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Ukraine tourism general info

Ukraine is the country with well-developed tourism, annually visited by more than 20 mln tourists (23,1 mln in 2007) mainly from Eastern and Western Europe, USA and Japan. Mass tourism to Ukraine dates back to the middle of 19th century.
The sphere of tourist interests in Ukraine includes both active rest and sports tourism (e.x. rock craft and ski mountaineering), and informative travelling, where the subject to learning is old-line archeology and religion of this country.
Touristic travelling round Ukraine can also profit to health. Different health resorts situated almost in every region of Ukraine have been known at all times. Also Ukrainian cuisine is extremely diverse and delicious.

Ukraine medieval castle

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Ukraine beautiful nature

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Ukraine tourism: Cities

Kiev city - the historical capital of Kiev Rus and contemporary Ukraine situated on Dnepr river. Kiev city is often called as "the mother of all Russian towns". There are various ancient cathedrals and monasteries, wide boulevards, beautiful views and diversity of cultural institutions in Kiev city of Ukraine.
Lvov city - medieval "old town" and unique architecture with Polish and German elements.
Odessa city - Black Sea Port, great number of beaches and unique mixture of different cultures.
Yalta city - health resort at Crimean Peninsula Southern coast.
Sevastopol city - Black Sea Port, Russian and Ukrainian navy harbor.
Chernigov city - an ancient city with numerous ancient Russ architectural monuments.
Dnepropetrovsk city - an old-line city with numerous monuments, interesting museums and Europe longest quay - 23 km.
Kharkov city - comparatively young city, the first capital of Soviet Ukraine with unique architecture, numerous monuments, cinemas, theatres, museums.

Ukraine cities architecture

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Ukraine tourism: Landscapes

Crimea - tropical climate, famous sea resorts and mountain landscapes.
Carpathian Mountains - mountain landscapes with skiing and hiking possibilities, mineral water health springs.
Azov sea coast - beach resorts.
Dnepr river - cruises, beach resorts, fishing, surfing.

Ukrainian coast of Black Sea

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Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains

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Ukraine tourism: Visas

Citizens of Russia, CIS countries, European Union, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Japan do not need visa for less than 90 days stay in Ukraine.

Ukrainian wooden church

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Ukraine quick facts

Ukraine total area: 603,628 sq. km.
Ukraine boundaries: North - Belarus; East - Russian Federation; South - Black Sea; West - Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.
Ukraine elevations: highest - Mount Hoverla (6,702 feet, or 2,043 meters); lowest - Kyleutske, in the Crimea (59 feet, or 18 meters).
Ukraine population: 46,314,000 (2007 est).
Ukraine capital and largest cities: Kiev, Lvov, Odessa, Donetsk.
Ukraine major languages: Ukrainian and Russian.

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Coat of arms of Ukraine

Ukraine major religious groups: Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholics (Uniates), Baptists, and Jews.
Ukraine international phone code: +380.
Ukraine currency: Hryvnia (UAH).
Ukraine Internet TLD: .ua

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Ukraine overview

Ukraine, (Ukrainian spelling Ukraina), country in southeastern Europe, the second largest of the continent after Russia.
Economically, Ukraine is a major industrial and agricultural producer. Ukraine country is well endowed in natural resources and has long been known as Europe's and later the USSR's breadbasket.
Ukraine consists almost entirely of level plains and occupies a large portion of East European Plain. Central part of Ukraine consists of Dnepr Lowland, through which Dnepr River runs from north to south.

