Kreschatik Hotel

Address: Kreschatik St., 14
Location: Central

The Kreschatik Hotel is named after the main street in Kiev. The hotel is situated on this street, and the most interesting attractions of the city are very close to the hotel. The Cabinet of Ministers, the National Bank of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, Nezavisimosti (or Independence) Square and European Square are just around the corner.

Those who adore stage art will appreciate closeness of the Franko Theater, the Russian Drama Theater and the Philharmonic Hall.

The Kreschatik Hotel was built in 1990. In this newly equipped, tidy and friendly hotel there is everything necessary for those who visit Kiev for the first time, as well as for experienced travelers and businessmen.

Ukraina Hotel

Address: Institutskaya St., 4
Location: Central
Distance: 40 km – to the Borispol International Airport, 5 km – to the Central Railway Station

The multistory building of the Ukraine Hotel was constructed at the end of the 1960-s and it occupies a dominant position over the city. It is favorably located in the cultural and business center of the city, on Independence Square. The Ukrainian Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Presidential Administration, the State Bank of Ukraine, the Ukrainian House exhibition center, the City Hall, the Main Post Office, the Central Department Store and all central museums and theaters are situated near the hotel.

The distance from the hotel to the Borispol International Airport is 40 km and to the Central Railway Station – 5 km.

The hotel has a fantastic view over Kiev`s ancient Starokievska Hill, the Dnipro river and its far shore and the famous Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves).

The guests` comfort is guaranteed by accommodation in cozy rooms and a broad spectrum of services offered by the hotel.

President Kievskiy Hotel

Address: Gospitalnaya St., 12
Location: Central
Distance: To the Borispol Airport – 39 km, to the Railway Station – 5 km

The 4-star President Hotel is located оn a very beautiful hill in the very city center. It takes a few minutes to walk from the hotel to Khreschatik Street, the main street of Kiev, to the Olimpiysky Stadium and to the Sports Palace. The distance from the hotel to the Borispol Airport is 39 km, to the Railway Station – 5 km.

Besides the hotel building (338 rooms of various categories) this hotel complex includes the Evropeysky and the Slavyansky Restaraunts, a business center, a congress-hall for 465 seats, and comfortable conference- and meeting-rooms; a secure underground garage and an open parking lot.

The multi-lingual staff will be glad to make the guests` stay at this prestigious hotel pleasant and comfortable.

Dnipro Hotel

Address: Kreshatik St., 1/2
Location: Central
Close to: Mariinsky Palace, St. Sophia Cathedral, Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra, National Art Museum, National Philharmonic Hall of Ukraine
Distance: Borispol International Airport within 25-40 min by car, Zhulyany Airport – 20-30 min by car, Central Railway Station – 20 min

The prestigious four-star Dnipro Hotel is conveniently located in the center of the Ukrainian capital, on the main street of the city – Kreschatik. In the walking distance from the hotel one can find a variety of tourist attractions, places of cultural interest and shopping facilities of Kiev, including the Mariinsky Palace, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Sophia Cathedral, the Kiev-Pecherskaya Lavra, the National Philharmonic Hall of Ukraine, the State Conservatory, the central department store of Kiev, the Metrograd and the Globus commercial centers and others.

The Dnipro Hotel can be easily reached from the Borispol International Airport (40 km) and the Central Railway Station (5 km) by taxi or public transport.

The Maidan Nezalezhnosty (Independence Square) metro station, located 100 meters from the hotel. The Kiev subway allows everyone to reach any part of the city quickly.

The popular Kiev River Boat Station is situated 1 km from the Dnipro Hotel, where the guests can get by a 15-minute walk along the most beautiful streets of the city, Vladimirsky Spusk and Pochtovaya Street.

Some of the rooms look out on the picturesque Dnepr River the hotel has been named after or on a splendid park, which is a favorite walking place of citizens and guests of Kiev.

The Dnipro Hotel is extremely popular with business and leisure travelers due to its longstanding traditions of hospitality, an extensive list of facilities and high standard of services.

The Kiev Hotels supplies the most helpful and up-to-date information on the best hotels of Kiev – an administrative, economic, scientific, cultural and educational center of independent Ukraine and one of the biggest cities in Europe. With the help of our website containing detailed information on hotels, room facilities and rates you can easily reserve a room in any hotel of Kiev through our online reservation system.

