Kiev Boryspil (Borispol) airport, Terminal A

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The terminal A of the Kiev Boryspil (Borispol) airport is the terminal dedicated to the national arrivals and departures.

Terminal A, Kiev Boryspil

From here you can find flights to all the main other Ukrainian cities which, in general, don’t have good international connections

The terminal A is non as good as the close Terminal B but anyway it offers all the main services.

Inside the Terminal A, KievWhat you see once inside the terminal

Waiting room, terminal A, Boryspil

There are not many sits but this should be not a big problem as there are not so many people as in the terminal B. The main reason is that local people don’t use plane for internal transfers but prefer to travel by train or by bus.

The check in area is at the end of the room. On the monitors over the desks, you can read the name of the plane, the aircompany and the destination.

Check-in, terminal A, KievPeople waiting for the check in

The check in begin about 1 hour, 1 hour and half before the departure. You can check your flight status on the monitors or just by waiting the check in call which is also in English.

Once you have the boarding card, go to the boarding room which is after the security control.

Terminal A Kiev, security checkTo the boarding room

The security control is just after the door under the pannel gates A1 -A4.

Once passed the security check, you have just to wait for the boarding time and then finally take your plane.

Attention!

The gates are not so “modern” they are simple doors which give right outside the terminal where the bus for the plane come to take the passengers.

The 4 gates are one next to the other and so if more than one plane is doing the boarding can happen that outside you will find not 1 bus but even 3 buses!

Be carefull to take the correct bus for no to end to a different plane. Read the destination on the side of the bus before to take it.

Have a nice flight!

Guide to Kiev: Andreyevskiy spusk

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Andreyevskiy spusk (Андреевский спуск o Андріївський узвіз in Ukrainian) is one of the most beautiful and characteristic streets of Kiev; the place where it is possible to buy souvenirs, on one of the many souvenirs shops which are all along the street, and in the same time to visit the museum house of Bulgakov and to enjoy the view on the Saint Andrew’s church.

How to get there

1 From the Saint Michael’s Cathedral, follow the street “Десятинная, Desiatinnaia” which will bring you to the street.
2 By metro until the station “Контрактовая площадь Kontraktovaia ploschad” and from there by feet until the beginning of the street (in this way it will be not a descent but an ascent street).

What to see

1 Saint Andrew’s Church (style: baroc, arch. the Italian Rastrelli)
2 House museum of Bulgakov
3 Richard lion heart’s castle
4 Museum of one street
5 Souvenirs shops (almost all them are open air)

Photo tour of Andreyevskiy spusk

Percorriamo assieme l’Andreyevskiy spusk partendo dall’area della fermata metro “Kontraktovaia ploschad” (quindi in salita verso la chiesa di Sant Andrea)

Andreyevskiy spuskBeginning of the ascent several hundred of meters after the stations “Kontraktovaia ploschad”

Andreyevskiy spuskOn the left you can see the museum house of Bulgakov

Museum house of BulgakovMuseum house of Bulgakov

Andreyevskiy spuskView of Richard lion heart’s castle

Andreyevskiy spuskView of the Saint Andrew’s Church

Saint Andrew's ChurchSaint Andrew Church

Souvenirs shops

Souvenirs shops in Kiev

Souvenirs shops in Kiev

Souvenirs shops in Kiev

Notes:

Pay attention to the prices and to the quality of the souvenirs. Prices can vary from a shop to another and sometimes to be higher than other shops of the center of Kiev. About the quality, they will say you that all goods are handmade and maybe that they made them by themself… free to believe:) You can also find used things from the soviet times.

Wedding in Ukraine: The wedding day

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After you paid and confirmed the wedding day in the ZAGS, you still need to get some few things which are required for the ceremony.

The list with all the required items will be given by the ZAGS in the same day when you confirm your wedding day.

All items will be brought by the best man some minutes before the ceremony with the exception of the rings which are of competence of the future husband.

List of things which best man need to bring

Documents of the couple
Local passport of the Ukrainian citizen.
Passport and immigration card of the foreigner citizen.

A Bottle of Champagne with two glasses
You will drink it at the end of the ceremony.

Rushnik
A traditional Ukrainian towel, on which the future husband and wife should stand on when they exchange rings.

A fresh rose or a small pillow for rings
For to put there the rings during the ceremony.

During the ceremony

The only word you will be asked to say during the wedding is: DA or TAK, Yes!
So even if you don’t speak Russian or Ukrainian there is not problem.
(in Donetsk the ceremony is in Russian in the Western Ukraine for sure will be in Ukrainian)

At the end, you will put 4 signatures on two papers and then you will be official married!

What you get from the ZAGS

At the end of the ceremony you will get:

The certificate of wedding
(on which you will have to work for to get the visa and the transcription to your country )

Your two passports
In Ukraine is a rule to put a stamp on a specific page of the local passport after the wedding with the name of the husband or the wife. Even if you are foreigner, they will not make any exception, they will put anyway a stamp in one of the page for visas.

So in the end is alike if you have a visa for your wife:P

This is all for now, enjoy the beautiful Ukrainian wedding party and after we will talk about visa and legalization…

Happy wedding!

