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'''Kyiv''' (Київ), also known as '''Kiev ''' ([[Russia]]n: '''Киев''' (Kiev)), is the capital of [[Ukraine]].
Kyiv is a very big city, however it has a very efficient metro (underground) system for hitching out of the city in all directions.
== Hitchhiking Hitching out == === North-East Northeast towards [[Chernihiv]], [[Belarus]], [[Moscow]] ([[Russia]]) ===
Take the metro to ''Chernigovskaya'' (Черниговская). Out of the station, walk down 200m to the ''Brovarski Prospekt'' (броварски проспект). You'll most likely see locals hitchhiking there already, just walk a bit further up the road to find a convenient spot. The first car should bring you to the next ГАИ (GAI) police post. Do not accept any rides to the city of Бровари (Brovari), as there will be no useful spots to hitchhike along the road. Best is to catch rides only towards Семполки (Sempolki) or Калита (Kalita), there you'll find a GAI post as well. If hitchhiking towards Russia, get off at the eastward junction after 100km. There, it's easy to hitch further rides towards Russia.
Take the metro to ''Vydubychi'' (ВИДУБИЧІ) station (green line) and walk to the car market. Try hitchhiking there. Cost to get there: 2 UAH <!--Last verified: Nov 2009-->
[[File:Kyiv_Bus_Lybidska.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Bus stop for trolley bus #2 towards hitchhiking spot to [[Odessa|Odesa]]]]
=== Northwest towards [[Lublin]] (Poland) (M07) ===
Take the metro to the station '''Akademmistechko'''. From near the metro station, take a minibus (''marshrutka'') to Irpen (Ирпе́нь), which as of June 2012 costs 5 UAH. When you see the large stele ИРПЕНЬ and the bus takes a left turn, get out. The M07 road goes straight ahead from the intersection that the bus turned at. Cross under the bridge and cross the intersection and hitch from
It is worth accepting one or two lifts from locals, in order to get further out of the Kyiv metropolitan area. After that, there are very few towns for most of the length of the M07, so if you stop a truck it is likely to take you all the way to [[Kovel]]. The road enters Poland at the [[Dorohusk-Jahodin border crossing]].
=== West towards [[Lviv]], southwest towards [[Chernivtsi]] (M06) ===
