Kharkiv

In 1654 Kharkiv was founded on a hill between the Lopan and Kharkiv Rivers. Ten years later Kharkiv became a separate province. In 1689 the construction of the Holy Shroud Cathedral was finished, this is the oldest stone building that preserved in the city. The Holy Shroud Monastery was founded 30 years later. In 1765 became the centre of the Province of Sloboda Ukraine. In the 1780s the city development plan was conceived by architect P. Yaroslavky. In 1791 the first city theatre was opened. The Kharkiv Emperor’s University starting operation 1800s. In 1816 the first magazines in Ukraine were published, the Kharkivsky Democrit, a magazine of satire and humor. In 1869 the first train arrived in Kharkiv, and in July regular traffic started along the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov Railway. The first water system of the city was laid. The Kharkiv Technological Institute was opened for engineers for industry, mining and construction. At the end of the 1880s the first city state telephone station started. The first electric tram since 1906 worked. In 1917 Soviet power was proclaimed & Kharkiv was the first capital of Ukraine until 1934). In 1924 regular flights on the routes Kharkiv – Kiev and Kharkiv – Odessa were launched. In 1927 built the Metallist Stadium, which became the main sporting arena of the city. In the 1930s the construction of the flagships of Soviet industry, including Tractor Plant, Turbine Plant, and Lathe Contraction Plant was finished.

Climate

Moderate continental weather. In winter, it is very changeable. The coldest months are January and February sometimes can so low as -15 or even -25°С, but the average ~-6°С in these months.
The warmest and rainiest months are July and August. An average temperature of July is +20°С.

By plane

• Kharkiv International Airport

  phone: +380 572 431985, +380 572 433643
  Direct flights from Kiev, Minsk, Warsaw, Wrocław, Katowice, Gdańsk, Dortmund, Tel-Aviv and Istanbul.

Getting there/away

• By bus: Buses 115 and 119 to metro (subway) station "Prospekt Haharina", bus 297 to metro station "Maidan Konstytutsii".
• By minibus (marshrutka): Marshrutkas 255 and 152 to metro station "Akademika Barabashova".
• By trolleybus Trolleybus 5 to "Zirka" cinema.

By bus

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• Bus Station No. 2

  phone: +380 57 734-9106
  address: Suzdal'skie Ryady str., 9
  Buses from direction of Sumy (north).International buses also depart from here.

• Bus Station No. 3 or ‘Konny Rynok’ Station

  phone: +380 57 732-5765
  address: Vosstaniya sq., 4

• Bus Station No. 4 or Lisopark Station

  phone: +380 57 315-0176, +380 57 315-0039
  address: Belgorodskoe highway, 1
  From Belgorod.

• Bus Station #6 Kholodna Hora

  phone: +380 57 372-7191
  address: Poltavskii Shlyakh str., 143 (Prosp. Moskovsky)
  Regional & international buses.

• Bus Station #8 Pivdennyi vokzal

  phone: +380 57 752-9976 or +380 57 732-6504
  address: Privokzal'naya sq., 2
  Regional & international routes.

• Customer Service of ‘Autolux’ Bus Company

  phone: +380 57 736-0149
  Coaches follow the Kharkiv-Poltava-Boryspil Airport-Kiev route.

By train

• Central railway station, 'Kharkiv-Passazhyrskyi'It has daily trains to all major cities and towns in Ukraine. It is recommended to buy railway tickets in advance at Ukrainian railways' website (press "English" button at the top of the page) . You must print booking form from the site and then fetch tickets form any Ukrainian railways' ticket office. The person receiving Internet-ordered travel documents in the ticket office must present an identifying document to the booking-clerk. - Railway tickets can be purchased at the booking offices at the railway station, at the Service Centre or at the advance booking offices. The Service Centre is open 24 hr at the ground floor. Here you can purchase tickets, book a room, order a taxi or hire a luggage porter, as well as get all the necessary information, make a photo copy or use a PC. The U Samovara (At the Samovar) Tea Pavilion is in the central hall of the railway station. The biggest samovar in Ukraine of 305 kg and 360 liter is installed there. - There is a waiting room is on the first floor & a conference room on the second floor. To here express trains arrive from Simferopol 7 hr, Kiev, 5 hr via Poltava 2 hr. From Kiev is a direct overnight train service (87 грн, 8½ to 10 hr). From Donetsk (70 грн, 6½ to 8 hr, 6 a day) and 1 so-called ‘fast elektrychka’ (electric train) with airplane-style seating (38 грн, 5½ hr). There’s also a fast elektrychka from Dnipro (25 грн, 4½ hr) along with a host of regular trains (35 грн, 6 hr), Odesa (100 грн, 14 hr, twice a day).

• Railway advance booking tickets Cash desk

  address: Nauky ave., 27/23

• Train ticket office, pre-sale

  address: Sumskaya str., 39

• Kharkiv-Balashovsky station

  phone: +380 57 250-8203
  address: Plekhanovskaya str., 114
  A commuter train station

• Kharkiv-Levada Railway Station

  address: Movchanyvskyi prov. (Мовчанівський пров.)
  A commuter train station.
• Alongside electric commuter trains, rail buses have been introduced.

Kharkiv can seem very foreign for western travelers, mostly because of Cyrillic letters. It would be very useful to learn to read the Cyrillic alphabet before coming to Ukraine. Most Kharkivians speak Russian, as Kharkiv is 40 km from the Russian border. Though there will be a big possibility that the locals will not understand the Russian which comes from the travelers’ phrasebook. But it is worth trying to practice as there are only a few people who speak and understand English, mostly young Ukrainians.

