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• Green Tourism on the Rise

  Trends have a way of making their way across the continents. With the growing popularity of eco-friendly vacations, Ukraine, home to mountains and ocean shores, forests and endless steppes, is ...

• Remnants of Ancient Slavic Civilization Surface in Vegetable Plots

  Not all pottery shards, bowl fragments, or slices of rudimentary plates are created equal, and if you are a Ukrainian mildly tending your vegetable plot, your digging may just unearth 8,000 ...

• Indigenous Ukrainian Forests

  Fresh air is at a premium these days. Cities and rural communities alike pump out carcinogens and noxious gases. Deforestation of the world’s forests bleeds the air of its healthy ...

• Excavations Uncover History and Questions in Central Kiev

  Every day Kiev’s busy streets are flooded with average Ukrainians rushing to work, researchers with books and papers under their arms entering the Parliamentary Library, and construction ...

• Color, Aroma and Sounds of an Ukrainian Market

  Fancy a pastry for breakfast? Perhaps a slice of spiced sausage is your taste? Are you a bibliophile who salivates at the prospect of thumbing through acres of books for hours on end? Do you ...

• Ukrainian Naming Traditions

  Expectant parents pour over pages of baby names. Names are plucked from a genealogical line to honor a family member. Sometimes people abandon their birth names as a means to chart a new ...

• Kiev’s Metro Attracts Local and Foreign Admirers

  Metro systems have long been a fixture in European and American cities, but in the city of Kiev, underground trains are a contemporary option for public transport. Opened in the fall of 1960 ...

• Top Ten Reasons to Travel to Ukraine

  If you have been following this website, you will have already discovered dozens of reasons to travel to Ukraine. If you are new to our Ukrainian travel community, the writers would like to take ...

• Contemporary Ukrainian Tractor Industry Tells another Story

  In the novel, “A Short History of Ukrainian Tractors,” readers may be familiar with the travails of an elderly pensioner desperate to write his treatise on the fallen state of the Ukrainian ...

• Ukrainian Flora and Fauna Come Alive with Myth

  Christened with the moniker, “a land of golden wheat”, Ukraine is undoubtedly one of the most fertile agricultural regions of Europe. With over 30,000 species of plant life, natural ...