UKRAINE
The tourist board's catchphrase is, it's all about you. In my case that's doubly true, U for Ukraine and U as a text word You for me personally, because my paternal ancestors came from Lviv. Four generations back the family name was Lemberger, meaning from Lemberg. Later the name was Anglicised. One day I decided to ask my father about family history and did some research and found that Lemberg was Lviv or Lvov. But what else has Ukraine got to offer you?
Ukraine For Tourists
Top of the tourist list would be Kiev, Odessa and Lviv. If you were coming from the west, the border town would be Lviv.
Unfortunately some of Ukraine is inaccessible or dangerous because it is a war zone. People tell me that the war is on the East, and Lviv is in the far west, far away from the war zone. How far? The country is the largest country in Europe, 603,500 square kilometers. The population is 45 million, less than the UK. Lots of forest.
Ukraine has the capital city of Kiev as well as Odessa. The capital of Ukraine is Kyiv.
Lviv and Kyiv (Kiev), evocative and romantic names. Before the pogroms and wars and the holocausts and nuclear disaster. But what can you see today? Museums, grand buildings, or what. Here is my research and wish list.
Odessa
Opera house said to be one of the top five most beautiful opera houses in the world.
Kiev
Motto: Everything starts in Kiev. The city is known as the city of golden domes.
Kiev has the deepest Metro (underground railway station) in the world. The station is called Arsenalna (after the nearby arsenal) and it is 105 metres deep. it was built in 1960.
If you look at the city map and map of the metro it will help you to learn the (cyrilic) alphabet. Metro is written as Metpo. So p is pronounced r. Andrew's Descent is Andriivskyi Uzviz. So v is W. Y is I as in Kyiv for Kiev.
Watch out for museums being closed on Sunday or Monday and check times.
Lviv
I associate Lviv with Masoch, the man whose later books gave rise to the words masochism and sad-masochism. A cafe is associated with Masoch. However, equally interesting is the news that Lviv is known for chocolate and has 1500 cafes. You'll also find a brewery museum.
In addition to the expected National Gallery of art, a couple of places associated with puppets. In addition to the universities, a museum of ideas. In addition to the expected assorted historic churches, a museum to religion and a Jewish quarter.
Here's a three day tour put together by KIY Avia West. Their motto is KIY AVIA WEST is Ukraine's best.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, researcher, author and speaker.
The tourist board's catchphrase is, it's all about you. In my case that's doubly true, U for Ukraine and U as a text word You for me personally, because my paternal ancestors came from Lviv. Four generations back the family name was Lemberger, meaning from Lemberg. Later the name was Anglicised. One day I decided to ask my father about family history and did some research and found that Lemberg was Lviv or Lvov. But what else has Ukraine got to offer you?
Ukraine For Tourists
Top of the tourist list would be Kiev, Odessa and Lviv. If you were coming from the west, the border town would be Lviv.
Unfortunately some of Ukraine is inaccessible or dangerous because it is a war zone. People tell me that the war is on the East, and Lviv is in the far west, far away from the war zone. How far? The country is the largest country in Europe, 603,500 square kilometers. The population is 45 million, less than the UK. Lots of forest.
Ukraine has the capital city of Kiev as well as Odessa. The capital of Ukraine is Kyiv.
Lviv and Kyiv (Kiev), evocative and romantic names. Before the pogroms and wars and the holocausts and nuclear disaster. But what can you see today? Museums, grand buildings, or what. Here is my research and wish list.
Odessa
Opera house said to be one of the top five most beautiful opera houses in the world.
Kiev
Motto: Everything starts in Kiev. The city is known as the city of golden domes.
Kiev has the deepest Metro (underground railway station) in the world. The station is called Arsenalna (after the nearby arsenal) and it is 105 metres deep. it was built in 1960.
If you look at the city map and map of the metro it will help you to learn the (cyrilic) alphabet. Metro is written as Metpo. So p is pronounced r. Andrew's Descent is Andriivskyi Uzviz. So v is W. Y is I as in Kyiv for Kiev.
- St Sophia Cathedral. Climb the belfry. See the bell tower's 20 bells. Gold domes and green rooftops.
- St Michael's golden-domed monastery. Wishing fountain.
- St Andrew's Descent. Sloping street like Montmartre.
- Monastery with caves Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Carry candles in the cave labyrinth.
- National Museum of History of the Great patriotic War. Huge museum to German-Russian conflict in WWII, 1941-5. Statue of the Motherland, like the Statue of Liberty, 62 metres high.
- Landscape Alley, sculpture park and 3D climb-on murals.
- Pharmacy Museum.
- National Museum of Literature.
- Kyiv Literary Memorial house-Museum of T Shevchenko. (In Shevchenko Lane.)
- Literary Memorial Museum of M Bulgakov (on St Andrew's descent)
Watch out for museums being closed on Sunday or Monday and check times.
Lviv
I associate Lviv with Masoch, the man whose later books gave rise to the words masochism and sad-masochism. A cafe is associated with Masoch. However, equally interesting is the news that Lviv is known for chocolate and has 1500 cafes. You'll also find a brewery museum.
In addition to the expected National Gallery of art, a couple of places associated with puppets. In addition to the universities, a museum of ideas. In addition to the expected assorted historic churches, a museum to religion and a Jewish quarter.
Here's a three day tour put together by KIY Avia West. Their motto is KIY AVIA WEST is Ukraine's best.
- Bus tour.
- Opera house tour. (And see opera performance.)
- Hand made chocolate factory. Lviv chocolate factory. (See TripAdvisor.)
- Climb town hall tower.
- Tour Jewish quarter.
- Lviv Brewery Museum and restaurant.
- www.kawest.com.ua
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, researcher, author and speaker.
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