By Metro

The Metro is the fastest and easiest way of getting around. Every day it carries nearly 1 million people; it is the most convenient public transport in Kharkiv. There are three metro lines (red, blue and green). The fare for one trip (as at March 2019) is 8 грн.
To enter the Metro you must buy a rechargeable card; the tokens are no longer used. A card can be bought at an automat for 10 грн and it can be recharged for an amount of up to 500 грн. To use the card just place the card on top of the turnstile to your right, make sure that the light is green and proceed. But make sure that you walk through the correct side of the turnstile otherwise there is the possibility that you will be hit by the metal gate!
The way the Kharkiv Metro is designed allows you to choose the direction of travel after you have paid for you trip.

By tram

The Kharkiv tram network one of the few left in Ukraine, since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The number 12 tram line is very useful if you wish to visit the far northeastern part of the city.

Religious buildings

• Church of the Peter and Paul

  address: Shevchenko str., 121
  Opened in 1866, built in Russian-Byzantine style. Stone temple with dome. Restored to 130-year anniversary, in 1996.

• Annunciation Cathedral

  address: Karla Marksa sq
  Main Orthodox church of Kharkiv, built and consecrated at the turn of 20th century.

• Choral Synagogue

  address: Pushkinska 12
  The largest synagogue in Ukraine, today a centre of Jewish culture and life. 1912 building relegated deeper into a site on the grounds that it was necessary to measure the distance of 100 yards (213 meters) from the Orthodox Nicholas Church. It housed the Jewish workers' club named the Third International, 1941 - Children's Theater, later the building was voluntary sports organizations, "Spartacus." Since 1990 transferred to the Jewish community of the city. After a fire in 1998 the building was renovated and opened in 2003.

• Church of the Nativity of Christ and of the St. Sergius of Radonezh

  address: Nauky ave, 65а
  1998 was laid and consecrated stone of a new temple in honor of 2000 years of Christmas in the name of St. Sergius Radonez. January 17, 1999 was consecrated

• Holy Protection of the Virgin monastery

  address: 8 Universytetska St
  Built in beginning of the 17th to the end of the 19th century, the oldest stone construction in Kharkiv and a monument of architecture of national significance. Ukrainian Baroque combined with Roman and Old-Russian motifs. Founded by the Cossacks, the Cathedral was erected in 1689 as part of the fortifications. The complex include: Ozeryanska church, 1896 designed as a basilica with high, narrow windows and its thick stone walls prove it was part of the city’s defensive fortifications, inside a copy of an miracle-working icon of Our Lady of Ozeriana what found in the Village of Ozeriana not far from Kharkiv in the mid-17th century; the Defense tower-bell tower, 1689; the Protection of the Virgin cathedral, 1689, in ukrainian baroque style; the Bishop's house, 1820-1826, classicism style; the Seminary, 1912. In the 18th century here was the home for Kharkiv College. Being an educational institution of Kiev-Mohyla Academy type, it trained students for religious and various secular activities. The Eparch’s House (1826), now the diocesan administration, a complex with monks cells. Part of it:

• The Assumption or Dormition Cathedral

  address: Kvitky-Osnov'yanenka (вул.Квітки-Основ'яненка), 2
  Orthodox church rebuilt several times, first in the 1770s, and later in the baroque style. The bell tower was the tallest building in the city until the 21st century, 1821-1844, in classicism style.

• Cathedral of the Most Holy Mother of God

  address: Universitetskaya str., 10
  built by Cossacks outside of those limits fortress, near its northern wall in 1689 - instead of wooden Protection Church (known since 1659).

• Dormition or Assumption Cathedral

  address: Universitetskaya str., 11
  Built in 1646 of wood, in 1685 it was rebuilt in stone. In 1773 the temple was burned during the great fire. In the modern form of the Assumption Cathedral with a bell tower - a monument of national importance was built in 1821-1844 years the means of the clergy and Kharkov in honor of the victory in the war of 1812. The church boasted a gilded icon screen, carved from limewood to Rastrelli's Rococo design.The free-standing Alexander Bell Tower was built in the aftermath of Napoleon's expulsion from Russia "to express the people's gratitude to Alexander I". It used to be the second tallest building in Ukraine after the Great Lavra Bell Tower. The seat of the local bishop was moved from the older Intercession Cathedral to the Dormition Church in 1846. A large French clock was installed in the bell tower in 1856. The belfry damaged by a tornado in 1975. Restored in the late 1970s and reverted to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 2006. A Rieger–Kloss organ installed in the building back in 1986.

Ozeryanska church on Kholodna hill

address: Poltavskyi shlyakh 124

Built in 1892-1901, in Russian-byzantine style.

Church of the St. Panteleimon

address: 94-94A Klochkivs'ka

Church found in 1882, in 1883 were ready to wall, roof and belfry. The first service began in 1885. It is made in Russian-Byzantine style. In 1897-18 reconstructed. The Church adorned the facade of decorative details, what gave to the church a festive look. In 1930 dismantled tower with a cupola, decorative turrets. Domed bell tower was stripped cross. The last restoration work completed in 1999.

Church of St. John the Baptist

address: Artema str., 50A

Built in the Russian-Byzantine style, in 1845. Since 1857 used as a parish temple. In 1853 the dome of this temple collapsed. Restoration completed in 1857. The temple built in the tradition of old Russian architecture. The plan is an cross-dome church.

Cathedral of Uspeniya Virgin Mary

address: Gogolya str 4

First Catholic cathedral built in 1887-92. It has a high bell tower of the Gothic spire and round-socket window in the second tier. In 1901 when the church operated as a hospice, later it was a home for orphans, parish school.

