2017-11-28 13:55
Volodymyr-Volynskyi is a town with a population of about 39,000 people located in the south-western part of the Volyn region. This town, first mentioned in chronicles in 988, is one of the o… Read More
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2017-11-22 13:02
Zhovkva is a small town with a population of about 13 thousand people located 30 km north of Lviv and 35 km from the Ukrainian-Polish border.
One of the main attractions of the town is Zhovk… Read More
2017-11-17 13:21
Bessarabia is a historical region located in south-eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Danube, Prut, and Dniester rivers. Today, the coastal and northern parts of Bessabaria belong… Read More
2017-11-13 13:11
Bozhykivtsi is a village with a population of about 1,000 people located in the Khmelnytskyi region, 66 km southeast of Khmelnytskyi.
In the late 19th – early 20th centuries, the Polis… Read More
2017-11-09 13:16
Mukachevo is a town with a population of about 86,000 people located in the central part of the Zakarpattia region, 41 km south-east of Uzhhorod.
The town has a high tourist potential for bo… Read More
2017-11-04 12:52
Volya-Vysotska is a village with a population of about 1,700 people located in the Zholkovsky district of the Lviv region.
The main attraction of the village is the Church of the Holy Archan… Read More
2017-10-30 13:14
Medzhybizh Fortress is located in the village of Medzhybizh in the upper reaches of the Southern Buh River, 30 km east of Khmelnitsky and 4 km north of the highway E50 (M12).
This monument o… Read More
2017-10-27 13:25
The former estate of Sharivka, located in the south-west of the Kharkiv region on the bank of the Merchyk River, is one of the most beautiful palace and park complexes in Ukraine.
The main a… Read More
2017-10-21 12:14
St. Andrew’s Church in Kyiv is an Orthodox church in honor of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called built on the Andriyivskyy Hill in 1749-1754.
This church in the Baroque style, designe… Read More
2017-10-16 13:43
Beautiful video about attractions of Ukrainian Polissya – a wide, almost 100 kilometer strip of land in the north of the country, about 20% of the entire territory of Ukraine Read More
2017-10-11 13:54
Piddubtsi is a village with a population of about 1,000 people located in the Lutsk district of the Volyn region, 16 km east of Lutsk.
The main attraction of the village is the nine-headed O… Read More
2017-10-05 13:12
Trostyanets is a village with a population of about 800 people located in the Kivertsi district of the Volyn region.
The main attraction of the village is the Holy Trinity Church built in th… Read More
2017-09-24 12:20
Poltava oblast is a region located in the center of Ukraine – the sixth largest region of the country famous for its beautiful nature and various places of interest.
Here is just a sma… Read More
2017-09-19 13:42
Berehove is a small town with a population of about 24 thousand people located in the south-west of the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, 69 km from Uzhhorod by road, near the border with Hunga… Read More
2017-09-09 12:46
Krekhiv monastery of St. Nicholas Fathers Basilian, founded in 1612, is located in the village of Krekhiv in the Zholkovsky district of the Lviv region, about 40 km north-west of Lviv.
The m… Read More
2017-09-03 08:31
Lutsk High Castle also known as Lubart’s Castle is one of the largest, oldest and best-preserved castles in Ukraine, a monument of architecture and history of national importance.
The… Read More
2017-08-28 13:22
In Zaporozhye there is a museum about which even many locals do not know. Opened in 2012, it is located practically in the center of the city.
Let’s go on an excursion to the Museum of… Read More
2017-08-24 13:21
Kaminne Selo (literally meaning “stone village”) is one of the little-known interesting places in Ukraine – several hectares of forest on which large boulders are scattered… Read More
2017-08-18 13:18
Kyiv, the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located on the Dnieper River in the north of the central part of the country.
This is the seventh most populous city in Europe after Ist… Read More
2017-08-14 13:22
Lebedyn is a small town with a population of about 26 thousand people located in the Sumy region, 50 km south-west of the city of Sumy.
