Lonely Planet India - August 2016

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A Z O V

S E A O F

S E A

B L A C K

Kr olevets

Okni

Krasni

Oleksandrija

Kr emenchuk

Bila Tserkva

Luhans’k

Kryvy Rih

Chernivtsi

Ter nopil

Uzhhorod

Odesa Mykolaiv

Zaporizhzhya Donetsk

Dnipropetrovs’k

Kharkiv

Sumy

Chernihiv

Vinnytsya Cherkasy

Kiev

Zhytomyr

Rivne

Luts’k

L’viv

R USSI A

P OLAND

M O L D O V A

B E L A R U S

R USSI A

R OMANIA

Watch Oksana Bayrak’s Avrora the evocative story
of a 12-year-old orphan and aspiring dancer who
witnesses the Chernobyl disaster.
Eat varenyky (boiled dumplings served with
cheese or meat); holubtsi (cabbage rolls stuffed with
rice and meat or buckwheat); and salo (salted
and smoked pork fat).
Drink vodka and kvas (a sweet beer made
from fermented bread).

IN A

WORD

Vitayu

(Hello)

BEST TIME TO VISIT

May to October

RANDOM FACT

Some biblical literalists believe that

the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl

was predicted in the Book

of Revelations.

TRADEMARKS

Cossacks; pysanky (hand-painted eggs); costumed folk

singers; ice fishing; Chernobyl; Soviet architecture;

borscht (beetroot soup); Orthodox churches;

shapkas (fur hats)

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1. A bronze tableau outside
   a shop in pretty Lviv


2. Magnet souvenirs of varenyky
   (boiled dumplings served with
   cheese or meat)


3. The Carpathian National Nature
   Park shelters lynx bison brown
   bear and wolves


4. The golden domes of Kyiv’s
   Dormition Cathedral


5. A sunset view
   over Kamyanets-Podilsky


6. Young musicians playing
   banduras Ukrainian
   plucked string instruments

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