Trinity Church, the Life-giving

address: Dubovogo Ivana ln., 3

By the 1700s it already existed. The first church was wooden, in 1764 rebuilt on stone. The new church was small, three cupolas, one of them with extension, which named the "Little Church" rather than the main house - the "Great Church". Belfry topped with an angel. In the 1850s it was decided to build a new temple with a separate bell tower. After the revolution a long time in building the temple housed the bakery, and only in 1992 it returned to the faith service.

Museums

• Maestro art gallery

  address: Sumskaya str., 25
  Since 1997 the Gallery actively promotes the art of theater, because along with paintings and drawings in the "Maestro" exhibitions devoted to the theater, arts and crafts, photos.

• Kosmos & UFO museum

  phone: +380 57 705-0019
  address: Kravtsova ln., 15
  Information about the anomalous zones of the planet, the earthlings messages to other civilizations, meteorites, astronomical data on the possibility of life on other worlds, the observations of pilots and astronauts, pictures of NASA. Human space flight and launch of spacecraft.

• History Museum

  phone: +380 57 731-3568
  address: Universitetskaya str., 5
  Founded in 1920 as the Museum of Sloboda Ukraine Skovorody, in former pawnshop building, built in 1908. There archaeological finds from excavations of Bronze Age settlements, set things from Donetsk county from Old Ruthenian period, 11-12th century. Also there exhibits of coins, ethnographical material, collection of weapons, flags and so on. Outdoors exposed tanks Mark V (used British during the First World War) a T-34 and three guns (Soviet Union during the Second World War).

• Police History Museum

  phone: +380 57 705-9655
  address: Radnarkomivskaya str., 13
  Built in 1996, on an area of 360 m², in three rooms of the palace of culture police. The largest is the Memorial Hall; the other two are Hall of memory of fallen police officers and the Hall of the Great Patriotic War. The visitor has the opportunity to view old photographs of police officers, archival documents, newspaper clippings, and 21st-century awards. Particularly attention is drawn to medals "For service without blemish", "With diligence" and the like. Presents guards' uniforms of different times, samples of weapons, reports, statements.

• Dom Khudozhnika Exhibit Center

  phone: +380 57 706-1401
  address: Darvina str., 11
  How the house of an artist. It was the mansion of the English consul, Charles Blekki. The building, reminiscent of an English out-of-town cottage, was a hotel for foreigners starting in 1934. Artistic exhibitions are conducted here today.

• Vasylkivskyi City Art gallery

  phone: +380 57 706-1620
  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 15

• AS art gallery

  phone: +380 57 766-1177
  address: Chernyshevskogo str.,13

• Museum of Folk Art Slobozhanshchina

  phone: +380 57 706-3396
  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 18/9 & Sovnarkomovskaya str., 9
  Founded in 1991. The collection is housed in a building constructed by the architect Alexey Beketov, in the late 19th century. There are about two thousand exhibits reflecting the history and basic directions of the folk art of the region. The highlight is the embroidery. Here are the towels and shirts of 19th century. A special delight is embroidered with white on white. In addition to products made of clay, straw, wicker, wood, beads. The museum shows the annual series of exhibitions from works by modern masters.

• AVEK Gallery

  phone: +380 57 712-0383
  address: Sumskaya str. (ул. Сумская), 70
  A leading non-governmental exhibition area of Kharkov. Yearly visited by a million people. In the gallery, "AVEC" repeatedly exhibited their work the best masters of Kharkov. A special place is occupied by the project "Intercultural Dialogue".

• Literature Museum

  phone: +380 57 706-2580
  address: Frunze str.,6
  Founded in 1988. The staff of the museum conducts research, research and educational work on the reconstruction of literary history Slobozhanshchina (Kharkiv region). There are more than 30,000 exhibits, contains a unique manuscripts, photos, documents, autographs, memorabilia of many other cultural figures. Based on these ekspanatov team created dozens of museum exhibitions that have received high marks in Ukraine and abroad. Here operate children's clubs and Theatre-Studio Arabesques.

• Museum of Nature, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Sloboda Ukraine

  phone: +380 57 705-1242
  address: Trinklera str., 8
  In 23 halls, 4,000 m², more than 250,000 artifacts can see the collection of archaeological finds relating to the Bronze Age, the Scythian period, antiquity, chernyakhivska Saltov and cultures, as well as items collected during ethnographic expeditions in Sloboda Region (around Kharkiv). There are stuffed animals and carcasses, skulls, skeletons, eggs, birds, wet and dry preparations of various animals, insects, specimens of rocks and minerals, fossils and skeletons, plaster casts, plaster casts of extinct animals. At the Kharkiv National University. In 1807 the university was created by Cabinet of Antiquities, in that year received the artifacts from Olbia and Voronezh. The collection is enriched slowly and sporadically, mostly through donations. Excavations carried out at this time findings of these expeditions, as well as from private collections of antiquities were presented, the majority of these items went to the Museum of Fine Arts and Antiquities. This collection based the establishing in 1919, the Archaeological Museum. A collection of the Archaeological Museum has grown to nearly 200,000 exhibits. The museum and numismatic collection contain about 40,000 coins and medals.

• Museum of Holocaust

  phone: +380 57 714-0959
  address: Petrovskogo str., 28
  This is an unique museum in Ukraine, with the theme of persecution of Jews during World War II. It presents documents of the first trial of Nazi war criminals, held in 1943 on the premises of the Kharkiv Opera Theater (now Kharkiv Philharmonic), as well as materials on the uprising by the prisoners at death camps and photos of Kharkiv residents killed by Nazis. The exhibition includes leaflets, posters and orders for various actions against Jews in Ukraine. It perpetuates the names of the '52 Righteous' - locals, who risked their lives saving Jews during the war.

