arrival in Sevastopol with a stop near the Cat mountain. Hotel accommodation. Dinner. Survey hiking around the city: Grafskaya landing place, Nakhimov square, Primorskiy avenue, submerged ships monument. Spare time. 7 day The excursion in Balaklava with visit of the Baydarsky gates from where you can see the majestic panorama of the South beach and the Feodosiyskaya church «levitated in the skies» situated on the height of 400 meters above sea level. You will sea the Chembalo fortress; will have the journey by a yacht. The Genoese fortress Chembalo is situated on a top of the rock which is situated above the entrance in bay, in Balaklava.

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WINE TOURS Group: for 5-7 person Price: 399 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

INKERMAN - MAGARACH - MASSANDRA 1 day Arrival in Sevastopol. Hotel accommodation. An excursion in the Inkerman winery. During the excursion you will hear about the history of the Crimean vinification, you will visit wine basements of the factory where you can taste the best samples of dry, fortified, dessert and vintage wines. 2 day The excursion «Panorama of Sevastopol» where you will see the monument to the heroes of the First Sevastopol defense on Historical avenue, the most ancient part of present city – the Chersonese, the museum in the open air and of course the memorials of the central part of Sevastopol: Grafskaya landing stage, Nakhimov memorial, submerged shops memorial. Not leaving Sevastopol you will visit Balaklava - an ancient legendary city. You will hear not only about the history, about the first Sevastopol defense heroes of 1854-1855, but also visit terrible battles places. 3 day Arrival in Yalta. Hotel accommodation. Testing of vintage wines in the basements of the factory Magarach. During 150 years by forces of numerous scientifics and winegrowers the collection of unique wines was created stood out from the best native and foreign wines which were the samples of type and quality. Presently there are on storage 22 thousands of wine bottles of more than 100 names in the collection. 4 day The excursion in the Massandra cellars. Knyazh L.C. Golitsin appointed on post of the main wine-grower of the local department in the Crimea and in the Caucasus in 1980 took a decision concerning building of the first underground factory of tunneling type in Russia for production and ageing of table and dessert wines. Foreign and native wines in the bottles of ancient forms covered with eval dust lay in stone niches becoming better and more perfect in course of time. You will know about real quality of wine. This excursion will be interesting for people who appreciate quality choice of wine products. 5 day The excursion «Livadia is nice to the heart». Exactly in the same way Nikolay II named his summer residence. Last Russian emperor invented very right definition – it is impossible to show more fully complicated scale of feelings and feels which arise after visit of this paradisiacal place.

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Literary Crimea Group: for 5-7 person Price: 399 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance; 1 day Arrival to Yalta. Crimea has long attracted creative people on the Black Sea coast in the subtropical climate, surrounded by cypresses and juniper forests of poets, painters, writers, actors drew their inspiration. For many of the great people of Crimea became a home. 2 day Visit the museum AP Chekhov, Chekhov's House at Yalta, Chekhov Amyur dacha in Yalta, Chekhov's dacha in Gurzuf on the shore of a picturesque bay, a creative way to Lesia Ukrainka visit Museum. Lesia Ukrainka visit Yalta state historical and literary museum, and a creative way to NZ Biriukova, literary-memorial museum, KA Treneva - PA Pavlenko. 3 day Memorial Cemetery in Polikurovskom hill, a few dozen memorial boards on the houses where the living culture. 4 day Alushta. Museums: Literary-Memorial Museum, SN Sergeyeva-Tsensky House-Museum of the academician of architecture AN Beketov, Museum of writer Ivan S. Shmeleva, Alushtinsky Museum of Local History. 5 day Koktebel. Museum of M. Voloshin - workshop was not only the place of the poet and artist, but also a meeting place, and the rest of the numerous inhabitants of the house ... In the workshop read poems and prose, reports and essays, literary games. 6 day Pike. «New World - the birthplace of Russian Champagne Wine». Walk along the path Golitsyna bays along the colorful New World: Green, Blue and Blue, through caves and Shalyapin Through on grove relic juniper tree. A visit to the house-museum, LS Golitsyna - father of Russian Champagne Wine Tasting of sparkling wines in the wine cellar of the house Golitsyna or at the factory. 7 day Feodossia. In Feodosia and around a huge variety of historical and cultural monuments. The most demanding excursion region objects have been and remain the museums. History museum in Feodosia has almost two centuries. Feodosia Museum of Regional Studies - the oldest city museum of modern Ukraine. The visiting card of the city is considered to be the National Gallery of them. IK Aivazovsky.

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Palace necklace of the Crimea Group: for 2-4 person Price: 425 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

Livadia – Voronzovskiy palace – Massandra – the Crimean khan palace – Dyulber 1 day Arrival in Simferopol. Transfer in Yalta. Hotel accommodation. Excursion in Yalta. 2 day There is a health –resort settlement Livadia situated three kilometers to the west from Yalta and which since the sixties of last century became the property of Russian emperors. The families of Alexander II, Alexander III, Nkolay II came to have a rest here. White Livadiyskiy palace was built for Nikolay II in Livadia in 1910-1911 in the style of Italian Renaissance according to the project of architecture N.P.Krasnov. 3 day Alupka situated to the west from Yalta, near the bottom of the mountain Ay–Petri. Palace – park ensemble which was being created during some ten years is its main place of interest. Building of the ensemble was begun in 1828 for general – governor of Novorossiyskiy region Graf M.S. Voronzov. There will be a stop on the way back near «Swallow nest». 4 day Alexander III palace Massandra is a health resort suburb of Yalta. The name of the settlement is known all over the world thanks to the wines of the same name. A small palace in style of Lyudovik XIII built according to the project of architecture Makximiliana Mesmahera is situated in mountains above Massandra on the height of 420 meters above sea level in the pine forest. Panorama of Yalta is seen from perspective ground near the palace. 5 day Bahchisaray situated on south-west of the Crimea was the capital of the Crimean khanate since 1502 till 1783. At all times it attracted travelers by its east coloration. Main place of interest of Bahchisaray is the Crimean khan’s palace which was built in the beginning of XVI. There are a mosque, an ancient cemetery, a harem, the Falcon tower and the famous Fountain of tears which was glorified by Pushkin in the palace complex. Visit to the spelaean city Chufut–Kale. 6 day Dyulber palace (beautiful) built in Koreize for the great Knyazh Petr Nikolaevich in 1895-1897 according to the project of Krasnov is an asymmetrical two-four storeyed building which estimates more then hundred of premises. Volumes of different height are crested with cog parapets and silver domes. Carved stone insertions and mosaic compositions are standed out on the white smooth surface of palace walls.

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Spelaean cities Group: for 8 person Price: 295 € per person. Include: - Train ticket; - Transfer; - Accommodation DBL, TRPL (***); - Breakfast; - Excursions service; - Insurance;

Bahchisaray – Mangup – Aipetra 1 day Meeting a group in the Bahchisaray railway station. The instructor collects the whole group, check your personal duffel complete sets. He will give you backpacks, sleeping sacks and rags; he will give you the first instruction. You will visit Uspenskiy cloister in the rock, Chufut – Kale (Cradle fortress) – spelaean city, on the way – an ancient karaim cemetery «Balta – timyiez». You will make a tent camp near a source. 2 day We will visit spelaean cites ruins Tepe- Cermen and Kiz – Kermen, spelaean cloister Kachi – Kalion. Presently there are just the ruins but it is interesting to see views which are opened from above. There are no spelaean constructions in Kiz – Kermen if not considering basements carved in the rock above which there were inhabited houses and caverns in the eastern precipice. The archeologists found out that life in Kiz-Kermen was stopped at the end of the 9 th century. 3 day Visit to spelaean cloister Chelter –Koba. Walk to the ruins of the Syurenskaya fortress which were destroyed by Tartar Mongols in 1922. 4 day Visit to spelaean city of Mangup. Visit to spelaeans, the fortress and the church. An interesting historical subject. The ancient city Mangup-Kale was the capital of Gotiya, the residence of Goto – Greek Knyazhes the dynasty of which was ended after the whole Gotiya was subordinated to Turks in 147. 5 day A way down from Mangup. Passage through the forest to the hills, a way up to the mountains again. Dinner. Overnight stop in Barskaya meadow. You can see the panorama of the whole Crimea from here. 6 day A way down from Barskaya meadow is extreme. Passage to the Big canyon. You will have a small adventure again! Not so easy to reach big canyon. You should be ready to pass some places in the water as there is no other way. Passage through the water (cord extension). Go-around through the rocks. Passage through mountain river. 7 day A way up to Ai-Petri. We can peep in the spelaean Threeyes in which there is snow even in summer. It is possible to see the pipe of 1100 years. You will forget about weariness. You may see amazingly beautiful panorama of the cost form the view ground.

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A pearl of Podolia

A pearl of Podolia (a historical region in the west-central and south-west portions of present-day Ukraine). A beautiful, picturesque park city Vinnitsia lies on steep banks of the Southern Bug river. History of the city comes back to 1363 when a wooden fortress with six towers was built on a high hill of the left bank of the river for the purpose of protection against the Tatars raids. The military garrison was accommodated here and small settlements sprang up around. One of the oldest architectural monuments of Vinnitsia is considered to be “The Mury” – a complex of defensive installations erected in XVII. Buildings were enclosed with a big wall (in Russian «mur») with towers and loopholes. On the territory of the Jesuit Closter (being a part of “Mury”) is located the Local History Museum. Its arts department could be served as the basis for an independent Arts Gallery. At the left bank of the Southern Bug river stands an unremarkable one-storey building. The name of the person

born here in 1864 is worldfamous. The yard in front of the house is buried in flowers. In the middle there is a big agave “blooming to die and dieing to bloom” – these words said M.M.Kotsybynskiy – a famous Ukrainian author who has been living here for 33 years. The writer’s house is a museum now. At the picturesque bank of the river there is a big stone called “The rock of Kotsybynsky”. As legends say, the great Ukrainian author wrote his early works at this place. During the sightseeing tour visit the Park of Sculpture in the open air called “Historical Busha”. It was founded at place of an ancient walled town. The park is being replenished with new works of sculptors who came to the village in search of inspiration. The city is growing, expanding, but its few memorials of the past make up the main kernel of its landmarks. Everybody who has visited “The pearl of Podolia” at least once will certainly remember quite and cozy Vinnitsia for a long time.

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VERSAL

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Our Versal club and hotel brought a small part of France with a taste of French style, elegance and royal interior to our picturesque land. Our Hotel became a prize-winner of the contest of the best architectural buildings of Ukraine that were constructed in 2001. The hotel complex will be very interesting for non-residents and foreign guests of Vinnitsa who can be accommodated in the most comfortable hotel creating ideal conditions for a good rest and fun HOTEL Service Parking

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PODILLYA

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Hotel complex «Podillya» is situated in a picturesque public garden in the city centre. There is municipal and regional administration, chanber of commerce and industry, cinema theatres, musical drama theatre, city sciense library and shoppings centers there. Convinient junction let easily get to the hotel from railway station and air-port. This greatly saves time of the clients as the majority of them are business men HOTEL Service Conference service

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WERWOLF In the years of World War II Hitler’s headquarters under the code name «Werwolf» was built in a small grove in the eight kilometers from Vinnitsa. The headquarters was intended to command military operations in the Eastern Front. «Werwolf» was not the only headquarters of Hitler, but it was the most famous one as it assumed that the Fuhrer spent there most of his time during the Second World War. When retreating Germans blew up the outside of the buildings by powerful bombs and the entrances to the underground part were closed. In March of 1944 according to the personal order of Stalin a special commission studied caves of the headquarters and came to a conclusion that Germans had removed from the headquarters all valuables and documents. Later other studied of the object «Werwolf» were conducted but more than 60 years headquarters kept its secret provoking the emergence of new hypotheses and guesses.

Castle Cherlenkovasky Cherlenkov emerged over the quiet Bug river in the remote 13th century. Later the settlement received a city status and it was called Cherlengrad. Therefore the fortification had been here for a long time. Still Kanenetskiy Kiryatovichi strengthened Chelengrad with wooden fortress after 1362 together with Bakota, Rock, Medzhybozh and Bratislav. In 1448 Magdeburgia joined Cherlenkov. But in 1624 it was mercilessly destroyed by Krymchaks. Near the site of a fire instead of Cherlenkov appeared a settlement called Selische. Now this place creates a romantic mood for tens of fishermen sitting on the pond near the castle. It is a place where you can see many interesting: a floodplain with meadows, centuries – old forest on the distant hills. If you climb to the plateau from the ruins we see remnants of the foundations of another tower. It was standing on the road leading to the old bridge across the Bug.

Museum Pirogov The National museum – estate of Pirogov is located in the south – western part of the city of Vinnitsa, in the picturesque manor called Cherry where an outstanding scientist, a genius surgeon, anatomist, military field surgeon, founder of the Red Cross society, a wonderful teacher and public figure Nickolay Ivanovich Pirogov lived and worked over the past twenty years (1861-1881). The purpose of the National museum – estate of Pirogov is to preserve the specific cultural environment which existed during the lifetime of a scientist. This defines the meaning of the museum presented a coherent system of the object of cultural heritage and monuments and landscape art which include the house where Pirogov lived and where there is the exhibition of his life and work. The museum drugstore with the interior of Pirogov reception and operating rooms in his Cherry manor. There is a church – necropolis where the embalmed body of scientist is. There is a memorial park which preserved trees had planted by Pirogov. The museum belongs to the most important cultural heritage of the Ukraine and has a special place in the domestic and international tourism

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Throughout the order-bearing Dnepropetrovshtshina Welcome to the unforgettable Dnepropetrovsk land, the Cossacks’ territory rich in historical events and good hospitable people. Dnepropetrovsk was founded in 1787 by Knjaz (Prince) Potemkin at place of a Zaporozhian village called Polovytsia. The town called Katerinoslav was later renamed in Novorossiysk. In 1924 the city was given its present name. One of the most romantic and mysterious places of Dnepropetrovsk is considered to be the Monastyrskiy island first mentioned in the hagiography of Saint Feodosiy as a place what one of the Christ’s followers Andrei Pervozdanny set his foot on. The island is regarded as the northernmost point of the apostle’s journey. It has got its name after a Byzantine monastery which was erected here in the IX century. Not long ago an Orthodox church was built on the island; there is an ancient cross nearby. As legends say, it was placed by apostle Andrei in the 1 century. The city began to develop intensively in 70-th of the XIX century after the railway has been built here. At that time the oldest bridge of Dnepropetrovsk (one of three) – Amurskiy (or the Old) - was constructed here. As a result, crossing the river by a ferry on the way from Baturin to Perekop

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was not more necessary. In 1917-20 the anarchists of Nestor Makhno held the city at times. In 1919 the collection of the History Museum named after D.I.Yavornitskiy was saved from Makhno’s fighters thanks to a bottle of Cossaks’ gorilka (a national strong alcohol drink). Two bottles of gorilka aged 200 years were found by an archeological expedition. An archaeologist and historian Dmitriy Yavornitskiy changed one of two exhibits-bottles in a Writ of Protection for the museum. There is no sense to look for the second one: it was drunk up by the archeologists who have found it. Between the exhibits of Dnepropetrovsk’s History Museum: heraldic and archeological materials, weapons, paintings, icons – there is a unique monument to a heroic soviet soldier – the Diorama “The Battle for Dniepr”. During the excursion you will have the possibility to visit the mansion-museum of Dmitriy Ivanovich Yavornitskiy “the Father of Cossacks”, as contemporaries called him. The atmosphere of real Cossack’s hospitability reigns in this house. Famous authors – Lev Tolstoy, Lesya Ukainka, Ostap Vishnja, artists and musicians visited this cultural and creative centre. The excursion through friendly Dnepropetrovsk will leave pleasant memories and a wish to feel the atmosphere of the city once more.

BARTALAMEO Hotel Complex Creative Club Bartolomeo offers to guests delicious rest on the bank of river Dnepr in luxurious bungalows of European class, equipped according to 4-stars hotel demands. Elite, wooden 2-storeyed bungalows situated in city region on the cape in park zone with fine view on the beautiful and magnificent river Dnepr. Guest can enjoy fine design of hotel rooms, which joined elements of exquisite and African style HOTEL Service Conference service

Sauna

Room-service

Tennis

PRICE

Junior suite

Suite 



130.45 €

250.00 €

Include: • breakfast • guarded parking • individual electronic safe • use of AquaZone • use of beach accessories 49123, Dnepropetrovsk, Naberezhnaya Pobedy, 9b www.ukrrest.com

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GRAND HOTEL UKRAINE

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Grand Hotel Ukraine is situated in downtown Dniepropetrovsk within a walking distance from goverment offices and office buildings, museums and theatres, all main stores and markets, restaurants and casinos. Upon entering the Hotel, you’ll find yourself in the atmosphere of hospitality and cordiality. The hotel staff is always happy to assist you in solving all your problems HOTEL Service Conference room

Turkish Bath

Exchange

Billiards

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

81.55 €



95.50 €

153.25 €

Suite 

180.35 €

Include: • transfer from/to airport • fitness service • internet 49000, Dnepropetrovsk, Korolenko, 2 www.ukrrest.com

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Kadatskaya Fortress After the suppression of the next national – liberation uprising led by hetman Taras Tryasil in 1631 Pech Pospolitaya tried to take control over Zaporozhye. In February 1635 King Vladislav IV and the Polish Seim decided to build a fortress near the first threshold of the Dnieper called Kadatskiy to cut the way from Samara to Zaporozhskiy fleet. The military leader, hetman Stanislav monitored the construction of the castle, French engineer de Boplan built it. Later the very plan of the Castle was a model of a fortification to Gogol when he wrote the novel «Taras Bulba».The Kodak fortress was built in record time from spring to august of 1635. Along the perimeter a rectangle bastion equaled to 1800 meters. In the west the fortress rose above the Dnieper and the steppe part was surrounded by a moat. In the south iron thorns (against cavalry) were scattered. The garrison was up to 1000 people. A catholic monastery and a trade settlement – Sloboda were built. The first commander was “a French officer – Jean Marion – an “old Warrior” as he was called by the great Lithuanian Chancellor Albrecht Radzivil. «The old Warrior» prohibited the Cossacks not only to come from Samara but also to engage in fishing on the Dnieper. But at the night of August 12 Zaporozhtsy led by Sulimov returning from the Crimean campaign, suddenly appeared in the fortress. The garrison was cut off. Marion was captured alive, gunpowder was poured in his clothing, he was tied to a pole and burned. The blast pushed Marion to the Dnieper.

Prospect of Karl Marx The avenue of Karl Marx – is the central street of Dnepropetrovsk, in the administrative, cultural and commercial sense. The former name – Catherine Avenue. The avenue of Karl Marx is one of the oldest streets of the city. Most of the streets lined by cobblestones. Down the avenue there are many old buildings including the historical museum, the building of the University of Mining, Geological and economic faculties and the faculty of Applied Mathematics of the Dnepropetrovsk National University, the City Council. The street begins form the monument to Fame and ends by Dnepropetrovsky main railway station. The central avenue of Yekaterinoslav can rival the beauty of the best streets of world capitals. Memories of local people give an idea of the avenue of the beginning of the XIX century. A.Fadeev who lived in Yekaterinoslav from 1817 to 1834 wrote: “The main street stretched for several miles, the breadth of two hundred steps, it so abounded with space not only for orchards and vegetable gardens but even for grazing of cattle in the street and this chance the residents of the street used without the slightest scruple”. Improvement of the avenue relates to the name of the Governer A.L. Fabra. In 1847 works were performed to clean up the street and to plant trees and shrubs. The highway was laid along the center of the street and boulevards appeared on its sides. Four rows of poplars mixed with maples were planted throughout the street and large lilac bushes were planted between each two trees. In 1903 electric flashlights began to illuminate the street.

Holy Transfiguration Cathedral Dnepropetrovsk Holy-Transfiguration Cathedral of Dnepropetrovsk is the central temple of Dnepropetrovsk Diocese of the UOC (the Ukrainian Orthodox Church). It is also a temporary place of the diocesan administration. The altar feast is in the Day of the Transfiguration, August 19. The first project of the cathedral as affirmed in 1786 but it was not implemented. In 1930-1988 there were not services in the cathedral. In 1975- 1988 there was a museum of Religion and Atheism in the temple premises. On the territory of the cathedral is the burial place of Archbishop Andrei (Komarov), Archbishop Varlaam (Ilyushenko), Bishop Kronid (Mashchenko), Archpriest Vladimir Kapustyansky, Archpriest Konstantin Ogienko, Fyodor Duplenko, Andrew Kirpichnikov. In 1941 to the contryard of the Cathedral from the near streets bodies of the dead were brought who now are buried in a mass grave near the central gate. Icons: the icon “Crying Savior”, the icon of the Mother of God «Iverskaya», the icon of the Mother of God «Samarskaya», cross – reliquary with the particles of relics of Christ John the Baptist, the holy apostles and evangelists Matfei, Luka, Mark, Holy Righteous Anna, St. Catherine the Great.

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Donetsk – a City of Million Roses

This active, well groomed and blooming city welcomes tourists hospitably. Donetsk is considered to be the greenest of all industrial cities of the world. The history of the city goes back to 1869, when the construction of a steel plant started here. The manager of the plant was technician metallurgist John Hughes, that’s why a settlement springing up around the plant was called Hughesovka (Yuzovka). From the Hughes’ plant (today the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant named after Lenin) started metallurgical industry of the Southern industrial region. In 1924 Yuzovka with population of more then 50 thousand inhabitants was renamed in Stalino. Since 1961 it is called Donetsk like now days. In 1978 the population of Donetsk totaled one million people. The cultural centre of Donetsk and all the Donetsk region is one of the greatest arts museums of Ukraine, the holder of Award “Zolotoy Skif-1999”, Donetsk Regional Arts Museum. Its collection numbers 11500 works of painting, graphic, sculpture and other arts and crafts. Presentations of re-

gional prizes named after painter A.Cuingy, composer S.Prokofjev, poet V.Sosjura, writer V.Shutov take place in museum halls. The symbol of Donetsk region represented on the Donetsk Region Coat of Arms is the Palm of Mertsalov, which embodies prosperity and pride of its inhabitants. A copy of the famous work made by Ukrainian smith-master Aleksej Mertsalov, a worker of Hughes’ plant, is located near the building of Local History Museum. The original Palm with the weight 315 kg is kept in Saint Petersburg in the Mining Institute’s Museum. The unique in Europe Park of Forged Figures is recommended to visit in Donetsk. As Donetsk is the first of the former Sovjet Union’s cities officially admitted to “The Ring of Cities-Smithes” involving the best blacksmith cities of the world. Fairy-tale characters, signs of the zodiac and many other works of blacksmith’s art involve into the world of fantasy and elegance. The blacksmith’s work festival takes place in the Park of Forged Figures every year.

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VICTORIA

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Hotel center «Victoria» - one of the most prestigious centers for work and leisure in Ukraine. In our complex you waiting for the present atmosphere of hospitality and kindness, attentive and caring service HOTEL Service Conference service

Business center

Booking air&rw ticket Bowling Squash

Night club SPA

Tennis

PRICE Sngl “King”

Dbl standard

Junior suite

124.00 €

146.00 €

206.00 €

Suite 

413.00 €

Include: • breakfast • fitness service • pool • vat 83015,Donetsk, Mira, 14a www.victoria.ua

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ATLAS

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Atlas Hotel is located in a quiet city centre next to the bank of Kalmius River and only minutes from shopping and business centre. After the reconstruction Atlas hotel has become the remarkable place of the river side. Our guests can always enjoy the breathtaking river view. Atlas Hotel provides its guests with 165 comfortable guest rooms, cosy restaurant, stylish lobby-bar, multi-purpose conference-hall, meeting-room, beauty salon, currency exchange and car parking HOTEL Service Conference service

Travel service

Salon of beauty

Restaurant

Conference room

Lobby bar

Bank

Wi-Fi Zone

PRICE King

Twin

Business-Suite

72.00 €



84.00 €

106.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 83100, Donetsk, Shevshenko, 20

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Suite 

190.00 €

Botanical Garden The Donetsk Botanical Garden was founded June 25, 1964 by the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine SSR number 805) in the eastern Donetsk as a center for the development of fundamental and applied problems of biology in the south-east Ukraine. The gardens along Bogodukhovskaya beam. There is a chain of seven ponds. Soils of the garden predominantly black earth but there are boggy areas with saline soils and detachments of forest species. There is a garden of 262.2 hectares (it occupies the first place in Europe as to its area). On its territory there are about five and a half thousand species of plants. 1200 square meters of space is under the glass which allowed to organize 5 greenhouses and imitate conditions of the tropics and subtropics. 12 employees work in the greenhouse. At large botanical garden has about 200 employees including 6 doctors of sciences and 22 candidates of sciences.

Salt – mine Soledar (in 1965 – 1991 Carlo Libknehtovsk) is a small town of regional significance in the Donetsk region. It is known preliminary for its salt mines where in Soviet times produced up to 40% of the Union production of rock salts and 88% of Ukrainian extraction. The development of deposits of rock salt deposit is carried out by a mining method at the depth of 200 – 300 meters. As a result over one hundred years of underground work in the earth, a system of mine works has more than 200 km. Their sizes are striking. Sometimes they are up to 30 meters high. A speleosanatory for asthmatics has been organized here.

homutovskaya steppe In our time no longer find large virgin steppes. The man has mastered them, plowed and sow. But there is in the Donetsk region, a unique piece of ground - Homutovskaya steppe, showing us how to look Azov in the distant past. Reserve with this name was organized in 1926. This is all that remains of the once immense Wild field, holding the southern part of Ukraine. At its open spaces appeared, evolved and disappeared diverse peoples - the Scythians, Sarmatians, Pechenegs, Polovcy many others, that the waves roll boundless steppes, leaving the barrows hours - stone Bab. Unfortunately, these idols of the past have not been able to save the fertile steppes of human plowed land. Today, the reserve area of 1,030.4 hectares, 90 of them are strictly protected areas that have never dealt with a plow and a 70 years old do not graze their cattle and are not held kosovitsa. There are preserved and protected plant groups of plain raznotravno - tipchakovo - kovylnoy steppe. It sprouts 604 species of flower plants and ferns - plants, shrubs and trees. Of these, 19 - endemic, ie, distributed in a very limited area. There are also recorded 59 species of mosses, 46 - more than 270 lichen and fungi. The most common and widespread of flora are: Katran, kermek, kovyli, Voloshko, pap, pyrey, fire, tyrsa, goritsvet, tulip, violets, almonds, gorse, Karagan, cornflowers, meadow grass, sage, cutter, scabious, and hundreds of other plants . Each one of his, and at one time adorned the steppe.

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Welcome to Zhytomyr

In the centre of Ukraine on the boarder of foreststeppe and Polesie (“woodland”), on the banks of Teterev and Kamyenka rivers over 11 centuries lies an ancient Ukrainian city whose name consists of the most important for Ukrainians words “zhyto” (rye) and “myr” (peace). Zhytomyr is one of the oldest cities of Ukraine with a rich cultural and historical heritage. It is located in a unique natural setting; all sides of the city are surrounded by ancient forests through which flow rivers with cool clear water. “Green lungs” of the city - its parks and squares – make the air really fresh. At the western bank of the Teterev storage pond lies a wonderful aqua-park – the most popular recreation area of the inhabitants of the city. “Old Zhytomyr” lies on three cliffy

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heels at the Kamenka river: Ochrimova, Zamkova and Petrovskaya hills, surrounded by new districts named after former suburb villages (Vydumka, Smolyanka, Dovzhyk etc.). But the old part of the city with its spirit of ages attracts numerous tourists. Architectural memorials attract the attention of the city guests: the oldest constructions of the city – cells of the former Jesuit cloister (1724); Roman-Catholic Cathedral built in the later Renaissance and Baroque style and the Belfry (1736); buildings of the Post Office XIX; the Transfiguration Cathedral (the beginning of XIX); Lutheran church (the end of XIX); the Protection church (the beginning of XIX). It is really worth visiting Zhytomyr – a picturesque place of Polesie.

ZHITOMIR

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The hotel comprises 250 comfortable rooms with all modern conveniences. Autonomous heating, hot and cold water 24h a day will make your rest more comfortable. Air-conditioned cosy bedrooms are a good addition to your rest. Experienced staff is always ready to help to make your stay in our hotel pleasant and convenient. All nectssities for business meetings, negotiations and fruitful work are at your disposal HOTEL Service Parking

Tourist agency

Beauty Salon

Summer ground

Restaurant

PRICE Sngl “King”

Dbl standard

Junior suite

22.80 €

39.75 €

58.60 €

Suite 

68.45 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 10014, Zhitomir, Peremogy, 6 www.ukrrest.com

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DODO

Spa & hotel

New modern hotel «Yalinka» - the hotel will combine the best: the number of highest level, superior service and incomparable hospitality. Favorable location in the central part of the city in a park area. Hotel European level «Yalinka» designed in Art Nouveau style, which is in harmony with the classics HOTEL Service Conference room

Restaurant

Parking

Exchange

Tintoreria

Laundry

Night Club

Billiards

PRICE King

Twin

Business-Suite

27.20 €



32.00 €

38.90 €

Suite 

55.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 10014, Zhitomir, Mira, 34 www.ukrrest.com

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Carmelite Monastery At this place over the Gnilopyat river there was a castle of Kievsky voivode Tishkevish. The monastery was founded in 1627. Tishkevich gave the monks an old icon of Mother of God and in 1630 he presented his own castle. Because of frequent attacks by Tatars and Cossacks the monastery had been strengthened: thick walls, embankments, moat, cannons on the walls were made. In the monastery there was a library that includes hundreds of rare manuscripts. During 1760-1840 there was the printing house in the cloister which was called «Printing Fortress of the Blessed Mary». It printed more than 650 works.

Museum of Space The museum of Space named after Sergey Pavlovich Korolev in Zhytomyr is a place where you can find something interesting for adult and kids. Children come here to drive into the world of fairy tales of space, don’t forget the way to the museum also their parents and people of older generations. The citizens of the city who are proud of their museum see space regularity that is in their city. At the beginning of the century in 1907 was born the future practical astronautics founder Sergey Korolev. In Zhitomir in 1970 the memorial house – museum of academician Sergey Pavlovich Korolev was opened. In a single impulse the whole world has created it. The museum that has become the favorite child of the citizens adornments and the pride of the city and region.

The Manor of Tereschenko At twenty kilometers from Zhitomir on the bank of the picturesque Teretev river stretches the ancient village Denishi. It is famous because there was one of the estates of industrialist Tereschenko. He had several estates. But only one of them, the estate in Denishi, named as «the castle of Terschenko». The estate was built in the XIX century by architect P. Gollandsky. In spite of the fact that estate was destroyed its walls had kept the tracks of rich decorations and luxury.

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Zaporozhye Zaporozhye – the capital of the Cossack republic. Welcome to the city on Dniepr river with rich history. Lots of shady alleys along the banks of the wide and strong Dniepr river, buildings in Stalin Empire style with eclectic modeling and columns – these are characteristic features of Zaporozhye. In 1770 a fortress named Aleksandrovsk was built on the biggest Khortytsia Island at the Dnieper River with the aim to be an outpost in the Russian-Turkish War. The history of the city goes back to a settlement which sprang up later and was named after the commander of the first Russian Army Alexander Golitsyn – Aleksandrovsk. In 1921 it was renamed in Zaporozhye. Some scientists suggest to consider the year 1552 when Baida Vishnevetskiy built a fortress on the island as the date of birth of the city. It is worth talking about Khortytsia – a National Preserve, a Museum in the open air, a place where a lot of historic events and heroic battles took place, the capital of the Cossack republic – location of the historiccultural complex “Zaporozhian Sich”. During many centuries Khortitsia was used for living, as a cult burial place and as a field of action. Khortitsia was first mentioned in the chronicles of the X century. The Slavs sailed

“from Varangians to Greeks” and used the island to stop, to repair their boats after getting over the severe rapids of the Dniepr river and to have a rest before a long journey. The Slavs made sacrifices to the god Khors asking for help and protection on the journey. So the name of a pagan deity has been reflected in the name of the island. They say the Prince of Kiev Svjatoslav fell here in an unequal battle with nomads in 972. The land behind the rapids of Dniepr river belonged to free Cossacks for a long time. In XVI the Zaporozhian Sich was founded here. The amazing past of Khortitsia is connected with such famous people as Bogdan Khmelnitskiy, Ivan Sirko, BaidaVishnevetskiy. Make a trip to Khortitsia and visit Skifs’ site of ancient settlement “Sovutina skala” dated V-III centuries B.C.; defensive installations of the XVI century, fortresses of the XVIII century on the Baida island, cult complexes of the Bronze Age, burial mounds, burial grounds and many other exponents – the keeper of centuries-old history. Unforgettable nature and the spirit of the Cossack state will involve you to the world of heroic-romantic adventures and historical events

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Family hotel

Hotel Jazz

Our hotel is situated in Komunarov district of Zaporozhie only 15 minutes drive from the Bus Station and the Railroad Station, as well as from the central highway that makes our hotel slightly removed from the town but at the same time unbelievably accessible both for city dwellers and for city guests. HOTEL Service Restaurant

Sauna

Сonference hall

Billiards

PRICE Sngl “King”

Dbl standard

Luxe

20.00 €

34.40 €

32.15 €

VIP Apartments 

66.55 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 69600, Zaporozhiye, Chubanova Str, 2a www.ukrrest.com

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Hotel Dion

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Welcome to Dion Hotel Complex in Zaporizhia! Dion hotel is an ideal place for comfortable rest. We can offer you an unforgettable level of luxury and service. Dion Hotel is located on picturesque right banks of the Dniepr river, near by the Island of Hortitsa. Island of Hortitsa is the biggest island of the river Dniepr, a cradle of the Zaporizhia Cossacks HOTEL Service Russian billiards

Sauna

Summerhouse

Parking

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Luxe

Apartments 

36.60 €



39.00 €

41.05 €

58.75 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 69015, Zaporizhia city, Minskaya st, 9

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The museum of musical culture named after Glinka The state central museum of musical culture named after Glinka is a unique repository of the monuments of musical culture that has no analogues in the world is a research and educational institution. In early 1995 according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation the museum was included in the state set of the most valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. The foundation of the museum – nearly a million units – includes the musical instruments of different peoples of the world, the personal papers of musicians, sound recordings, rare books and music, and visual material: theater and set painting and graphic, sculptural portraits of musicians, objects of decorative art, painting, graphics, photos. A significant place is occupied by the work of such masters of the theatrical art, as NK Rerich, KA Korovin, FF Fedorovsky, AF Lushin, VF Ryndin, BA Messerer, VY Levental.

Dnieper hydro-electric station The project of the station was designed by Aleksandrov. The Dnieper hydro electric station was one of the main objects of the plan of the country electrification. The commission of the construction headed by Trotsky and he stood at the beginning of the project. The construction of the station began in 1927 and first unit was launched in 1932. In 1939 the design capacity equaled to 560 mega watt. At that time it was the largest hydro electric station of the USSR. On the basis of energy the Dnieper hydroelectric station an the industrial complex of Zaporozhie was built including power – consuming industries as the smelting of aluminum. As a result of the building of the dam the Dnieper rapids were flooded providing the navigation along the entire flow of the Dnieper. The dam of the electric station forms the Dnieper reservation.

Khortytsya Island Khortitsa island is a unique union of flora and fauna. It is rightly considered to b the Green Pearl of the Dnieper. At Khortitsa there is a miniature representation of all types of landscape specific to the Ukraine: steppe, forest, forest – steppe, meadows and in the north – rocky mountains. The flora of the island is very diverse. The southern Khortitsa is a strictly protected zone. The city is connected with the island by the bridges of Preobrazhensky, ones of the most beautiful bridges in Europe.

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Ivano-Frankovsk

A cozy beautiful city is situated in the foothills of the picturesque Carpathians between two rivers Nadvirnjanskoy and Solotvinskoj Bistrits. Ivano-Frankovsk is one of a few home cities where the past has remained in less changed form. A striking illustration is the 49,5 m high Town Hall (Ratusha) with a gilded cupola dated 1695 and the neighboring Marketplace located in the city centre. The city named Stanisławiw (or Stanislaw) sprang up in 1662 and was granted the Magdeburg right from a Polish king Jan Kazimir next year. The city was renamed in Ivano-Frankovsk in 1962 after 300 years of its existence. The oldest building of Ivano-Frankovsk is the Parafiyalny Kostel of Virgin Mary (Roman-Catholic church) (1672-1703) which was built in Baroque style with Renaissance features as burial-vault of the Pototsky family. The building constructed by engineersfortifiers F.Korassini and K.Benoye was many times restored. Since 1979 this amazing architectural monument has

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been used as a gallery which numbers more than 10 000 artworks today. A unique example of industrial architecture of the second part of XVIII century is Ivano-Frankovsk’s Brewhouse constructed in 1767. You will have a possibility not only to take a closer look at the brewing workshops, but to taste a heady drink, as the plant has been used according to its primary plan. You really have to take a look at the amazing 20 m high Manyavskiy waterfall located near the museum-monastery “Manyavskiy Skit” in a mountain gorge. You can bath in a shallow lake at the bottom of waterfall. During the trip you’ll have the possibility to visit the museum of Ukrainian graffiti and to admire the Board of Jesuits. “Pisanka” museum in the town Kolomija of Ivano-Frankovskaya oblast (province) makes an unforgettable impression on the visitors – it is made in a form of 14 meters high egg. A walk along cozy streets of IvanoFrankovsk is a good chance to learn about wonderful culture and traditions of hospitable Guzulshtshina and to get unforgettable impressions.

PARK HOTEL

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«Park Hotel» - The four-star hotel the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. The combination of atmospheric city in the Carpathian foothills and the European service will make your stay truly memorable and enjoyable. Safety, comfort and European level of service «Park Hotel» attract tourists, businessmen and visitors. The good location is another advantage «Park Hotel», it is located near the city lake and park - one of the best recreation of the city, which adds a sense of comfort and enhances the atmosphere of coziness. HOTEL Service Restaurant

Vip hall

Conference service

Sauna

Billiards

Gym

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Suite

Apartmets 

34.75 €



45.00 €

63.00 €

70.50 €

Include: • breakfast • delivery luggage • vat 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mazepi, 146 www.ukrrest.com

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PETROS

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Complex «Petros» is located in the heart of middle climatic resort Tatars in the area of the narrow valley of the river Prut, at an altitude of 750m above sea level, at the foot of Mount Chomiak (1540m), on the territory of the Ukrainian Carpathians. His name was set from the fourth highest peaks of the Carpathians - the mountains Petros (2020m). Village Tatariv located in the protected zone in the territory of the Carpathian National Nature Park. For its location the village is the natural protection of the mountains, which rise up from the north and west to a height of more than 1000m, 25km, and stretched to the valley of the river Prut. HOTEL Service Restaurant & bar

Suna

Billiards

Parking

Playground

Conference hall

Library

Gym

PRICE

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Suite 



54.35 €

86.95 €

145.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 78596, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Tatariv, Nezalegnosti, 16 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

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KOSIV

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“Kosiv” Hotel is located in the center of the town Kosiv. It’s newly built with all modern technologies 3-floors building. Trere is a cafe for 30 persons on the 1 floor, and the real ginger of old Kosiv - a cellar built in XVII century. Additional service may include transportation to ski lifts with platter pull: Kosiv, Mikhalkova mountain - ski down-hill 1400 meters length - height changes for 250 meters, type of complexity: middle-high. Sheshory - picturesque place for skiing located in 15km from Kosiv. 1 platter pull, the hill is comfortable either for start-ups, or for middle level. HOTEL Service Hutsulska kolyba

Parking

Sauna

Horses riding

Airplane

Swimming pool

Billiards

Excursions

PRICE Dbl standard

Dbl family

Junior suite

17.50 €

20.50 €

24.00 €

Suite 

28.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 78600, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Kosiv, Nezalegnosti, 65 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

COLOMIYA

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The hotel is ideally situated in the very heart of the town, opposite the “Pysanka” museum near the central square. If you are looking for cosy and well lit rooms with a pleasant view, then Hotel Kolomiya is just for you. Comfortably furnished rooms are at your disposal. Each room has a spacious and modern bathroom. We provide our guests with multilingual service (Ukrainian, English, German, French, Polish and Russian) and a national cuisine restaurant. HOTEL Service * Restaurant

* Parking

* Cable TV

* Downtown

* Transfer

* Excursion service

PRICE Sngl standard Dbl Standard +

15.50 €

22.50 €

Junior suite

40.50 €

Suite 

45.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 78200, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Colomiya, Chornovola, 26

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Delyatin church Driving along the rood from Ivano – Frankovsk in the Carpathian mountains it is impossible to pass a small village called Delyatin. It is situated at the altitude of 460 meters in the mountains and forests in the valley protecting it from cold winds. Like most settlement in the western Ukraine Delyatin has an ancient history. The first mention of it relates to 1578. Its fame Delyatin has acquired owing to its salt- works. Rich deposits of salt served as the ground to the beginning of the war. It began in 1642 and lasted for five years. In the XIX century during the industrial revolution the Delyatin salt – mines evaporate 155 centners, of salt daily. The development of the salt – works has led to increasing of local population. The Pole and German workers, engineers and managers worked in Delyatin. To meet their spiritual needs it was decided to build a Roman Catholic church of St.Francis here. For the foundation of the church held shortly before the First World War the emperor of Austria – Hungary Frants - Josef the First arrived in Delyatin. The construction of the church was finished when Delyatin joined Poland. Thanks to the traditions of that time the church is a successful imitation of Romano – Gothic style now. The length of this high and narrow construction is more than 30 meters. After the war the church was used as ancillary business facilities. Then for many years it was empty space and was gradually destroying. Only in 1980 of the XX century thanks to the efforts of a famous archaeologist and historian Klapchk the church was declared a monument to the history and architecture. Only in 1995 on the initiative of local residents the Catholic church was given to the catholic community of Delyatin. Under the supervision of a resident of Delyatin Bronislav Dotsenko the church building was repaired and the service started here.

Manyavsky small secluded monastery At 25 kilometers form railway station Nadvornaya of the Ivano – Frankovsky region, in the picturesque valley of the Carpathian mountains, an ancient village is located called Manyava. Here among the Carpathian pines on the cliff above the river stands an ancient small and secluded monastery. It was founded by monks. The date of the foundation of the Manyavsky monastery should be considered as 1608. It was when the monastery firstly was mentioned in the chronicles. In 1612 the Cross Church was erected in the monastery. In 1620-1621 the monastery was encircled by the defensive wall with three towers. However during the Turkish invasions in 1676 the monastery was destroyed and was restored only in 1681. The Manyavsky monastery is mostly famous for its iconostas. Created in late of the XVII century this magnificent structure of the size 11-13 meters consists of six rows in which there are about 100 icons of various size. This significance of the iconostasis is close to the same outstanding monuments like the Kozeletsiconostasis in the Chernigov region and the Sorochinskiy iconostasis in Poltava. In 1970-1980 a considerable restoration work of the monastery was fulfilled. After this the Manyavsky small secluded monastery was declared a historical and architectural reserve. Nowadays the Cross monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievsky Patriarchy is located on the territory of the small secluded monastery. Above the monastery there is one of the most beautiful Carpathian waterfalls – the Manyavsky waterfall. But you can get there only by foot overcoming the distance of about 7 km along mountain paths.

The Dovbush rocks The main group of rocks of the area of 100 hectares, up to 30 meters, semi – covers from the north and the east the inner space bounded on the west side by a moat and obviously by the defense barrage. In addition to a main group of rocks which surrounded an ancient house there are a lot of separate rock – towers. Among them it should be noted on the west the highest rock «Tulip» (up to 40 m altitude), to the south – west of it «Doll» as well as in the north – «Windmill».These caves with benches, stairs, moats, ramparts and wells have not been learned to our days. Most scientists believe that these are most likely remains of rock monastery. Some scientists suppose that all these caves are connected with the name of Oliksa Dovbush as he was there.

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Kiev – the second Jerusalem Kiev is magnificent! It is possible to talk about this beautiful city with breath-taking history and magnificent architecture for hours. Kiev is considered to be one of the Christianity centers of the world like Jerusalem and Rom. In the old days Kiev was the capital of the largest and the most powerful country in Europe – Kievan Rus. There is a lot of legends about the foundation of Kiev. The most known legend says that Kiev was founded in the V - VI centuries by brothers Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and named after the oldest brother. During the government of Jaroslav Mudry the first library in Rus and St. Sophia’s Cathedral (Sophiyskiy Sobor) were erected. 260 m2 mosaic and 3000 m2 wall paintings have been preserved. It is hardly possible to find so many mosaics and wall paintings of the XI-th century somewhere in Europe as in one Kiev’s church - St. Sophia’s Cathedral. Kiev was one of the leading trade- and handicraft centres of Europe. Its population was two times more then population of London and Hamburg. One of the oldest and the most beautiful landmarks is Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra raising on high hills of the right bank of river Dnepr – the cradle of monkhood and stronghold of Orthodoxy in Rus. Architectural complex

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of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra constructed in 1051 makes a great impression on the visitors today, the sheen of many cupolas and bells dazzles eyes on a sunny day. The great bell tower was the tallest building of Kiev till the middle of the XX century. 1754 St. Andrew’s Church designed by V.V.Rastrelli in beautiful Baroque style was erected on Andrew’s Hill. It is only one architectural monument in Ukraine preserved in its original form. Here starts Andreevsky Spusk – the street with a lot of picturegalleries, art exhibitions, handicraft-works. Atmosphere of the XIX century reigns here. Pay special attention to the house number 13 – a famous Ukrainian writer M.Bulgakov lived here. Apart from a lot of churches you can admire an exposition of windmills in the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, Mariynsky Palace used for presidential official functions, collection of cheese-, wood-, straw-toys and ethnographic dolls in the National Toys Museum and the unique in Ukraine Sewerage Museum. After a tour of the city you will be really charmed with greatness and beauty of ancient Kiev, its wisdom and devotion.

SEVEN DAYS

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Hotel “7 Days” is located at 5 th floor of entertainment and shopping center “rhythm.” This new European hotel with 36 modern rooms. Beautiful interior, the pleasant surprise of color, an unusual approach to solving interior hotel characterize the new format HOTEL Service Conference room

Pool

Sauna

Casino

Park zone

Tintoreria

Tennis

Shop center

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Apartments 

76.95 €



86.20 €

105.00 €

154.35 €

Include: • vat 03148, Kiev, Space Heroes, 4 www.ukrrest.com

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f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

ATTASHE

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The private hotel “Attache” aims to make lodging services for businessmen and tourists with the best world quality. The hotel covers the full spectrum of a tourist’s needs. Our comfortable rooms are classically furnished in English style. When staying in hotel “Attache” you will feel Ukrainian hospitality, receiving diplomat level services and respect while visiting Ukraine, and seeing Kiev. HOTEL Service Business- center;

Concierge services;

Luggage room;

Laundry and dry

Exchange;

Cleaning services;

Casino

Beauty shop;

PRICE Sngl

Twin

107.00 €



130.45 €

Suite 

206.00 €

Include: • vat 02154, Kiev, Entuziastiv, 1 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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BRATISLAVA

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13-storey hotel complex «Bratislava», one of the largest hotel in Kyiv, offers its guests a wide range of issues varying degrees of comfort: from ekonomklassa decorated in contemporary style and create a cozy atmosphere to relax and excellent opportunities for work, and to the class room « Lux »with exclusive interior design and furniture of highest quality HOTEL Service Conference room

Business Center

Sauna

Medical Clinic

Park zone

Exchange

Tintoreria

Gift shop

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

64.50 €

83.50 €

99.80 €

Suite 

125.35 €

Include: • Breakfast • vat 02192, Kiev, Malyshka, 1. www.ukrrest.com

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f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

DNIPRO

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Dnipro Hotel - one of the best four star hotels in Ukraine, built in 1964. One of its architects was VD Yelizarov, who together with colleagues in the years 1947-1954 to create a new architectural ensemble Kreschatika. Today Dnipro Hotel - this is more than 40 years of experience in the hotel industry HOTEL Service Conference Room

Business center

Photo club

Lavanderia

Fitness Center

Sauna

Pool

Nightclub

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

105.50 €

165.50 €

237.00 €

Suite 

265.35 €

Include: • Breakfast «buffet» • security • code keys cards “VingCard” • service health center with 7.30 - 12.00, a daily cleaning in the room 01001, Kiev, Khreschatik, 1/2

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

OPERA

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Located in the heart of the capital at the intersection of business, cultural and historic parts of the city. Successful location allows our guests to quickly and easily reached from the hotel to the airport, railway station, exhibition centers and other business facilities HOTEL Service Conference Room

Sauna

Gifts shop

Business center

Fitness Center

Beauty salon

Exchange

SPA

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

430.00 €

450.00 €

520.00 €

Suite 

850.00 €

Include: • breakfast • aqua zone • a fitness room • access to wi-fi Internet taxes 01054, Kiev, Bogdana Khmelnitskogo, 53 www.ukrrest.com

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f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

SENATORS PARK

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Hotel «Senatorz Park» located 10 min. drive from Kiev. We can not just come by car, but priletet by helicopter and landed directly on the roof of the hotel on a specially equipped helipad and a panoramic elevator down to the rack placement for processing the required documents HOTEL Service Restaurant

Sauna

Parking

Playgraund

Bar

Conference hall

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

76.00 €



87.95 €

Suite 

270.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 01001, Kiev region, www.ukrrest.com

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The Andreevskiy slope The name of the Andreevskiy slope the street has received in connection with the name of St. Andrei Pervozvaniy. According to the legend there was sea at the place where the Dniepr flows. When St.Andrey came in Kiev and raised on the hill where the Andreevskaya church stands now he put the cross there and after that all the sea went down the hill. But some part of the sea remained and was hidden under the St.Andrey mountain. Later the church was built here and under the throne the well was opened. There are no bells in the church as according to the legend if somebody strikes the water will wake up and flood not only Kiev but all the left bank of the river. In 1920 the Andreevskiy slope received the name of Liver street. In 1944 a historical name of the street was returned and in 1957 there was a second decision to rename the street as the Andreevskiy slope. The main building of the street was constructed in the XIX century and in the beginning of the XX century. Now the street is the place where the expositions of art and hand made goods take place under open air. The Andreevskiy slope is called the Kievskiy Monmart. In any day and in any weather you will see here a lot of painters who demonstrate their works. There are a lot of bars and cafes where you can rest. There is an atmosphere of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The street is famous for the house number 13 where famous writer Bulgakov, the author of the novels «The white guard» and «The Master and Margarita» lived. There is the Bulgakov museum in this house. The unique Museum of one street is also works in the Andreevskiy slope. All the things connected with the history of the Andrevskiy slope are gathered here. Along the street there are a lot of art galleries. You can see the sculpture of Ivan Kavaleridze in a cosy park near the church.

Golden gates The Golden gates are the symbol of Kiev. It is an outstanding monument to the epoch of the formation of the first Slav state – the Kievskaya Rus and it is one of the ancient models of architecture. The Golden gates of Kiev were built in 1164 when the famous Kiev prince Yaroslav Mudry lived. At first gate was called the Southern gates and there were the part of the city defensive constructions and they practically didn’t differ from other watch gates of the city. When the St. Sophia church was built «the Great» gates became the main entrance to Kiev from the south – western side. Realizing its greatness Yaroslav Mudriy ordered to build a small church of annunciation over the gate in order to give the tribute to the leading rle of the Christian religion in the city and in Rus. From the time chronicle springs began to call the Golden gates of Kiev instead of the Southern Gate. The width of the gate is 7,5 meters, the height of the passage is 12 meters, the length is 25 meters. Many enemies of Kiev tried to take the city from the southern side but they failed. The Golden Gates served to the city for 500 years. In the XVII century they were destroyed. The ruins of the gate were covered with earth in order to keep them in safety for the future generation. Only in two centuries during the excavations which were organized in 1832 by architect Lohvitskiy they were discovered. During the next following years several attempts of the reconstruction of the gate were carried out but the final project of the reconstruction was realized during the preparation to the 1500th celebration of Kiev.

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Mariinskiy Palace Once ambitious Pole Vladislav Gorodetskiy took a serious interest in the architecture and the hunting. Owing to Gorodetskiy «The House with Chimeras» has appeared in the centre of Kiev. The famous building erected in 1902-1903 can be safety described as the most unusual Ukrainian house. Its chimeras can not help but impress. In addition the style of the interior of the house executed in the age of modern era never repeated. The architect wanted to built the house for centuries, to built it using his money. But why has an experienced specialist decided to erect a mansion on the dumping site? Many considered madness to begin the construction on the precipice. The house has always been coated with legends though it was just a kind of advertising opportunities for construction material cement. The façade was decorated with images of exotic animals and hunting motifs. Again for the purpose of advertising the cement was used. «The house of Chimeras» is the unique not only in Kiev but also in the entire former USSR. The fate has prepared to «the House of Chimeras» to become the face of the Ukrainian capital on equal terms with the Mariinskiy palace.

The house with Chimeras Once ambitious Pole Vladislav Gorodetsky serious passion for architecture and hunting. It is this in the center of Kiev and appeared “House with Chimeras. This famous building, built in the years 19021903, can be safely described as the most unusual Ukraine alone. His chimera can not help but impress. In addition, the style of the interior of the house, executed in the modern era, never repeated. The architect wanted to make home «to come», built on their money. But why is an experienced specialist has decided to erect a mansion on the dumping site? Many considered madness to begin construction on breakage - the former Bank goat drained swamps, prohibited construction of the Kiev House. This house has always been coated legends, though was just a kind of advertising opportunities for new construction materials - cement. The facade lavishly decorated with images of exotic animals and hunting motifs. Again, the purpose of advertising was used by cement. “House with Chimeras” is unique not only in Kyiv, but also the entire CIS. Fate ugotovila “House with Chimeras” become the face of the Ukrainian capital on equal terms with the Mariinsky Palace.

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The museum of Michael Bulgakov The museum of writer Michael Bilgakov the author of the famous novel «The master and Margarita» is located in the house where the writer’s family lived. Later he rented a room with his first wife Tatiana and then practiced as a doctor in the room with the odious sign «Venereal diseases and syphilis». The museum of Bulgakov devoted to Kiev period of the great writer’s life was opened in 1993. Bulgakov was born in Kiev. Here he was brought up, studied, firstly married and worked as a doctor. Kiev has played a significant role in forming his identity. There is a proof – repeated references to the city in the works of the writer. The museum exhibition «The House of the Turbin’s» is located on the second floor of the building, the apartment of seven rooms. It combines a real family life and the life of the heroes of his novel «The White guard». The things that belonged to the family are presented in the exposition in its natural forms, the things of the Turbines’ which are described in the novel the things unreal and they are presented in white. In the museum collection there are 2500 objects of which about 500 objects are Bulgakov’s memories.

Khreschatik Khreschatik is the main street of Kiev. Its length is 1,2 km, the direction from the north to the south. It starts from European square, passes through the Independence Square and ands in Bessarabian square. The name comes from the streets Kreschaty Yar. In the papers of the XVIIcentury the whole area was called Kreschataya Valey. The street was created at the beginning of the XIX century. Prior to that time the location was known as Khreschatik, the area along the Dnieper where Vladimir the Great baptized his family ( now there goes Naberezhno – Khreschatitskaya street). Before the Second World War buildings of 3-4 floors were built in Khreschatik. Initially building of Khreschatik started from Horse (European) square till Proreznaya street predominantly on the right side. In 1803 building of the left side of the street began. In that time the street was called Theater street (the first theater in the city was here). The final shape of the street appeared in the plans of Kiev in 1837, it was extended to Bessarabian square and was called Khreschatitskaya. In 1869 the name Khreschatik was attached. In 1867 the building of the city Council was constructed in the street. In 1892 the first in the Russian Empire electric tram line was laid which connected Khreschatik with Podol. In 1936 the street was laid with asphalt, trams were replaced by trolleybuses.

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A city of the early classicism

Kirovograd is situated in the centre of Ukraine, but its natives are famous outside the country. Ivan KarpenkoKary, Marko Kropivnitskiy, Vladimir Vinnitshenko were born here. The history of the city located on the Inhul river comes back to the middle of the XVIII century, when the Fort of St.Elizabeth was built to protect southern boarders of Russian Empire. The fortress was considered to be a masterpiece of fortification art at that time. The remains of earthen fortress have good preserved until now. At the end of XVIII century the boarder of Empire was removed to South and the fortress lost its strategic importance. The town existed under the name Elisavetgrad. It was many times renamed: Elisavet, Zinovjev, Kirovo and since 1939 - Kirovograd. There are many places of interest worthy tourists’ attention: ruinous fortifications of the ancient settlement Tshornolesskoe (VII century B.C.), Holy Protection Church 1849, Gretshesko-Vladimirskaja Church (Cathedral) XIX century, state museum-reserve I.Tobilevitsha “Khutor nadezhdy”. There are some stone buildings of the

early classicism (end XVIIIbeginning XIX) remaining in Kirovograd. Generally these were landowners’ houses, among them are so-called “Putevoy dvorets” (Road Palace) and private residence of the Sokolovy-Borodkiny. The most remarkable mastership of architecture of the early classicism was Assumption Cathedral, erected in 1801. Unfortunately, at the turn of 40-50s of the previous century the Cathedral was destroyed. The city hall is located at its place now (the former building of regional committee of communist party). The Regional Philharmonic Hall of Kirovograd is the best in Ukraine. It can seat almost 1000 visitors. Last years new sculptural monuments were erected: to Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitskiy, victims of Tshernobyl catastrophe, soldiers-internationalists of all generations. Take a sightseeing tour in Kirovograd and make sure: this city was designed by great architects whose purpose was to create a special place.

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EUROPA

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Situated in the very center of business and cultural part of Kirovograd “Europe” hotel. provides high level of service. Our hotel is acknowledged to be one of the best in Ukraine. The interior of our hotel inspires you to have a good rest while your stay. The restaurant is equipped for arranging presentations, banquettes and private meetings. Our cooks are considered to be the best in the city. HOTEL Service * Restaurant

* Bar

* Parking

Beauty salon

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

26.00 €

42.00 €

50.45 €

Suite 

55.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 25006, Kirovograd, K. Marksa, 13/16 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

KATALUNYA

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The hotel is situated in carefully restored historic building, is a special comfort and genuine cordiality. Hotel «Catalunya» offers its guests a range of additional services, a high level of service and accommodation in convenient, comfortable rooms. Hotel well located: close to the shopping and entertainment centers, as well as public transport stops. This arrangement makes the accommodation suitable for tourists and for those who come to town with the assignment. HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Pool

Sauna

Cafe

Credit cards

Exchange

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

32.55 €

52.50 €

65.25 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 25006, Kirovograd, K. Marksa, 21

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[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

Suite 

70.35 €

Museum of missile forces On the border of Kirovohrad and Mykolayiv region, not far from Pervomaiskaya, near the Pobuzhskoe is a unique museum - Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), a branch of the Central Museum of Armed Forces of Ukraine. This missile base located in the 46 th Missile Nizhnedneprovsk Order of the October Revolution, Red Division. Here were the RS-22A missile (SS-24 “Scalpel”) silo-based. On the territory of the base, you can see samples of rocket engines, cars raketovozy, refueller for rocket fuel, the layout of a nuclear warhead, as well as missiles R-12 (the one which played a key role in the Caribbean crisis in 1961) and the RS-20 (SS-18 “Satan”).

St. Elizabeth Fortress It is located in the south – western part of the city. The Elizabeth castle was created by a decree in 1752 to protect the southern borders and the expansion of land holding of Russian Empire. The foundation of the fortress was held in June 18, 1754 which marked the beginning of intense peopling of the place. The fortress was laid by Major – Generals Glebov and Khorvat near the Ingul river. It played a significant role in Russian -Turkish war of 1768. In 1769 the Elizabeth castle withstood the siege of the Crimean troops of the khan Kerim – Girey. After the conclusion of peace in 1774 the borders of Russia moved to the south and the fortress lost its strategy importance. Therefore in 1784 it was turned into «inner town» and since 1805 was abolished.

Museum I. Tobilevicha State Reserve Museum I. Tobilevicha (Karpenko-Karyi), located near to. Nikolayevka 20 kilometers south-west of Kirovograd. Farmstead founded in 1871, the father of the founder of the Ukrainian theater. In the future, the playwright has turned it into a creative oasis amidst the Ukrainian hinterland. There were rehearsals of the first Ukrainian theater troupe under the direction of M. Kropiwnicki, there were many coryphaeus Ukrainian theater, and the Karpenko-Kary wrote his best works: “Master”, etc. There is a house Tobilevichey, wing, summer theater, a park with a pond.

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“Southern pearl” of Ukraine

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The Crimea is a wonderful, fantastic peninsula full of legends and tales. Do not try to find two similar places here – everyone is unique and really amazing.

ders of the peninsula. Coastal complexes, valleys, canyons, capes, caves, grottos, stone ranges, forests, small woods, lakes, waterfalls, mud deposits – these are not all the natural resources of the Crimea.

One of the Crimean legends says that after the world creation the God had a few steppes, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas on hand. He poured it all out on a small area on the Earth. In such a way appeared this amazing oasis with forest reserves, boundless Black sea, steppes and fields, mountains and salt lakes, as well as architectural and literary memorials. The whole life is not enough to get acquainted with the Crimea. Khan palaces, fortresses, ruins of ancient towns, settlements of ancient people, reserves, caves and waterfalls… Every place here possesses its own nature and unique architecture. There are lots of places worth seeing in the Crimea. You won’t remain indifferent after an excursions to one of the famous palaces-museums: Swallow’s nest, Livadia, Alupka (Vorontsov), Massandra and Bakhchisaray Palaces, many museumhouses. Crimean nature is picturesque and verified. One trip to the Crimea will not be enough to visit a small part of all the won-

It is certainly worth seeing in the Crimea: Picture Gallery named after Aivazovskiy in Feodosija, Nikitskiy Botanical Garden, Great Canyon of the Crimea, Ai-Petri-mountain, Marble and Krasnaja (red) caves, the residence of Russian poet M.Voloshin in Koktebel, Genoese fortress in Sudak. Come to the Crimea in summer to sunbath and swim! Come here in early autumn to feel the charm of the “velvet” season. Come here in late autumn to go along the deserted embankment, breath in rough spray of the waves dashing at your feet, admire the leaden-colored sea and feel the touch of ages. Come here in winter to take pleasure from the even green parks of the south coast. Come here in spring to become absorbed into magnificent blooming of paradise garden. Come to the Crimea!

SPA hotel

VREMENA GODA

Vremena Goda (The Seasons) was opened in 1999. Nowadays, after the reconstruction in 2007, it is a cosy place, where our guests can not only enjoy a comfortable rest, or hold business meetings, but at the same time, they have an opportunity to improve their health. The main advantage of our hotel is a serious medical and health-improving base. The idea is to improve health not only with modern medicine care, but with combination of medical care, SPA facilities and high-level service. We hope that a great number of medical and health improving procedures for children and adults, as well as individual approach to every client, attention and care of the personel - will make your stay in our hotel not only useful, but also pleasant. HOTEL Service Conference service Parking Indoor pool

Restaurant Tourists service Medical center

Rest zone SPA

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Apartments 

76.95 €



86.20 €

105.00 €

154.35 €

Include: • Breakfast • consultation of a doctor spetialist • use of the SPA center • vat. 98600, Yalta, Rudanskogo, 23 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

EDEM Private pension «Edem» is located in a picturesque corner of the Southern coast of Crimea, 25 km east of Alushta, in the resort village of Solnechnogorsk. Prior to the township fine beach just 400 meters at the boarding house has a swimming pool HOTEL Service Restaurant

Pool

Gym

Playground

Parking

Excursions

Laundry

Exchange

PRICE Dbl economy Dbl standard

19.56 €

26.00 €

Junior suite

38.90 €

Suite  65.00 €

Include: • Breakfast • pool • gym • vat 98500, Solnechnogorskoe, Vinogradnaya, 23 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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ELENA

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An old mansion in the style of pre-revolutionary Russia, completely renovated in 2007. Each apartment is made on individual design project - a wall painting, an Italian hand-made furniture and antiques, a fully equipped kitchen in each suite, mini-bar, climate-control system, satellite TV, telephone, internet access (Wi-Fi access in each apartment), mini-safe, perfumes and cosmetics from Chopard and Bvlgari HOTEL Service Restaurants

Conference halls

Casino

Business Center

Fitness-center

SPA salon

Tennis courts

Beauty salon

PRICE Dbl standard

Junior suite

Suite

330.00 €

440.00 €

658.00 €

Penthause 

1097.00 €

Include: • breakfast • cleaning • parking • vat 98600, Yalta, Krasnova, 2 www.ukrrest.com

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MARAT

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The complex is located 20 kilometers south of Yalta, in one of the most picturesque corners of the South Crimea - Miskhor, smt. Gaspra. Modern desyatietazhnye corps and Villa «Park Chair» located in the park «Chair» area of 7,5 ha, 300 m from the sea. Healthful air filled with aroma of mountain herbs and sea breezes, fantastic patterns of cog peaks of Mount Ai - Petri, warm clean sea - a unique atmosphere for relaxation and healing HOTEL Service Restaurants

Conference halls

Fitness-center

Business Center

SPA salon

Tennis courts

Beauty salon

Pool

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

48.00 €

82.00 €

96.00 €

Include: • breakfast • cleaning • parking • vat 98600, Yalta, Gaspra, Alupka highway, 60

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Suite 

124.00 €

PRIMORSKY PARK

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The Park Hotel was awarded the title “Best Crimea Hotel of 2004-2006”. The hotel is located on a high sea coast 50 metres off a private beach. You have at your disposal 15 individually planned double rooms: 13 suites and 2 studios. All rooms lend themselves for accommodation of one more guest. The hotel’s rooms are set in soft light colours and equipped with ecologically clean rattan furniture. All the rooms have balconies overlooking the sea, with a breathtaking view of the city of Yalta and Yalta bay HOTEL Service Restaurant

Bowling

Excursions

Wellness & SPA

Fitness center

Playground

SPA - center

Billiards

PRICE Dbl standard

Junior suite

Suite

230.00 €

280.00 €

305.00 €

Studio 

420.00 €

Include: • Breakfast • visit SPA • parking • children’s room • private beach • vat 98600, Yalta, Gagarina,4 www.ppark.ru

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t. +38 0654 32 00 32

f. +38 0654 23 55 30

YALTA INTOURIST

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Hotel “Yalta” is rightly considered to be the biggest business and cultural center in the Crimea. Being located in the center of the picturesque Massandra park, on the Black Sea shore the Hotel Complex is a perfect place for rest and business. There are 1140 rooms of different categories in “Yalta” Hotel. Rooms interiors are designed for maximal comfort of the guests. Thanks to a successful architectural conception rooms are full of light, air and space HOTEL Service Restaurants

Conference halls

Casino

Business Center

Fitness-center

out-door pool

Tennis courts

Beauty salon

PRICE

Sngl

56.00 €

Dbl standard

Junior suite

77.00 €

143.00 €

Suite 

215.00 €

Include: • Breakfast • pool • use of fitness centre • use of safety deposit box • vat 98600, Yalta, Drazhinskogo, 50 www.ukrrest.com

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MINDALNYA ROSHA

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Everyone who likes Crimea knows about an Almond grove, which is considered to be one of the most attractive and unique places in Alushta. This place, situated on the smooth slopes right by the seashore, has a mild climate with plenty of sunlight and warmth. Clear air, full of phytoncids and medicinal salts, provides a healthy environment. Grove’s microclimate, much milder than in Alushta itself, is favorable for relaxation and improving health the entire year. “Mindalnaya Roscha” today is a modern entertaining complex which is possessing all requirements for high-class rest, organization of conferences, seminars and business meetings HOTEL Service Aquapark

Restaurants & bars

Roman bath

Pool

Kid’s bar “Vitamin”

Sauna

Bowling

Conference service

PRICE Dbl stt

Dbl standard

Junior suite

110.00 €

117.00 €

175.25 €

Suite 

195.60 €

Include: • Breakfast • parking • safe • vat 98500, Alushta, Naberezhnaya, 4-a www.ukrrest.com

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Medical SPA resort “Sea” - one of the best places of rest and recovery in the Crimea, in the picturesque corner of the city of Alushta, in the heart of the famous Professor’s Corner. In the very edge of the sea, surrounded by exotic greenery of the ancient relic the park, the total area of 8 hectares, located 11 elegant buildings. Various architectural style of the building create a harmonious ensemble, perfectly fits into the picturesque landscape HOTEL Service Conference service

Fitness center

Sauna

Parking

Billiard

Exchange

Pool

SPA center

PRICE Dbl economy

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Studio 

88.00 €

110.00 €

219.50 €

235.50 €

Include: • Breakfast & dinner • vat 98500, Alustha, Naberezhnaya, 25

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Oreanda

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Oreanda Hotel dates back to 1907 and has always been a city landmark with breathtaking views over the Black Sea and surrounded by the spectacular Crimean mountains. Located in the heart of picturesque Yalta, directly on the Promenade and only a few meters from the sea, it offers its guests an optimum starting point for excursions and trips of discovery through the famous sights of the Crimea HOTEL Service Roman & Turkish bath Business Center

Riviera Night Club

Casino

Excursions

Fitness & spa center

Billiards Club

Shopping

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

163.00 €

245.00 €

315.00 €

Suite 

485.00 €

Include: • breakfast and dinner • ndoor and outdoor swimmingpools • gym and Turkish bath • porter services • vat 98635, Yalta, Lenina,35/2 www.ukrrest.com

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f. +38 062 294 88 55

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Palmira Palace

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Palmira Palace Hotel presents the best hospitality traditions of the southern coast. Here, the combination of splendour and comfort of elegant hotel with beautiful landscapes creates completely unique atmosphere, special micro-climate for both full-value family recreation and realization of successful business ideas. HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Pool

Sauna

Cafe

Credit cards

Exchange

Night club Coliseum

PRICE Sngl (standard C) Dbl (standard A) Junior suite (Studio) Suite 

105.50 €

226.50 €

314.25 € 425.00 €

Include: • Breakfast • vat 98656, Yalta, 12/a Alupkinskoye Shosse, Kurpaty city-type settlement www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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The Chersonese The Chersonese is the only monument to the nature at the foothills of the Crimea. Near the cost of the former ancient city of Chersonese a small protected aquacomplex, the Chersonese bay, is situated which preserves the original coast biogenesis and interesting underwater archaeological reserve. Nearly for two millennia the town existed on the Crimean cost. It was called Chersonese Tavrichesky (the Greek word «Chersonese» means peninsula). In 422 – 421 BC it was founded by citizens of the town of Geraklei which was situated on the shore of the bay called nowadays as Karantinnaya. A century later Chersonese turned into one of the largest cites of the Northern Black sea coast. By its political arrangements it was a slave republic with democratic form of government but by the socio – economic effect – the center of trade, crafts and culture. Its population reached 20 thousand people. Since the 5th century Chersonese is in Byzantine Empire. In 988 after the 9- month siege of the city (Russian name – Korsun) was taken by prince Vladimir. Here Vladimir accepted Christianity.

The Genoese fortress The fortress which was preserved to nowadays was built by Genoeses during the period from 1371 to 1469. They rebuilt ancient defensive structures, built new once and combined all into a single fortress. Built according to the project of Genoese fortifications in the best traditions of the Western European Medieval the castle amazed by the perfect engineering . The area of the castle is nearly of 30 hectares. It is located on the conical hill, an ancient coral reef. From the east, the south, the west the fortress is inaccessible. From the north – east the access to the fortress is blocked by a deep moat. The fortress has two tiers of defense.. The bottom tier is a solid outside wall of 6 – 8 metres. The wall was reinforced by fourteen 15-meter towers and the complex main gate. Most of the towers were named after Genoese consuls who lived there at that time.

Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisaray Khan Palace in Bakhchisaray was built as the residence of tribal dynasty Gera – the rulers of the Crimean Khanate. For two and a half centuries (from 1530 till 1783) Bakhchisaray palace served as the center of political, spiritual and cultural life of the Crimean Tatars. Of equal significance is the Palace today. First of all – it is the national shrine of the Crimean Tatar people. It occupies a prominent place in the world literary tradition. The Bakhchisaray Palace is the most important historical monument of the era of the Crimean Khanate, the only sample of the Crimean Tatar palace architecture as well as unique in Europe (along with the palace Algambra in Spain and Top- Kapy in European Turkey). Bakhchisaray Khan’s Palace is a historical and cultural monument of global importance as it was recognized in the recently started process of including the Palace in the World Heritage List of UNESCO.

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Foros church Located on Phoros on the border lands of the Greater Yalta and Sevastopol. Visible from everywhere - from the sea bottom and top with Yayly on a single Red cliff (steep cliffs reach 400 meters) painted with exquisite Church of the Resurrection of Christ. In 1892 the architect Academician NM Chagin to order tea magnate A. Kuznetsova erected in her memory of the salvation of the Emperor Alexander III and his family at the train crash in 1888 Larger Church on the rock was a trademark on the tin with the best in the empire of tea. Above the church the old South Coast Highway takes to Sevastopol after Baydarskie gates. They are a better view of the church, as if hovering over the South Bank. A new highway, very comfortable and beautiful at the foot of a cliff with the church. Either way, the church has become one of the symbols of the South Bank. It shows even in the film «The first blow Jackie Chan» .

Monument to flooded ships It was erected in memory of the ships which were sacrificed to cover Sevastopol from enemy attacks from the sea. A few metres from the sea – front of the Maritime boulevard on the three metres cliff consisted of roughly processed granite boulders stands a slender Corinthian column. It is crowned by the inscription on the pedestal reads: « In memory of the ships submerged in 1854 – 1855 to fence the entrance to the raid. The overall height of the monument is 16.66 metres. Against the monument the anchors from submerged ships are reinforced in the wall of the sea – front of the Maritime boulevard. Built in 1905 in connection with the 50th anniversary of the first heroic defense the monument was dedicated to one of the sad and heroic episodes of this epic.

Vorontsov Palace The Vorontsov Palace was built according to the new architectural and engineering principles in comparison with classicism. An important architectural feature is the location of the palace according to the movement of mountains owing to which the palace is organically «fit» in the surrounding landscape. The Palace was built in the spirit of English architecture. In the construction there are elements of different ages, beginning with the earliest forms and finishing in the XVI century. The location of elements comes from the western gates – the farther from the gate, so the later style of construction. English style is originally combined with oriental motifs. For example, the Gothic chimneys resemble minarets of mosques. The South entrance is decorated with the eastern splendors.

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Massandra In the upper Massandra there is one of the best architectural monuments of the sothern coast of the Crimea – the palace of Emperor Alexander III. It was built near the slopes of the mountain range, in the secluded spot surrounded by forest. The history of the palace is interesting. The palace began to be build in 1881 according to the order governor’s heir prince Vorontsov but a year later the prince died. In 1889 the Vorontsov Massandra estate together with the unfinished palace was bought for Emperor Alexander III. After three years the construction of the palace was completed but Alexander didn’t manage to live in it as in 1894 he died. In Soviet times many years this beautiful architectural monument was a closed «object». In the royal palace which has become a state dacha for the heads of the Communist Party and the Government of the former Soviet Union. They came to have a rest here.

Swallow’s Nest Homes with Avrorin rock (the village of Gaspra) small Swallow’s Nest castle hangs perilously over the waves, justifying its romantic name. For the first of owners he represented the fabulous home of love, but today was a symbol of Crimea. Once in these places inhabited by brand, they have replaced the Greek colonists, and then came the Roman legionaries who founded a fortress on the western spur of rocky cape Ai-Todor. Flat floor eastern tip of Cape Limen-breaker ( “Cape Harbor”) is called bridge. With her, as if from the top deck of the ocean liner, a beautiful view of the Crimean coast, the kingdom of the sun, water and stone, carrying the unique charm of marine landscape.

The Crimean caves The Crimean mountains are one of the oldest mountains in the world. Since time immemorial shaking the earth’s crust – water and natural disasters have contributed to the formation in the mountains of karst cavities some of which turned into a big cave. It is known about 800 caves in the Crimea, 50 of which are declared to be the monuments to nature. One of the most affluent places in the Crimea which is riched with caves is Shatyor mountain, the second highest Criean mountain chain as to its height. Here you can see 200 caves with depth ranging from two to more than 200 metres. Most of the caves are available only to professional speleologist with the help of the special equipment. For example the mine called «Bottomless pit» has the depth of 195 meters.

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Demerdzhi On the eastern outskirts of Alushta amphitheater there is the famous valley of ghosts and chaos on the slopes of the Demerdzhi mountain which is a natural monument of the state meaning. The slopes of the mountain are lettered with bizarre stone sculptures, reminiscent of the people or animals but more often towers and columns. In the evening and night time figures strike you with there fantastic shapes. There are a lot of fancy pyramids, pillars, mushrooms, towers in the south – western slope of the Demerdzhi mountain in valley of ghosts. One of the pillars, the Giant, is a big stone of 5 meters in the diameter and 25 meters in the height. On both sides of this tower there are towers and columns of smaller sizes up to 10-20 meters. Such stone «ghosts» here are more then a hundred. Stone sculptures resemble idols, monks in the hood, a strange bird, fantastic animals, fortress bastions.

The underground submarine base in Balaklava The construction of the underground submarine base (the object 825) in Balaklava (Sevastopol) was started in 1957 and in 1961 was completed. Firstly the base has been built by military and later builders of metro from Moscow, Tbilissi, Kharkov joined it. The factory, arsenal, antinuclear asylum of the first category for 3000 people and of the autonomy for 30 days have been built here. The thickness of rock over the object is 126 metres at the highest point. Nine big boats can be based here. The length of each channel is 505 meters, the width of water surface from 6 to 8.5, the depth is from 6 to 8.5 meters. A complex was abandoned in 1995. Here the museum was opened in june 2003. The plant and mine – torpedo pert of the base was closed for visitors.

Uchan Su Waterfall The famous monument to nature started its work in 1947. The Uhan Su river comes from the limestone over the precipice of Ai Petrinskiy Yayly; at an altitude of 300 meters above sea level it forms a waterfall with the same title. The water falls from a height of 98 meters. Particularly impressive spectacle represents the Uchan Su waterfall during the spring and late autumn when a huge mass of water with forth falls down sometimes carrying away large stone blocks. Above the waterfall hangs the cloud of water dust and the noise of the flow is heard for kilometres. In summer only weak jets run on the gray surface of the rocks.

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Multinational Luhansk

The city was twice renamed in Voroshilovgrad and backwards. It receives tourists with pleasure. Welcome to Luhansk! The history of Luhansk comes back to the foundation of the first iron foundry in South of Russian Empire. Ores and coal deposits were found in the area by Scottish engineer Charles Gascoigne. As a result a big metal factory was founded in the valley of Luhan river. A settlement which sprang up around the factory in 1797 was called Luhansk plant. In 1800 the first in Ukraine blast furnace of Luhansk foundry-cannon plant produced cast iron. In 1761 the first church named Petropavlovskaja Church was erected. A stone temple was constructed further at its place. It is the only architectural memorial that has preserved till now days. Luhansk is famous for the biggest temple of South-Eastern Ukraine – St.Vladimir Cathedral, which can contain 3000 parishioners. The beautiful, majestic Cathedral was consecrated in

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2006. It is by right considered to be an architectural pearl of the industrial city now. Do not lose the chance to visit the Museum-park of stone sculptures located on the territory of National Pedagogical Institute. Worth seeing is a Memorial “Ostraja mogila” (“Sharp grave”), devoted to heavy battles at the time of the civil war (1919), when the inhabitants of Luhansk stood like an alive chain and handed cartridges over to each other from the Cartridge plant to “Ostraja mogila”. Luhansk is famous to all Russian-speaking world as the homeland of Vladimir Dal – a scientist who glorified Slavic culture and was the author of the Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language. Despite the fact that the scientist spent only a few years in this city, he signed as Kazak Luganskiy during all his life. The Vladimir Dal’s Museum is opened here as well as the Museum of Aviation (based on the Luhansk Aviation Plant). Take an amazing trip to a multinational city Luhansk with a special way of life and interesting history – and you will remember it all your life

GOSTINIY DVOR

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In the heart of the Old City, one of the oldest streets of Lugansk - St. Petersburg (now Lenin str.), One kilometer from the railway station, the hotel is located Gostiny dvor. The Lugano Hotel Gostiny Dvor 14 rooms, equipped with air conditioning, telephone, TV, access to the Internet. The guests in each room mini-bar, refrigerator, slippers, hair dryer, a necessary set of toiletries. HOTEL Service Room service

Cafe

Parking

Rent a car

Park zone

Laundry

Sauna

Medical Clinic

PRICE Dbl standard

38.00 €

Junior suite

Suite

68.50 €

82.52 €

Studio 

114.00 €

Include: • Breakfast • parking • vat 91055, Lugansk, Lenina, 54 www.ukrrest.com

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LUGANSK

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The Hotel «Lugansk» is the biggest hotel of the city. The hotel is situated in the very center of Lugansk’s downtown on the crossroad of Oboronnaya and Sovetskaya streets. The «Lugansk» hotel building is the highest building in our region (19 floors). The hotel rooms have a beautiful view down the city. Banks, offices, institutions, supermarkets, the sights of the city are located nearby the hotel «Lugansk» HOTEL Service Room service

Restaurant

Parking

Conference service

Bank service TEST

Exchange

PRICE

Sngl

20.65 €

Dbl standard

Junior suite

36.08 €

55.75 €

Suite 

96.50 €

Include: • Breakfast • vat 91016, Lugansk, Sovetskaya, 76 www.ukrrest.com

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King’s rocks The Provalsky steppe is a typical example of virgin east – European feather – grass steppes. They are situated in the south-east region of Lugansk on the soothern slope of the main watershed of the Donetsky mountain – ridge. Its absolute height is 325 meters. From 1846 the territory belonged to the Provasky horse plant and later the sovkhoz «Provalsky». In 1975 the preserve «The Provalsky steppe» was organized. The preserve area is 588 hectares, the forest area is 162,4 hectares. The landscape of the steppe is different, having beautiful plants. 790 kinds of plants were registered here and 25 of them were written in the Red Book of the Ukraine. Many plants have practical meaning - about 120 plants are medicinal and 90 plants are decorative. There are a lot of different rare animals, birds and reptiles here. Three of reptiles were written in the Red Book. «The Provalskaya steppe» is a unique wealth which the nature presented to this part of the Ukraine.

Swallow’s Nest Luhansk Regional Museum is located at: ul. Shevchenko, 2. Each epoch, each stage of the historic way of Lugansk region left behind a vivid evidence - the material and spiritual culture. Collecting them, careful storage, research and display was Regional Museum. In 1920 in Luhansk was founded two small museums - the beautiful culture and natural geography, which in 1922 merged into a single museum. Since 1924, the foundation of the museum was on display the full economic and social life of the region, that is, a museum on the merits, has been lore. At this time, collection of more than 9 thousand exhibits, including paintings Tenyara, Katarbinskogo, Pimonenko, Bogdanov-Belsky, Vasylkivska samples of the ancient Saxon and Sevres porcelain, and antique furniture. As war began to take shape archeological and numismatic collections. Years of war have been tragic for the museum. The museum collection has been evacuated: part of it, obviously, was burnt in a fire in July 1942, the other part, the witnesses, was taken out by the occupiers. Documents show that after the liberation of Lugansk in February 1943 the fund stood at the museum 27 paintings, 288 coins and bag dump. Several generations of museum workers in the postwar years, a new museum collection: today in the museum store more than 308 thousand exhibits, including - 186 thousand - the originals. The most significant collections - archaeological about 67 thousand items, coins - more than 12 thousand items, documentaries attractions - 12 thousand, about 10 thousands of rare original photographs.

Acute tomb Acute tomb - a memorial in the city of Luhansk, dedicated hardest fighting during the Civil War (1919), as well as the victory in WWII. During the Civil War (the end of April 1919), during the heavy fighting against the forces of General Деникина, luganchane were living chain from cartridge factory to acute graves transferring ammunition from hand to hand. For this feat in the Soviet times, was awarded the Order of Lugansk.

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“Blue-eyed” capital of Volyn Visit Lutsk which is old and modern at the same time, which combines European refinement and sincere Ukrainian hospitality. A fairyland of the old city neighboring the hectic life of the modern districts inspire Lutsk its special charm. If you really want to understand Lutsk, it is worth having a look at the history of this old city, which was a scene of significant actions many times during its centuries-old life. In 1000 Volodymyr the Great attached Volyn to Kievan Rus, founded a town and built a fortress, which further became a significant stronghold on the way of invaders. This fortress withstood the sieges of the king Boleslav Smely, Andrey Bogolyubskiy, the prince Vladimir Volodarevich, Jaroslav Osmomysl. The city located at the boarder between the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian folks was always in the centre of interests of such powerful states as Russia, Austria-Hungarian Empire, Lithuanian princedom. Mixture of customs and traditions of all these folks caused original culture, history and architecture of the city. A sightseeing tour to Lutsk necessarily contains the main and the most famous

landmark and the proud of the city – the Upper Castle (or The Ljubart Castle, named after its founder). The castle consists of three parts: Ljubart tower, Styrof or Svidrigailo tower and Vladychev tower, which contains the arsenal and a unique collection of bells. Apart from the Upper castle there was one more Okolny castle built in XIV-XV century. But only one tower (Chartoriyskih) of the old fort has been preserved until now days. The town stood at the crossing of trade routes that’s why it was tolerant to all its inhabitants. You will be surprised by variety of different styles and confessions getting along together here. Petropavlovskiy Cathedral Kostel (Roman-Catholic church) of Renaissance age with very interesting multistory underground vaults stands near the refined Lutheran church. There are Pokrovskaja church and Troitskiy cathedral in the city centre. There are many “temples of art” in Lutsk too. Worth seeing are the Volyn local history museum, the Art gallery and the Museum of Volyn icon. You will be surprised by their luxurious collections and numerous expositions.

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Zaleski

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The hotel complex offers 23 comfortable and cosy guest rooms equipped with every modern home comfort. Each room has satellite television, Internet access, in-built safe, and other necessary hotel accessories. The interior of every room meets the general noble style of the establishment HOTEL Service Conference hall

Indoor Pool

Sauna

Beauty and Health Salon

PRICE Economy standard Dbl standard

38.00 €

68.50 €

Luxe

Apartments 

217.50 €

275.00 €

Include: • breakfast • guarded parking • individual safe • internet • 50% discount for restaurant & sauna 43025, Lutsk, Kriviy Val, 39 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

Ukraine

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The Ukraina Hotel in Lutsk is an up-to-date hotel situated right in the very center of town. It was reconstructed in 2003 and turned into a high-class hotel. Since that time it is the most distinguished hotel in our town. In 2005 certification was carried out and we justly received the 4-star-level. Nowadays our hotel is a new ornament of Lutsk, symbolizing hospitality and comfort HOTEL Service Conference hall

SPA center

Business center

Room-service

PRICE

Sngl

27.50 €

Dbl standard

Junior suite

39.50 €

77.20 €

Suite 

110.00 €

Include: • breakfast • guarded parking • individual electronic safe 43000, Lutsk, Slovatskogo, 2

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f. +38 062 294 88 55

Lutsk castle

The rest in Shatsk is comfortable and pleasant. You can find something surprising for wonderful pastime at any time of the year here. Of course Shatsky lakes are the most pleasant for rest which are beautiful all the year round. Quietness, wide saucers of blue lakes, clean air of coniferous forest energize and wash off daily chores. Crystal – clear water of Svityaz attract people from all over the Ukraine. It is really a good place. The greatness of Shatsk national park which was created to preserve beauty of Podol region forever will leave for you pleasant impressions.

The Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul The Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church in Lutsk - current Roman Catholic cathedral. The Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lutsk is an operating Roman Catholic cathedral. Built in 1616- 1639 by the architect Giacomo Briano as a church at the monastery of Jesuits. In 1773 in connection with the liquidation of Jesuit Order the church and the board moved to a commission of public education. After the fire of the cathedral church in 1781 to this place was transferred the faculty of Catholic bishop at the request of the Lutsk lord Felix Tursk. At that time the construction work were carried out under the supervision of architect Uminskiy. As a result the façade and interior had received new stylistic features. The interior was decorated with magnificent sculptures, pilasters. There were basements at several levels in the church. In 1948 the cathedral was closed and used as a warehouse. From 1970 to 1991 it housed a museum of atheism. On the 29th of June 1991 Bishop of Lvov Raphal Kernitskiy consecrated the church all over again.

Lakes of Shatsk The Lutsk castle is a symbol of the city of Lutsk, the main attraction and pride. Built in the 14th century by the Lithunian prince Lyubart who married a local princess and took the Orthodox faith it was chosen as a prince residence. Nowadays the castle has three names: Lutskiy (most common), the Upper (because there is lower castle) and the castle of Lyubart. It was firstly mentioned by the chronicles in 1075 when it was already fortified point. Despite the fact that the history of the castle in Lutsk began from 1340 its existence began much earlier. In the 11th century a wooden construction, the first castle was built on the hill which existed for two centuries and which was then replaced by a more durable stone castle. The Lutsk castle was being built over more than forty years. Firstly the towers were built, then the walls were completed.

