Sights in Ukraine
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Transfiguration Church
The tall copper-domed church just west of the Armenian Cathedral is the late-17th-century Transfiguration Church, the first church in the city to revert to Greek Catholicism after Ukrainian independence in 1991.
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Horkoho Park
About 2km to the north of pl Svobody, vul Sumska runs along Horkoho Park, where you'll find plenty of tree-lined paths, a funfair, cinema, summertime chairlift and children's locomotive, as well as hills for wintertime sledding.
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Beis Aharon V’Yisrael Synagogue
Artefacts of Lviv’s Jewish heritage are scattered around various museums in the old town. Lviv’s only functioning synagogue is the attractive Beis Aharon V’Yisrael Synagogue, built in 1924.
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Lvivske Museum of Beer and Brewing
The oldest still-functioning brewery in Europe turns 300 in 2015, and a tasting tour through the mainly underground facilities is well worth the price of admission. One old storage vault has been turned into a unique beer hall.
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Regional Museum
If you have time to kill, the diverse Regional Museum has some interesting archaeological artefacts, stuffed wild animals, a model of the old Vinnytsya Castle, and a WWII exhibit with intact Soviet propaganda.
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Monument to the Victims of the Great Famine
Left of the St Michael’s Gold-Domed Monastery's entrance is a moving monument to the victims of the great famine. English placards above the monument tell the dark story of Ukraine’s holodomor.
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Stained-Glass Portraits Of Yuri Gagarin
Other attractions like Moscow's, Kharkiv's Metro is something of an attraction in its own right, featuring high ceilings and space-age chandeliers. Check out the above the stairs to the platforms at the Pr Gagarina Station.
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Dacha Stamboli
The Ottoman-style Dacha Stamboli was once home to a wealthy tobacco merchant, the building’s exterior is a trifle weather-beaten, but its ornate restored interior is one of Crimea’s best.
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Saint Peter's and Paul's Cathedral
The stately white and blue façade of the Roman Catholic Saint Peter's and Paul's Cathedral was originally built in 1610. Its renovated interior - painted in pink and yellow tones - resembles a massive Easter egg.
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Regional Government Administration Office
Following vul Hryunvaldska and vul Hrushevskoho from the train station to the centre, you can’t miss the hulking Soviet-realist edifice of the regional government administration office.
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Preobrazhensky Cathedral
The glistening gold spire and dome of Preobrazhensky Cathedral is quite marvellous. A classical structure dating from 1830 to 1835, this is Dnipropetrovsk's holiest church so don't barge in wearing beach clothes.
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Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral
The Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral has two distinctive missile-like corner bell towers. Within its dark interior are the tombs of several Kyivan Rus royalty, including the younger brother of Yaroslav the Wise.
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Former Armenian Church
The 1762 former Armenian church boasts an attractive baroque façade and twin bell towers. The church sits on the eastern edge of pl Rynok, which is ringed with other colourful buildings.
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St Barbara Church
Berdychiv has links to two great 19th-century literary figures: Joseph Conrad was born here (1857) and Honoré de Balzac was married here (1850) in the rose-tinted St Barbara Church.
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Bul Prymorsky
The steps are in the renovated, most beautiful part of town and descend from the tree-lined bul Prymorsky, a pedestrian zone to which the whole city gravitates, with replica 19th-century gas lamps.
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Historical Museum of Zaporizhsky Cossacks
The informative Historical Museum of Zaporizhsky Cossacks includes painted dioramas and various Cossack weaponry and bric-a-brac excavated from the island and nearby Baida Island.
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Museum of Ethnography, Arts and Crafts
The Museum of Ethnography, Arts and Crafts has exhibits of furniture, clothing, woodcarvings, ceramics and farming implements that give a basic introduction to Carpathian life.
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Poltava Art Gallery
Just east of Korpusny park is the Poltava Art Gallery, which hosts modern-art exhibits as well as the not-so-modern collection of the recently closed Poltava Art Museum.
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National Art Museum
The National Art Museum displays early Ukrainian icons, and paintings from the 14th to the 19th centuries, including some by polymath national poet Taras Shevchenko.
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Podillya Antiquities Museum
The small but interesting Podillya Antiquities Museum displays ancient tools, weapons and various other archaeological treasures dug up in Podillya over the years.
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Museum of Religious History
Attached to the Dominican Cathedral and Monastery and to the left of the entrance is the Museum of Religious History, which was an atheist museum in Soviet times.
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Mramorna Cave
Mt Chatyr-Dag (1527m) lies west of the Alushta–Simferopol road and is renowned for the numerous caves that lie beneath it. The most famous is the Mramorna Cave.
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St Nicholas' Church
In the northwest section of the grounds is the small, late-17th-century St Nicholas' Church, its unique blue dome adorned with golden stars. It's now an administrative building.
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Music and Drama Theatre
The Music and Drama Theatre was designed in the same style of De Stijl that also inspired the Viennese architects of Odesa’s Opera and Ballet Theatre.
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Preobrazhensky Cathedral
Pl Soborna is the site of the gigantic, newly rebuilt Preobrazhensky Cathedral, which was Odesa's most famous and important church until Stalin had it blown up in the 1930s.
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