• The house-museum of the Hryzodubovy family

  phone: +380 57 717-9812
  address: Mironositskaya str., 54V
  Stephen V. Hryzodubovy was an inventor and self-taught pilot. His daughter Valentina Hryzodubovy, the first woman awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. 24–25 September 1938, she was commander of the crew An-37 "Motherland", which made a nonstop flight Moscow - Far East (pos. Kirby, Khabarovsk Region), setting the women's world distance record: 6,450 km in 26h 29min. In the museum are more than 2,000 exhibits related to the life and work Hryzodubovy and design engineer P.G. Benynha, who was the first director and chief designer of the Kharkov Aviation Plant 1926-1934.

• Slavianskiy Bazar Exhibition center/Student Palace?

  phone: +380 57 719-2560 or +380 57 756-5143
  address: Pushkinskaya str., 79

• Museum of World Sexual Cultures

  phone: +380 57 715-6315
  address: Mironositskaya str., 81A entrance at Maiakovka 5( Мироносицкая, вход с Маяковского
  Created by the department of sexology and medical psychology of Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. The collection include materials on sexual cultures of the peoples of Europe, Africa, America, India, China and Japan from ancient times until today.

• Museum of Puppet Theater

  phone: +380 57 731-1224
  address: Konstitutsii sq., 24
  This type museum is the oldest in Ukraine, according to the riches collected and stored in its archives exhibition of materials throughout the former Soviet Union. In 1954 the Museum was opened, which began as a small exhibition of dolls from the performances of the City theater. The building, where located today was a former bank, built in 1907. There are on the third floor three large exhibition halls. The museum has exhibits of the Soviet republics, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany (GDR), USA, Canada, Belgium, France and other countries.

• Paintings Gallery or Galereia na Pletnevskom

  phone: +380 57 731-5898
  address: Pletnevskii ln., 2

• Kostiuryns'kyi provulok City Gallery

  phone: +380 57 731-2544
  address: Lane Kostiurinskii, 1
  Soviet underground art exhibits.

Other

• Monument of a soccer ball on the Walk of Fame

  address: Sports Garden Shevchenko
  On the pedestal of black granite on the initiative of the Kharkiv FC Metalist a monument soccer ball.

• Monument of Kotsiubins'kyi

  address: Mar'yanenko Ln
  It is a polished black granite of a bronze bust of the famous Ukrainian writer Michael Kotsubynsky. Inaugurated in 1929 at the trade union garden (now Shevchenko Garden). T Later, the monument would be moved to park at the corner of Pushkin and Chernyshevsky streets. In 1957 at the same place opened a new monument to Mikhail Kotsiubynsky.

• Commissariat store Monument Building

  address: Mar'yanenko ln., 4
  This two-story stone building, built in 1785-1787 by the architect P. Yaroslavsky in classic style.

• Freedom Square

  address: Freedom Square
  It is the 6th largest city-centre square in Europe. Originally named (1926–1996) Dzerzhinsky Square after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka, precursor to the KGB). Since 1991 it has been named Freedom Square. During the brief German occupation: in 1942 named as German Army, and in 1943 - Leibstandard SS Square. The square used to be bordered to the west by the statue of Lenin, but it was removed in September 2014; to the east by Sumska street; to the north by the hotel Kharkiv; and to the south by Shevchenko park. It is approximately 720 metres long and 105 metres wide. An interesting landmark of the square is the Derzhprom building, one of the prime examples of Constructivist architecture. The Queen + Paul Rodgers kicked off their Rock the Cosmos Tour at Freedom Square on September 12, 2008 and gathered an audience of 350,000.

• House of State industry (Gosprom)

  address: Svobody sq., 4
  About the Gosprom complex, F. Dzerzhinskogo was the idea, becoming the kernel of new administrative center of Kharkov, the capital of Ukraine. It was the first height reinforce-concrete building in the USSR. The real-estate of apartments makes 6 ha. Building was planned by Leningrad architects in fashionable and front-rank then style of constructivism. Building was complete in record terms - for 3 years. In 1934 the Advice of Folk Commissars of Ukraine took place here. In 1955 got the first in the USSR television tower in 45 m high. Now regional authorities, offices of great number of firms, take place in building. At No.5 entrance is a museum of about Gosprom.

• Memorial of soldiers killed in the Donbas War

  address: 4 Svobody sq.
  There used to be a large statue of Lenin here, but in September 2014, it was toppled by protesters given its significance as a symbol of Soviet occupation. Because of Ukrainian decommunization laws it will not be rebuilt and there are plans for a new alternative centre monument. In its place there is a memorial to soldiers from Kharkiv killed in action in the Donbas War.

• Kharkiv UnderwaysExisted under the City of Kharkiv still more than 355 years ago. Some source said the underpasses age going back to the pre-Mongolian period, 10th–12th centuries. Which means theseare actually of the same age with the Kievan Rus. In 1913–1914 a special commission of the City Council studied the underpasses found during the construction of the city sewage system. The teodolite survey and photographs of the underground cavities were made. The Commission studied all the underpasses,the existence of which was known then: both those just found and those which had already been used for a long time by enterprising merchants for storing various goods: textiles,wines and food. They explored underground galleries, rooms, passes and made up a preliminary description of what they saw. The NKVD-KGB secret police carefully recorded and placed on the secret list all the documents on the underpasses, especially after 1956 when a secret order on the underground caves, passes, shelters, etc. was issued, as the Soviet Union started to prepare bombshelters in case of the nuclear war. Now some of these records kept at the Korolenko Scientific Library. In the 1990s it became an object of the study by Kharkiv Speleological Club “Variant-95”. Finally in 2005 on the title The Mysteries of the Underground Kharkiv was published, which provided all the information available at that time. Maybe very soon, not only the researchers and scientists, but all numerous tourists and the Kharkovites themselves will have a chance to experience the mystery of the underpasses.

