Pictures of Central Ukraine
Miscellaneous locations
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Bila Tserkva
Bila Tserkva is a great getaway destination from Kiev. Read about taking a two-day trip to Bila Tserkva from Kiev at the TryUkraine.com blog.
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Bila Tserkva's Aleksandria Park is a vast landscape park created in the 19th century. It is a beautiful place for a day trip. |
Bila Tserkva is a 70 or 80 minute bus ride from Kiev. Minibuses leave from Lybedska metro station and other points. |
Leaves on water, bridge |
This bright red tree in the middle of the meadow attracted everyone's attention. |
Rzhyschiv
Rzhyschiv itself has little to look at, but the area around it is quite scenic if you know where to go or get a tour from Kiev.
Around Rzhyschiv, a one-hour drive from Kiev, are Trypillian culture sites from the Neolithic. More on Trypillian civilization here. |
From these hills are stunning views of the Dnipro River. |
Many tour participants picked wildflowers to take home with them. |
Another view of the Dnipro |
These students are excavating a Trypillian settlement under the watchful eye of archaeologists. |
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Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, a small town two hours downstream from Kiev, has an open-air museum with old Ukrainians "khatas" (huts). |
This is what home interiors used to look like. |
More interiors |
Old wooden church |
Poltava
Poltava has a beautiful, immaculate monastery complex on a hill on the outskirts of town. |
This is a typical Soviet era impersonal administrative building in the center of Poltava. |
Like most government buildings everywhere, design elements are calculated to make one feel insignificant and unsure of oneself. |
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Sumy
Like most oblast centers in Ukraine, Sumy has at least one nice street in the center of town. The rest of town is rather nondescript. |
Church in the center of Sumy |
View of town from Sumy high-rise hotel |
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