What to do while in Ukraine

CITY: LVIV Population:  735,000 Area:  171km² Altitude:  324m above sea level. Lviv is a mysterious, but charming city for Ukrainians, who are attracted by its European atmosphere, and for Europeans, who feel and see the city’s authentic national colouring. It lies just 70km from the Polish border and has a coffee-house culture more akin to Austria and Hungary. And while other cityscapes were whitewashed by Soviet rule, Lviv's colour continued to shine through. Standing between eastern and central Europe, possessing a great tourism potential, the Lviv region is certainly attractive economically. Motto:   Open to the world More than 160,000 students study here. The city contains 60 establishments for higher education. THINGS TO SEE Lviv encompasses 55% of all Ukrainian monuments of cultural significance and 1.5 million museum artifacts. If anywhere sums up Lviv it is the beautiful Rynok Square (Market Square), which has been the centre of political, public, cultural, and com

City: Donetsk Province:  Donetsk Oblast Population:  1,100,700 inhabitants Area:  358km² Altitude:  225m above sea level Heart of the Donets Basin, Donetsk is also considered the centre of Ukraine’s coal mining region. The city is situated southeast of Kyiv on the Kalmius River and considered the third largest urban centre in the country. Donetsk was founded in 1869 by Welsh businessman John Hughes, who established a steel mill and several coal mines in the area. A century and a half later and the city's patrons are still built on foundations of steel and coal, the industries leaving an indelible mark on the cityscape. Despite images of soot-caked faces and hob-nailed industry, the capital of the Donbas has actually been recognised by UNESCO as the world's cleanest industrial city and the centre is benefiting from a financial injection. Five rivers meander through it, with the Kalmius attracting all manner of sailors even if the Sea of Azov, the world's shallowest sea, i

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Host City Kharkiv Province:  Kharkiv Oblast Population:  1,461,100 Area:  310km² Altitude:  152m above sea level With whole nations, cities, clubs and even families boasting their own coat of arms, distinguishing them can be a nightmare. Kharkiv is heraldry's dream. Encased in golden oak leaves in blue ribbon, their arms feature a caduceus (health) and cornucopia (abundance) beneath four sticks of rye and a sprocket, itself surmounted by an open book with an atomic symbol. There would have been few issues with copyright, yet it is far from arbitrary. Capital of agricultural north-east Ukraine, Kharkiv was for long the engine room of the region, building machinery on a massive scale. Yet as Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhya began to take the physical strain, Kharkiv – the birthplace of Soviet nuclear technology - positioned itself as the brains behind the operation, fed by a university population of over 100,000. Located north east of the country, Khar