• Kharkiv State Academy of Arts and Design

  phone: +380 57 720-2320
  address: Krasnoznamennaya str.(Червонопрапорна вул), 8
  The building was constructed for the School of Art in 1913. Made by architect Konstantin Zhukov in the style of Ukrainian modernism, with motifs of folk architecture: pictorial forms of tile roofs. The main entrance in the form of a massive covered porch, colorful majolica panels that adorn the facade.

• Pitre Villa

  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 66/21
  Built in 1914. An apartment house with spire decorated angle bay window & tall decorative curling roofs - vivid details of an romantic version of Art Nouveau.

• Piskunov Apartment house

  address: Pushkinskaya str., 92/1
  At the corner of Pushkin and Lermontov is one of the most interesting buildings in Kharkov in the Art Nouveau style, built in 1913.

• House with chimeras

  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 79
  This is an architectural monument in Kharkiv in modern style with elements of English Gothic. Since 1980, this building was assigned to the theater faculty of the Institute of Arts Kotlyarevskogo. A few years restoring the building, students took active part in that. Sculptural elements of the building, except knight emblems, chimeras, salamanders, and wolves.

• Zalopan fire station

  address: Vul. Poltavskyi Shlyakh; (вул.Полтавський шлях), 50; Vul. Malinovskogo (вул.Маліновського), 1
  170 years old.

• T.G.Shevchenko Drama Theatre

  address: Vul. Sums'ka, (вул.Сумська) 9
  Built more than 170 years ago, rebuilt in 1893.

• A 'Mark V' type British tank, "Ricardo"

  address: Konstytutsii sq.(пл.Конституції)
  - A local favourite, from World War I. A donation from British government to the "whites", to the Tsarist force in the Russian Revolution.

• Kharkiv Zoo

  phone: +380 57 705-4490
  address: Sums'ka 35
  Kharkiv Zoo is one of the biggest and most famous in Ukraine. It’s in the centre of the city in Shevchenko Park. This zoo occupies a large area of 22 hectares.

• Children's railway

  address: Park Gorkogo (Сумська вулиця), ~81
  Works from May 1 till October 31. Length of the road - 3 km.

• V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University

  address: Universytetska st. 14 (вул.Університетська)
  The Complex parts is: the governors house, 1767-76, classicism style; the University church with new building (1823-31); the Building of chemistry department (1777) ; the Building of physics department (1777); the main gate, 1820-23; the University botanical garden founded 1804.

• Provincial warehouse

  address: Chernyshevs'kogo (вул.Чернишевського), 1
  From the 1780s.

• Manor House

  address: Chernyshevs'kogo (Чернишевського вул), 14
  1810s

• Mansion

  address: Dmytrivska, (вул.Дмитрівська) 14
  Built about in 1800

• Executive Committee of the City State administration

  phone: +380 57 731-5905
  address: Konstitutsii sq. (площа Конституції), 7

• 1st high school for boys

  address: Prosp. Moskovskyi (пр.Московський), 24
  Built in the 1820s.

• 4th Blok gallery

  phone: +380 57 364-4276
  address: Svetlaya str., 1
  Such a museum in Ukraine was to appear much earlier, and probably somewhere close to Chernobyl. It is an exhibit about the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. Here hold the first international exhibition whoose the title is "4th Block". The event (it was sent to the designers of the 21 countries of the world) was so successful that the artists decided to hold a similar exhibition in Kharkov every three years.

• Radmir Expohall Exhibition center

  phone: +380 57 717-6189 or +380 57 758-8161
  address: Pavlova Akademika str., 271

Further afield

• Sviatohirs'kVillage. There is a beautiful monastery complex, the Sviato-Uspens'ka Lavra, Cave Monastery, on the river Seversky Donets south bank, built in 1526. Superb environments, touristic place which means you'll find lots of accommodations. One of the most hidden gem of the all country.

• SharivkaPalace and park complex. Same part of it: the palace main building, (1800s-1911), gothic and renaissance style, the guard and the gardeners house, (1910) in french renaissance; the house of estate manager, (1910) ; forestry officers house, 1910; the landscape park, (1850s), proudness of the earlier is the 500-years-old oak, 1520s; a fountain, front staircase and terraces, a small bridge, (19th century), the outer iron gate, the greenhouse, the pheasantry, the coach-house, a garden pavilion

• Gyivka- Visit the country estate of duke Svyatopolk-Myrskyi, built in 1815-1870, neo-gothic, romanticism. It is valid a small detour if you are in neighbourhood. Also there is the 170-year-old St.Nicolas church,

• Shevchenko City garden

  phone: +380 57 700-3797
  address: Sumskaya str., 35
  Garden Shevchenko joins one of the oldest streets in the city with the largest area in Europe. More than 200 years ago this area was the outskirts of Kharkov. The garden was laid out in 1804. Here was an existing natural oak grove. On the upper terrace is a landscape park, at the bottom will find a botanical garden.

• Nemo delphinarium

  phone: +380 57 700-9400
  address: Sumskaya str., 35

• Shevchenko Drama Theatre

  phone: +380 57 705-1366
  address: Sumskaya str., 9
  Created in 1934. In 1947 the theater was awarded the status of "academic"

• Arabeski Theater

  phone: +380 57 706-2579
  address: Frunze str., 6

• DADA Theater

  phone: +380 57 700-2013
  address: Frunze str.

