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• Chernobyl Museum Conveys the Horror of Manmade Disaster

  A routine, but largely unnecessary safety test caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster on April 25, 1986. Technicians working at reactor Number 4 at the electricity-producing Chornobyl power ...

• Kiev’s’s Open Air Museum Delights History Buffs and Casual Visitors Alike

  The 21st century may be bombarding everyday lives around the world with technological gadgets that promise salvation through “connection”. Books may soon be obsolete and libraries may lose ...

• Top Ten Practical Tips for Traveling in Ukraine

  Researching a travel destination, especially one as eclectic and inspiring as Ukraine, can set an imagination ablaze, but what about practical travel tips for this emerging travel ...

• Kachanivka Park Welcomes Romantics and the Spirits of Poets

  A land owner of Greek descent, a chorister in the court of the Empress of Russia, with an unfortunate last name translated as “head of cabbage”, and an overstressed royal diplomat for ...

• Three Ukrainian Itineraries to Jump Start Your Travel Plans (Part 1)

  Cramming an international vacation into two or three weeks can not only be difficult but exhausting, and can leave travelers feeling like the days zipped past. If you are strapped for a ...

• Three Ukrainian Itineraries to Jump Start Your Travel Plans (Part 2)

  Three Ukrainian Itineraries to Jump Start Your Travel Plans (Part 1) Option Three: Black Sea Mysteries Odessa, a land of Greeks, Turks, and Catherine the Great’s fantasies, is ...

• Eastern Ukraine Offers Promise to Travelers Taking the Road Less Traveled

  Crimea, Kiev, Lviv, and the Carpathian Mountain regions of Ukraine steal the travel spotlight, but the eastern portion of the country, long identified with the Russian and Soviet Empire ...

• Straw Art of Ukraine

  When the state fair rolls into town, especially in the American Midwest, tourists flock to see visages of Elvis, the current president, or farm animals made from multi-colored corn seeds. Seed ...

• Ukraine’s Museum of Books and Book Printing

  Read a novel on your PDA. Check out the next installment of a memoir online. Peruse the local bookshop for the latest bestsellers. Books in any form are an integral part of world culture, even ...

• A Park of Sculpted Iron Captures the Interest of Many

  Ukraine is well-recognized for its parks built by royalty, with sprawling forests, romantic designs, and tenderly preserved flora and fauna, but one park in particular is made for the artists. ...