Ukraine beautiful nature

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Ukraine country landscape

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Ukraine country scenery

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Other lowlands extend along the shores of Black and Azov seas in southern Ukraine, while Crimean Peninsula, in the extreme south, has both lowlands and low mountains. Western Ukraine has some uplands, and Carpathian Mountains extend through that region for more than 150 miles (240 km).
Ukraine lies in temperate climatic zone and receives 16 to 24 inches (400 to 600 mm) of precipitation annually. Dnepr, Don, Dnestr and other rivers all drain southward through the plains to empty into Azov-Black Sea Basin. Ukraine's most important river, Dnepr river, is extensively dammed along much of its course for hydroelectric and irrigation purposes.
Ethnic Ukrainians make up more than seven-tenths of the total population. Ukrainian language is closely related to Russian and Belorussian and belongs to Slavic group of languages.
Russians are the largest minority group, accounting for about two-tenths of the population. The highest population densities are found in industrialized Donets Coal Basin and Dnepr regions and in agriculturally productive forest-steppe belt.
Illiteracy was virtually eliminated during the Soviet period, and education is now compulsory between the ages of 7 and 17. In higher education, Ukrainian is once again becoming main language of instruction after being displaced by Russian during the Soviet period. Primary and secondary schools using Russian still prevail in Donets Basin and in the southern part of Ukraine, where there are large Russian minorities.

Kiev city houses view

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Warsaw and Kiev are working over high-speed railway communication before European Football Championship. At present traveling time between capitals of Poland and Ukraine takes 16 hours. High-speed railway should also connect Lvov and Peremishl’, Polish “Rzeczpospolita” newspaper reports.
The representative of Polish Infrastructure Department Valdemar Pitel tells about idea to present automatic alternation of wheels’ arrangement in trains on SUW 2000 system which, according to him, should reduce travel time by 2 hours.If the railway meeting European standards is laid on Peremishl’-Lvov route, then the express train from Krakow or even from Wroclaw could go, and Ukraine agreed for the offer, “Rzeczpospolita” reports.However it’s still unknown when decision on Kiev and Warsaw connection will be finally adopted.

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McDonald's - official EURO sponsor

McDonald's has extended its long-standing involvement with European football's flagship national team competition to cover both UEFA EURO 2012 and UEFA EURO 2016.
UEFA and McDonald's, a UEFA European Football Championship sponsor since 1992, today announced an extension of the corporation's long-term sponsorship as official restaurant and UEFA EUROTOP partner covering all competitions within the EUROTOP program until 2017.
McDonald's therefore becomes the sixth global partner for UEFA's flagship national team tournament, UEFA EURO 2012, following on from the announcement of the adidas, Castrol, Coca-Cola, Hyundai-Kia and Carlsberg agreements.
As part of its sponsorship deal, which includes integrated broadcast sponsorship rights in Europe, McDonald's will continue to provide children with the opportunity to participate in all national team competitions through the sole and exclusive McDonald's player escort program.
In addition, McDonald's will benefit from exclusive marketing rights and will activate a number of marketing and promotional campaigns across its restaurants giving football fans throughout Europe the chance to obtain tickets for the relevant events.
"We have been supporting football, from grassroots level to the international tournaments, for more than 25 years," said Denis Hennequin, president of McDonald's Europe. "Our player escort program is a great way of inspiring more young people to participate in the game," he added.
Commenting on the signing, David Taylor, CEO of UEFA Events SA, said: "The commitment of McDonald's to sponsor UEFA EURO 2012 and all our EUROTOP competitions is a further vote of confidence in the tournaments we organize and we are delighted to continue our long-standing relationship with McDonald's."
As well as being a global partner for both UEFA EURO 2012 and UEFA EURO 2016, McDonald's, as EUROTOP partner, will also sponsor the UEFA European Under-21 Championship (2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 editions), the UEFA European Women's Championship (2013 and 2017) and the UEFA European Futsal Championship (2012, 2014 and 2016).
UEFA Events is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UEFA and has been created to manage and handle UEFA's commercial and event operations. It is, among other things, responsible for generating media rights, sponsorship, licensing and hospitality revenue from all professional national team and club competitions, and for managing relationships with all associated commercial partners.
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UEFA noted Ukraine's progress

