KYIV is the capital of Ukraine
Area of the city
Total area of the city is 839 km?.
Population of Kyiv
Officially the population of the Ukrainian capital includes 2,6 million people but the real number rises 4 million of people.
Climate
Kyiv has a continental climate. The warmest months are summer months - June, July, and August, with average temperatures from 14 to 25°C. The coldest months are December, January, and February, with temperatures of ?5 to 0°C. Winter is usually snowy.
Money and Currency
Hryvnia is Ukrainian national currency that is used in Kyiv.
The city has an extensive infrastructure and highly developed system of public transport, including a Kiev Metro system.
Large transport net (railway and highways, sea port, international airport in Boryspil and airport of Zhulyany that carries out transfers inside the country).
Metro exists in Kyiv from 1960. It contains three branches, with total length of 56.5 km.
Places of interest
Kyiv is rich in culture and art memorials. The most important from them are Golden gates, Sophia cathedral (XI century), Vydubitskiy monastery (XI c.), complex of Kyivo-Pecherska Lavra (XI-XVIII c.), Mykhailivskiy Golden Domed Monastery, church of Spas on Brest (XII c.), Andreevska, Pokrovska, Troitska churches, Klovskiy and Mariinskiy palaces.
Forests, parks and gardens take more than half of this city. When you come here for the first time you predict to see only a large mega-city with crowded streets, permanent traffic-jams and terrible fuss. Definitely you will see a part of this, as you are in the capital -industrial, technical, economical and business center of the whole Ukraine. But at the same time you will feel as having rest somewhere in very green and fresh atmosphere of town suburbs, where great amount of trees, pleasant shadows and birds singing are everyday treasures. As well Kyiv possesses two beautiful Botanical gardens on its territory.
Kyiv is worthy called one of the greenest cities in the World (and recently it used to be the greenest). Outstanding Kyiv chestnuts that blossom fabulously in May became one of the city symbols.
- Kreschatik and Maydan Nezalejnosti
- History of Kreschatik
- History of Maydan Nezalejnosti (Independence Square)
- Podil
- Churches:
- St. Volodymyr Cathedral
- St. Sophia Cathedral
- St. Michael's (Mikhailovskiy) Golden-Domed Cathedral
- Cyril church
- Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery)
- St. Nicolas roman-catholic Cathedral
- Vydubichi Monastery
- St. Andrew's Church
- Pokrovskiy Roman Catholic cathedral
- Monuments:
- Bohdan Khmelnitskiy monument
- Kyi, Schek, Khoriv and Lybid (monument to the Founders of Kyiv on the Dnipro bank)
- Taras Shevchenko monument
- Mykhailo Hrushevskiy monument
- Nikolay Schors monument
- Pronya Prokopovna and Golohvastov monument
- Monument to Panikovskiy
- Nikolay Yakovchenko, the actor (Monument - Man with dog)
- Panteleymon Cat
- Saint Volodymyr monument
- Princess Olga
- Column of Independence
- Samson fountain
- Hohol "nose"
- Yaroslav the Wise Monument
- Mother-land
How to get there
Kyiv has an International Airport Boryspil
Airport Boryspil
Boryspil (LATA KBP, UKBB) International airport in Kyiv.It was founded in 1959 on the basis of military airport. The same year started carriage and passengers transfers. In 1965 new Boryspil air station was opened. According to the order of Minister of transport of Ukraine from 11 March 1993 new State international airport was created in Boryspil.
The airport possesses three terminals: A, B and C
TERMINAL A
Terminal is guided on the service to passengers that travel in the borders of Ukraine. A comfortable waiting room (2-nd floor), toilet (first floor), currency exchange offices, air help, air companies representatives are located in this terminal. Close to terminal A one can find cozy cafes, guarded parking lot.
TERMINAL B
In the International Terminal B of airport Boryspil a changed scheme of passengers' examination on aviation safety is introduced.
You can see more completed information about this city by following link:
http://www.uaproperty.com/index.php?-M=page:about_kiev/