Chernivtsi

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Chernivtsi (Ukranian: Чернівці, Russian: Черновцы, Romanian: Cernăuţi) is a city in Ukraine, just north of the border with Romania and close to Moldova as well. It is on the way from Moldova in direction of Lviv or Poland or the other way around.

Chernivtsi has no real bypass and a complicated road network, but there are plenty of buses and trolleybuses, and local people can tell you which to take. Besides Russian and Ukrainian, Romanian is widely spoken.

Hitching out

Northwest towards Ivano-Frankivsk (H10), north towards Ternopil' (M19)

From the central train station (vokzalu stantsia) follow the street to the northwest, cross the river and at the next roundabout turn right, and that's your way (or maybe take a marshrutka, as it is about 10km from the train station). There is a great spot for going further north: a huge roundabout after which you can stand right before a railroad crossing where all drivers have to slow down if they don't want to wreck their car. Street lighting for dark nights inclusive.

The road splits into the H10 towards Ivano-Frankivsk and the M19 towards Ternopil' at the village Mamaivtsi.

n0id and M. had the company of different locals coming and leaving by flagging down a ride. At around 10pm not too much traffic, but a truck once in a while and finally one did stop (going all the way to Warsaw via Ternopol and Luts'k - they were unfortunate to have a transit for Rava-Ruska marked in their passports).

South towards Suceava (RO) (M19)

Christopher Culver vaguely remembers hitchhiking south out of Chernivtsi by taking a trolleybus to the last stop, which is on the street that becomes the M19, and then walking a few hundred metres down the road. There were plenty of trucks passing by, and a petrol station where he successfully asked drivers for lifts. The road enters Romania at the Siret-Porubnoe border crossing.