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Odesa 176uah, 12 hours, four daily
Rakhiv 81uah, 7¾ hours, once daily
Simferopol 432uah, 24 hours, up to three daily
Ternopil 94uah, two hours, 14 daily
Uzhhorod 85uah to 110uah, six hours, up to five daily
Vinnytsya 111uah to 136uah, 6½ hours, nine daily
International trains serve Moscow (25 hours, daily), St Petersburg (28 hours, daily), Brat-
islava (18 hours, daily) and Minsk (12 hours, daily).
The most painless way to acquire a train ticket is to use the Soviet-era but centrally
located Train Ticket Office OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP (vul Hnatyuka 20;
8am-2pm
& 3-8pm Mon-Sat, to 6pm Sun) .
TRAVEL FROM LVIV TO POLAND
With budget airlines flying into neighbouring Polish cities, Lviv is a popular transit
point in and out of Ukraine. However, Poland's EU accession and rampant cigarette
smuggling have made border delays even longer.
There are several routes between Lviv and the Polish airports in Kraków and
Rzeszow, and different travellers have different preferences. Some recommend the
train to and from the Polish border town of Przemysl, where you can at least sit
during the average two- to three-hour waiting time. Others prefer to jam them-
selves on the much quicker marshrutka(fixed-route minibus) 297 between Lviv
train station and the road crossing at Shehyni/Medyka (20uah, 1½ hours, hourly),
where they alight, walk across the border, and then take another marshrutka on-
wards. This can be the quickest route and handy if you need to leave Lviv for Poland
after the last train has departed. Beware though; the marshrutkyare crowded and
you have to stand in often long border queues (EU passport holders are sometimes
sent to the front of the line).
Getting Around
To reach the city centre from the airport, take trolleybus 9 to the university (vul Univer-
sytetska) or bus 48 to the corner of vul Doroshenka and pr Svobody.
Lviv is riddled with tramlines and trolleybus wires and marshrutky dart across the
cobbles and into spaces between other vehicles that sometimes turn out to be too small.
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