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Warning: main(http://edumagazine.net/banner/index.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/teren.2mcl.com/httpdocs/edu/top_banner.php on line 49 Warning: main(http://edumagazine.net/banner/index.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/teren.2mcl.com/httpdocs/edu/top_banner.php on line 49 Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'http://edumagazine.net/banner/index.php' (include_path='.:') in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/teren.2mcl.com/httpdocs/edu/top_banner.php on line 49 Tourist Guide Kiev Kiev is the capital city of Ukraine, its largest economical, political, educational and cultural center. Kiev offers endless opportunities for tourism. Traveling to this city may be one of the most pleasurable experiences in your life. Ukrainians' very lifestyle will be as interesting to foreign visitors as the capital's major attractions and museums. Kharkiv The truth is that Kharkiv is not much of a tourist city and therefore can not compete with such leaders of world tourism as Venice, Rome or Saint Petersburg (although in some sense Kharkiv in Ukraine is like Saint Petersburg in Russia). Kharkiv is the largest scientific industrial and trade center of Ukraine. At the same time all guests and visitors who come to our city on business trips say that they like it here. They admit that the city has beautiful parks, squares and gardens and that it has a lot of greenery. Sumy The land of Sumy (Sumshchyna) is situated in the south-east of Ukraine. It is mostly plain, overgrown atmany places with forsests. 132 rivers, tributaries of the Dnipro, roll their waters through the step. As an administrative unit Sumy Oblast' was created in 1939 (present population — about 1.5 million people; territory -23.8 thousand square kilometers). Archaeological digs have revealed that the area, occupied now by Sumy Oblast', was inhabited as far back as 15 thousand years ago. Available historical evidence enables one to say with a reasonable degree of accuracy that in the first millennium B. C. this area was inhabited by tribes of different origin, mostly proto-Slavic and later Slavic. For some time the Scythians of the settled kind, not nomadic, tilled the land here, and later they were superseded by other tribes and finely by the Slavs. We even know the name of the tribe: the Siveryane. In the late 9th century the land of Sumy (that is the area that now bears this name) was incorporated into the state of Kyivan-Rus-Ukraine. Cherkasy Cherkassy is one of the most picturesque cities on the right bank of the river Dnepr with population of 300 000 inhabitants. The city was founded in late 13th century. In the 15th century Cossacks populated the Cherkassy region and the city became a mighty fortification against the raids of Turks and Crimean Tatars. For further defense against enemies, the Cherkassy castle was built (now the Hill of Glory). The city then developed around the castle. During the war of liberation between 1648 and 1654 Cherkassy fulfilled an important role as defense against Polish gentry headed by Ukrainian hetman B. Khmelnytsky. The northern part of the city was planned in 1820 by the famous architect V.Geste like a chess-board, with wide streets and public gardens. Cherkassy is a prosperous city thanks to manufacture plants of trains and steamboats, the first sugar refinery of Ukraine and also a tobacco factory. Cherkassy became one of the main transit points for wood transported from the northern part on Dnepr. That is why you will find a lot of furniture companies here. In 1954 Cherkassy became the capital of a new region (called Cherkassy oblast, the youngest region of Ukraine) and since then the population grew five times. Citizens of Cherkassy are proud of the city's cultural past connected with famous Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko, prominent painter, Ukrainian actress Maria Zankovetskaya, writers Ivan Karpenko-Kariy, Pavlo Tychyna, Lesj Homin, Vasil Symonenko, K.Paustovskiy and others. Useful city info: Cherkassy has three state universities and several privately owned ones. There is Shevchenko Drama Theatre, the Cherkassy Philharmonic, Shevchenko Museum, Museum of Arts and also there is a Super League Basketball Club “Cherkassy's Monkeys”. Sightseeing: The Hill of Glory with eternal flame is devoted to people who died in World War II. The Hill of Glory now stands where the Cherkassy castle was in the past. The Park of October Anniversary is the green pearl of Cherkassy. You can admire a Cherkassy mermaid in the middle of a beautiful lake cascade or the Bridge of Love which is crossed by every local couple on the day of their marriage. The St. Michael's Cathedral was built in Byzantine style in 1994. The cathedral is 58 meters long, 53 meters wide and 72 meters high which makes it the tallest in Ukraine. It also has a capacity of hosting 12 thousand people. The Shevchenko Museum is the oldest building still standing (built in 1852) and it is the house where Taras Shevchenko actually lived during his visits to the city. You can also visit the Sofyivka Park How to get to Cherkassy: Cherkassy is 169 kilometers away from Kiev. It takes 2,5 hours by car. Or you can take a marshrutka (small yellow bus) from metro station Kharkovskaya or Chernigovskaya. The fare is 30 Hryvnas.
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