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Magnificent Lvov Lvov is one of the most beautiful cities of the world. 700years old and at the same time modern seems to be Lvov to everybody walking down its narrow cozy streets with unique architecture. Highly interesting history of this amazing city dates 7,5 centuries. Lvov was founded in the middle of XIII century and became the capital of the principality of Halych-Volhynia. Thanks to its unique geographic location the city became the leading trade centre of Eastern Europe. In the course of time Lvov turned into a real architectural pearl, a centre of bookpublishing, handicrafts and arts. Since Ukraine has been declared independent, Lvov is regarded as a cultural and mental capital of the country. There are more then 2000 architectural memorials, museum collections, theatres and ancient parks which are connected with the history of origin and development of the city and the country. During excursion you will have the possibility to walk down the Market square regarded as the centre of political, cultural, social and trading life of the city; to visit a unique wooden church dated XVII, the Museum of folk architecture and every day life, Lvov Historical Museum, the Bernardinskiy Cloister, the

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Dominican Cathedral, the Roman-Catholic Jesuit Church of Peter and Paul. Worth seeing is a very interesting monument of the later Renaissance - the Chapel Boimov which is unique not only in Ukraine but in European architecture too. The Chapel is famous for its interesting energy. An employee of museum told that once she forgot a basket with apples in a corner and suddenly came across it in one and a half year. It was astonishing to find out that the apples remained fresh, juicy and aromatic. The interest of city guests attracts the oldest chemist’s shop in the city changed into a unique in Ukraine museum where they can have a look at the old pharmaceutical equipment being used by the medieval chemists. The collection of chemist’s dishes, tabletting machines of different ages, old scales, plantcutters, medieval herbariums is displayed here. It is possible to buy ordinary modern medicines along with a “specialty of the house” – “the iron wine” – a tonic drink being sold only here, in the Chemist’s-museum of Lvov. Take a trip to Lvov and you will fall in love with this wonderful and beautiful city. It does not matter where are you from – everybody finds here something to his liking and wants to come back to Lvov once.

Wien

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Welcome to the Wien Hotel. Situated in the central part of Lviv, Wien lies in close proximity to a great number of places having historical, architectural and religious importance during the 14th-19th centuries, including the Lviv Opera and Drama Houses, The National Museum, Rynok (Market) Square of Renaissance style, Ratusha, The Boim’s Chapel, The Armenian Cathedral, The Latin Cathedral, and The Church of Body of Christ of the Dominican Order) HOTEL Service Restaurant

Café & Bar

Parking

Gifts

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

48.50 €

55.50 €

75.25 €

Suite 

87.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 79008, Lviv, Svobodi, 12 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

DNISTER

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Dnister hotel is situated in the historic centre of Lviv near the old park and architectural monument of XYIII century - St. Yura’s Cathedral. However, the 4 star hotel Dnister itself is quite modern and multistoried that is very easy to notice in the Lviv where low buildings dominate. The windows of the Dnister hotel face a really wonderful view of the city center HOTEL Service Conference-service

Restaurants

Sauna

Room-service

Business centre

Car rent

Beauty salon

Kids Club

PRICE

Sngl

54.35 €

Dbl standard

Junior suite

65.25 €

110.00 €

Suite 

165.00 €

Include: • breakfast • guarded parking • luggage portage • vat 79000, Lviv, Mateyka, 6 www.ukrrest.com

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t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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AT BURGER

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The comfortable hotel “At Burger” is located in the center of the ancient city Lviv, inside the architecture building, which was restorated in 2002. The hotel can fit 50 people. You will feel at home in any of 18 rooms. Spacious guest rooms, semi-suites and suites are comfortably furnished and completely soundproofed to guarantee a restful stay. All rooms are equipped with: bathroom with shower, television with satellite programs, internet, IP-telephony, pool-bath (in De Luxe and Semi de Luxe). The conference hall is available for business, leisure and meeting needs HOTEL Service Restaurant

Laundry

Parking

Excursions

PRICE

Dbl

Junior suite



45.50 €

65.20 €

Suite 

130.50 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 79000, Lviv, I.Franka, 73 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

SWISS

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Swiss Hotel welcomes its guests in the heart of the city. Its location provides a comfortable stay as business visitors who require easy transport interchanges and not too fond of spending precious time on dobyrannya of suburbia, and those who came to enjoy the historic city to visit his mysterious narrow streets, visit museums, churches and church, theaters and cafes HOTEL Service Restaurant

Travel service

Child room

Car rental

PRICE

Sngl

70.65 €

Dbl standard

Junior suite

82.50 €

120.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 79005, Lviv, Knyazya Romana, 20/1

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www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

Suite 

165.00 €

GENEVA

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Geneva sanatorium extends its Ukrainian hospitality to the domestic and international Guests during many years, providing high service and health resort treatment. Thanks to its locality nearby the mineral springs – pump-rooms ( 5 minutes by foot) and in the middle of the old-world park had been planted 200 years ago by the Austrian doctors and to the Geneva sanatorium gives a possibility to enjoy calm and unity with surrounding nature as well as to charge the life-giving energy of thermal water HOTEL Service Restaurants

Balneo health center

Beauty salon

Solarium

Sauna

Conference service

Ticket delivery

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

63.50 €

118.00 €

141.50 €

Suite 

157.00 €

Include: • breakfast • SPA • vat 82200, Truskavets, Suhovolya, 61-65 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

SANTA MARIYA

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The modern three-star hotel Santa Maria is located at 20 km from Truskavets in Shodnitsa extremely beautiful place, surrounded by majestic Carpathian Mountains, at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level. Near the river runs Shodnichanka filled with unusual clear mountain water. From the windows of the hotel you can watch the picturesque open spaces of the Carpathians, as well as see the locations of many therapeutic springs, where already in the vicinity of 38. One of the most useful for the therapeutic properties of the source is number 18, which is located directly beside the hotel HOTEL Service Billiards

Fitness

Tennis

Playground

Conference room

Restaurant

Skiing (winter)

Pool

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

31.50 €

51.40 €

59.00 €

Suite 

65.00 €

Include: • full board • vat 82391, Lviv region, Shodnitsa, Nezalegnosti, 35 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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Pharmacy Museum Pharmacy Museum - National Museum in Lviv. Address: ul Drukarskaya, 2.Muzey History of Pharmacy was opened in 1966 at the old pharmacy. Drugstore remains active and continues to produce so-called «Iron wine» (saharat iron, used with iron deficiency anemia). Pharmacy Museum is located on Market Square at the corner house, which begins Drukarskaya streets and Stavropigiyskaya. Chemists in this building was founded in 1735 Master of military pharmacist Наторпом and was called the «Under the Black Eagle». kspozitsiya Museum provides more than three thousands of exhibits in 16 halls of the total area of 700 sq.m. In the trade hall the most interesting exhibits are the pharmaceutical scales. The second room was earlier room, which holds stocks of medicines, is now exhibited a collection of tableware for the storage of medicines, equipment of the chemist’s different eras, the old proprietary medicines. The interior of the third hall recreates an old chemist’s laboratory. The display continued in the wing that was built on the eve of XV and XVI centuries. It housed alchemical laboratory, which is reproduced on ancient paintings and engravings, as well as a library that has over 3 thousand books. In the basement of the old pharmacy restored interiors start of 18 century and reconstructed in the inner courtyard type residential building prosperous petty bourgeois XVI-XVII centuries.

Dvorets Ulenetskih Dvorets Ulenetskih (also known as Palace Besyadetskih belonged to Belsky, Potocki, Komorovskim) - a monument of architecture in Lviv. Located on the square Chee, 10. This is the last of the numerous suburban palaces of the XVIII century, belonging to rich merchants and magnates Lviv. There is a significantly revamped form. Was built in the XVIII century on the draft French architect Rico de Tirzhelya near Galicki gate. About baroque facade resembles triaxial composition with a central cut rizalitom, as well as the production buildings in the depth of the yard along the axis of the gate mansions, for a metal fence with a gate. In 1866 the palace restored by architect C. Soletskim, the project which replaced the intercommunication overlapping the large central hall. In 1885, architects and J. K. Schultz ordered attached to the western end of a three-wing building. In 1932-1935 years, the architect J. Bagensky gave it an architectural look, which it retains to this day. Palace of two, in terms of rectangular, with three rizalitami on the main facade. Side rizality decorated coupled pilasters. Windows of buildings are decorated with platbands modernist figure, above the door a heraldic lion in the cartouche. In Soviet times the building was used Regional Library Yaroslava Galana. In the 2000’s it was not used, was desolate, until transferred to the management of the Lviv University, the administration of which the early repair of the building

Market Square Market Square - the central square in Lviv, a characteristic phenomenon of the medieval architecture of central European cities. Lviv Market Square emerged as a center of Polish-German medieval city of Lviv after the conquest of Poland by King Casimir the Great, to which was the center of Old Market Square. In the XIX - early XX century, a new town center: Prospect Svobody Square Mickiewicz and Prospect Shevchenko. From the corners of Market Square depart 8 streets (on the current name - 7 streets, and 1 square): Russian, Serbian, Galitskaya, Cathedral Square, Krakow, Shevskaya, Drukarskaya, Stavropigiyskaya. The architectural ensemble of the square, a market for the XIV-XIX st. Fires, time and builders largely changed its original form. The last significant fire in which burned almost all the wooden buildings in Lviv, occurred in 1527. The market is moving away from the area, eight small streets and Katedralnaya area. Above all, the building of the center of Lviv worked many nationalities living in Ukraine: the Italians, Germans, Ruthenians, Poles, Armenians and Jews

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Stryysky Park Stryysky Park - one of the oldest and most beautiful parks of Lviv, memorial garden and park art of national importance. Stryysky park was designed by architect Arnold Reringom known in the years 1876-1877 on the territory of the former Stryyskogo cemetery. In 1884, the park was Kraevaya exhibition, were built many exhibition halls, and to the park was sent to the electric tram line. From 1922 until the beginning of the Second World War in the Park exhibitionfair «Oriental auction», which failed narrow gauge road for freight and passengers from the station Persenkovka. In the 1930’s and is built radio tower. In 1939-1941 years the upper part of the park (the former «Eastern tender») were military. In the postwar years, until 1956, at the premises of the former pavilion «Eastern trades» were military convoys here reaches a branch of the railway station Persenkovka laid in 1894. In 1951 the narrow gauge track, used to service the «Eastern trades» partly dismantled and partly used for reasons of child Lviv railway

Lviv State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet Lviv State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. S. Krushelnitska located in the center of Lviv on the Avenue of Freedom, 28. Construction of the theater began in June 1897 by the architect of Sigmund Gorgolevskogo - author of many monumental buildings in Poland and Germany. Opened the theater for the viewer 4 October, 1900 premiere of lyric and dramatic opera «Janek» B. Zhelenskogo - about the life of the Carpathian verhovintsev. The main party sang Ukrainian tenor Alexander Mishuhy. In the opening was attended by the artist G. Semiradsky writer G. Senkevich, composer Igor Paderevsky and delegations from various European theaters. The theater was called the Great City Theater, and worked until 1934, the theater repertoire included operas «Tangeyzer», «Loengrin» and «Ring nibelungov» Robert Wagner, «La Traviata», «Troubadour» Verdi, «Carmen» G. Bizet, « Lucia di Lyammermur »G. Donizetti,« Faust »Sh Gounod,« Eugene Onegin »Tchaikovsky,« Boris Godunov »Mussorgsky and others. In 1921 was the first ballet performance - “Swan Lake” P. Tchaikovsky. In 1934 the theater was closed because of financial difficulties. In December 1939, with entry of Ukraine into the Western СРСР Big City Theater was renamed the Lviv State Opera and Ballet Theater from the subordination of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. Reorganized orchestra, choir, ballet troupe, opera soloists among the new names - the graduates of Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa Conservatoire. Theater repertoire enriched operas Ukrainian composers - “Natalka Poltavka N. Lysenko and Zaporozhets of the Danube” Hulak-Artemovsk

Citadel Citadel - fortifications near the center of Lviv, as well as areas where they are located. Address of the Central Corps - Street Grabowski, 11.Lvovskaya citadel is vzgore which formed three small mountains - Mount Shembeka (Vronovskih), Mount Poznań (Pelchinskaya) and Zhebratskaya (Kalisz, ie poverty) Mt. In landscape and geological terms Citadel can also be interpreted as an outlier among ploskovershinny Lviv plateau. The Citadel is surrounded by streets Vitovskogo (former Dzerzhinsky), Copernicus, Stefanyka, Gora Kalisz (formerly Kozak), and Glibova Dragomanov (formerly Scherbakova). In 1655 this place Lions fired Russian troops besieging the city in 1672 - Turkish troops and their ally Right hetman Doroshenko. Citadel fortifications were designed by Austrian military after the Polish uprising in Ukraine in 1848. From this vzgorya 2 November, 1848 Austrians shelled the city, easily neutralizing resistance to the rebellion. The artillery of the place is easily controlled territory city from three sides vzgore to attack defended steep slopes near Mount Shembeka was Stryysky path, allowing to move troops from the south in addition to on-site park culture was Pelchinsky pond, which could be a source of water for the garrison of the fortress. During the years 1852-1854 have been constructed main building of barracks, the two square towers in the four towers Maksimilliana (two large diameter 36 meters north of the barracks, and two smaller with an internal diameter of 18 meters).

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The cradle of the Black Sea Fleet This is an ancient land where hot steppe adjoins blue waves of the Black sea, tart smells of steppe grasses blend with salt wind of the sea. Black sea land remembers Skiffs, ancient Greeks, tribes of Slaves, hordes of Nogay, free Cossacks of Zaporozhje. Settlement of the peninsula of Nikolajev has begun intensively since the last quarter of the XVIII century. History of Nikolajev comes back to the 27April 1789 when a New Shipyard was founded here. Nikolajev became a shipyard-town, the cradle of the Black Sea Fleet, one of the shipbuilding centers. Thanks to everyday work, intelligence and patience of many generations of the inhabitants, a small shipyard-town changed into a big industrial, political, business and cultural centre of Southern Ukraine. If you want to know more about the city, visit the city museums: the Local History Museum, Art Gallery and a unique Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet, founded in 1978. It is located in the building of the former Naval Staff, being an architectural memorial in Classicism style. An amazing landmark – city-state Olvija – always attracts tourists. An ancient colony was founded by natives of Milet

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in the VI century B.C. There are ruins of fortifications, houses, a square, a holy place, temples, workshops and burial places remained in the city. Worth seeing is the zoo of Nikolajev. It is one of the oldest (functioning since 1901) and the most well-groomed establishments of this kind in the country. There are more then 350 species of animals in its collection, many of them are registered in the Red Book. Since 1988 there is a museum of its own history in the zoo. Materials for the museum have been collected since the beginning of the 80-th. The documents, photos, memories of employees, the collection of sculls and stuffed animals (which somewhere lived in the zoo) are displayed here. The oldest in Ukraine yacht-club is located in Nicolajev, the yacht sport and tourist cruises is a traditional distinctive feature of the region. There is the Turkish fountain built in XVIII in the neighborhood. A trip to Nikolajev will leave pleasant impressions and a wish to come back to this city and feel its atmosphere once more.

HOTEL PALACE UKRAINE

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Hotel Palace Ukraine — so melodiously sounds the name of hotel-restaurant which hospitably opened doors in the very center of Nikolaev. Restaurant, hotel, casino and billiardclub are at your service there. Atmosphere of comfort and cosinness in conjunction with nobility and aristocratism creates an inimitable aura of the hotel HOTEL Service Press room

Sauna

Laundry

Rent a car

Casino

Postage

Parking

Exchange

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

45.20 €

65.50 €

76.15 €

Suite 

105.00 €

Include: • Breakfast • coffee-break • vat 54000, Nikolaev, Lenina, 57 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

CORAL

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«Coral» – is the name of one of the best fashionable hotels of Nikolaev, for those, who value their own time, care of itself and wishes to rest pleasantly and to be weakened. During staying at our hotel, everyone finds the lagoon of tranquillity and pacification here.

HOTEL Service Restaurants

Bar

Conference room

Laundry

Parking

Room service

Exchange

Gifts

PRICE Dbl standard

Junior suite

Suite

Apartments 

42.30 €

57.60 €

87.00 €

165.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 54000, Nikolaev, Admirala Makarova, 22 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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Nikolaev underground They were named differently: the catacombs and caves, underground passages and the Turkish mines. They were attributed to many people - the Greeks, the Turks, the monks and even to the ancient Jews. From childhood they excited our imagination with a sinking heart, hand in hand, we wandered to the dark underground cellars. It is known that after the war an officer whether to the order of his chief or because of the nature of adventure explored all of our dungeons and put them on the plan of the city. We got an amazing web of underground tunnels with sports «halls» and «cameras». But this plan has not been found till our days.

The Astronomical Observatory In the city of Nikolaev there is one of the oldest astronomical observatories the history of which is inseparably linked with the history of the city almost since its foundation. The building o f an observatory and a park laid out since the foundation of townspeople and visitors. The history of the observatory began in 1821 and it can be conditionally divided into three periods. The 1st period – from 1821 till 1904 when it operated as Naval Astronomical Observatory and was mainly used for the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The 2nd period can be the period between 1904 till 1991 when the observatory was transferred to the Pulkovo Observatory and was considered to be the Southern branch of the main astronomical observatory. The 3rd period – since 1992, since the collapse of the USSR and gaining of the independence of the Ukraine till the present time.

Olvia Olvia Pontiyskaya is one of four greatest ancient cities on the coast of the Black Sea. It has played a major role in the history of the region. Olvia was founded earlier than the Chersonese. Unlike the latter its existence was ended in the IV century A.D. Olvia did not have a later layer which would provide good preservation of its ancient Greek cultural layers over a large area. This ancient city –state which was visited by the father of the history Herodotus was one of the largest antique centers in the region of the Black Sea. It had a huge rural district in the form of settlements and farms along the shores of the sea its estuaries. It had trade and economic ties with Greece. But Olvia was forgotten many centuries ago. Its location was determined in the XVIII century. The space of Olvia museum remains of the site of the ancient town and the cemetery is about 270 hectares.

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Odessa is the capital of humor

Take a trip to Odessa and you will not forget this city located on the coast of the Black Sea having a reputation of the capital of Russian-speaking humor. A mild climate and a charming noise of the sea attract tourists. The inhabitants of Odessa are proud of their cultural and architectural heritage and they are right. The houses in the old part of the city are built in different architectural styles from the Renaissance to the Art nouveau. Many famous people lived here at different times: a poet Alexander Pushkin, a biochemist Ilya Mechnikov, a singer Leonid Utjosov etc. The main landmark of Odessa is considered to be the city garden on Deribasovskaya street – a so called art gallery in the open air. Here in the garden you can find the twelfth chair from the suite of furniture made by Gambs which belonged to madam Petukhova, the mother-inlaw of Kisa Vorobyaniniv from the famous novel of Ilya Ilf and Evgeniy Petrov. The unveiling of the monument to the chair with diamantes took place at the time of “Jumorina 99” (the annual festival of humor).

At the top of the famous Potemkin Stairs stands a bronze statue of the founder of the city - Duc de Richelieu - mounted in 1827. The monument is turned to the see as though, as if it welcomes the guests of the city to go up to the Primorskii Boulevard (sea front). Here at the beginning of the Primorskii Boulevard the so called “Teshtshin most” (mother-in-law’s bridge) draws attention of tourists. As legends say, this bridge was built by request of one of the mayors of the city with the aim to get to his mother-in-law over a ravine more comfortably. If you are going over the bridge with a group of people, offer them to jump in the middle of the bridge. If you do not like thrilling experiences, do not do it. During the excursion you can admire the Shankhai palace and learn a legend about the Portal of a lonely girl. And do not forget, if a native of Odessa is talking with you seriously, it does non mean he is really not joking!