It was founded as a stronghold of the Belgorod fortifi… Read More
2017-08-11 12:35
Stoyaniv is a village with a population of about 3,000 people located in the Radekhiv district of the Lviv region.
One of the main attractions of the village is the Catholic Church of the Sa… Read More
2017-08-07 12:01
Hoverla (in Romanian meaning “an impassable height”) is the highest mountain on the territory of Ukraine (2,061 meters).
This popular tourist destination is located on the border… Read More
2017-08-04 15:02
Zhuravnyky is a village with a population of about 800 people located in the Horokhiv district of the Volyn region, on the highway Lviv–Lutsk. The village was previously a town and was… Read More
2017-07-31 11:56
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi is a town-museum with a population of about 30 thousand people located in the Kyiv region, 90 km southeast of Kyiv.
This is one of the oldest towns in Ukraine, first… Read More
2017-07-25 13:43
Vynohradiv (until 1946 – Sevlush) is a small town with a population of about 27,000 people located in the southern part of the Zakarpattia region, 94 km southeast of Uzhhorod.
It is on… Read More
2017-07-20 12:25
Medieval fortress in the town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is a monument of history and town-planning of the 13th-15th centuries, one of the best and the largest preserved fortresses on the terr… Read More
2017-07-17 12:34
Tuchyn is a village with a population of about 2,500 people located in the Hoshcha district of the Rivne region, about 28 km to the north-east of Rivne.
One of the attractions of the village… Read More
2017-07-14 13:45
Chernivtsi National University named after Yuriy Fedkovych, one of the greatest writers of western Ukraine, was established in 1875. Today, it is one of the best universities in Ukraine and… Read More
2017-07-12 12:45
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is a unique monastic complex. Founded in 1051, it is the oldest and one of the most important Orthodox shrines.
In fact, it is a real small town in the heart of Kyiv. Her… Read More
2017-07-07 13:13
On Saturday, June 17, 2017, in Kyiv, a parade of trams was held, timed to the 125th anniversary of the city electric tram.
In the heart of the historic neighborhood of Podil, on Contract Squ… Read More
2017-07-04 13:13
Olyka is an urban village with a population of about 3,000 people located in the Kivertsy district of the Volyn region.
In the village there are two main architectural attractions located cl… Read More
2017-06-30 13:27
Nyzhankovychi is an urban village with a population of about 1,800 people located in the Starosamborsk district of the Lviv region, on the border of Ukraine and Poland.
On the territory of t… Read More
2017-06-26 13:16
Kharkiv, known as an industrial city, has a lot of places to relax. In the warm season, one of the favorite places of locals and guests of the city is the public garden “Strelka”… Read More
2017-06-22 13:34
Kyiv, the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located on the banks of the Dnieper River, in the north of the central part of the country. Due to its importance as the historical cent… Read More
2017-06-19 13:25
The public garden “Strelka”, located at the confluence of the Kharkiv and Lopan rivers in Kharkiv, got a new sight – original floating flower beds resembling the patterns o… Read More
2017-06-15 13:55
Berdyansk, a city with a population of about 114 thousand people in the Zaporozhye region, is a marine, climatic and mud resort of national importance.
It is located on the eastern shore of… Read More
2017-06-11 11:15
The Kyiv Reservoir (also known as the Kyiv Sea) is a large reservoir on the Dnieper River located north of Kyiv, near the town of Vyshhorod.
The area of the reservoir is 922 square km., the… Read More
2017-06-07 13:12
Komarno is a small town with a population of about 7 thousand people located in the south-western part of the Lviv region, 45 km from Lviv.
One of the landmarks of the town is the wooden chu… Read More
2017-06-01 13:31
The bell tower of Saint Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv is an architectural monument built in the style of the Ukrainian Baroque. It is one of the symbols of Kyiv and Ukraine.
This building… Read More
2017-05-28 09:27
Potelych is a village with a population of about 800 people located in the Zholkovsky district of the Lviv region.