The Supervisory Board EURO 2012, which was working 1-2 in June in Swiss Nyon, reviewed the state of affairs in infrastructure preparation and organization of the tournament in Ukraine. The conclusions were unfavorable - Europe noticed our efforts and effective work.
Tournament director “EURO 2012 Ukraine” Markiyan Lubkivskyi following the meeting said:" The UEFA Supervisory Board noted positive developments in the infrastructure preparation of Ukraine to the European Football Championship in 2012, but called the Ukrainian side for consolidate efforts.
Following discussion of the state of affairs and prospects of EURO 2012 in Ukraine Michel Platini emphasized that holding the Championship is his personal responsibility to the Europe community. All delegates from Ukraine pledged to share it with the UEFA president. From our country's Supervisory Board meeting was attended by Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on EURO 2012 Borys Kolesnikov, head of the National Agency on preparation for EURO 2012 Volodymyr Kovalevsky, President of the Football Federation of Ukraine Grygoriy Surkis and tournament director “EURO 2012 Ukraine” Markiyan Lubkivskyi.
This meeting confirmed the seriousness of Ukraine to prepare and hold EURO 2012 at the highest level. Despite the fact that European experts noted our progress, local organizers are not going lower speed and vice versa – to gain momentum in work. "Before the Ukrainian side is difficult, but dispatch tasks: faithfully adhere to all works deadlines, including stadiums and airports. Ukraine should have a clear plan for further action and to promptly take the necessary decisions ", - emphasized Mr. Lubkivskyi.
On June 8, we will celebrate two years before EURO 2012. But UEFA does not forget that Ukraine infrastructure is preparing for the championship, remains in possession. "For UEFA important that those items that will be created - the stadiums and airports – have a highly professional management", - said Markiyan Lubkivskyi.
The next meeting will be held in September, when we "fit" the preparation schedule and show more noticeable results in preparing infrastructure and operational part of the tournament. Director of EURO 2012 in Ukraine concluded: "So important, that the preparation process take place harmonious and dynamically. We can not allow the day of delay.
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Ukraine - Lithuania. Last Preparation

Lithuania national team is diligently preparing for the friendly match with the Ukrainian team, which will be held on May 25 in Kharkiv. Lithuanian head coach Raimondas Žutautas announced a preliminary list of players who will prepare to duel with "blue - yellow. Currently it consists of 30 names, but after the training camps which begin on May 20, list will be reduced to 20 players.

Goalkeepers: Paulius Grybauskas (Neftchi, Azerbadzhan), Giedrius Arlauskis (Unirea, Romania), Žydrūnas Karčemarskas (Gaziantepspor, Turkey), Vytautas Černiauskas (Ekranas).

Defenders: Marius Stankevičius (Sevilla, Spain), Arūnas Klimavičius (Sibir, Russia), Linas Klimavičius (Dnipro, Ukraine), Vidas Alunderis (LASK Linz, Austria), Mantas Fridrikas (FBK Kaunas, Lithuania), Vytautas Andriuškevičius (Kaunas), Tadas Kijanskas (Sūduva), Alhis Jankauskas (Vėtra), Mantas Lėkis (Tauras), Vaidas Slavickas (Sūduva).
Midfielders: Kęstutis Ivaškevičius (Kryvbas, Ukraine), Mindaugas Panka (Widzew, Poland), Darvydas Šernas (Widzew, Poland), Arvydas Novikovas (Hearts, Scotland), Rytis Leliūga (Køge, Denmark), Mindaugas Kalonas (Metalurg Z., Ukraine ), Vytautas Lukša (Illichivets), Dominykas Galkevičius (Ekranas), Ramūnas Radavičius (Ekranas), Marius Kižys (Tauras), Vitalijus Kavaliauskas (RIO Liepājas).
Forwards: Tomas Danilevičius (Livorno, Italy), Robertas Poškus (Inter Baku, Azerbaijan), Povilas Lukšys(Suduva), Artūras Rimkevičius (Vėtra) , Gvidas Juška (Banga).
Future judge of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian confrontation is Russian referee Stanislav Sukhina. He is considered as the arbiter of the FIFA second group. He began to service Russian Championship from 2001. Mr. Sukhina has great experience, so the match should go in interesting and uncompromising struggle, and only judge skills decides who is the best.

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