Today tire valve at our rear tire flew out, so we spent one hour changing the tire and then another two hours changing all air valves as prevention of future troubles at a local shop (1800 UAH). In the late afternoon, we parked just next to Medzhybizh Castle (entrance 50 UAH). It was...
Stunning Kamianets-Podilskyi fortress is a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle and a later three-part Polish fortress from the 14th century. It sits on top of a peninsula carved out by the winding Smotrych River, forming a natural defense system. Next to it is a historical town located...
Ornate golden domes of Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra rising up from the surrounding plain, it is a beacon of Ukrainian Orthodoxy (Moscow Patriarchate) on the edge of a largely Ukrainian Catholic region. The complex of the monastery includes the Assumption Cathedral, Trinity Cathedral, and...
Lutsk you will find in northwestern Ukraine, on a defensive site at a bend in the Styr River. It was a tribal settlement, perhaps of the Luchanians, as early as the 10th century. The first known record of the settlement dates to 1085. Lutsk later became a part of the principality of...
We spent three days in the largest city in western Ukraine waiting for our friend Peter who did not arrive. The city was named in honor of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349. Lviv was the center of the...
On our way to Lviv, we made a short stop at the Museum of folk architecture and way of life in the Precarpation region (entrance 20 UAH) with our friends Roman and Andrey. The open-sky museum is a structural subdivision of the National preserve “Davniy Halych”. It is on the territory of...
We spent two days in the capital of Prykarpattya – Ivano-Frankivsk. It received its current name in 1962 when during the celebration of 300 anniversary of the city’s foundation, it was renamed in honor of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. By that time the city had been...
President of the , who we met in Uzhorod, sent us an invitation from a famous retro cars collector Roman Slobodyan to visit him at his Retro Cars Museum near the Ivano-Frankivsk. He showed us his private collection of cars and motorbikes which he got and renovated throughout his life...
We stopped for one night in the historical city in southwestern Ukraine. Chernivtsi is situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408 when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief center of the area known as...
Rainy and cloudy weather followed us to the largest ski resort in Eastern Europe. The resort is located almost on the ridge-lines of the Carpathian Mountains at an elevation of 900 m near the village of Polianytsia. The resort was pioneered in the year 2000 and built according to the...