The main attraction of the village is the Church of the Descent of the Holy… Read More
2017-05-25 13:08
The Annunciation Cathedral in Kharkiv (1888-1901) is one of the symbols of the city and the largest cathedral in Eastern Europe. Thanks to this unique video you can see not only how the cath… Read More
2017-05-22 13:40
The Uspenskyi Svyatohorskyi Convent is located near the village of Zymne, a few kilometers from the town of Vladimir-Volynsky in the Volyn region.
This historical and architectural monument… Read More
2017-05-18 13:59
The beginning of May in Kyiv, the capital and the largest city of Ukraine located on the Dnieper River, is a great time for walking, the city is simply buried in greenery, flowering trees an… Read More
2017-05-14 08:34
Mytky is a small village located in the Barskiy district of the Vinnytsia region. The main attraction of the village is the former estate of Nikolai Chikhachev – a picturesque palace b… Read More
2017-05-11 12:04
Last week, in Kyiv, on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (the main square of the city), a light and music fountain was opened, which had been damaged during the revolution in 2014.
The fountain works eve… Read More
2017-05-06 12:19
The Palanok Castle, also known as Mukacheve Castle, is the main attraction of the town of Mukacheve located in the Zakarpattia region. The castle stands on a 68-meter-high hill of volcanic o… Read More
2017-05-02 13:43
May 1, in Kharkiv, after the winter break, the Small Southern Railway was opened – a narrow-gauge children’s railroad with a length of 3.6 km located between Gorky Park and Lesop… Read More
2017-04-23 09:35
Ivane-Puste is a village with a population of about 2,000 people located in Borshchiv district in the south of the Ternopil region. The wooden church of St. John the Apostle, built in 1775… Read More
2017-04-19 13:58
Trybukhivtsi is a large village with a population of about 4,000 people located in Buchach district of the Ternopil region. The main and in fact the only attraction of the village is the sto… Read More
2017-04-16 09:01
Dilove is a village with a population of about 2,500 people located in the Rakhiv district of the Zakarpattia region, 190 km from Uzhhorod and 140 km from Ivano-Frankivsk, 50 km from the bor… Read More
2017-04-12 12:37
One week before Orthodox Easter, in Kyiv, the 7th All-Ukrainian Festival of Easter Eggs (Pysanky) began. The event is held in three locations in the city center – St. Sophia and St. Mi… Read More
2017-04-08 12:28
The majestic complex of buildings of the Jesuit church, monastery and collegium, built in the Baroque style, is the architectural dominant of Kremenets, a small town with a population of abo… Read More
2017-04-03 13:11
Church of the Transfiguration (Spaso-Preobrazhenska), built in 1830-1839, is located in the village of Moshny in the Cherkasy region, about 30 km from Cherkasy.
It was the key element of the… Read More
2017-03-29 12:49
Polissya is a historical-cultural and physico-geographical region located on the territory of the Polesian Lowland.
It is mainly located in the south of Belarus and the north of Ukraine, but… Read More
2017-03-26 11:07
Kremenets is a town with a population of about 20 thousand people located in the Ternopil region. Here you can find more than 50 historical and cultural monuments: ruins of the castle, ensem… Read More
2017-03-23 13:16
Pishkonya, a mountain range in the Ukrainian Carpathians, is located in the southeastern part of Mizhhiria district of the Zakarpattia region, within the National Park “Synevyr”… Read More
2017-03-20 13:28
Bilokrynytsya is a village with a population of about 2,000 people located in Kremenets district of the Ternopil region, 1 km from the town of Krements.
The main and only attraction of the v… Read More
2017-03-17 13:37
Ostroh, first mentioned in 1100, is a small town with a population of about 13 thousand people located in the Rivne region, 48 km south-east of Rivne.
The most famous landmark of the town is… Read More
2017-03-13 13:46
Khotyn, located in the present Chernivtsi region, is one of the most ancient towns of Ukraine. It was founded as a border fortress in the beginning of the 11th century.