• Nova stsena Theater

  phone: +380 57 706-3131 or +380 57 700-5964
  address: Krasina str., 3

• Jewish Theatre

  phone: +380 57 714-3679
  address: Skripnika str., 9

• Zhuravlovskyi hydropark Beach

• Karavan Megastore Shopping centre, Entertaining complex

  phone: +380 57 760-2163, +380 57 760-2164
  address: Geroev Truda str., 7

• Pari-Komik Theater

  phone: +380 57 758-7497
  address: Petrovskogo str., 32

• Venskii Dom Entertaining complex

  phone: +380 57 704-3774
  address: Lermontovskaya str., 8

• Marine Club

  phone: +380 57 704-1373 or +380 57 714-3875
  address: Lermontovskaya str., 7
  Spa. Swimming pool. Fitness.

• Kharkov Opera and Ballet Theatre

  phone: +380 57 247-3043
  address: 24 Sumskaya St

• Maxim Gorky Central Park

  address: Bordered by Vesnina, Sumy, Dynamo and Novgorod streets
  Over 130 hectares of land. Opened in 1907. Now it is one of the main recreation hubs of the city. Here are held mass celebrations and festivities. There is an amusement park, the "Park" movie theatre, a children's railway, cable railway, tennis courts and others.
• Watch football at FC Shaktar Donetsk, who play in the Premier League, the top tier of Ukrainian football. Traditionally based in Donetsk, since 2017 their home ground has been Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv, capacity 40,000. It's two km southeast of city centre, metro Sportyvna.

• Pioner Swimming pool

  phone: +380 57 702153
  address: Dinamovskaya str., 5A

• Zirka Swimming pool

  phone: +380 57 243-4145
  address: Dinamovskaya str., 3A

• Philharmonic hall

  phone: +380 57 705-0847
  address: Rymarskaya str., 21

• Afanas'yev puppet theater

  phone: +380 57 731-1395
  address: Konstitutsii sq., 24

Holidays and festivals

• New Year’s Eve (December 31–January 1). Locals go out to dancing in Svobody Square, fire squibs and launch fire works. Christmas Trees are installed in many neighbourhoods of the city, but the one in Svobody Square is certainly the most beautiful and impressive.
• Shrovetide or Carnival (it is an ancient Slavic holiday of seeing the winter off). This holiday usually occurs in late February — early March. This is the time for openair merrymaking in the Gorky Park, Shevchenko Gardens and in Svobody Square.
• End of March, Kharkiv held the Za Jazz Fest what is a jazz festival on a variety of locations. At that time showing performances of world-famous musicians and young rising stars from many countries.
• May 1, the International Workers’ Day. Locals spend these spring days out of town,having picnics with family and friends.
• Victory Day, May 9, an openair exhibition of the WW II military equipment takes place. A solemn procession of veterans marches down Sumska Street to the Memorial of Glory in Lissopark (Woodland Park).
• In mid July, there is the Pechenizke Pole (The Pecheneg Field) Ethnic Festival on the bank of Pecheneg Lake.
• In Kharkiv City birthday on August 23 are especially festive and jolly. On this day, sports competitions and concerts are in Svobody Square, Konstytutsii Square and in the city gardens and parks.
• The Independence Day is on August 24. This is the day for ceremonial laying of flowers to the Monuments of Independence of Ukraine, and finished with amazingly beautiful fireworks over Svobody Square.
• In September take a big sci-fi festival, called Zirkovy mist (Star Bridge) caming here fans of this genre from many countries of the world.
• The Kharkiv Assemblies International Music Festival organised in September. Peoples can enjoy musical masterpieces of the past.
• Several weeks before the New Year is one of the most favorite holiday is the Christmas. The city is decorated with festive street lights, and the major Christmas Tree of the city is put on Svobody Square.

• Melodiia Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 731-33-34
  address: Rozy Liuksemburg sq., 10

• Korona Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 731-3204
  address: Rozy Liuksemburg sq., 5

• TsUM Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 731-2655
  address: Rozy Liuksemburg sq., 1/3

• City Centre Shopping center

  phone: +380 57 771-0422
  address: Rozy Liuksemburg sq. 20

• Kids World (Dytiachyi svit) Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 731-3003
  address: Konstitutsii sq., 9

• Knizhnaia balka market

  address: Kravtsova (Кравцова пер.)

• Komil'fo Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 731-2904
  address: Sumskaya str., 13,

• Sana Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 751-8339
  address: Pushkinskaya str., 43

• Lira Business centre

  phone: +380 57 766-0432
  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 13

• Platinum Plaza Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 719-9887, +380 50 301-6566
  address: Sumskaya str., 72

• Stekliashka Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 715-7912
  address: Sumskaya str., 41

• Klochkovskyy Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 705-4686
  address: Klochkovskaya str 104A

• Don Mare Supermarket

  phone: +380 57 766-1885
  address: Klochkovskaya str., 134B, 1 st Floor
  Chilled fish, frozen fish, caviar, shrimp, squid and mussels in great variety.

• Moskovs'kyi Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 266-0698
  address: Traktorostroitelei ave., 156/41

• ATB Grocery

  address: Geroev Truda str., 6

• Joker Shopping centre

  address: Geroev Truda str., 14

• Target Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 710-4040, +380 57 768-0634
  address: avlova Akademika str., 120,
  There is also a pharmacy

• Barabashovo Market

  address: Vul. Amurska (Амурська вул.)

