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Hotels Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Events Maps KYIV Spring 2013 Orthodox Easter Ukrainian style N°52 Spring holiday parade www.inyourpocket.com Kyiv’s rich culture celebration CONTENTS CONTENTS 3 ESSENTIAL CITY GUIDES Contents Arriving & Transport 5 Arriving in Kyiv, getting to the city, car rental and public transport Basics 8 Some useful information Culture & Events 11 Culture celebrations & Sport events Orthodox Easter 17 How to celebrate the holiday in Ukrainian style Where to stay 18 A fine selection of places to spend the night We found this fantastic shot on the web and were trying to Decoding the menu 26 find the author, as this would be our dream cover photo. Tips to become familiar with Ukrainian cuisine But we haven’t succeeded. If anyone knows the photographer who took this amazing picture, please let us know. The skyscraper in the picture is Parus business Restaurants 27 centre, built in 2007. The building’s height is 133 meters. Kyiv dining scene At the bottom of the picture is beautiful St Michael’s church, located on the territory of the hospital Cafés 36 Nightlife 37 Bars, Pubs & Clubs Sightseeing Essential Kyiv 40 Museums 43 Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra 46 Shopping 47 Shopping mals, fashion and food Lifestyle directory Useful directory for staying in Kyiv Billiard & Bowling 48 Sports 48 Health 49 Business directory 52 Banks, accountants and lawyers Maps & Index Street register & Index 53 Kyiv is beautiful 365 days a year, but exceptional month is May when the city blossoms with chestnut trees, lilac, City centre map 55 magnolias, tulips and all other possible spring flowers. City map 56 Since the turn of 19 and 20th centuries, when Taras Shevchenko boulevard was planted with chestnut trees, Obolon map 58 this beautiful blossoming tree became a favourite of Country map 59 Kyivities and later a green symbol of the city kyiv.inyourpocket.com Spring 2013 4 FOREWORD ARRIVAL & TRANSPORT Spring in Kyiv usually comes late, so the beginning of March does not mean warm weather, shining sun and blossoming The World of In Your Pocket flowers. Kyiv residents could not be happier that spring is coming, as this past winter lasted too long. Snow fell right Northern Estonia on schedule in December and only the last days of February Ireland gave us some hope when we saw the snow thawing. With Russia that in mind, if a burly Ukrainian sits next to you on a park Ireland Latvia bench and takes off his shirt, don’t be alarmed…he just Lithuania needs to soak in some rays to get over the cabin fever. As usual, spring brings us a lot of expectations to see Belarus nature as the city recovers from its long sleep. First we wait Netherlands for the apricot trees to start blossoming, then we wait for Poland the first tulips and most of all Kyiv residents wait for the Germany magnolia and lilac blossoming at the Botanical Gardens. Belgium Ukraine Czech For football lovers we have had some sad news. All Republic Ukrainian football teams missed the boat with the European competitions. Dynamo Kyiv lost to Bordeaux, Metalist Austria Kharkiv and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk lost to Newcastle and Switzerland Slovenia Romania Basel respectively. The exception is Shakhtar Donetsk who Croatia has their last match with Dortmund Bayern on 5th March. Italy Bosnia Serbia While international football passes Ukraine by this spring, Bulgaria there is still plenty for diehard fans to get excited about. Montenegro Kosovo The Ukrainian championship is still on schedule and starts FYR Macedonia on 1st March. For the full schedule go to www.fpl.ua/eng. Albania April-May is as usual chock - full of holidays, and Ukrainians Greece always find a way to put their busy lives on hold and celebrate to the full. Locals add their own unique twists to It‘s almost 21 years since we published the first April Fools’Day (1st April). International Workers Day is In Your Pocket guide - to Vilnius in Lithuania - in celebrated on the 1st and 2nd of May. Easter this year falls on which time we have grown to become the largest the 5th of May. Victory Day is on the 9th of May. We’re not publisher of locally produced city guides in Europe. sure by now if there will be a parade on Khreschatyk street, We now cover more than 75 cities across the but just in case if you want to see the Ukrainian military continent (with Oristano, on the Italian island of in its full might – be somewhere around Kyiv’s main street Sardinia, the latest city to be pocketed) and the on the morning of Victory Day. And be sure not to miss the number of concise, witty, well-written and downright nights beautiful fireworks display. Also, start getting used indispensable In Your Pocket guides published to the fact that most of Ukrainian companies will be on a each year is approaching five million. We also holiday from the 1st to the 9th of May. The cherry on top of th publish an iPhone app, including more than 40 all holidays is Kyiv Day! It is scheduled this year on 26 guides, which can be downloaded for free from the May and is one of the rockin’est celebrations of the year. AppStore. Search for ‘IYP Guides’ by name. You couldn’t have chosen a better time to visit Ukraine’s To keep up to date with all that’s new at In Your capital. Kyiv is at its glorious best in springtime, so find a Pocket, like us on Facebook (facebook.com/ bench in the sunshine, take a deep breath, and just let go. inyourpocket) or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/ Nasolodzhuisia! Enjoy! inyourpocket). 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The smaller Kyiv Zhulyani Airport (Аеропорт Київ Жуляни) is only 8km from centre and handles mostly domestic travel and Wizz Air flights from Europe. Located 34km east of Kyiv, Boryspil is going to move all international flights to its largest and newest Terminal D. Inter- national passengers now arrive and depart at Terminals B, D and F. Terminal B also services domestic flights. Starting from March 31, 2013 all international and Ukrainian airlines will operate their international flights to/from the new Terminal D. The old Terminal B will be used for domestic flights, while the Terminal F will be reserved for low-cost airlines. Ticket agents, immigration, and customs officials speak some English, so Kyiv Boryspil Airport moves flights to don’t worry if you haven’t yet mastered Ukrainian or Russian. Terminal D Customs control has been greatly relaxed in recent years, Starting from March 31, 2013 all international and but it still makes sense to travel light and pass through the Ukrainian airlines will operate their international flights green express line when arriving. If you need to connect to a to/from the new Terminal D. The old Terminal B will be local flight, a free shuttle bus circulates between terminals used for domestic flights, while the Terminal F will be every 20 min. Feel like stretching your legs? Walk time be- reserved for low-cost airlines. tween all Terminals is about 15 min. At all terminals you will find currency exchange offices (обмiн валют), information, car rental offices, cafes, public telephones, etc. (банкомат) are in the main halls of each station. Coin-operated Getting to town Exiting of the terminals in Boryspil Airport, pay telephones are scattered throughout the building, while you are sure to be approached by cabbies. The 20-25 minute card-operated ones are mostly outside the central entrance. ride to centre will set you back about 200-250Hr. SkyBuses Getting to town You’re basically in it already, but short taxi headed to Kyiv leave from Terminal B and F roughly every 10- rides to Khreschatyk Street area cost 50Hr and up. The 15 minutes. The charge is 27Hr and the bus will drop you off entrance to metro station Vokzal’na (red line) is to your left about an hour later at the Central Train Station or you can get as you exit the central station - look for the green letter M.