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We are glad to serve both corporate and leisure clients and do our best to keep every customer satisfied.

Jewish settlements in the Ukraine can be traced back to the 8^th century. During the period of the Khazar kingdom, Jews lived on the banks of the River Dnieper and in the east and south of the Ukraine and the Crimea. The Kingdom was considered the most influential of the medieval period because of its economic and diplomatic standing. The Khazars, an ancient nomadic Turkic people who reached the lower Volga region in the 6^th century, were held in high esteem by the pope and other national leaders and played a major role in solving the region’s conflicts. The Khazars’s Empire, at its height between the 8^th and 10^th centuries, extended from the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea as far west as Kiev. Jewish refugees from the Byzantium, Persia and Mesopotamia regions — fleeing from persecution by Christians throughout Europe, settled in the Kingdom because the Khazars allowed them to practice their own religion.

Over time, Jews integrated into the society and married Khazar inhabitants. At first, Khazars from royal families converted to Judaism. But other citizen from throughout the Kingdom soon followed suit, adopting Jewish religious practices including reading the Torah, observing the Sabbath, keeping kosher and switching to Hebrew as the official written system. At a time of religious intolerance, the Jews of Khazaria contributed to building a powerful nation while living in peace.

The Jews of Khazaria may have been among the founders of the Jewish community of Poland and of other communities in Eastern Europe.

In 965 A.D., however, the Khazar Empire suffered a blow when the Russians ransacked its capital. In the middle of the 13^th century (1241), the Khazars were defeated by the Mongol invasion — an invasion that devastated all of Poland. To rebuild the country and defend its cities, Poland recruited immigrants from the west, mainly Germany, promising to help them settle in villages and towns. German Jews, many of whom were massacred by Christian crusaders in the 1200 and devastated by the Black Death in 1300, immigrated to Poland. Jews in Poland shared a heritage with the new immigrants, but not a language. To communicate with one another, Jews in Poland created a common language. Yiddish. Made up of a combination of Middle German, Hebrew, Polish and German-Hebrew, Yiddish became the Ashkenazi national Jewish language.

Later, Jews from the western provinces of Poland moved to the Ukraine because of the economic opportunities created by Poland’s expanding influence, which increased even more so in the 16^th century with the consolidation of Poland-Lithuania over the region. By the end of the 15^th century, between 20,000 and 30,000 Jews were living in 60 communities throughout Poland-Lithuania, most of them in cities. The Ukraine became the center of Jewish life in Poland-Lithuania.

Ukraine was known as “Kievan Rus” (from which Russia is a derivative) up until the 16th century. In the 9th century, Kiev was the major political and cultural center in eastern Europe. Kievan Rus reached the height of its power in the 10th century and adopted Byzantine Christianity. The Mongol conquest in 1240 ended Kievan power. From the 13th to the 16th century, Kiev was under the influence of Poland and western Europe. The negotiation of the Union of Brest-Litovsk in 1596 divided the Ukrainians into Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic faithful. In 1654, Ukraine asked the czar of Moscovy for protection against Poland, and the Treaty of Pereyasav signed that year recognized the suzerainty of Moscow. The agreement was interpreted by Moscow as an invitation to take over Kiev, and the Ukrainian state was eventually absorbed into the Russian Empire.

After the Russian Revolution, Ukraine declared its independence from Russia on Jan. 28, 1918, and several years of warfare ensued with several groups. The Red Army finally was victorious over Kiev, and in 1920 Ukraine became a Soviet republic. In 1922, Ukraine became one of the founders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In the 1930s, the Soviet government’s enforcement of collectivization met with peasant resistance, which in turn prompted the confiscation of grain from Ukrainian farmers by Soviet authorities; the resulting famine took an estimated 5 million lives. Ukraine was one of the most devastated Soviet republics after World War II. (For details on World War II, see Headline History, World War II.) On April 26, 1986, the nation’s nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident. On Oct. 29, 1991, the Ukrainian parliament voted to shut down the reactor within two years’ time and asked for international assistance in dismantling it.

Located in southeast Europe, the country consists largely of fertile black soil steppes. Mountainous areas include the Carpathians in the southwest and the Crimean chain in the south. Ukraine is bordered by Belarus on the north, by Russia on the north and east, by the Black Sea on the south, by Moldova and Romania on the southwest, and by Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland on the west.