• Digma Supermarket

  phone: +380 57 759-1579
  address: Pavlova Akademika str., 305/307

• Rost Grocery

  phone: +380 57 730-6520
  address: Shevchenko str., 142A

• Kievskiy Market

  address: Shevchenko str., 142

• '74' Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 719-3305
  address: Pushkinskaya str., 74

• Brusnichka Grocery

  address: Artema str., 42

• Karavan Megastore

  phone: +380 57 760-2163
  address: УЛ. ГЕРОЕВ ТРУДА, 7

• ATB supermarket

  address: Pobedy ave, 61

• Atrium Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 715-7018
  address: Sumskaya, 102

• Oleksiivs'kyi Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 336-9650
  address: Pobedy ave., 62

• Olekseevskiy Market

  address: Aksharova (Ахсарова вул)

• Klass Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 773-2469
  address: Liudvika Svobody ave., 43

• Na Pavlovomu Poli Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 717-6840
  address: Nauky ave., 41

• Express Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 754-4594
  address: Nauky ave., 43
  An entertaining complex

• Prizma Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 757-5113
  address: Nauky ave., 7V

• Dvizhenie Shopping centre

  phone: +380 57 784-1884
  address: Otakara Yarosha str., 18D

• Spar Supermarket

  phone: +380 57 752-4281
  address: Gonchara Olesya str., 2

• Sweet World (Sladkiy mir) Confectionery Cafe

  phone: +380 57 771-0104
  address: Kooperativnaya str., 6

• Familia

  phone: +38 057 760 15 06
  address: 14-A Skrypnika
  The menu is a unique take on French, Italian and Ukrainian cuisine, complemented by the restaurant’s wine list. The restaurant touts its fresh and high-quality ingredients and good service.

• Adriano

  phone: +380 57 700-4892
  address: Petrovskogo st., 35-А
  Not a bad pizza chain, the cozy atmosphere is guaranteed, but there are 2 more cafes on prospekt Traktorostroiteley, 59/56 and on Pushkinskaya st. 79/1.

• Buhara

  phone: +380 57 716-2045
  address: г. Харьков, ул. Пушкинская, 32

• Fortuna

  phone: +380 57 702-17-72
  address: Kultury str. 6 entrance from Trinklera str
  You will be surprised by the interior (very Soviet "Stolovka" style!) But the food is really really great and cheap. Traditional Ukrainian cuisine. You should try soups: borsch, solyanka, okroshka (cold soup), pelmeni, fried eggs with salo.

• Dom Khleba (Bread House) Confectionery

  phone: +380 57 336-9882
  address: Liudvika Svobody ave., 35

• Biskvit Confectionery

  phone: +380 57 705-1104
  address: Danilevskogo str., 10

• Paris

  address: Petrovskogo st. 30/32
  A great place for people who like desserts, to go on a date or just want to relax in a cozy atmosphere to enjoy fondue. It is amazingly popular; sometimes it is not easy to find a seat there. They have just opened their own theatre where French films or performances takes place every evening.

• Puzata Khata

  phone: +380 44 3914699
  address: Sums'ka st. 2
  It is very popular with locals for low prices and quick service. The food here is usually great and cheap, mostly traditional Ukrainian dishes. Being a huge place it is always quite busy. You will be completely full for US$6 per person there.

• Zhili-byli Fast Food restaurant

  phone: +380 57 717-2003
  address: Sumskaya str., 37/1

Buy beer from a kiosk and sit and drink in Schevchenko Park. It's what everybody does. If you drink beer in the park you may be fined by local police.

• Coffee life

  phone: +380 67 566-7519
  address: Konstitutsii sq., 3
  Wi-Fi

• Coffee life

  phone: +380 67 4835948
  address: Pushkinskaya 43
  The first Starbucks in Kharkiv, this place is open from 08:00 in the morning what is quite unusual in Ukraine and offers free WiFi. It is extremely popular with Kharkiv expats, a nice place to visit, have a drink and browse the net.

• Gelios Cafe

  phone: +380 57 338-1010, +57 338-7494
  address: Akhsarova str., 9A
  Bar, restaurant, tavern.

• Pintagon Cafe

  phone: +380 57 701-4008
  address: Danilevskogo str., 26
  It is a cafe bar with Wi-Fi.

Beer bars

• Restaurant-(Czech) brewery chain, "Stargorod"

  phone: +380 57 700-90-30
  address: Lermontova str. 7

• Big Ben Pub

  phone: +380 57 759-71-20
  address: Nauky ave. 48

• The Irish Pub Patrick

  phone: +380 57 731-37-85
  address: Universitetskaya str.(ул. Университетская) 2
  Other unit at Ul. Sumskaya, 37-Б

• Pub Munchausen bowling centre

  phone: +380 57 760-2-999
  address: Geroev Praci str. 7

• Brasserie Bier Gasse

  phone: +380 57 7282476
  address: Geroev Praci str. 9

• Restaurant-brewery Shato Slavutych

  phone: +380 57 7665557
  address: Svobody square, 7

• Pivobar

  address: Bakulina St, 14, Kharkiv, Kharkivs'ka oblast, 61000
  Counterintuitively not a huge selection of beer, but they do serve three Kharkiv brews. Heavily meat-based (but extensive) menu. Large selection of spirits and cocktails. Nice atmosphere, restaurant inside.

There are plenty of hotels in Kharkov, but the quality of them is very often far from what westerners expect. Most of hotels are not in the online reservation systems which makes it difficult to find them.

• 4 komnaty Mini Hotel

  phone: +380 57 702-2925, +380 57 700-4841
  address: Mayakovskogo str., 5, ;a

• Aurora Hotel

  phone: +380 57 7524040
  address: Artema Street 10/12
  In the center of the city. It offers 28 modern rooms, free Wi-Fi and a nice-looking restaurant. The transportation options are metro or car.

• Berloga Restaurant and Motel

  phone: +380 57 760-0638
  address: Mala Danilovka suburb, Koltsevoi puti, 5 (пгт. Мала Даниловка, Кольцевой путь, 5)
  One of the best out-of-town bathhouses.

