Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Don your widest trousers and grow a ponytail to visit the Cossacks on Khortytsya
Island in Zaporizhzhya ( Click here ).
Play football in the Soledar salt mine ( Click here ) , 300m underground.
Visit the pretty cave monastery burrowed into dazzling chalk cliff at Sviatohirsk
( Click here ) .
Sleep, eat and dance at the Beatles-themed alternative universe of Liverpool in
Donetsk ( Click here ).
Watch Shakhtar's home games at the technologically advanced Donbass Arena in
Donetsk ( Click here ).
Take Ukraine's fastest express train to the lively spa town of Myrhorod ( Click
here ) .
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Chernihiv
0462 / POP 296,000
Modestly receding into provincial obscurity for the past millennium, Chernihiv,
Ukraine's most northerly city, was once a a Kyivan Rus (the first eastern Slavic state)
heavyweight frequented by 11th-century royalty. The residue of those glory days is a
tight cluster of churches on a green bluff in the city's historical core, now a Unesco-listed
site and one of the highlights of Polissya. Otherwise, this northern outpost is laced with a
slow, provincial charm, the inert Desna River seemingly having given up on ever meet-
ing the Dnipro, the population still deeming foreigners worthy of a stare on the dusty
streets. The town makes for an easy day trip from the capital or book ahead for a night
out in the cuds and a bit of deeper exploration into this seldom-visited corner of rural
Ukraine.
Sights
Dytynets FORT
(enter from vul Preobrazhenska) From Krasna pl it's a three-minute walk southeast along pr
Myru to the old historic core, known as the Dytynets ('citadel' in old Russian). Today it's
an informal park dotted with domed churches overlooking the Desna River. The high-
light is the 12th-century Boryso-Hlibsky Cathedral (admission 15uah;
10am-6pm,
 
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