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CONTINENTAL

The building, which is a monument of town-planning and architecture, was built in the middle of the XIX century by the famous architect F.V. Gonsiorovsky. It was completely reconstructed in 2005 and has become nowadays a modern four-star business-hotel, remarkable for its splendid architecture. Everyone who gets to the legendary Deribassovskaya Street is attracted by the austere front of this sumptuous classic edifice. HOTEL Service Conference room

Swimming-pool

Excursions

Car hire

Fitness-center

Solarium

Laundry

Transfer

PRICE Economy

Standard

Junior suite

Luxury suite 

95.85 €

159.78 €

180.00 €

225.35 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 65026, Odessa, Deribassovskaya, 5 www.continental-hotel.com.ua

[email protected]

t. +38 048 786 0 399

f. +38 048 786 0 550

LONdON

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The hotel “London” is situated in the heart of the city in Uspenskaya str. Each of the hotel’s fronts is a mirror image of another one. One of them faces the picturesque green park. Historical and business centres are harmonically united in this area of the city. Unique location of the hotel allows its guests to stay in the quiet and secure centre of Odessa not far away from the most important business areas of the city HOTEL Service Conference service

VIP-service

Laundry

Personal driver

Business center

Safe deposit box

Children cots

Luggage delivery

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

108.36 €



138.80 €

187.75 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 65000, Odessa, Uspenskaya, 95

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www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

Suite 

245.00 €

LONdONSKAYA

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Welcome to Londonskaya Hotel – the perfect escape to the finest hospitality Odessa has to offer. Located in the heart of Odessa’s city center, Londonskaya Hotel provides spectacular views of the Black Sea and the famous Potyomkin Stairs. This landmark hotel opened its doors over 160 years ago and provides easy access to culture, historical sites, museums, shopping, entertainment and dining HOTEL Service Conference service

Restaurant

Luggage delivery

Business center

Exchange

Wellness

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

110.55 €

189.50 €

220.25 €

Suite 

270.35 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 65026, Odessa, Primorsky blvd, 11 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

YUNOST

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Hotel “Yunost” is situated in marvelous place in Odessa. It is the 16-storied building with general area 8983,3 m square. Near the hotel there are the most famous beaches such as Arkadiya and Chaklovsky. The central location provides an outstanding possibility to connect the rest and the business HOTEL Service Conference service

Business center

Café & bar “Pearl”

Exchange

Parking

Rental Car

Transfer

Laundry

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

34.25 €

45.65 €

68.47 €

Suite 

80.35 €

Include: • breakfast • porterage of luggage • depositary • use of hotel gym • vat 65009, Odessa, Varlamova S, 32 www.hotel-yunost.com

[email protected]

t. +38 048 738 04 04

f. +38 048 738 04 17

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Arcadia Plaza

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Luxury hotel “Arcadia Plaza” is conveniently located in Arcadia, the most picturesque area of Odessa, near by the Black Sea. Sandy beaches, beautiful nature, nightlife, discotheques and restaurants to every taste. “Arcadia Plaza” is glad to welcome its guests with distinctive and superior service. “Arcadia Plaza” is glad to welcome its guests, stay with us and enjoy the atmosphere of luxury, pleasure and comfort. HOTEL Service Conference service

VIP-service

Laundry

Business center

Safe deposit box

Children cots

Personal driver

Luggage delivery

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

155.36 €

318.80 €

605.00 €

Suite 

860.00 €

Include: • Taxes, • buffet breakfast, • free use of swimming pool, fitness-center, parking 65009, Odessa, Posmitnogo, 1 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

FRAPOLLI

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Could ever a famous architect Frants Frapolli imagine that his masterpiece - a hotel Frapolli will become so extremely attractive for tourists? You will feel this as soon as you enter our unique and magnifying building. You are welcome to sit near the fireplace in the lobby bar, under intimate lighting and listen to a calming sound of burning wood. HOTEL Service Conference service

Restaurant “Frapolli

Lobby ba

Room service

Fitness center

Sauna

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

55.00 €

74.35 €

135.30 €

Suite 

155.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 65000, Odessa, Deribasovskaya, 13

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www.hotel-yunost.com

[email protected]

t. +38 048 738 04 04

f. +38 048 738 04 17

Deribassovskaya street Deribasovskaya street is the legendary pedestrian street in the heart of Odessa and one of the main sights of the city. The name (originally Italian La strada Ribas) the street got in honour of Jose de Ribas on the location of his house on this street where he lived and then his brother Felix de Ribas. It is located parallel to two streets. There is the first park in Odessa which was built in 1803 shortly after founding of the city by brothers Jose and Felix de Ribas. In 1806 Felix gave to the city a plot of a land that became the first city garden. Since middle of 2006 the garden city was under restoration and in May 2007 was reopened to visitors. The park had a singing fountain, a round covered stage had been restored where presentations of symphonic orchestras took place. Also the park is known for its monuments: some of them have become the symbols of Odessa. This is a monument to the lion and lioness with lion’s whelps, the monument «The Twelfth chair» established in the honour of the book «Twelve Chairs», a monument to Leonid Utesov and a monument to the pilot and athlete of the beginning of XX century Sergey Utochkin.

Odessa catacombs Odessa catacombs are a network of underground tunnels and labyrinths under Odessa. Most of the catacombs are the former quarries from which building stone is extracted. Nowadays the length of the Odessa catacombs is about 2,5 thousands km. At the end of the XX century the catacombs had caused a dramatic complication of engineering – geologic conditions of the city. More than 40% of the old city is situated in the territory under which mines were. Most (95-97%) of Odessa catacombs are underground quarries where the limestone was extracted which was used for building of the city. The first underground quarries began to emerge in the first half of the XIX century during rapid construction of Odessa as a source of inexpensive building materials – limestone. The extraction of stones was carried using the saws and was so intense that in the second half of the XIX century a vast network of underground cavities became inconvenient to the city. After the revolution the extraction of the limestone on the territory of the city was prohibited because many buildings of the city began to collapse. During the Great Patriotic War the catacombs served as a refuge for the Soviet partisans. There is the information about 1,7 thousands square kilometers of underground cavities. At the beginning of the XXI century limestone mining continues in mines located in Dolinovka, Buldynka and Fomin girder. Thus the length of the Odessa catacombs is growing to this day.

Vorontsov lighthouse The Voronsov lighthouse is located on the tip of the Karantinny (now Raid) pier in the port of Odessa on the Black Sea. It meets the first and see off the last ships coming in Odessa. In the history of the Odessa port is seen «the dynasty» of the Vorontsov lighthouses. They succeeded each other improving and reconstructing as the extension and construction of moles was going on. The first lighthouse built in Odessa in 1815. It was opened in 1827 when there was prince Vrontsov and it was called after his name. The Vorontsov lighthouse was the iron tower with a graceful lighthouse from Paris. Verses and prose, photographs and films badges and postcards of the Vorontsov lighthouse have turned it into a symbol of Odessa.

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The mental capital of Ukraine

Poltava celebrated the 1100-th anniversary in 1999. An Old-Russian town began from a fortified settlement which was erected in the IX century on the Ivanov’s Hill. As a result of the life on the edge a special kind of population had formed here – these were Cossacks who had an influence on the history of the fortified outpost on the Vorskla river during the XVI-XVIII centuries. The town was many times destroyed in course of numerous wars, but every time it was rebuilt again. The Battle of Poltava which took place in 1709 became a turning-point in the European history of those times as it had determined the further destiny of Ukraine for two centuries. Make a tour of Poltava and admire the old part of the city. Its unique architecture is tightly bounded with the history of Poltava. Visit the Ivanov’s hill in the city centre which is located at place of an Old-Russian settlement Ltava of the XII century. Take a walk on slopes of the former

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rampart near the columns of the White Pavilion and admire a wonderful view of Poltava Podol (lap). You will see a wonderful Cloister dedicated to the Exaltation of the Cross, in Ukrainian Baroque style; the oldest temple of Poltava – the Saviour church. You will make an exciting trip to the historical and cultural reserve “The field of the Battle of Poltava”. This unique museum displays invaluable historical relicts of the Northern War 1700-1721 and the Battle of Poltava. During the excursion you will visit one of the oldest museums of Ukraine – the Local History Museum of Poltava founded in 1891. Take a possibility to get into a wonderful world of magic art in the Art Gallery of Poltava. Creative theatre troupes and musical collectives of the city, its museums and picturesque views will really create an unforgettable impression on you. Visit Poltava and feel sincerity and hospitability of its inhabitants – you will fall in love with this beautiful city!

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GOGOL

Hotel-restaurant complex «Gogol» was opened in 2006 in the resort town of Mirgorod, known for its healing mineral waters, the same waters in Baden-Baden and Sodena, and clean atmosphere. In Mirgorod all is well: birch, chestnut, the smell of grass and fruit trees, birds sing. Complex «Gogol» this is, above all, expanse and privole without the notion of number of storeys, and where people go to enjoy nature, walking with children or to relax with colleagues HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Billiards

Conference room

Gym

Travel service

Room service

Wi-Fi

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard



54.35 €

59.50 €

Suite 

165.00 €

Include: • breakfast • parking • vat 37600, Mirgorod, Usika Ya, 18 www.victoria.ua

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t. +38 062 381 47 47

f.+38 062 381 47 01

PALAZZO

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“Palazzo” is a modern hotel situated in the historical centre of Poltava. High-class service is our visiting card. Hospitality and professionalism of our staff create all conditions for making the stay of our visitors the most pleasant HOTEL Service Conference service

Restaurant

Park zone

Fitness service

Night club

Rent a car

Laundry

Gifts shop

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

43.00 €



63.70 €

90.45 €

Suite 

115.00 €

Include: • breakfast • parking • gym • vat 36011, Poltava, Gogolya, 33 www.palazzo.com.ua

[email protected]

t. +38 0532 61 12 05

f. +38 0532 61 12 08

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Dikanka

Dikanka is a village in the center of the Dikansky region, 25 km from Poltava. It was firstly mentioned in 1658 as Kochubey ancestral estate. From the ancient oak which surrounded the palace a couple of Kochubeevsky oaks were preserved. There were more than hundred rooms, an art gallery, a museum and a library in the palace. All these constructions were destroyed during the Second Word War. hetman Bruhovetsky was killed in 1668 by rebelled Cossacks in Dikanka. In 1709 hetman Mazepa was in Dikanka before the Poltavskaya battle. There are monuments to Shevchenko and Gogol, museum in the village.

Women’s Cross Monastery. It was founded in honour of the defeat of Polish troops by the Ukrainian troops. It started its flowering after the Russian victory over the Swedes. The monastery had been repeatedly destroyed and ravaged. It was a center of culture and education of the left bank of the river, long time had the status of the male cloister, but eventually became woman’s cloister. The Cross Cathedral with seven cupolas is considered one of the best examples of Ukrainian baroque. Its height is 47 meters. It was erected in 1786. In addition to these placed of worship in the monastery there is Semenovskaya tiny church with one cupola built in 1887 as well as a group of business premises and cells.

Museum «History of the Battle of Poltava». The museum keeps for more than eight thousands items. There are many unique ones among them. Eight rooms are available for works of art, arms, orders, medals, uniforms and equipment of Russian and Swedish armies, many instruments, personal belongings of Peter the Great and his associates, banners, historical relics. The diorama of the Poltavskaya battle with sound is situated here made by the artists of Grekov studio. Twenty monuments and commemorative symbols devoted to the Poltavskaya battle are erected in Poltava and its surrounding area. Poltava has entered on the pages of history as city of Russian arms glory. The museum of the History of the Battle of Poltava helps visitors figuratively and visibly imagine and go through pages of heroic past.

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Ancient Rovenshchina Rovno is more then seven centuries old. There are both happy and sad pages in the history of this old Ukrainian city. The buildings of Rovno caught terrible fire many times, but nobody managed to annihilate the town. Hard-working inhabitants rebuilt the destroyed town again and again. Modern Rovno is an administrative and economic centre of the oblast (province) being a part of independent Ukraine. Take a tour to Rovno and acquaint yourself with its historical and architectural memorials. History of Ljubomirski’s estate comes back to the beginning of the XVIII century when Stanislav Ljubomirskiy decided to erect a palace on an island in the middle of a huge lake. The Ljubomirskis lived in the estate till 1836. In 1838 they handed it over to a gymnasium for the use. But the head of the gymnasium declined the generous gift because of lacking money for maintenance of such a big building. At the beginning of XX century the palace became a place for fallen-in-love people. They came here to make a declaration of love. Theatre plays were performed and dancing balls were given here.

In 1927 a heavy fire destroyed the palace. One of the remarkable landmarks of the city is the St. Resurrection Cathedral. The St. Protection Church is amazingly beautiful and majestic. It is decorated with 13 big cupolas symbolizing Jesus Christ and 12 apostles. Really worth seeing in Rovno is thousand-years old Ostrog (stockaded town) with prominent memorials – the Ostrog’s Castle and Academy. A real masterwork of fortification art is the castle containing four main buildings: the living and defensive tower “Bashnja Vozvedennaja”, Bogojavlenskaja Church, the “New tower” and the Bell tower (was built later). From the town fortifications of Ostrog have been reserved Tatarskaja and Lutskaja towers. The last one takes a special place between architectural memorials of Ostrog. The museum of oldprinted books is located here now days. Thanks to the first Ukrainian academy (Ostrozhskaja) Rovno was given the proud name “Ukrainian Athens”. National University “Ostrozhskaja Academy” is one of a few historical monuments which answers its initial purpose until now - education of patriotic and really moral Ukrainian elite.

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AIVENGO

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Hotel-restaurant «Aivengo» invites you to visit our facility. We offer you home comfort and good service. You can spend your time in a cozy room, a dip in the Middle Ages. Celebrate significant dates in the banquet hall. We offer cozy rooms of the hotel, sauna, swimming pool, Russian and American billiards, table tennis, internet, evening programs, a bowling club HOTEL Service Conference Room

Sauna

Tennis

Fitness Center

Laundry

Park area

Billiards

Rent a car

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

24.00 €



25.00 €

38.00 €

Suite 

45.00€

Include: • parking • gym • vat 35306, Povno region, pos. Kolodenko, Zelenaya, 53 www.aivengo.org

[email protected]

t. +38 050 662 74 62

f. +38 0362 208 952

TOURIST

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Tourist complex “Tourist” is on the main street of the city of Rivne. This is a modern 10-storey building divided by the hotel and restaurant parts. Visitors hour encounter hospitable administrators are always ready to quickly resolve the issue accommodation, advice and help book a room. Modern interior comfortable rooms and comfortable furniture are ideal for work and leisure. One of the rooms equipped for the disabled. The price for the client may include breakfast, lunch and dinner in the hotel cafe HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Sauna

Conference room

Night Club

Solarium

Fitness center

Billiards

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Apartmets 

32.60 €



95.50 €

153.25 €

65.35 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 33027, Rivno, Kievskaya, 36

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www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

Klevan The Klevan village is located near the border of the Rovno and Volyn regions on the bank of the river Stubla. In historical documents Klevan was first mentioned in 1456 as the property of prince Chartoriysky. But as historians say there was the settlement at the place of Klevan in the XII century and it was called Kolivan. In 1475 prince Fedor Chartoriysky, the Lutsk starosta began building the castle in one of the highest coastal capes over the Stubla river known as the site of ancient town. The castle had three defensive towers: one wooden tower and two stone towers. The thickness of the walls of the towers reached unprecedented dimensions of 3,8 meters. The castle was surrounded by a deep ditch filled with water and strong stone walls. The construction of the castle was completed in 1561. The western stone bastion had the principal defensive function. The east tower was used to store gunpowder and weapons.

Reserve «Cossack graves» Affected by the courage of the last enemy detachment the poles gave life to these heroes but they didn’t accept this gift continuing to defend their territory. The fight with never vanquished opponent detachment of the Cossacks costed to the Poles large losses. The last lived Cossack wounded with14 bullets found a fishing boat shot using musket another three hours although the enemy surrounded him around all sides when the gunpowder finished he took the scythe cutting everybody who tried to come to him. Yan Kazimir II cried in delight that he would give life to a brave soldier but the later preferred heroic death.

Field Berestechskoy battle

Now the Berestechsky field of the battle is covered by bones of fallen Cossacks and the legends – the legend about drowned mace of Khmelnitsky in the bog which was vainly searched in the hetman’s tent, the legend about the souls of the Cossacks which are not at rest for many hundred years.

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Sumy – a pearl of Sloboda Ukraine

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A town Sumy founded in 1655 was the biggest in Sloboda Ukraine. The town appeared on the map after 100 families with their ataman G.Kondratjev at the head were granted the Tsar’s Permission to settle “at the bank of the Psel River near Sumy river” (today Sumka). Sumy is interesting for visitors thanks to its church architecture of the XVIIXIX centuries. The Resurrection Church (1702), the oldest structure in the town, was used not only for its first religious purpose but as a defensive installation too. The initial form has been not preserved – frequent fires damaged the church totally. This monument is one of the most valuable and uncommon temples which harmoniously combine traditional features of wooden and stone Russian and Ukrainian architecture. The church is although made of stone, its dimensions and composition decision reflect typical features of wooden religious constructions of Sloboda Ukraine.

In the Trinity Cathedral erected in 1901 stands an organ which creates an indescribable atmosphere in the temple. The Local History museum contains the most fascinating and detailed information about history and development of Sumy. There are more then 20000 exhibits reflecting history of Sumy in different ages: confrontation between Kievan Rus and Polovtsy, Ukrainian Cossacks and their fight for independence, The Great Patriotic War. One of the oldest and most interesting museums is considered to be The Picture Gallery of Sumy. Masterpieces of painters of the XVIII-XIX centuries V.Borovikovskiy, S.Vasilskovskiy, M.Nesterov, V.Serov, V.Tropinin are widely presented here. Apart from many masterpieces of painting, graphic, sculpture and fine folk arts you can see rare numismatic collections, faience ware and woodworks here. An excursion to the house-museum of Russian writer A.P.Chekhov (opened in 1960) will acquaint you with life and creative work of the great writer.

Cathedral of the Saviour’s Transfiguration was built at the end of XVIII and possessed features of late baroque and classicism.

Take a pleasant walk along wellgroomed blooming streets of Sumy and you’ll remember it for all your life. You’ll certainly want to visit this place again!

PAN

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Ноtеl “Pan” is a luxurious three-storied house, which is located in the quiet, ancient street in the center of Sumу. The location of hotel makes possible for guest to feel itself far from the urban fuss, in a quiet park zone in five minutes of walking from the business center. Ноtеl sinks in greenery of summer garden the cascades of waterfall give the bewitching moment of cosines and weakening bliss HOTEL Service parking

services of translator

washing

sauna

banquet room

drying

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

18.50 €



31.55 €

35.00 €

Suite 

65.00 €

Include: • parking • vat 40000, Sumy, Kuznechniy, 1 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

UKRAINE

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Hotel “Ukraine” is situated in the centre of the town Sumy, in historical, business and culture centre of the town. Comfortable transportation allows to get without problem from the hotel to different parts of the town (for the railway station, auto station, exhibition centers and other business object) as on the public transport so on the personal transport. There are central offices of the large banks of Ukraine, chef post office, supermarkets, different state departments of the regional scale, museums, night clubs, casino, restaurants, trade centers, theatres, organ hall and other amusements less than 200 meters from the hotel “Ukraine” HOTEL Service Business center

Wi-Fi

Booking office

Restaurant

Sauna

Salon of beauty

Exchange

Hairdresser’s shop

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Apartmets 

24.00 €



28.25 €

30.45 €

47.85 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 40000, Sumy, Voskresenskaya, 1 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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Museum Chekhova The museum was opened on 29th of January 1960 in the former mansion of the Lintvarevs where Chekhov’s family spent the summer months in 1888-1889. Chekhov’s friends – writers Plescheev, Batantsevich, stationer Suvorin came here. The summer of 1889 became darkened by the death of the writer’s brother – Nikolay Pavlovich Chekhov. To the development of Chekhov’s interest to the Ukrainian culture the family of the Lintvarevs greatly promoted. Their ancestors were on friendly terms with philosopher Skovoroda. The charm of the Ukraine was expressed by Chekhov’s desire to buy a farm in the Poltavskaya province. Chekhov was on friendly terms with the leaders of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, in particular the actress Mary Zankovetskaya. Chekhov called her talent a «tremendous force», highly praised the performance of Haritin («Naymichka» by Karpenko – Kary).

Holy Vokresenskaya church The Holy – Voskresenskaya church is the first stone building of the city of Sumy. It was consecrated in 1702. The structure belongs to a particularly valuable type of temples in which traditional techniques and features of wooden and stone architecture of the Ukraine are harmoniously united. The features of the architectural layout of the Resurrection Church as it has two tires. Lower temple was consecrated in the name of Andrew, the heavenly defender of Andrey Kondratiev, the upper – in the name of the Resurrection of Christ. The church was not only holy cloister but the defense construction for its unusually thick walls (thickness reaches one and a half meters) and deep cut window. A large basement church led to the tunnel to the river Psyol.

Sv.Troitsy church

Filaret Gumilevsky in his work «The historical and statistical description of Kharkov’s diocese» wrote that the temple existed in Sumy in 1735 but the time from which it began its existence was unknown. The church was seen according to the act of 1730. In 1732 there was a school with two teachers and a hospice for burghers.

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Ternovoy wreath Podolia

The tour invites you to Ternopil - ancient and modern, bright, blooming. Like nearly all West town, it has a binding set of: churches across the parishes, the castle, a reference to the synagogue, clean streets and friendly people. The first mention of the city is the royal permission (in 1540) for the construction of the castle. Thus began a life of Ternopol, although to be fair to note that at this point there was a settlement since drevnegalitskih times, and studies show that there were more settlements in the Mesolithic period and Trypillya culture. One way or another, but the history of the ancient city has always been connected with the history of the guard - the castle-fortress. Throughout its history, Ternopil castle often subjected to attacks and destruction. Terrifying the years 1575, 1589, 1672 for the Ukrainian lands are not spared and Ternopil, but the most fatal was 1675, when several weeks of continued siege by Turks under the leadership of Ibrahim Pasha Shishman. Then pissed enemy completely destroyed Ternopil castle, the second life which gave Francis Koritovsky. He lifted the fortification elements of the building and lock into the palace, which now adorns a city. Near the old castle is a sight that has pro-

vided the city among others. This is a great Ternopil lake beckons, attracting many residents and visitors. Few people know that this lake is not only artificial, but still a very long time ... It was established back in 1547 as a defensive safety for the construction of the castle. Walking from the castle along the lake see Old Christ Church Vozdvizheniya honest, more known as the “Church of the pond.” And although the first time in the documents it refers to literacy in the Prince of Ostrog in 1570, it is possible that the church was built on the site even more old, which existed at the time of Daniel Galicki In the same line with the said castle and the church is the Church of the Nativity of Christ, or as it is called in the nation, average. The first mention of the wooden church dates from the year 1556, it became a stone in the 1602-1608 biennium. According to legend, in the Central Church was praying during the War of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Walking through the cozy streets of ancient cities, acquaintance with the monuments of history and culture of Ternopol leave only pleasant memories and a desire to return here again and again.

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GALICHINA

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The building of the hotel is located above the lake, from the windows of the rooms a beautiful view of the beach or to the central part of the city. The hotel has an autonomous water supply and heating, so stay in it is always comfortable. The hotel is comfortable interiors, offers its guests a wide range of additional services. Polite and warning staff of the hotel makes every effort to ensure that the rest of the hotel was most enjoyable for the guests of the city. HOTEL Service Restaurant Conference service

Night Club

Gifts shop

Bar

Exchange

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

39.00 €

42.00 €

47.25 €

Suite 

62.55 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 46000, Ternopil, Chumatskaya, 1a www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

ABOVE STRYPOY

Family & sport hotel

For your convenience and maximum comfort on the basis there are several houses with well-equipped rooms. We offer a restaurant, bar, cafe, sauna, children’s and dance halls, which are located in the base. We offer sightseeing tours of the Ternopil region, horseback trips in the area of base alloys for the catamarans on the Dniester. “Above Strypoy” rasschitanna for simultaneous reception of several dozen tourists, who can comfortably be held in our rooms HOTEL Service Restaurant & bar

Ping-pong

Dance floor

Sauna

Playground

Pool

Gym

Skates

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

81.55 €

95.50 €

153.25 €

Include: • Full board • vat 46000, Ternopil region, Buchach, pos. Skomorohi

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www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

Suite 

180.35 €

Buchatskiy Town Hall In terms of square (14h14 m) two-story building has 12 rooms, on average, is winding stairs, and in the side - the room service. Walls have a two-tier tower. Varying chlenenie interior walls on the facades found pilasters, step, and which varies: in the main of six, on the other five, and four on the side. From architectural considerations, the tower is made wider than its carrying an array of medium-sized room with a spiral staircase inside. Its walls of stone based on the console. The entire height of 38 m. The building was originally the town hall tower was surmounted by a spire height of 18 meters, but after the fire of 1811, he was not reinstated. The facades are decorated Corinthian and the large number of sculptures (originally there were 30, 9 survived). Caryatid supports five balconies on the west facade. City Hall - the most elegant piece Meretina. It strikes easily and fast take-off, a reinforced vertical lines numerous pilasters, windows and frames platbands niches. The main facade is highlighted huge, complex shapes with a pediment rokaylevym asymmetrical cartouche in the center. None of the buildings in the Baroque style in Ukraine is not sculpture in the inseparable unity of the architecture, as here. It affects the expression of movement, expressive poses, unique silhouettes, it would have embodied the pathos of the struggle against evil and violence.