• Chichikov Hotel

  phone: +380 57 752-2300
  address: Gogolya Street 6/8
  Just a year older than Aurora hotel and also in the centre. The rooms correspond to western standards though they are quite small. Wi-Fi.

• City Club Hotel

  phone: +380 57 730-1700
  address: Gagarina Ave. 145
  10 minutes from downtown and within a walking distance of the Metalist Stadium.

• Club - Hotel Arkada

  phone: +380 57 763-1995
  address: Sovhoznaya st. 3,
  17 rooms

• Cosmopolit Hotel

  phone: +380 57 754-6886
  address: Proskury Akademika str., 1
  Cafe, bar, Wi-Fi.

• Druzhba Intour Business Centre

  phone: +380 57 50-7919, +380 57 775-1070
  address: 185, Gagarina Av.

• Hostinyy Dvor hotel

  phone: +380 57 705-6087
  address: Rymarskaya str., 28

• Hotel 19

  phone: +380 57 754-4061
  address: Sumskaya str., 19

• Kievska Hotel

  phone: +380 57 714-3100
  address: 4, Kultury St

• Kharkov Hotel

  phone: +380 57 758-0024
  address: Svobody sq., 7
  In downtown. The hotel is quite old so it is best to be sure that you will get a nice room. Prices of the rooms are too high for the look and service you get.

• La Fuente Hotel

  phone: +380 57 756-6446
  address: Gvardeitsev-shironintsev str., 91

• Mir Hotel

  phone: +380 57 340-2330, +380 57 340-2217
  address: Nauky ave., 27A,

• Natsional'Hotel

  phone: +380 57 702-16-24, +380 57 349-53-85
  address: Nauky ave.,(пр.Науки) 21

• Nasha Dacha Hotel

  phone: +380 57 714-0929
  address: Batumskaya str., 4, 4A

• Park Hotel

  phone: +380 57 730-1717, +380 57 730-1718
  address: Shevchenko str., 79

• Slavianka

  phone: +380 67 8429675
  address: Sumskaya, 13
  We have a lot of apartment from budget to luxurious in the very centre.

• Smart Hotel

  phone: +380 57 362-1102, +380 63 453-6199
  address: Traktorostroitelei ave., 79/42, 1st fl.

• Station Hostel

  phone: +380 68 865 0047
  address: Poltavskyi Shliakh St, Kharkiv, Kharkivs'ka oblast, 61000
  Clean hostel with a kitchen, curtained beds and a good social area. Next to the station and above a supermarket; nonetheless, the hostel itself is quiet. Comfortable beds and helpful staff.

• Temp Motel

  phone: +380 57 315-2018, +380 57 315-1058
  address: Batumskaya str. (ул. Батумская,), 16
  50 rooms: apartments, luxury, deluxe, business, superior, standard and economy

• Teremok Hotel

  phone: +380 57 750-6120
  address: Belgorodske Shosse, village of Lisne, 21, International St

• ZS CLUB Hotel

  phone: +380 57 719-2744
  address: 10, Lissoparkovy Ln

• Viktoria Hotel10 minutes drive from downtown and offers nicely done, modern, well-equipped hotel rooms, free Wi-Fi and a spa-center. Travel options are tram and car.

• Mirax Boutique Hotel

  phone: +380 93 360 09 79
  address: Moskovskiy prospekt 86a
  4-star hotel offers 10 rooms, free Wi-Fi and a nice-looking restaurant.

Banks

• Rodovid BANK

  phone: +380 57 760-1691
  address: Sq. Konstitutsii, 2/2

• OTP Bank, Pokrovs'kyi office

  phone: +380 57 759-1820
  address: Kvitki-Osnov'yanenko str., 11

• First Ukrainian International Bank

  phone: +380 57 758-7355
  address: Sumskaya str., 68

• SEB Bank

  phone: +380 57 700-1620
  address: Petrovskogo str., 6-8

• Mercury Bank

  phone: +380 57 754-6781
  address: Svobody sq., 5

• Bank Forum

  phone: +380 57 268-5798
  address: Pavlova Akademika str., 321/20

• Pravex-Bank, Staromoskovs'ke office

  phone: +380 572 65-2604
  address: Geroev Truda str., 26

• PrivatBank, office 51

  phone: +380 57 703-6576, +57 703-6571
  address: Pavlova Akademika, 309
  Also here is an ATM

Consulat

• Consulate General of Russia

  phone: +380 57 700-0056
  address: Ol'minskogo str., 22

Internet

• Kharkiv Regional Universal Scientific Library

  phone: +380 57 731-2516
  address: Kooperativnaya str., 13

• Korolenko Scientific Library

  phone: +380 57 731-1101
  address: Korolenko ln., 18/8

• Ostrovsky Central Children's Library

  phone: +380 57 706-3381
  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 15

• Central Scientific Library, the Library of University V.N. Karazin

  phone: +380 57 705-1255
  address: Svobody sq., 4

• Vladimir Mayakovsky Central Library

  phone: +380 57 700-4847
  address: Kiev district, Mironositskaya str., 81/85
  Need a registration

Post Offices

• No.2 post-office

  phone: +380 57 706-13-88
  address: Chernyshevskogo str., 28/11

• No.3 post-office

  address: Gamarnika st, 15A

• No.13 post-office

  phone: +380 57 704-1045
  address: Shevchenko str., 165

• No.24 post-office

  phone: +380 57 704-1042
  address: Pushkinskaya str., 96-98

• No.23 post-office

  phone: +380 57 700-4053
  address: Sumskaya str., 126

• No.57 post-office

  phone: +380 57 706-1392
  address: Skripnika str., 6/13, Hoholia str., 13

• No.146 post-office

  phone: +380 572 657648
  address: Bliukhera str., 21

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