KIEV

Kiev stretched out more than 20 km alongshore of the biggest river of Ukraine – the Dnepr. Its area is 827 square kilometers. Kiev is one of the oldest Slavic centers, “the mother of all Russian cities” – as poets said in old times; it is more than 1500 years old. The first settlements on the territory of the modern Kiev appeared 15-20 thousand years ago. The capital of modern Ukraine, the cultural center and the business activity core of the country, according to the legend, was founded by three brothers Kiy, Scheck and Horiv and their sister Lybid. They were amazed by the beauty of Dnepr Hills and stopped to settle here; they named the city after the eldest brother Kiy.

LVOV

The unforgettable panoramas of the city, its architecture and European traditions since antiquity formed the original beauty of legendary Lvov. Elitist Art, national traditions coloring and sincere hospitality, developed tourist field level and business activity – all these characterizes modern Lvov – important political, cultural, scientific center of the country. Lvov is situated not far from the western border of Ukraine, in the Carpathian foothills area and occupies the territory more than 155 m2. Its population is about 830 thousand people. The highest city point is a mountain “High Castle” (413 m above sea level). The river Poltva (Bug’s confluent), which coasts were the fundament for the construction, now flows underground.

ODESSA

The wonderful and picturesque city is situated in the southwestern part of Ukraine at the Black Sea coast. To European measures Odessa is a young city; it was founded in the last decade of XVII century and became the forth-largest city (after Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw) with its own, unlike other cities, original social and economic structure. Being one of the biggest trans-shipment points of Russia and Europe and having free port status for a long time, Odessa becomes one of the richest cities. It was built by order of Catherine the Second in 1794 as sea fortification Russian empire. According to one of legends the first mayor of the city duke de Rishel’e (Frenchman by birth) decided to build the city more beautiful than Paris.

TRUSKAVETS

World famous balneal resort “Truskavets” is situated in the picturesque valley of Eastern Carpathians foothills in 110 km from Lvov city.On the territory of the resort and its outskirts various types of mineral waters were founded and now they are outwardly and inwardly used. But not everybody goes there to drink mineral water “Naftusya” – fresh water with slight smell of sulphuretted hydrogen and after-taste of oil. A low mineralization level, the presence of active ions and organic components has a salutary influence on the bowels operation and kidneys (stimulates spontaneous release of kidney-stones), have the positive effect. The healing power of “Naftusya” is one of the main reason of the successful medical treatment of patients with pathology of urino-genital organs. It also has cholagogue, disintoxicational effect, activates ductless glands operation, removes radionuclids and slags from the organism, enhances host defenses stability.