Castle Terebovlya The ruins of the castle is located in north-western part of Terebovlya, on the mountain, which was almost impregnable on three sides. North - the most vulnerable, protect rvy and shafts, which are the building before the princely era. The length of the castle from north to south and 122m from east to west - 65. In terms of locking improperly elongated, narrowed to the south forms. At present, the height of the walls of the castle is 12-14m, width of 5 meters, bent at an angle of 100 degrees, the complete four-eastern corner tower and Western Hexagonal. The third tower elliptical in shape, is located in the south, brings together two defensive wall. The height of 13 m, wall width varies from 3.5 to 5m. North and west tower survived two storeys in height, the eastern three. The entrance to the castle is situated in the eastern defensive wall, its thickness small compared to the other - only 2,5 m. Yield was made in the Renaissance, near the entrance of the arch - gate.

Zbarazhsky Castle Zbarazhsky Castle is located near the city center Zbarazh, in the park, on the so-called Castle Hill. Construction of the castle began Dukes brothers Christopher and Yuri Zbarazhskie. In the 1620-1631 biennium., Two kilometers up the river at the top of the slope of the valley, they begin the building of the castle. The initial project has developed the Italian architect Vincenzo Skamotstsi, which Xristofor Zbarazhsky met in Venice. But the project did not succeed: not the defense, more palatial. Project Castle Skamotstsi first described in his treatise “On the idea of a universal architecture”, and then his ideas have already been partially realized in Zbarazh. The author of the project is considered to be the Dutch architect Van Peen. It happened in 1625. Construction of the fortress began a year later and lasted until 1631. Established fortification built on the model of Castle Breda. Oskarpovannye outer ramparts growing from the excavation of shafts up to 12 meters, with a terrace for the defenders of outpost in the 23 meters in width. The plan - box width of 88 m. Within the bastions held vaulted casemates (currently they show examples of old weapons and wooden sculptures of pupils Pinzelya). Riv around the bastions was deep and very broad (sometimes up to 40 meters). At the heart of the castle courtyard, under the rules of construction “Palazzo in fortezza” contained a Renaissance palace. The castle is situated on a high hill, surrounded by wetlands in the past. It is a model combining the palace ramparts and fortifications, which reflects the trend of European fortification art of the time. Prince Christopher Zbarazhsky died in 1627, when the lock has not yet been completed. Construction of the castle was completed, with Yuri Zbarazhskom. In the 1627-1630 biennium. it was built: the majestic church of St. Anthony in the Baroque style, and the cell gate tower. After the death of Yuri Zbarazhskogo, locking out a Yanush Vishnevetskomu.

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Uzhgorod

Take a trip to the least populated western oblast of Ukraine and find yourself in the Middle Ages, visit catholic churches and admire the nature of this amazing land – Zakarpatje. One of many tales about origin of the name Uzhgorod says that it means “Town by the Uzh River” (Uzh means ringed snake). It was first mentioned in the written memorials of 872. During its long history Uzhgorod was renamed many times: Ongvar, Khungvar and Ungujvar – and was a part of different states: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USSR… Being a part of Czechoslovakia Uzhgorod developed into an architecturally modern city. Uzhgorod is famous thanks to its ancient temples and medieval castles. The most exacting tourists can’t be indifferent to the Fortress-Rotunda of Saint Anna, which is unique in Ukraine because of its architectural characteristics. There are two similar rotundas in the world. They both are located in Hungary. It is an interesting fact, that the walls of a small round church are decorated by wall paintings of the XI century created by

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painters of the Italian Jotto Art School. A special atmosphere of mystery of ages reigns in the Serednjanskiy castle which is situated in Uzgorod district near the village Serednee. The history of the castle comes back to the XII century when it was built by monks of the Order of the Temple. Their purpose was the forced propagation of Catholicism between the local inhabitants. After the collapse of the Orden of the Temple in 1312 the Serednjanskiy Castle was occupied by monks of the Orden of Saint Pavel having the same aim. But Catholicism has not strengthened in the Carpathians and in the XVI century after the monks were banished the grandees of the world took possession of the castle. There is a lot of unique beautiful memorial parks in Uzgorod. Many of them were set up in the Middle Ages by feudal lords Ploteni, Drugets and other who took exotic plants from different parts of the world. One of such blooming places where you can find peace of mind and feel happy is Podzamkovy park. The oldest tree of Uzgorod - London plane (Platanus acerifolia) grows here. It is more then 500 years old. Picturesque landscapes of Bukovina and medieval architecture of ancient Uzgorof possess the aura of romance and mystery.

MUKACHEVO INTOURIST

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Hotel «Intourist» is located in the central part of the city of Mukachevo, in the Transcarpathian region. Surrounded by majestic trees cozy park, near the river Latorica hotel «Intourist» - a real haven of tranquility, combining comfort with refined style and the European level of service HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Conference room

Park zone

Gifts

Exchange

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

17.40 €

29.50 €

45.65 €

Suite 

63.10 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 89600, Zakarpatie, Mukachevo, Duhnovicha, 93 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

f. +38 062 294 88 55

f. +38 062 294 88 55

EDUARD

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Private hotel “Edward” is waiting for you in the heart of Europe - in Transcarpathia, in the city of Uzhgorod. Built in 1998, European-style, small, comfortable, with elegant interiors and exteriors, it embodies your dream vacation to the good, successful business meeting. Restaurant and bar the hotel works round the clock. Excellent cuisine and professional cooks - are ready to satisfy all your gastronomic passions. Professional and selected by the waiters contest will help create a comfortable environment and does not make you wait HOTEL Service Restaurant

Conference room

Swimming pool

Sauna

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

81.55 €

95.50 €

153.25 €

Suite 

180.35 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 88000, Uzhgorod, Bachinskogo, 22 www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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Hotel-rancho

ZOLOTAYA GORA

We are glad to present to your attention the hotel-rancho “Zolotaya Gora” which is situated on the height of the mountain among a picturesque forest near economic, cultural and social center of Transcarpathia - the town of Uzhhorod. Connoisseurs of comfortable rest, nature, flora and fauna will receive a true enjoyment staying at this hotel. The territory of this complex is 3 hectare improving surroundings which is among the best nature of our land HOTEL Service Conference room

Sauna

Rancho

Restaurant

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

suite

Apartments 

39.00 €



60.00 €

108.00 €

130.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 89425, Zakarpatie, Uzhgorodskiy region, pos. Barvinok www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

IZKI

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In the beautiful restaurant, among malahitovyh Smereka Mahura located at the foot health spa Izky designed for family recreation, health and entertainment for every taste! Color and comfort you give our hotel complex, built of wooden log house, where almost vlovymyy flavor hvoyi abide best memories of childhood. We also offer a unique program Carpathian healing herbs and our bath did not leave indifferent the most connoisseurs, because it was built on the dam for the old technology, and master bath will stay in case it is not only pleasant but also useful HOTEL Service Restaurant

Café & Bar

Sauna

Paragliding

Excursions

Rope hoist

Chair lift

Equipment rental

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard+

Junior suite

59.78 €



70.65 €

128.30 €

Include: • breakfast • vat Zakarpatie, Mizhgirskiy region, pos. Izki www.ukrrest.com

[email protected]

t. +38 062 208 19 76

f. +38 062 294 88 55

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Suite 

169.00 €

Uzhgorod infant (Low Zakarpattia) Railway Uzhgorod infant (Low Zakarpattia) Railway - the establishment of non-formal education of children in the town of Uzhgorod, introducing them to the railway specialties. One of the most short children’s railways in the former USSR and the shortest in the Ukraine (its length is only 1.1 km, including the length of the main ways - 1 km). Children’s railway was built in 1945, immediately after the accession of Subcarpathian Ruthenia to the USSR. It was built by subbotnik. Opened in August 1947, the day of the railway. Dead-end path length of 1.1 km was drawn out on the river bank Already in the city center, on the road were two stations «Stalinskaya» and «park». Originally on the road working steam locomotive and two wooden wagon. A little later, the road got another locomotive, locomotives and wagons TU2 Pafawag. After the dethronement personality cult of Stalin, Stalin station was renamed the pioneer. At the same time, the road up a semi-locked. In the late 60’s on the road to profit TU3 locomotives, wagons PV51 and another locomotive TU2. A little later, the Polish car and engine were written off. In 90 years Pionerskaya station changed its name to Youth. Around that time, were written off TU3 locomotive and a diesel locomotive TU2. Since then and to this day on the road are diesel locomotive TU2-018 and two cars PV51. From time to time, the road is suffering from flooding, as is close to the river Oh. That is why, starting with the 2000-ies have been numerous attempts to shut down.

Uzhgorod Castle Uzhgorod Castle - fortifications in Uzhhorod (Transcarpathian Region), now used as a museum. The first mention about the castle belong to the IX century, when there was a settlement of white Croats. Annalist «Gösta gungarorum» specifies that Uzhgorod castle and the whole area around belonged to Prince Labortsu. Chronicler Nestor writes 898 years: «Ugrians come from the east through the mountains and ustremyashesya velikyya, иже prozvashasya mountains Ugorskyya and pochasha voevati for a living». At the end of X - at the beginning of XI century in Uzhgorod built stone castle as an administrative center of Committee of Ung. And in 1086 during raids Polovtsian horde khan Kuteska Uzhgorod Castle nomads were unable to take. In 1312, after the Italian brothers Drugety helped Charles Robert, a new dynasty of Anjou, to suppress the rebellion nadzhupana Peter Petén, Carl Robert gave his brothers Uzhgorod castle and lands. In Uzhgorod Castle Italian engineers on the project was the reconstruction - have been built new walls, erected in the corners of diamond-shaped bastions, the height of which reaches 10-15 m. In terms of it was wrong quadrangles - this is due to relief of the Castle Mountains. With three sides surrounded by the castle moat depth of 8-10 meters, which was spread through the lifting bridge. The thickness of the external wall 2,5-3. The palace-citadel, located opposite the main gate, on the edge of steep slope, is a stark two-building of rectangular shape with square towers at the corners. On the upper floor of the towers, thick walls which are up to 2,5-3 meters, as there are loopholes. In the fortification system of the castle palace - it is a citadel dominating.

Holy Vokresenskaya church Holy Vokresenskaya church - the first stone building of the city of Sumy. Consecrated in 1702. Trehsrubnoe, trehbannoe structure belongs to a particularly valuable type of temples, which harmoniously united traditional techniques and features a wooden and stone architecture of Ukraine. Features of the architectural layout Resurrection Church is its dvuhyarusnost. Lower (warm, «winter») the temple was consecrated in the name of Andrew, the heavenly defender Andrei Kondratyev, ceiling - in the name of the Resurrection of Christ. The church was not only holy cloister, but the defense and construction, about that show an unusually thick walls (thickness reaches a half meters) and deep incut window. Large basement church led to tunnel to the river Psyol

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Kharkov Welcome to Kharkov – one of the most important scientific and industrial centers of Eastern Ukraine. The city does not belong to the world famous tourist attractions, but there is a lot to see here too. No one Ukrainian city excepting only Kiev possesses so many historical, cultural and art landmarks. Kharkov’s museums display hundreds of thousands historical documental materials. Some of the documents are unique, of national importance.

oldest building which has preserved in the city. It is a typical Ukrainian threecupola church. There are some elements of Russian architecture in the external decoration of the building – that is an evidence of connection between Russian and Ukrainian cultures. The building was heavily damaged during the World War II. At the beginning of the 90-th the restoration of the cathedral began. At present it is a functioning orthodox church, a property of Kharkov’s church eparchy.

Historical heritage of Kharkov includes many monuments of different epochs. The city is especially rich in architectural monuments of the XIX-XX centuries. Some structures of the earlier period have preserved though. One of them is the Assumption Cathedral (1771-1777) built in the Russian Baroque style. It is the highest building in Kharkov (89,5 meters). Chiming clock rings melodious on the bell tower every hour. There is an organ in the hall. Concerts of the famous artists on tour and Kharkov’s performers of organ and chamber music take place here.

Kharkov’s Freedom Square is the main square of the city, the largest square in Ukraine and one of the largest in Europe. Festivals, concerts, fairs, demonstrations, meetings and other common events take place here.

The Protection Cathedral (1689) is the

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The period from 1917 to 1933 when Kharkov was the capital of Ukraine left an important imprint on the view and mentality of the city. Students of local lore know and can tell lots of amazing stories about it. Kharkov is a city of glorious traditions, city of extraordinary destiny, proud of its historical past.

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COSMOPOLIT

Cosmopolit is the first art hotel in Ukraine which is situated in a picturesque park zone in Kharkiv. Kharkiv is a dynamic “wind city” in the past - first capital of Ukraine, at present it is a scientific and student centre of the country. Kharkiv is a cozy green city with interesting architecture bright central streets, the largest square in Europe, green parks and unusual fountains. “Brilliant stream” is one of the fountains and it is a romantic symbol of the city. According to the legend a couple that sees its reflection in fountain is to be happy HOTEL Service Business center

Restaurant

Transfer

Conference service

Beaty salon

Booking office

Parking

Travel service

PRICE Standard

Superior

King

King de luxe 

95.65 €

119.55 €

163.25 €

195.65 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 49000, Dnepropetrovsk, Korolenko, 2 www.ukrrest.com

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KHARKIV

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We are happy to welcome you to Hotel Kharkov! Let us assure you that we are personally attended to each individual, customer’s need; we hope your stay with us is pleasing and your business appointments are all successful. We have prepared this Hotel Directory to enable you to use all services we are offering easy and convenient. If, however, we still omitted anything in this Directory of if you need any additional information please do not hesitate to contact our Reception HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Shoeshine

Conference service

Beaty salon

Excursions

Laundry

Equipment rental

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

42.00 €



65.21 €

72.85 €

Suite 

92.40 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 61022, Kharkov, Svobody, 7 www.hotel.kharkov.com

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Freedom Square Freedom Square - is the main city square, the largest in Ukraine. It regularly hosts various public events - folk festivals, fairs, concerts, demonstrations, rallies. The central object of the circular area is a unique historical and architectural monument - Gosprom, home state industry. Built in 20 he was. 20. He became the first high-rise buildings throughout the country, its total area is 11 thousand square meters. m and the length of the facade - 300 m. Area of freedom The right of the building is located Gosproma Kharkiv National University. VN Karazin - one of the largest and oldest (founded in 1805) universities. And next to it was opened in 1906 the monument to the founder - VN Karazin. Ensemble Square vomsietazhnaya complete hotel «Kharkiv» and the building of the Regional Council of People’s Deputies, which was built in 1954 on the site was destroyed during the war.

Pokrovsky Cathedral Pokrovsky Cathedral, built in the second half of 17., Is the oldest surviving urban buildings. Typically trehkupolnaya Ukrainian church is located near Constitution Square, in its external decoration traced elements of Russian architecture. The cathedral suffered greatly during the Great Patriotic War in the 90’s. it was restored and was handed over to the Orthodox Church.

Holy Annunciation Cathedral The Annunciation Cathedral is one of the oldest temples of the city of Kharkov. The original story of its origin and arranging is intertwined with the history of foundation of our city. On the founding of the first wooden church in the name of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary still little reliable information, and kept the difference between a casual nature and provide little historical material. [The main sources for this period may serve as the Church of the Annunciation “Kuryazhskie record” (from 1701 - 1720 gg.) “Register” (starting with 1727) and “Inventory church, dating from 1775] The emergence of the first related to the Church of the Annunciation the founding of Kharkiv. It is difficult to name an exact date for the temple grounds, but we can say with certainty that it was built no later than 1655, in conjunction with churches Nikolayev, Christmas, Voznesenskaya. This date is called the majority of historians and researchers (eg Bagaley, Miller, Archbishop. Filaret (Gumilevsky), Fr. Filevskaya Ivan). The church is located in the settlement, which later became Zalopanyu, or so-called zalopanskoy part of the city. Then it was a village of a few streets with wattle and daub cottages, the low marshy ground, surrounded by numerous Levada (low-lying flood meadows).

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Kherson - “The City on seven winds” On the high right bank of Dnepr river, under hot southern sun, open to the winds of boundless Tavria and piny smells of the ancient Gileja is located Kherson which is also called “the city on seven winds”, the capital of Lower Dnepr, Southern Palmyra. The city was founded in 1778 by Knyaz Potemkin at the place of Alexandr Shanz Fortification destroyed by Turks. The name Kherson is a contraction of an ancient Greek colony Chersonesos of Taurica. Streets, lanes and yards of old Kherson represent the history of architecture. Different architectural styles create unique “stone music” turning our imagination to the ancient times. Kherson region is rich in memorials of culture and architecture. There are old buildings, museums, landmarks, for example the remains of the Kherson Fortress of XVIII with the arsenal, the Greek Church of Saint Sophia, the Church of Saint Nicholas, the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit with a bell tower. A special place in the history of the city takes its founder Knyaz Potemkin. That is why a highlight of the excursion program is a visit to the Cathe-

dral of Saint Ekaterina, the burial place of Knyaz and reconstructed memorial to Potemkin which is considered to be one of the best memorials of modern Kherson. Really worth seeing in Kherson is a pearl of Kherson steppes – a biosphere reserve “Askanija Nova” named after F.Falz-Fein – the oldest and the most famous reserve of Ukraine. “Askanija Nova” is a unique land where there is the only one in Europe part of steppe which was never ploughed. It is the most valuable museum in an open air where ancient burial mounds, Scythian stone images made by ancient craftsmen have been preserved. The preserve contains a virgin steppe and leas, a dendrology park and a zoo with a unique collection of animals. In 2002 it was announced as National Property of Ukraine. A trip to Kherson oblast and the preserve “Askanija Nova” will live in you memory for ages like singing of larks, whisper of feather-grass and heady air of steppe.

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Family hotel

MAXIM MARINE

Yacht Club Maxim marine was launched in 2002. It is relatively young but swiftly developing Club of like-minded people in the sphere of water sports. We can proudly say that we have achieved a lot by now. Maxim marine provides unique highquality services taking the lead over other similar organizations within Ukraine. The unchallengeable advantage of Maxim marine is its favorable location at the crossing of the main waterways in the South and the 70 km distance to Black Sea. HOTEL Service Restaurant & bar

Tennis

Parking

Conference service

Gym

Swimming pool

Laundry

Sauna

PRICE Standard

England

Africa

59.25 €

80.00 €

108.00 €

Japan 

146.75 €

Include: • breakfast • parking • gym • safe box • pool • vat 74900, Kherson region, Novaya Kahovka, Dneprovskiy, 44-a www.ukrrest.com

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ORHIDEYA

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Hotel «Orchideya» cozily situated on the central street of the city Genichesk in close proximity to the market and the urban beach. Hotel Complex is a rich interior, the high level of service. Hotel Orchid “is ready to offer you a number of varying degrees of comfort, which meet all current international standards. Hotel is certified for category 3 stars. HOTEL Service Conference service

Fitness center

Restaurant

Business center

Gifts shop

Billiard

Booking office

Park area

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

35.00 €



40.00 €

65.05 €

Include: • breakfast • parking • vat 75500, Kherson region, Genichesk, Mira, 93

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Suite 

95.00 €

Biosphere Reserve Askania Nova Biosphere Reserve Askania Nova - a unique corner of nature: there is only one in Europe of the steppes, who had never dealt with a plow (once excavated steppe will not be restored). Reserve Askania Nova assigned to the «100 greatest reserves and parks» world book of the same name, published in the Moscow publishing house «Chamber» in 2002 (author-originator NA Yudina). The open air museum: the single preserved ancient burial mounds, stone Scythian women, created by ancient sculptor. The reserve covers an area of 11 hectares.; Adjacent to the park with artificial ponds and canals, with its many animals and birds. In Askaniyskoy steppes of more than 400 species of herbs and flowers, is dominated by grasses. At the end of April zatsvetayut tulips, irises and then, astragaly, hyacinth, ranunculus. In May - carnations, daisies. During the summer the steppe, wrapped in silvery haze feather grass, overflows in waves from the slightest breath of wind. A standard gopher grows curtain sage-sizoy wormwood. Askaniysky Park area of about 200 hectares. Significantly different from the wild steppe zone. It is divided according to a strict schedule. weeping.

Ekaterininsky Cathedral An outstanding monument of history and architecture of the XVIII century - Ekaterininsky Cathedral - was built in the style of early classicism, using motifs of Balkan medieval architecture. Cathedral founded by Ivan Hannibal Ochakivskoi by the west gate of the fortress of Kherson August 30, 1781 But after changing the project began construction in 1782, the architect of Moscow, Ivan M. Sitnikov. The church is the tomb of the founder of Kherson Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin-Taurida from its walls - a necropolis of Heroes Russian-Turkish war of 1787-1791 biennium. In the cathedral in 1787 at the solemn liturgy attended the Empress Catherine II. In the 1792-1794 biennium. The church regularly attended Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. Three pairs of the entrance of a cathedral frankovani pivkruglih niches with statues of saints in full view. Head west portico is decorated with figures of apostles Peter and Paul Church, North and South - St. Mary Magdalene, and Catherine repeated twice. Its author, a well-known Moscow sculptor GN Zamaraeva (major restoration work to restore the sculptures from the rubble in 1968-1969 spent F. Liakh).

Kherson Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater. N. Kulisha Kherson Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater. N. Kulisha - one of the biggest drama theaters in southern Ukraine. Theatrical Arts in Kherson its roots to the 30-ies of the last century. In 1823 - 1828 of the nobility of Kherson province purchased a house purchase, General Lobri and in 1830 of the adapted one of its facilities for the theater, where yutilos theatrics 50. In August 1846 came MS Shchepkin, taking part in the presentation of Kherson fans, later wrote that he liked the local amateur team, liked the friendly audience, but I did not like the theater room - a close and uncomfortable. Kherson audience already liked his theater. Even such a premise, as a rule, it was crowded. In 1883 at the initiative of Governor OS Erdeli at a meeting of city council agreed to begin construction of facilities in Kherson theater. The project undertook an architect VA Dombrovsky, which took place as the basis of the Odessa Opera House. November 6, 1936 realized premiere of “The winners of Death” (play V. Vlasov), in Kherson the new theater. Nazivalsya he Kherson municipal Ukrainian Drama Theater, and then Kherson Oblast Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater since 1990 - to them. Nicholas Kulish, and in 2005 the Kherson Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater. N. Kulisha.

