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Take the metro to  ''Vydubychi'' (ВИДУБИЧІ) station and walk to the car market. Try hitchhiking there. Cost to get there: 50 kopecks <!--Last verified: Apr 2006-->
 
Take the metro to  ''Vydubychi'' (ВИДУБИЧІ) station and walk to the car market. Try hitchhiking there. Cost to get there: 50 kopecks <!--Last verified: Apr 2006-->
 
===West towards [[Rivne]], [[Lviv]], (M06)===
 
===West towards [[Rivne]], [[Lviv]], (M06)===
Take the metro to ''Zhytomyrska'' (ЖИТОМИРСЬКА) station, from there you need to walk some kilometers. '''Attention''': Girls be careful, in the evening there are prostitutes working, so tell to the driver that you are hitchhiking immediately! Cost to get there: 50 kopecks <!--Last verified: Jul 2007-->
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Take the metro to ''Zhytomyrska'' (ЖИТОМИРСЬКА) station, from there you need to walk some kilometers. '''Attention''': Girls be careful, in the evening there are prostitutes working, so tell to the driver that you are hitchhiking immediately! Cost to get there: 50 kopecks. Hitchiking from here can take some time, as there is also a lot of local traffic, so in case you´re standing here for too long, take a marshrutka direction Zytomir, and hop off at the next village (Dmytrivka). Then you´re on the ´highway`, but most traffic is long-distance traffic. In addition to that, the bus stop is quite spacious, so trucks can more easily stop here than at the Zhytomyrska - spot. <!--Last verified: April 2008-->
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===South towards [[Odesa]] (M05)===
 
===South towards [[Odesa]] (M05)===
 
Get the metro ''Lybidska'' (ЛИБІДСЬКА) station, from there take the trolley bus #2 and go till destination stop ''Kibcentr'' (КІБЦЕНТР). Cost to get there: 1 metro token + 1 trolleybus ticket = 1 UAH = 0,20$ <!--Last verified: Jul 2007-->
 
Get the metro ''Lybidska'' (ЛИБІДСЬКА) station, from there take the trolley bus #2 and go till destination stop ''Kibcentr'' (КІБЦЕНТР). Cost to get there: 1 metro token + 1 trolleybus ticket = 1 UAH = 0,20$ <!--Last verified: Jul 2007-->
  
 
[[Category:Ukraine]]
 
[[Category:Ukraine]]

Revision as of 13:47, 24 September 2008

Kyiv (Київ) ((Russian: Киев (Kiev), German: Kiew), is the capital of Ukraine. Kyiv is a very big city, however it has a very efficient metro (underground) system, especially if you're hitching west or east.

Hitching out

North towards Kharkiv

Get the metro to Boryspolska station (Ukr: БОРИСПIЛЬСЬКА, Rus: БОРИСПОЛЬСКАЯ) (the last one on the green line). From here there is a huge roundabout - walk around the outside of the roundabout until you see the turn off to Kharkiv (Ukr: XAPKIB, Rus: ХАРЬКОВ). Walk down the road, and you'll probably see a lot of people also hitching there (there were around 40 last time I did it in the middle of winter), walk to the back of the queue and try to look like you're going a long distance - most people will only be going 30 or 40 kilometres (having a conspicuous backpack helps). Cost to get there: 50 kopecks (1 metro token, which is about 0,10 $)

East towards Dnepropetrovsk (M04)

Take the metro to Vydubychi (ВИДУБИЧІ) station and walk to the car market. Try hitchhiking there. Cost to get there: 50 kopecks

West towards Rivne, Lviv, (M06)

Take the metro to Zhytomyrska (ЖИТОМИРСЬКА) station, from there you need to walk some kilometers. Attention: Girls be careful, in the evening there are prostitutes working, so tell to the driver that you are hitchhiking immediately! Cost to get there: 50 kopecks. Hitchiking from here can take some time, as there is also a lot of local traffic, so in case you´re standing here for too long, take a marshrutka direction Zytomir, and hop off at the next village (Dmytrivka). Then you´re on the ´highway`, but most traffic is long-distance traffic. In addition to that, the bus stop is quite spacious, so trucks can more easily stop here than at the Zhytomyrska - spot.

South towards Odesa (M05)

Get the metro Lybidska (ЛИБІДСЬКА) station, from there take the trolley bus #2 and go till destination stop Kibcentr (КІБЦЕНТР). Cost to get there: 1 metro token + 1 trolleybus ticket = 1 UAH = 0,20$