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The city of Kharkiv, located in the northeast of the country. is the second-largest city in Ukraine with approximately a half million residents.

The city is a major cultural, scientific, educational, transport and industrial centre in Ukraine.

The territory of the city is a hilly flatland with valleys, ravines, etc.

The climate in Kharkov is moderately continental. In winter, the weather is changeable: frosts alternate with the thaw. The average annual temperature is +7,5 º C. The coldest month is January: -7 º C, but it is -15 and even -30 º C. Summer is hot, the hottest month is July, average temperature +21 º C. In June and July, heaviest precipitation is falls, but, despite this summer in Kharkov is very comfortable: its beautiful parks, gardens, fountains, lots of outdoor cafes.


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Car Rental

  Sixt   -    

  Megarent   -   major provider of rental cars without a driver

Hotels

  Booking.com   -   Hotel Guide Kharkiv

  Britaniya Hotel ****, Shevchenko Str., City Hydra Park
Featuring an outdoor pool, an international restaurant and free Wi-Fi, this hotel is located on a green island 4 km from Kharkov city centre. It has air-conditioned rooms and suites.
Rental bicycles can be used to explore the city. Britaniya is about 5 km from the M20 motorway.
  Carnaval Resort & Spa   -   one hour drive from the city centre
  Cosmopolit Art Hotel *****
Cosmopolit Art is a 5-star hotel offers luxury, modern accommodation in Kharkov and situated in one of the business districts of Kharkiv city, at the entry point of the central highway between Moscow (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine).
Cosmopolit's sophisticated Da Vinci Restaurant serves breakfast buffet and Italian cuisine for lunch and dinner.
  Superior Golf Hotel
  Victoria Hotel
Many Ukrainian and international banks, financial and trading companies, business centers and schools are located near the Victoria Hotel.
Povstannya Metro Station is just a 10-minute walk away, connecting hotel Victoria to Kharkov city centre within 2 stops. Free private parking is available on site.

Tour Operators

Thomas Cook

 
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Travel Guides / Related books

Amazon.com - Travel Guides Ukraine 

  Kharkiv: Webster's Timeline History, 1654 - 2007
Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people.
Paperback: 28 pages; Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc. (14 May 2010); ASIN: B003N7NPJA

Transport / How do I travel to Kharkiv

 Kharkiv International Airport [ Міжнародний аеропорт Харків ]
The airport is situated south from the city centre, within the city's boundaries. Daily scheduled flights from Kiev [ Borispol] and Moscow [Vnukovo]. Regular flights from Vienna and Istanbul, and several other destinations.

 
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The city is divided into 9 administrative districts: Dzerzhinskiy, Octyaberskiy, Kievskiy, Kominternovskiy, Leninskiy, Moscowskiy, Ordzhonikidzeskiy, Frunzeskiy, and Chervonozavodskiy.

  Kharkiv / Kharkov   -   second largest city in Ukraine
See Official Site of Kharkov City Council

http://www.city-kharkiv.com.ua/uefaeuro2012/en/

  Aqua Park
  Blagoveshenskiy Cathedral   -   Neo-Byzantine style of architecture
With a 80-meter bell tower and built between 1889 and 1901 [ architect Michael Lovtsov ].
  Botanic Garden
  Cathedral of the Mary Convent   -   one of the oldest buildings in Kharkiv
Constructed in 1689. A combination of Russian church architecture with the the typical three-domed Ukrainian wooden churches.
  Chapel of Saint Tatiana
  Derzhprom (House of State Industry)
Derzhprom is the first high-rise reinforced concrete skeleton construction in the Soviet Union.
  Dolphinarium [ NEMO ]
  Drobitskiy Menora
  Dynamovska Street
  Fountain «Mirror stream»
  Gorky Park
  Historical Museum
  Jungle Water park
  Kharkiv Circus [ 1, Iriny Bygrimovoy square ]
A favorite place of leisure. Funny jokes, breathtaking tricks, animals with special skills.
  Kharkiv Historical Museum
A leading scientific and research center of Slobozhansshina local history. Its unique collection numbers about 250 thousand valuable monuments of material and spiritual culture, including archeological, ethnographic, numismatic collections and also collections of painting works, banners, awards, weapon, books, collection of post cards, original historical documents, rare photos.
  Kharkiv Literature Museum   -   Slobozhansshina literary history [ 6, Frunze str. ]
  Kharkiv Museum of Arts
The collection of the Kharkiv Art Museum includes painting and graphic works of western European and Russian artists of XV-XX centuries, unique products of the masters from India and the Far East. The Ukrainian national artistic heritage is presented by painting, graphic, sculpture and products of decorative-applied art of the XVI-XXth centuries.
  Kharkiv Museum of private collections
  Kharkiv Puppet Museum
  Kharkiv Railway Station
  Kharkiv Sea Museum
  Kharkiv Shoah Museum
  Kharkiv State Academy of Culture
  Kharkiv Zoo with Kharkiv zoological park
  Lopansky Bridge
  Metalist Stadium
"Metallist" is one of the oldest arenas of the country. It was created in 1925 on the initiative of the soviet people's commissar Anastas Mikoyan. Now reconstructed.
The original roof is the distinctive feature of the renewed "Metallist" stadium. Because of the impossibility to lean on the old tribunes there a special construction had to be made, which cover them as a "spider" with bearings beyond the stadium's bowl.
  Monument to Taras Shevchenko
  Olympic Stadium
  Pokrovsky Cathedral of Kharkiv Pokrovsky Monastery
  Residential house with a spire
Representative of the style «Stalinskiy empire», its located on Constitution Square.
  Svobody Square
Svobody Square is one of the largest in the world (almost 12 acres).

  Kharkiv National University of V. N. Karazin
The University of Kharkiv or officially the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasyl Karazin becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv.
  Military University

Cuisine   -   Gastronomy

 

History Kharkiv

Archaeological excavations testify that different peoples lived here: Scythian and Sarmatian, Chernyakhovsky tribes, cumin people. It is also known that in the second half of the Ist th. B.C. the territory was settled by the eastern Slavic tribe of the Severians. In the VIII century the Slavs founded their settlement on the place of future Kharkiv, which was known as Donets town in the X century. Donets was not only a fortress, but a center of crafts (blacksmith's, jewel, ceramic etc.), an important center of transit trade.

The city was founded in 1654 by Ukrainian Kazaks and peasants who ran away from the national, religious and social pressure of the Pole landlords of the Dnieper and Western Ukraine, especially in the period of emancipative fight of Ukrainian people headed by B. Khmelnitskyi. 

The city had incredible losses in the years of mass repressions of Stalin regime and in the years of Great Patriotic war.

See for more Sergey Kudelko's article.

  History of Kharkiv
Ukraine Within the Russian Empire, Soviet period, Nazi occupation, Post War, Independent Ukraine.

  Old pictures and cards of Kharkiv

  Yaroslav the Wise

Music, Art & Culture

  Kharkov regional philharmonic society

  Culture in Kharkiv
Kharkiv was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire.

There are 6 major theaters: the Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of N. Lysenko, the Ukrainian Drama Theatre of T. Shevchenko, the Russian Drama Theatre of A. S. Pushkin, the Theater of Musical Comedy, the Theatre for Children and Youth, the puppet theater.

  Berezil Theatre [ State drama theatre ]}
  Kharkiv Art Museum
  Ukrainian Theatre of Musical Comedy

  Jazz Festival Kharkiv


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