Ukraine List

Both English Russia and Carpetblogger recently highlighted the color photos of the Russian Empire from the early 1900s taken by the photographer, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. He used a technique of taking photo plates utilizing red, green, and blue filters, and by recombining these plates, a color image can be wonderfully reproduced. In his day, he used […]

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In mid-January, the new bridge between Solotvino, Ukraine and Sighet, Romania officially opened with Victor Yushchenko and the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, on hand for the ceremony.
The original bridge over the Tysa River was built when the area belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it was later destroyed by the Germans during World War […]

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After looking into Poland-Ukraine travel options, I realized that one could get from London to Lviv for an insanely cheap price if a person used the budget carrier Ryanair to Poland and then took minibuses across the border to Lviv. You can see the post here. Anyhow, even though many budget airlines do not yet […]

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The Bradt travel guide says that getting to Ukraine via Poland is one of the easiest ways since Polish transport is frequent and reliable. It is easy to get right up to the border and taken any number of buses. The guide notes that the two main routes are Przemysl-Lviv or Lublin-Lutsk. Other than Russia, […]

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