MODERNIZATION OF PEDAGOGICAL HIGHER EDUCATION BY INNOVATIVE TEACHING INSTRUMENTS Seminar on the implementation of tasks of the 1st package. June 11-12, 2018 About Kyiv There are many ancient and modern sights in Kyiv. Historical centers and districts of Kyiv tell us about the city’s distant past. Buildings in Kyiv - living witnesses of the flow of time and events of the present. Numerous monasteries and temples of the City decorate it and create an atmosphere of purity and holiness. There are many monuments that have become a kind of architectural landmarks of the capital. Due to the large number of parks and green areas, the image of Kyiv is so unique. Streets and squares of Kyiv remember the joy and sad moments in the history of our city. The diversity of Kyiv monuments does not stop to amaze and admire. All of this – identity of the Kyiv, which makes it so unique and loved among Ukrainians and tourists. More than 70 parks and 200 gardens are located on the territory of Kyiv, making our capital one of the greenest cities in Europe and even around the world. Kyiv is a city with an extraordinary atmosphere. This is the city where we fall in love and in which we fall in love. If you were born and live here - you are probably the patriot of the capital of Ukraine. And if you come here as a tourist – if You visiting Kyiv once, you’ll want to come back here again and again! How to get to the city / from the airport / train station From the Airport By Sky Bus You can get Sky Bus from the International airport "Boryspil" to Kyiv (via Kharkivska metro station to the Central Railway Station, South Terminal). Buses depart from terminals B, D according to the schedule. Information about the departure and arrival of Sky Bus can be obtained +38 (095) 431 07 17 (24h). Timetable of the Sky Bus Airport «Boryspil» – Metro «Kharkivska» – Railway Station «South Terminal» Railway Station «South Terminal» – Metro «Kharkivska» – Airport «Boryspil» Travel Costs • from «Boryspil» airport to metro station «Kharkivska» – 60 UAH; • from «Boryspil» airport to Central Railway Station «South Terminal» – 100 UAH; • from Central Railway Station «South Terminal» to metro station «Kharkivska» – 60 UAH; • from Central Railway Station «South Terminal» to «Boryspil» airport – 100 UAH; • from metro station «Kharkivska» to «Boryspil» airport – 60 UAH Detailed Information +38 (095) 431 07 17 +38 (045) 956 48 14 http://skybus.kiev.ua/en/ From the Railway Station From the Central Railway Station Kyiv-Passazhyrsky to Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (metro station «Minska») / the centre of Kyiv (metro station «Maidan Nezalezhnosti» / «Khreshchatyk») you can get by Kyiv Metro (travel costs - 5 UAH). Places to stay in Kyiv city Kyiv is a tourist city of Ukraine, so you can easily find many options where to stay hotels / apartments (prices vary by season, dates, etc.). Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University recommends some hotels and apartments near Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University You can find them on the map). Below there are the list of hotels/apartments with routes (from apartments to Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University) and links to the Booking site, where You can book them. 3 Star Hotel Amarant Hotel – Kostiantynivska St., 71D (metro «Tarasa Shevchenka») 4 Star Hotel Visak - Obolonska Naberezhna Street, 17 Kyiv Apartments next to the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University Apartments - Marshala Tymoshenka Street, 21 Kyiv Apartments and Apartments - Marshala Tymoshenka Street, 19 Kyiv Apartments Obolon - Bohatyrska Street, 2, Kyiv Apartments - Zoi Haidai Street, 9А Kyiv Apartments - Obolonskyi Avenue, 15 Kyiv Apartments - Obolonskyi Avenue, 15B Kyiv Apartments - Obolonskyi Avenue, 22B Kyiv Apartments - Obolonskyi Avenue, 28 Kyiv Transport You can find almost any kind of public transport in Kyiv city. A complete list of public transport and minibuses in Kyiv can be found at the link. On this same site it is possible to check where it is now exactly. The travel costs of the bus, tram, trolley-bus and funicular are 4 UAH, metro costs 5 UAH. What should be visited in Kyiv Kyiv Pechersk Lavra The Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is the first and the oldest monastery on the territory of modern Ukraine. Only three monasteries in Ukraine currently have the status of lavra and consecrated in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God - Kyiv-Pechersk, Pochayiv and Sviatohirsk. This testifies about the special reverence of Holy God’s Mother from Orthodox Christians, as well as the connection of the monasticism in Russia and the ancient monastery of the Dormition of the God’s Mother on Mount Athos. National Museum of the Holodomor Victims Memorial The memorial to the Holodomor victims