Wedding procedures

1 For the list of documents given by the Italian Embassy in Kiev (in Italian) visit:
http://www.ukrlandia.com.ua/matrimonio-in-ucraina

2 How to get the Nulla osta from the embassy:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/get-nulla-osta-wedding

3 What to do once you have gotten your nulla osta:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/after-nulla-osta-ukraine

4 For to know which documents bring to the ZAGS:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/wedding-documents-zags

5 Fill out the wedding request form at the ZAGS (translated in English):
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/wedding-applicance-ukraine

6 Legalization and translation of the wedding certificate:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/legalization-wedding-certificate

ZAGS in Donetsk

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ZAGS ЗАГС are administrative offices where, between the other things, it is possible to make the documents for to get marry and the marriage itself.

These offices are divided according to the administrative division of the city.
A person who live in a particular department should go to the ZAGS of the same area.

List of the ZAGS present in Donetsk:

Budennovskiy ZAGS Буденновский ЗАГС

street: Proletarskaya Пролетарская, 9 (this address is not more correct)
NEW address: ul. Gur’evskaya ул. Гурьевская 1
phone: +380622032347

Dvorets brakosochetaniy Дворец бракосочетаний

street: Postysheva Постышева, 32
phone: +380623054593

Kalininskiy ZAGS Калининский ЗАГС

street: b. Shevchenko, б. Шевченко, 52
phone: +380622950443

Kiyevskiy ZAGS Киевский ЗАГС

street: Artema Артема, 138
phone: +380622539042

Kirovskiy ZAGS Кировский ЗАГС

street: Karla Marksa Карла Маркса, 8
phone: +380622770585

Kuybyshevskiy ZAGS Куйбышевский ЗАГС

street: Yermolaya Zhukova Ермолая Жукова 56
phone: +380622539042

Leninskiy ZAGS Ленинский ЗАГС

street: Kuybysheva Куйбышева, 23
phone: +380622660633

Petrovskiy ZAGS Петровский ЗАГС

street: Kompozitorov Композиторов, 26
phone: +380622765189

Proletarskiy ZAGS Пролетарский ЗАГС

street: Bol’shaya Magistral’naya Большая Магистральная, 12
phone: +380622220271

How to: Organize your holidays in Ukraine

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Several advices for to help you to organize your holidays if you plan to pass them with your Ukrainian friends or relatives.

First of all where to stay in Ukraine or in your country?

- For to go to Ukraine, if you are an EU or US citizen you don’t need any visa for to visit Ukraine for a max of 90 within a period of 180 days. The same rules apply to several other countries.
Visit:

- For to make your Ukrainian friends or relatives come to you, they may need to apply for a visa. For sure they need visa for to come inside the Shenghen area and to the US/Canada. To apply for a visa is not always very easy, you need to give several documents and it is also possible that the visa is refused. Moreover the embassies/consulates are often only in Kiev.

So, the easiest way is to come to Ukraine. You will be not disappointed, Ukraine is really a beautiful country.

Some of the places you should not miss:

- touristic cities: Kiev, Lviv, Odesa, Sevastopol (Crimea)
- Crimea: shores, mountains, and historical places.
- The Carpathian region: the beauty of the Ukrainian wild nature
- other: Sviatogorsk (Donetsk oblast), Sofiivs’kyi park (next to Uman)

For sure for you it will be very interesting but maybe for your dears can be a bit boring if they have already seen all this places…

So you can try to do in this way:
Come to Ukraine, and then depart together with your friends, relatives to another country where to spend all together the holidays.

How to do?

You can book your trip through an Ukrainian travel agency. (just as you would do in your country)

Where to go:

Are very popular all those warm countries such as: Turkey (Antalya, Dalaman, Bodrum, Istanbul) and Egypt (Sharm El-Sheik e Hurgada).

These countries don’t make any problem in giving visa. It is issued under payment directly at the airport of destination.
The price of the visa vary according to your nationality, some countries don’t need visa (ex. Germans and Italians don’t need visa for Turkey) anyway the sum is around 15-20 dollar for Ukrainian citizens.

For this summer, Croatia decided to suspend the visa regime for Ukrainian citizens, read: http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/41004

Where to find other information:

We suggest you to visit the web sites of the major tour operators:
Some of them are:

Turtess
Teztour
Karya tour

The main area of the site is where you can seek for your trip and get all possible details of your holiday. You need to select days, place and hotel and you will get prices and availability.

Here is the site of a travel agency in Donetsk, on this site you can find some useful information for to plan your trip and also to book it if you like:

APLTravel

Note

- The prices for foreigners are in general the same which are asked to Ukrainian. This change if you want to go to Russia, there you will be asked to pay more for to visit museums and so on.

- You will be asked by the travel agency to give just a xerox of your passport. The insurance which is given with they holiday package is valid also for foreigners.

- In general prices include also the flights. The departure is from Ukraine, the city change according to the preference and the availability. The planes change according to the air company.

Anyway are Ukrainian air companies such as: Aerosvit, Donbassaero, UIA, Dniproavia.
(UIA and Aerosvit have regular flight to many European cities and also to Canada and the USA)

We had the possibility to fly with Donbassaero, Aerosvit and UIA. The planes we tried were ok. (airbus and boeing)