In this post we will discover what are the buses called Polit Полит and why, from our point of view, are the best way to reach Kiev.

What are Polit Полит buses?

Polit are buses which connect the Boryspil airport with Kiev.
They are not all identical but there are buses of different brand and dimensions.
Some are large buses and other are just mashrutke.

Two large buses polit…

another polit bus, this time yellow

…a polit bus of smaller dimensions…

…another one even smaller and older…

…a Polit – Mashrutka, waiting outside the Kiev railway station

How to recognize them

It is possible to recognize them from the plate with the number “322” and the direction of the Bus (Boryspil).

Notice the number 322 on the plate

Where they go and where they depart

They connect the Kiev Boryspil airport with the Kiev railway station.

The raid last 50 minutes with only one intermediate stop before the airport

These buses depart from the parking just in front of the terminal B (on the left of the parking)

Buses parking area

In Kiev are possible to be found right outside the main railway station (new side).

From here depart buses to the airport

This is the signboard of Polit buses at the Kiev railway station

Once at the railway station, you can get to the metro “Vokzal Вокзал” and from there reach your final destination. The metro station is next to the old side of the railway station.

Price

A one way ticket cost 25 Hryvnia about 2 euro/person. There is not difference of price if you take a large bus or a small one.

A ticket for the route Kiev – Borispol

You can buy the tickets directly on the bus, the driver will collect the money and give the tickets before
the bus will depart.

Inside the bus

These buses are in general quite comfortable with obvious differences between new and old buses.

Inside a Polit bus (blu)

Inside another polit bus (the black bus)

A detail of the sits

Polit timetable

Orario degli autobus Polit

During the day they depart every 15 – 20 min. In the night they depart every 50 min.

Autobus VS Taxi and similar

From our point of view, there is not any reason to prefer a taxi at a bus (if you are not in a great hurry)

Buses may take some extra minute but the price difference is evident. Taxi cost much more and the price change according to the driver which sometimes just drive his own car and has not taximeter. With buses you know the price from the very beginning and this price doesn’t became 10 times more if you are foreigner.

If you want to take anyway a taxi, ask the price before to say yes.

Apart of buses and taxi, are also popular those transfers offered by hotels, travel agencies and so on…
Here you may get a driver that speak your language but the price is usually higher than the one of normal taxis.

In the end if you don’t need to run, save money and travel safely inside a polit.

You can reach Yaremcha by train:
606 К Lviv – Rahiv (львів – рахів)
Departing at 15.20 from Lviv and arriving in Yaremcha at 21.03 (Rahiv 23.58)

606 Л Rahiv – Lviv (рахів – львів)
Departing at 01.22 from Rahiv, arriving in Yaremcha at 04.15 (Lviv 10.10)

As you can see there are very few trains which operate on the Yarmecha’s route.
In winter is possibe to find more train but i can’t say it for sure.

Anyway if for example you came from Kyiv, or other cities not so close to Lviv, the best way to get there is through Ivano Frankivsk.

You can reach Ivano Frankivsk by train there is a plenty of train which goes there from almost every city.

(Ivano Frankivsk’s railway station)

Then right out of the railway station, you will find a large number of busses and mashrutkas, you will not have much problems to find the one with the sign YAREMCHA or ЯРЕМЧА. (photo below)

The bus will bring you to the bus station of Yaremcha. (photo below)

From there you can easily reach your final destination by taxi or even by feet.

For to know about Yaremcha Bus timetable:

http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/yarmecha-timetable

-Local autobus, trolley or tram (i will call them just buses)
-Mashrutke

Buses are just the same as in almost every other country.
With the difference that in general you buy the ticket when you are already on the bus and not before to take it.
There is in general a woman on the bus that sell tickets to the passengers.
In some cities, you have also to “hole” the ticket with the help of some special machine which you can find on the left side of the bus etc…

Mashrutke are in general smaller than a bus or a trolley but they offer the same service with the difference that they may stop in places where the normal bus doesn’t.
For this service you don’t have to buy any ticket but to pay on the hand of the driver.
In general their size can vary from a Ford Transit to a small bus.

inside a mashrutka

The price of the firsts is usually less than the second ones.
50 or 75 kopeks against 1-2 Hryivnas.
In the last weeks the prices of these tickets has been increased in many different cities.

I Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk you can take also a metro for to move inside the city.

There photos were taken during the last summer (2008) so the timetable may have change.

How to reach Yaremcha

http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/yaremcha