Built near an importa… Read More
2017-03-09 13:56
Kozyari is a village with a population of about 200 people located in Podvolochisky district of the Ternopil region. The main attraction of the village is a magnificent wooden church of St… Read More
2017-03-06 13:29
Budaniv is a village with a population of about 1,500 people located in Terebovlya district of the Ternopil region.
The main attraction of the village is a stone castle built in the early 17… Read More
2017-03-01 13:39
Lychkivtsi is a village with a population of about 1,000 people located in Husyatyn district of the Ternopil region, about 72 km southeast of Ternopil.
In the early 20th century, Polish land… Read More
2017-02-24 13:21
Pyrohiv (also known as Pirogovo) is one of the most famous open-air museums in Ukraine located on the outskirts of Kyiv. It provides a unique opportunity to get acquainted with all ethnograp… Read More
2017-02-20 13:36
Kasperivtsi is a village with a population of about 1,000 people located in Zalishchyky district of the Ternopil region.
The main attraction of the village is an Orthodox church of St. Georg… Read More
2017-02-15 13:03
In 2009, Khmelnytskyi city council decided to create a museum studio of photography and, in September 2010, the museum was opened. This is the first and only such exhibition in Ukraine.
The… Read More
2017-02-11 12:44
Ozeryany is a small village with a population of about 1,900 people located in Borshchiv district of the Ternopil region.
The main attraction of the village is Catholic Church of St. Anna bu… Read More
2017-02-07 13:24
Podillya is a historical and geographical region located in the west and south-west of Ukraine, in the area of the northern tributaries of the middle Dniester and the upper Southern Buh.
Pod… Read More
2017-02-04 12:13
Drohobych is a city with a population of about 100 thousand people, the second most populous and economically developed city in the Lviv region.
A significant part of the current city center… Read More
2017-01-30 13:14
Sapohiv is a small village with a population of about 800 people located in the central part of Borshchiv district in the Ternopil region. For the first time the village was mentioned in 156… Read More
2017-01-26 12:17
Let’s fly over Kharkiv – the second largest city in Ukraine with a population of about 1.5 million people Read More
2017-01-22 11:42
Pyrohiv (Pirogovo), an open-air museum located on the outskirts of Kyiv, provides a unique opportunity to get acquainted with all ethnographic regions of Ukraine.
Old wooden windmills, tower… Read More
2017-01-18 13:54
The Department of Public Utilities of Kharkiv created an interesting winter attraction in Shevchenko Garden – an ice fountain.
Shevchenko Garden is a park located in the center of Khar… Read More
2017-01-15 12:48
Podil is a historic neighborhood of Kyiv, part of the Podilskyi district. This low-lying part of the city is an ancient district of artisans and merchants.
The neighborhood extends along the… Read More
2017-01-10 13:23
St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in Kyiv.
The monastery includes the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in the Ukrainian Baroque style (demolished… Read More
2017-01-06 12:53
The Central Park for Culture and Recreation named after Maxim Gorky, or just a “city park” is the main park in Kharkiv.
Opened in 1907, the park covers an area of over 130 hectar… Read More
2017-01-02 12:12
The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Pyrohiv is an architectural and landscape complex of historical and ethnographic regions of Ukraine.
It is located on the southern outskirts of Ky… Read More
2016-12-31 11:19
By candlelight and twinkling star here,
We wish you a wonderful and Happy New Year! Read More
2016-12-25 11:21
Svobody (Freedom) Square, the central square of Kharkiv, decorated for the celebration of the New Year Read More
2016-12-20 13:31
Svyatohirsk is a small town with a population of about 4.5 thousand people located on the Seversky Donets River, in the north of the Donetsk region. Despite its modest size, this town has se… Read More
2016-12-17 12:13
St. Andrew’s Church, located on St. Andrew’s Hill in Kyiv, is an Orthodox church named after Andrew the Apostle and built in the Baroque style by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrel… Read More
2016-12-12 14:04
Wiki Loves Earth is an annual international photo contest of the natural monuments and here are the best photos of the natural attractions of Ukraine taken in 2016.
