Kyiv
Your first impression of Kyiv is bound to be one of surprise.
Your first impression of Kyiv is bound to be one of surprise.
The west is a special case in Ukraine.
The landscape is the star in Crimea; even those initially lured by the peninsula’s fascinating past usually come to agree.
Mysterious, edgy and architecturally lovely, Lviv boasts that it's Ukraine's least Soviet city.
Odesa is a city straight from literature – an energetic, decadent boomtown.
Welcome to the Hutsul Alps, one of Ukraine’s premier natural beauties.
Kharkiv (or Kharkov in Russian) is one of those ex-Soviet cities that have much to say about themselves, but fairly little to show.
With its odd mixture of Levantine and Soviet, the Crimean capital is not an unpleasant city, but there is no point lingering here, as everything else on the peninsula is much more exciting – and it's only a short bus ride away! If you have a night...
The Ukrainian coal troll is working hard to become Europe's prince charming as it prepares to host the European football cup in 2012.
Yalta's air – an invigorating blend of sea and pine forest sprinkled with mountain chill – has always been its main asset.
With its portly 19th-century houses, trams trundling along leafy boulevards and beautiful river vistas, Dnipropetrovsk has the potential to become an attractive city.
With pastel-coloured neoclassical buildings, neatly landscaped gardens and orderly, tree-lined cobblestoned pavements, the spruced-up city of Ivano-Frankivsk is increasingly becoming one of Ukraine's most pleasant.
Quaint and leafy Poltava is all about one particular turning point in history.
Like many cities in the west of Ukraine, energetic Chernivtsi displays the hallmarks of a more elegant past, most obviously in the shape of its star attraction, the phantasmagorical university building.
Uzhhorod (formerly Ungvar) is a typical border town – buzzing, full of energy, and often quite brusque.
Straddling a kink in the River Pivdenny Buh, Vinnytsya is another perfectly pleasant city that one would never expect to find hidden amid central Ukraine's endless wheat, sunflower and sugar-beet fields.
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