International Youth Hostel Yaroslav
Hostel is located in lower part of the city called Podil on 10 Yaroslavska street, with lots of shops, cafeterias, grocery stores, train and air ticket offices, hairdressers' and internet-cafes. There are several Universities around the hostel ...
International Youth Hostel Olympic
International Youth Hostel Olympic is located within a 5
min. walk from 'Lisova' metro station on the left bank of Dnipro river. It takes only about 20 minutes by metro to reach
downtown ...
Youth Hotel Yunnat
You can get to Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Podil by public transport within 20-25 min. There are 54 beds in triple, twin and single cosy rooms. In all
rooms WC, washstand. In some twin rooms TV, refrigerator. Shower roomsare situated on the floors. We can arrange excursions and tours around the Ukraine
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Kiev, also Kyiv (Ukrainian: Київ, Kyyiv, Russian: Ки́ев, Kiyev; see also Cities' alternative names) is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. Since 2001, Kiev has officially had 2,660,401 inhabitants, though this figure has likely grown to more than 3.5 million since then.[1] Administratively, Kiev is a national-level subordinated municipality, independent from surrounding Kiev Oblast. Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational and cultural center of Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education institutions, world-famous historical landmarks. The city has an extensive infrastructure and highly developed system of public transport, including a Kiev Metro system.
The name of Kiev comes from the name of Kyi, one of four legendary founders of the city (brothers Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and sister Lybid). During its history, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of great prominence and relative obscurity. The city is believed to have been founded in the 5th century as a trading post in the land of Early East Slavs. It gradually acquired eminence as the center of the East Slavic civilization, becoming in the tenth to twelfth centuries a political and cultural capital of Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Completely destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1240, the city lost most of its influence for the centuries to come. It was a provincial capital of marginal importance in the outskirts of the territories controlled by its powerful neighbors: first the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, followed by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and, finally, Russia. The city prospered again during the Russian industrial revolution in the late 19th century. After the turbulent period following the Russian Revolution of 1917, from 1921 onwards Kiev was an important city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and, since 1934, its capital. During World War II, the city again suffered significant damage, but quickly recovered in the post-war years becoming the third most important city of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Kiev remains the capital of Ukraine, independent since 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Kiev is known as a green city with two botanical gardens and numerous large and small parks. The green nature of the city is probably most notable by the overgrown and mostly untouched by urbanization hills on the right bank along the Dnieper river. There the World War II Museum is located, which offers both indoor and outdoor displays of military history and equipment surrounded by verdant hills overlooking the Dnieper river. At the city's southern outskirts, near the historic Pyrohiv village, there is an outdoor museum, officially called the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine It has an area of 1.5 square kilometres. On this terrain, multiple "mini-villages" that represent the traditional countryside architecture of various regions of Ukraine are built. Kiev also has numerous game attractions like bowling, carts, paintball, billiards and even shooting from real weapons.