Shypit waterfall –… Read More
2016-12-09 13:37
The Golden Gates of Kyiv is one of the few monuments of defense architecture of the ancient Russian state (Kievan Rus).
Construction of the gates was mentioned in chronicles during the reig… Read More
2016-12-04 09:17
Yan Mednis from Belarus visited Ukraine and made the following beautiful timelapse video about his trip showing some of the attractions of Kyiv, Odessa, Belgorod-Dniester, Kherson, Lviv, Che… Read More
2016-12-01 12:35
Let’s fast forward from chilly winter weather on a hot summer day on the coast of the Azov Sea.
The following pictures were taken in the vicinity of Berdyansk – a city in the Zap… Read More
2016-11-28 13:05
The house of the “weeping widow” (sometimes called “Arshavsky House”) is a building in Kyiv, an architectural monument of local importance, situated at Liuteranska St… Read More
2016-11-25 13:16
Let’s fly over Kharkiv, the second most populous city in Ukraine, lit by the evening lights Read More
2016-11-20 11:16
Svirzh Castle, a unique monument of defensive architecture of the 15th-17th centuries, is located in the village of Svirzh in Peremyshlyany district of the Lviv region.
Built as a fortress… Read More
2016-11-16 13:32
The Antonov An-225 “Mriya” (meaning “dream” in Ukrainian) is the largest and heaviest aircraft that ever flew in the sky. Maximum take-off weight of the aircraft is 6… Read More
2016-11-13 08:04
St. Cyril Church in Kyiv, built in the mid-12th century, is one of the oldest surviving churches on the former territory of the ancient state of Kievan Rus. St. Cyril Monastery is located to… Read More
2016-11-09 13:10
House with Chimeras, also known as Horodecki House, is an amazing brick building in the Art Nouveau style, an object of cultural heritage located in Kyiv.
The house got its name because of t… Read More
2016-11-05 13:06
Mala Rostivka is a small village with a population of about 200 people located in Oratovsky district of the Vinnitsa region. Tourists rarely visit this remote place that has one of the best… Read More
2016-11-01 13:44
Dima Sergiyenko, a Ukrainian-American travel blogger, recently visited Lviv and spent several days filming his adventures. Take a look at the result Read More
2016-10-30 12:26
The historical and cultural complex “Castle Radomysl” is a private museum complex located in the town of Radomyshl in the Zhytomyr region, about 100 km from Kiev. It was created… Read More
2016-10-26 12:34
Kolentsi is a small village with a population of about 500 people located in Ivankivsky district of the Kyiv region, on the left bank of the Teteriv River.
The main attraction of the village… Read More
2016-10-23 09:19
Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine located in the north of the central part of the country, on the Dnieper River. This is the seventh most populous city in Europe after Moscow… Read More
2016-10-20 12:29
Interesting video about the opportunities for development of tourism in Kherson oblast – a region in southern Ukraine washed by the Black and Azov seas Read More
2016-10-16 11:45
The wooden Greek-Catholic church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit is an architectural monument of the 18th century located in the village of Kolochava in Mizhgirya district of the Zakarpatt… Read More
2016-10-12 13:55
Pidhirtsi Castle is a well-preserved Renaissance palace surrounded by fortifications. It is located in the village of Pidhirtsi in the east of the Lviv region.
The castle has a square shape… Read More
2016-10-10 13:24
In 2014, the reconstruction of History Museum of the Southern Railway located in Kharkiv was completed. The museum received a number of unique exhibits including such rarities as the locomot… Read More
2016-10-06 13:17
Sokilsky Ridge is located in Pokutsko-Bukovina Carpathians (part of the Ukrainian Carpathians), south of Kolomyya, in the Kosovsky district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
The length of the r… Read More
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