in Ukraine is a complex located in the park of Glory over the Dnieper in Kyiv. The monument was built in honor of the dead in 1932-1933. This museum was built in accordance with a project that was developed by Haydamak specifically for the 70th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008. Literary and Memorial Museum of Michail Bulgakov The Mikhail Bulgakov Museum was opened in the so-called Turbini House, where the writer lived from 1906 to 1919 and where the placed the heroes of the White Guard. The interiors of the rooms are reproduced in the same way as they shown on the photographs and as they were described by Bulgakov himself: the living room with the piano, the medical room, the room of the writer's sister, Vari, as well as the room of the Bulgakov himself and the room of the novel’s hero Nicholas, where you can get through wardrobe with N50, from the novel Master and Margarita. Museum of one street A museum of one street was created and exists to reveal the mysteries and hidden facts from the history of the Andriyivskyy Descent - one of the most unusual and obligatory for visiting streets in the capital of Ukraine. The Kyiv water Museum The Kyiv water museum is located in the center of Kyiv near Khreshchatyk and Maidan Nezalezhnosti, so this place is one of the most popular in the capital. The museum is located in one of the water towers, whose age is more than 130 years. Here you can know more about the water resources of Ukraine, about the hydrosphere of the planet, how human activity affects the environment. Kyiv in Miniature Park Kyiv in Miniature is a great place to relax, if you want to spend time away from the city rush, but at the same time, without leaving the city itself. It was opened in the park-museum in 2006, and it is located on the banks of the Dnieper, in the Hidropark area. Here are collected the most famous monuments of Kyiv in the form of the miniature models. National Park Mezhygirya – Museum of Corruption The former residence of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is in the village of Novi Petrivtsi, near Kyiv. The residence became a symbol of oligarchic and criminal power, an indicator of the lifestyle of Ukrainian Nouveau riche. The museum is unique because of its theme and because of the value of things that are gathered in it. The Kyiv Fortress The museum complex was created in 1927 on the basis of one of the most saved stone and earth fortresses in the world. The fortress belonged to the Western-Russian line of fortifications. The museum has about 17 thousand exhibits. Hospital fortification of the Kyiv fortress is semi-underground buildings with thick walls of brick and stone. House with Chimaeras This building is one of the most extravagant works of architect Wladyslaw Horodecki, build in the house where he lived until 1920. On the side of Ivan Franko's square, it is a six-stored house from the side of Bankova street it is three-stored – it was the front side, where were located the apartment of Wladyslaw Horodecki, himself and his construction office. From the walls of the house speak the heads of elephants and rhinoceros on the roof sit chimeras, and the river goddess Naiads swims on dolphins. The style is romantic, new modernist, and it was expressed in the new material - reinforced concrete in which was done all the decor. The National Opera House of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv One of Europe's most famous opera and ballet scenes. The house was built in 1901 under the project of architect V. Shreter in the style of the French Renaissance on the place of the other burnt down theatre in 1896. The Kiev Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy Theater in Kyiv, founded in the late 1970's. The theater works in two languages - Russian and Ukrainian (the play "Deceit" by Vladimir Vynnychenko (1992, directed by Alexander Balaban) became the first Ukrainian performance shown in the Russian- language theater). Maidan Nezalezhnosti Central square in Kiev. It is located between Khreshchatyk, Borys Grinchenko St, Sofiyivka Sofiivs'ka St, Mala Zhytomyrska St, Mykhailivs'ka St, Kostolna St, Heroyiv Nebesnoyi Sotni Alley, Arkhitektora Horodetskoho St. and Taras Shevchenko avenue. Andriyivskyy Uzviz (Descent) Street-legend, the street-museum, the ancient Borich Tic, the Kyiv Montmartre. people called differently this unique, elegant and, undoubtedly, one of the most colorful streets of Kiev- the famous Andrew's descent! Kontrktova Ploshcha (Square of Contracts) One of the oldest squares in Kyiv originated during the times of Kievan Rus. After the destruction of the Upper City by the Mongol-Tatars and until the XIX century was the center of the city. The Mykola Hryshko National Botanical Garden This is a true island of beauty, peacefulness and joy for the citizens of the noisy and loud metropolis.