Kharkov

You are invited by the second-large city in Ukraine and the largest city of the Earth on the 50th parallel! Welcome to Kharkiv (Kharkiv region)!
Having arrived here, you will find yourself in the first capital of Ukraine (had this status from 1919 to 1934) which in the Soviet period was the third in size industrial centre, after Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today you will meet not only industrial, but also a cultural and scientific centre of Ukraine, by quantity of unique monuments and national sights conceding only to Kiev! You are waited for by ten scientific research institutes, museums, libraries and archives. Here you can visit a city art gallery, some state theatres, a unique botanical garden, the most beautiful parks and the oldest in Ukraine observatory! You are waited by student's capital of Ukraine with 45 higher educational institutions, among which there is one of the first universities of the Russian empire - the Kharkiv university!

Kharkiv has prepared for you 12 hectares of its well-known central square – in its size it is the fifth in Europe and the ninth in the world! Having got here, you continue to be surprised with scales, grandeur and scope: you are waited by a symbol of the Soviet epoch, the biggest building in the world - the the State Industry House, the most ancient building of the city –Pokrovsk Cathedral and the highest building of Kharkov - the Uspensky Cathedral with a gold dome, a melodious chiming clock and the organ music hall, which will invite you to visit concerts of well-known performers.

Here you will be able to see, as in the street there are situated tanks, guns and ancient trains - huge exhibits of a historical museum! You are waited by the set of unusual monuments and recently opened delphinarium. You can visit an ancient opera theatre, where in 1943 the first in the history litigation on business of fascist military criminals was started! And still you are waited by the well-known five-domed Blagoveshchensk Cathedral with an unusual laying and a set of the decorative elements, constructed on a place where executions were once carried out.

You are waited by the unique Kharkiv that after the World War II was one of the most destroyed cities in Europe, after the Union disintegration suffered irreplaceable losses in economy and science, and today, thanks to heroic spirit and internal potential of its inhabitants – it is ready to surprise you with the achievements and records!

More: