2-Dec Sky Up PQ 482 DXB 6:45 pm Non-Stop KBP 10:25 pm

Arrival at Kiev 

Transfer to the hotel, Check-in

Overnight at the hotel

During panoramic city tour we will show you a beautiful city with its centenary history and rich culture.

This 3-hours tour of Kyiv is a good opportunity to see all the most important sights of Kyiv. You’ll start your trip from St. Sophia Square with its St. Sophia Cathedral (without entrance) and spectacular St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.  The splendid view on Dnipro River will be opened for you from Volodymyr’s hill.  You’ll admire the Golden Gates, the former gateway to the fortress city. National Opera of Ukraine is one of the best stages of Europe. The tour allows seeing Maydan Nezalezhnosti (the Independence Square), the main Kiev’s Square together with Khreshatyk, the shortest and the widest among the main streets of Europe. After that you’ll see the masterpiece of neo-Byzantine style – the main temple of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – St. Volodymyr Cathedral. Our way will pass by the beautiful University of Taras Shevchenko, amazing Bessarabsky Market, the aristocratic mansions of the Pechersk district, Parliament and Government neighborhoods. We will make stop in the best place for admiring the beauty of huge Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves.

St Sophia Cathedral 

The St. Sofia’s cathedral is the most ancient temple of Rus. The St. Sofia’s cathedral was constructed in 1037. Some hundreds of square meters of the original 11th century mosaics and frescos can be seen in the cathedral, including the scenes of every day life in Old Kiev. These are unique frescos that can be found nowhere else neither on territory of former Kievan Rus nor in Europe. The famous Grand Prince of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise was buried in the cathedral in 1054. St. Sofia’s Cathedral is included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO.

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Kiev Pechersk Cave Monastery is the main holy shrine of Ukrainian orthodoxy. It is well known as one of the most prominent Christian sites all over the world. The monastery was founded in 1051. Kiev Pechersk Cave Monastery has always been venerated as the center of spiritual life on the Dnieper river slopes. Destructions, persecutions, explosions and fires were numerous in the history of the monastery but its mission as the center of Ukrainian orthodoxy has been kept on for ages. We, those who visit the monastery in the 21st century, are the lucky ones. We can see the large monastery complex recovered and ennobled. We can be inspired with its holy aura. The Assumption Cathedral is the main sacred site of the monastery. More than 60 years it laid in ruins. The cathedral was reconstructed in 2000. Now the pilgrims are amazed with the grandeur of the main church of the Lavra.   The necropolis of monastery has been restored too. The graves of the condemned in Soviet times historical personalities such as former Russian prime-minister Stolypin, Ukrainian historian D. Scherbakivsky, metropolitan Anthony have been, returned from oblivion. Practically all buildings of Lavra have been repaired. Lavra means in Greek the big and venerated monastery. Kiev Pechersk Cave 

Monastery (Lavra) is enlisted into the world heritage list. Since 1990 the monastery has been under UNESCO protection. The pilgrims can make their way through the long underground corridors of the monastery. The pilgrims are attracted to the area by the possibility to pray to the relics of about 200 reverent saints.

Pirogovo. National Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle of Ukraine.

The 400 acres big National Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle of Ukraine is the biggest open air museum in the Eastern Europe! It is often called Pirogovo museum after the near-by village. Here you can feel the «real Ukraine». You are to be enchanted with folk-lore, Gogol’s fairy-tales, Shevchenko’s verses and Kotlyarevsky’s poems. (These three are the classic Ukrainian writers). You must enjoy the view of wonderful forest! You must enjoy the smell of meadows air! It is so natural to forget about the enormous city making noise in a few kilometers.  The museum in Pirogovo is an open air architectural and landscape complex representing all historical and ethnographical zones of Ukraine. The Ukrainian national and cultural legacy of the 16th - 20th centuries is preserved in this skansen type museum. During your visit to the museum you will see the most ancient Ukrainian peasant's hut of 1587 (!), the most ancient wooden church of Ukraine and the hills with traditional wind mills. No doubt you will enjoy your complete immersion in the atmosphere of national mode of life and folk-lore of Ukraine. Theatrical shows and folk crafts fairs are very popular in this unique museum. Collection of folk clothes, utensils for every day life and icons from all regions of Ukraine is the integral part of the museum display. Many folk and national holidays are celebrated in the museum every year.

National museum of the history of Ukraine in the Second World War

Memorial complex are aimed at helping people to understand origins of tragedies of wars and showing ways to prevent them uncover the historical truth about the sacrifice and heroism of the Ukrainian people in the struggle against Nazism and promote patriotic upbringing of citizens, particularly young people. 

The museum was found in 1973 and combines the Museum building, the Motherland statue (62 meters high), gallery of sculpture expositions, commemorating the heroes of the battlefields, the Glory Cup (16 m diameter), and the exhibition of the arms from the World War II time. The main display is located in the area of 5.000 m and counts more than 12.000 relics. You can find here numerous exhibits of documents of military commanders, collection of orders, medals and letters.

Overnight at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel

Free time

Overnight at the hotel

(no guide and transportation service this day)

Breakfast at the hotel

Transfer to the airport 

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