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Museum City Pereyaslav-Khmelnitskiy During more then 1100 years one of the oldest Slavic cities PereyaslavKhmelnitskiy lies on the left bank of Dniepr river. Many prominent for Ukraine historical events are connected with this city. The population of Pereyaslav region participated actively in revolts of peasants and Cossacks against the Polish gentry and in the Liberation War with Bogdan Khmelnitskiy at the head against the pressure of landlords in 1648-1654. The famous Pereyaslav Rada took place here in 1654 and became the turning point in development of Ukraine. Make a tour of this wonderful Museum City which counts up to 400 cultural and historical monuments. Between them are unique monuments regarded as national patrimony: the Ascension Cathedral (1696-1700) built at the expenses of Hetman Mazepa, the bell tower of the Ascension monastery (1776), the Collegium of Pereyaslav (1753), St. Michael’s church (1666).

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The ancient princely town of Pereyaslav is inseparably connected with the National historical and ethnographical reserve including more then 20 museums. Between them are the Museum of kobzaplaying art, the Museum of Ukrainian national clothing, the Museum of beekeeping history, the Museum of national customs and rites history, the first in the world Museum of the bread. Worth seeing is the Museum of national architecture and everyday life of the Trans-Dniepr Region. It was opened in 1964 in a small house located in the suburb of the city. Now it represents a real Ukrainian village of the XVII-XIX centuries with churches, houses and mills. Different implements, dishes, home stuff and many other unique exhibits are displayed here. The Museum of Ukrainian rushnyk (national embroidered towel) displays more then 300 exhibits from different places of Ukraine. Visit it and may be a boundless world of Ukrainian soul will open up to you.

LIBYD PLAZA

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The hotel is located in the heart of the city of Khmelnitsky in 8 and 6 floors of shopping-hotel-entertainment complex «LYBID Plaza». From the windows guests beautiful panoramic view of the central part of the city. The building complex is equipped with a purge ventilation, fire safety, video, as well as its own boiler house, providing an uninterrupted water supply and heating. The founders of the hotel arranged a high level of service and security. HOTEL Service Conference service

Parking

Bowling

Gifts shop

Exchange

Billiard

Room service

Casino

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

38.00 €

43.80 €

55.00 €

Suite 

87.00 €

Include: • vat 29000,Khmelnitsky, Kamyanetskaya, 21 www.ukrrest.com

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SEVEN DAYS

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You - traveler ... hot heart Kamenetz-Podolsky, and encourage you - here you are on the streets ... its Castle and Princes Koriatovichey, Frank and Galicki, they lead you to the ancient castle, where the wall nasheptyvayut you about the old legends of knights, and the glory of their valiant deeds Kamenetz-Podolsky ... a place where history comes alive, it is in every stone bridge on which you want to walk again and again ... Our hotel «7 Days» gladly raspahnet its doors for you to relax after long and exhausting walk, and many restaurants will offer dishes of national, Japanese and Thai cuisine. HOTEL Service Restaurant

Parking

Exchange

Conference service

Laundry

Travel service

Beauty salon

Kids Club

PRICE

Sngl

26.75 €

Dbl standard

Junior suite

35.25 €

44.00 €

Suite 

57.50 €

Include: • breakfast • diner • vat 32300, Khmelnitsky region, Kamyanets-Podilskiy, Sobornaya, 4 www.ukrrest.com

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Kamenetz-Podolskaya Fortress Kamenets – Podolsky is one of the ancient cities of Podolskaya land with rich history. For many centuries it was an important fortress between different cultures and world outlook. Kamenets – Podolsky is primarily known as a city – fortress, the medieval part of which is located on a picturesque rocky island which was formed over millions of years by the Smotrich river. It organically combines features of the natural peculiarities of the territory and man – built constructions. The first written mention of the city belonged to 1228. The defense ensemble consists of a castle and city fortifications. The first stone building of the castle was built in the XII – XIII centuries.

The museum of the history of bee – keeping The museum is situated in the house of the end of the XIX century which was moved from the village of Pomokly of the Pereyaslav – Khmelnitsky region. There are plates and dishes for keeping honey of Kievan Rus period. In the center of the house there is a nest box for two bee’s families which were hung at the height of 8-10 meters with a help of special wheel.

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The cradle of Ukrainian Cossacks Welcome to a picturesque city Cherkasy with rich history full of dramatic and heroic events. A permanent settlement Cherkasy was known since the end of XIII century. The first colonies of Cossacks on the land of Cherkasy appeared in the XV century. The town was a powerful stronghold against the Polish gentry, raids of the Turks and Crimean Tatars. The Cossacks of Cherkassy became especially famous in the period when Ostap Dashkevitsh was the starosta (head) of both Kaniv and Cherkasy and strengthened the role of the town as the centre of Ukrainian Cossacks. A special place in the history of Cherkassy takes the Cherkassy regiment founded in 1625 as one of the regiments of registered Cossacks. During the Defensive War of Ukrainian folk he took part in all important battles of Cossacks’ forces of the Hetman (leader) Bogdan Khmelnitskiy. Cherkassy became the capital of Cherkassy oblast (province) of Ukraine in 1954. During the sightseeing tour you will have a possibility to see historical and architectural memorials of the city: houses of the prosperous bourgeois Maiborody and Shtsherbiny, the building of the former hotel “Slavjanskiy”, male and female gymnasiums. Holy places for inhabitants and guests of the city are the memorial complex “The heel of glory” (“Kholm pamjati”) with the monument

“Motherland” (“Rodina-mat’”), statues of T.Shevchenko and B.Khmelnitskiy. You can visit a real Buddhist temple, the unique in Europe “Slavjanskiy Shaolin” existing more then 15 years. One of a few ancient houses has been preserved in the historical centre of Cherkassy. This building constructed in 1852 was famous as the House of Tsybulinski. Now it is a unique establishment – the Museum of One Book “Kobzar” of T.G.Shevchenko. The museum represents the history of publication of Shevchenko’s works, sources of his creation, the most interesting issues and the evolution of illustrations of Shevchenko’s poetry as well as translations of “Kobzar” into different languages of world folks. But not only historical landmarks make Cherkassy so attractive. Inhabitants of the modern city can not imagine their city without the Memorial to a Plumber and the Memorial to a Varenik (a dish of Ukrainian cuisine: a kind of stuffed dumplings). The last memorial represents Cossack Mamay eating vareniki. Behind his back is a huge varenik in crescent form. A sightseeing tour of Cherkassy usually ends near the music fountain, water in which moves in time with music. There is a good tradition to trough a coin into the fountain to come back to this city.

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Sport-hotel

SELENA

Sport-hotel «SELENIUM» was created for those who appreciate the cultural recreation and sports entertainment and the beauty of wildlife. Comfortable hotel bungalows and naturally and easily fit into the natural landscape and pine forest. Here you can perfectly have a rest, fill power, play tennis and volleyball. There many opportunities for active and fun entertainment for kids. An excellent restaurant trump card Hinkali happy you are not only stylish interior, but the beauty of Georgian cuisine. The complex is located in the beautiful and untouched corner of Cherkassy region, directly on the bank of the Dnieper. HOTEL Service Conference service

Restaurant & Bar

Laundry

Fitness service

Parking

Room service

Tennis

Billiard

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

Bungalow 

62.30 €

73.35 €

106.00 €

150.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 18000, Cherkassy region, pos. Svidivok, Duhnovicha, 21 www.ukrrest.com

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UKRAINE

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Hotel Ukraine is one of the best hotels in Cherkassy and exists since 2001. If you visit our hotel you get into friendly atmosphere and can feel as at home! Convenient position of the hotel will make your stay even more pleasant because of piney woods around it! Ukraine Hotel offers 44 comfortable hotel rooms & suites with all facilities. Every hotel room has an air-conditioner, a mini-bar, a TV-set, a telephone, a bathroom. For special guests there are presidential suites HOTEL Service Conference service

Car-parking

Bowling Club

Restaurant & Cafe

Casino

Room service

Finnish sauna

Wi-Fi

PRICE

Sngl

Suite

Apartments 

52.00 €

60.00 €

125.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 18000, Cherkassy, Sosnovka district, Lesnaya, 1

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hotel Slavskaya At the intersection of ul. Khreschatik and st. O. Dashkevich is building, completed in the Neo-Gothic style (late 19th century.) Corner House, given the urban location, settled pentagonal volume, high-crowned pointed tent. The facade of the building is decorated with numerous decorative details, thin needle with turrets and domes of graceful columns. The house has three balconies, one of which was delivered more than 2.5 meters and was based on thin iron columns. It is located underneath the entrance to the building - the hotel «Slavyanskaya», belonging predrinimatelyu Skaryna. Since January 1919 the building was the headquarters of red rebels. After the revolution, and until the mid 70’s in the building located hotel «Dnepr», and then there are several government agencies. The first floor occupied cafe «Dnipro». In 1986, the building, previously subjected to the restoration, just was not killed because of the funding stops. Currently, the building has offices «Ukrsotsbank».

Sofiyivka National Park dendrological «Sofiyivka» - Park, Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, located in the northern city of Uman, Cherkasy region of Ukraine, on the banks of the Kamenka river. Nowadays it is a place of rest. Every year, it visited about 500 thousand people. Area - 179.2 ha. Park «Sofiyivka» was founded in 1796 by the operator of the city of Uman, a Polish magnate Stanislav Potocki, named in honor of his wife Sophia Witt-Pototskaya and presented it to the day name in May 1802. The author of topographical and architectural design and construction of the head of the park was designated Polish military engineer Ludwig Mettsel, and all work performed in the park directly serfs Uman. The park was created in an almost treeless area of shared river Kamenkov, beams and canyons, which crashed into the granite, often comes to the surface. When you create a terrain park skilfully used, but without a regularly scheduled plan. In the process of completing work on individual plots were planted with local and exotic trees and shrubs, then built the first architecture and set up decorations in the form of sculptures, mostly antique. The main composition of the park runs through the channel of Kamenka, where a number of self-built pools and ponds: Upper - over 8 hectares, lower - about 1.5 ha, and others, waterfalls (one of them 14 meters high), gateways, pathways, underground river Aheront ( length 224 m).

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Ancient Chernigov

A walk through the old city Chernigov and acquaintance with a lot of temples, museums, legends is a real journey back in time to the epoch of Kievan Rus. The city was first mentioned in the written documents in 907, but according to the archeological digs Chernigov was founded earlier. A famous landmark of the city is the St. Catherine Church. You can see this magnificent temple before you have crossed the city boundary – the church is located on a high cape. The history of the heroic temple comes back to 1715 when it was erected in honor of Chernigov polkovnyk (colonel) Jacob Lyzohub as a memorial to his regiment’s exploits during the storm of Turkish Fortress Azov in 1696. During some last years the both Kiev and Moscow Patriarchies struggled against this temple. A tent city was established to blockade the St. Catherine Church and stood during 2 years. As a result the church belongs now to Kiev Patriarchy.

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Worth seeing is the Saviour Cathedral, constructed in 1036 in times of government of Knyaz Mstislav Vladimirivich the Bold. The temple is unique between the memorials of Byzantine architecture. In XVIII the construction was hardly damaged, and now two of its domes are spinescent. This form is corresponding more with catholic then with orthodox traditions. Previous the domes were used as a sundial according to which priests could know time of divine service accurate within 5 minutes. According to a legend on days of orthodox holiday Assumption of the Virgin Mary a ghost of Motrja Kochubey, a young mistress and a god-daughter of the aged Hetman Mazepa appears in the centre of Chernigov. The house where Mazepa hid Motrja was built at the end of XVII. Near this building called “Mazepa’s house” people see the ghost of the girl who was damned by her mother for shameful relations.

Sport-hotel

KVELTA

Hotel KVELTA European level is located in downtown Nizhyn. Clients appreciate us for the cosiness and comfort. You can expect a high level of service. All rooms are equipped with air conditioning, telephone, mini-bar, also have a separate shower and a system of individual climate control, all necessary for making tea or coffee. Pride Hotel KVELTA - the same restaurant, where you will meet qualified perstonal hours. Wide range of delicious dishes. HOTEL Service Restaurant & Bar

Parking

Travel service

Banquet hall

Exchange

Gifts shop

Sauna

Billiard

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Suite

Apartments 

44.00 €



65.25 €

89.00 €

165.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 16600, Chernigiv region, Nigyn, Shevchenka, 2 www.ukrrest.com

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UKRAINE

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Our hotel was opened in 1961. Its convenient location in the very centre of both ancient and always young Chernihiv gives an opportunity to get to any part of our city quickly and without any obstacles. There is Central Post-Office, banks, shops, automatic teller machines (ATM). The theatre, cafes, a chemist’s, the Central Market etc. In the lobby on the first floor there is a reception counter where you will be welcomed by our receptionist on duty who will give you all necessary information HOTEL Service Restaurant

Business center

Salon of beauty

Gifts shop

Parking

Laundry

PRICE

Sngl

Dbl standard

Junior suite

32.00 €

53.25 €

57.00 €

Suite 

63.90 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 14000, Chernigiv, Mira, 33 www.ukrrest.com

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Antonievy cave Construction of the caves have been widespread in many countries around the world even in ancient times. Many of the cave is well preserved until our times. These dungeons are always full of mysteries, they piled a lot of legends, but their spirit impregnated inexpressible calm and quiet. In Russia with the widespread adoption of Christianity as the construction of the caves cult destination. Under the ground were built not only monastic cells, churches, and entire monasteries. The most well-known in Ukraine - the cave svyatogorsk Crimea, as well as mazes pozemnye Lavra and Chernigov. Of these historical monuments. Antonievy caves in Chernigov, perhaps, one of the most interesting. In 1069 there was created an underground Christian monastery by Prince Svyatoslav Yaroslavichem and well-known church leader, now a revered Christian saints - Reverend Anthony Pecherskiy. Originally it was called Bogorodichnym, as described in the chronicles. Annalist alleges that Anthony came to Chernigov, fleeing from the Kievan prince Izyaslav. St. Anthony Boldino dwelt on the mountain, dug a cave. In Ipatiev chronicles described as: «Anthony prished to Chernigiv and loved Boldin mountain cave deposits, and the give and it is the Holy Virgin Monastery in the mountains Boldin still days». Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov wanted Anthony founded the monastery did not concede the KyivPechersk monastery. Boldin mountains selected saints, suitable for this purpose in all respects. The soil is allowed to build the underground churches and the ravine where the cave was dug Anthony, went to the holy tract - the place where according to the baptized people of Chernigov.

Catherine’s Church Catherine’s Church in Chernigov - an outstanding monument of architecture in the style of Ukrainian (Cossack) Baroque XVII - XVIII centuries., Preserved in authentic form and influence the further development of the Ukrainian church architecture of the XVIII century. Monument of Architecture is located in the historic part of town, near the ancient Chernihiv Detintsa in the future Zemlyakov alleys and highways Kyiv - Chernihiv, and is one of the architectural building of the town. The church was built in memory of the heroism of the Chernihiv Cossack regiment under the command of Colonel and nakaznogo Hetman James Lyzogubov shown during the storming of the Turkish fortress of Azov in 1696. The temple was consecrated in 1715 in honor of St. Catherine of honor in Ukraine from ancient times.

Transfiguration Cathedral built Transfiguration Cathedral built about 1033-34 years Chernigov Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich, after the death of which, apparently, for some time to build and was finished only in the middle of the century. He became the main temple of ancient Russian cities and principalities of Chernigov-Severski, now is the only preserved on the left bank of Ukraine monument to the monumental stone architecture of the flourishing period of Kievan Rus. This magnificent five-vosmistolpovy temple. On his former rich interior decoration show remnants of frescoes, carved panels choirs, sex columns. Over the centuries it has been repeatedly rebuilt. In XVIII-XIX centuries, in particular, the wraps were two towers, after which the cathedral has become the current view. In the Savior Transfiguration Cathedral lie the remains of Prince Igor Seversky, hailed by «Word about Igor` s Shelf », and other princes of the same era. Transfiguration Cathedral survived until our days, almost entirely, but partially rebuilt: it was subjected to alterations after the devastating fire in 1756. All domestic premises burnt. Burnt wooden choirs were not restored. Kreschalnya was broken in the south-western corner of the temple, but instead built a round tower, symmetrical left ancient tower with stairs to the choir. Both towers have been installed spiers huge quantities that distorted image of the ancient church.

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Chernovtsy – on the verge of Empires Chernovtsy is located in the centre of Europe on the banks of Prut River in the footheels of Carpathians. The city fascinates its guests with a lot of architectural memorials of European level and with amazing history in the course of which the city became a part of different states and empires many times. According to the archeological digs the populous fortress-city “Chern” appeared in XII century at the southern boarder of Galician state. Since 1359 Chernovtsy is a part of Moldavian state. The first written records about Chernovtsy date bake to the 8th October 1408. This date is considered to be the official Foundation Day of the city. A lot of architectural monuments were built from the middle of XIX to the beginning of XX: the City Hall (Ratusha) (1848), the Post Office (1855), the Armenian church (1875), the Jewish synagogue (1877), the Drama theatre (1905), the Palace of Justice (1906), the building of Railroad Station (1908). There are more then 20 important monuments here. Chernovtsy went through seven empire epochs, each of them left a mark on the appearance of the city. At the time of Austrian empire the monument of Imperial Eagle was erected. After the city passed into the hands of Rumanian the new heads built a symbolic group at the same place: Rumanian ox holding a hoof above the Austrian eagle. Ukrainian students often left water and hay in front of the ox and were persecuted by the Rumanian police. Later the monument to Lenin was erected at the same place, but it stood not long too.

The statues to the authors Taras Shevchenko and Olga Kobyljanskaja, the cubistic monument to the ethnographer and politician Jurij Fedkovich, the memorial to a warrior-liberator stand at their places to present day waiting for curious tourists. The city was built according to the architectural traditions of the Vienna Academy of Arts by the leading architects. Fortunately it was practically not damaged in the wartime of the XX century. There are only three cities in Ukraine reserving their authenticity: Lvov, Odessa and Chernovtsy. Between the most significant memorial of architecture is the Descent of the Holy Spirit Cathedral constructed in 1864 according to the project of Viennese architect Ferdinand Roll. The cathedral reserved its status from the moment of building to 1960 when it was closed in the course of current antireligious campaign. Many years the building was empty. In 1976 the reconstruction of the cathedral began: it was intended to be a show-room of consume-goods and a picture gallery. In 1989 the building of cathedral was returned to the Orthodox church. The remains of defensive redoubts of the period of Russian-Turkish War 1768-1774 let us feel a spirit of military confrontation which reigned in the city located at the edge of World’s empires during many ages.

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BUKOVINA

The hotel is situated in the middle of the park zone of Chernivtsi. The transport communication here is apt, infrastructure is perfect. You’ll enjoy the landscape of the old part of the city. We hope that our hotel will charm you with its inimitable style and refinement. European comfort and sophisticated Bukovina coloring are successfully combined here. It is commonly suitable for VIP persons’ business meetings; for couples’ romantic rendezvous; for untiring travelers who will feel here like at home. HOTEL Service Conference room

Tourist agency

Parking

Swimming pool

Beauty Salon

Restaurant

Summer ground

Sauna

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Suite

Elite Suite  

19.50 €



27.15 €

39.90 €

65.00 €

Include: • breakfast • vat 58022, Chernivtsi, Holovna, 141 www.ukrrest.com

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New modern hotel «Premium» - the hotel will combine the best: the number of highest level, superior service and incomparable hospitality. Favorable location in the central part of the city in a park area. Hotel European level «Premium» designed in Art Nouveau style, which is in harmony with the classics

HOTEL Service Conference room

Restaurant

Parking

Tintoreria

Laundry

Night Club

Exchange

Billiards

PRICE Sngl

Dbl standard

Suite

Elite Suite  

27.20 €



32.00 €

38.90 €

55.00€

Include: • breakfast • vat 58003, Chernivtsi, Holovna, 124b

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Assumption Church One hundred years ago (1908) from Moscow merchants Gleba and Olga Ovsiannikov died young son Alexander. In memory of him, parents provided a solid amount (500 thousand karbovanetses gold) for the erection of the temple. Designed the Assumption Cathedral in the Austrian architect Clicking old Russian «naryshkinskom» style. The walls of the temple are available from the turquoise glazurirovannogo bricks, which were brought specially from Moscow. Perhaps, therefore, the temple resembles the famous St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Assumption Cathedral - the subject of great pride, and at the same time, a source of constant entertainment. The distant location of shrines attracts adventurers. How much was stolen unique icons and books, created even before the split of the church, just today one can not say.

Residence Metropolitans Bukovina Residence Metropolitans Bukovina - it is an architectural complex - Pearl Chernivtsy pinnacle of creativity and the famous Czech architect and scientist Joseph head. The residence is a balanced group of three main buildings around a beautiful square. At the head of this space is headquartered in metropolitan shrine. On both sides - a seminar and a home for visitors. The ensemble is organically complemented by the Church, and culminating domes and towers. The construction of the palace building has become a real event for Chernivtsy, near the town were built brick factories, the new stone, from Vienna, Prague and other cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire arrived well-known masters and builders. Among them was Carl and Yobst, who along with Karl Freedom has developed and implemented the interior design of the ensemble. Today, in the former premises of the residence located three faculty Chernivtsi national university, but the learning process does not hinder tourists to admire the beautiful structure, combining form of medieval architecture with the ways and traditions of Byzantium, in conjunction with a local touch.

Hotinskiy castle In the XV-XVI centuries. Khotyn castle was the residence of Moldovan owners. In September - early October 1621 near the walls of the fortress Khotyn events Khotyn famous battle, which glorified Zaporizhzhya Cossacks and their hetman Petro Konashevych-Sagaidachnogo and became a turning point in the history of the Ottoman Empire. The victory by Khotin saved Western Europe from invasion janissary, made a strong impression on all people and is reflected in the literature.

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Author: Kononov Sergey Designer: Didenko Tetyana Translator: Kocherova Olga

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