Ukraine-Rus Travel Agency

22/06/2021

Ukraine's incoming travel business seems to grasp fresh air this summer, and particularly due to the cooperation between Ukraine and the countries of the Arabian Gulf. Recently liberalization of the visa regime for Gulf countries has taken place. And in June 2021 two direct air flights from Saudi Arabia to Ukraine have been launched.

On June 11, the first plane from the leading low-cost airline in the Middle East, Flynas departed from Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport and arrived at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv.

On 20 June, Lviv International Airport welcomed the first SkyUp charter aircraft from Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia.

With the opening of direct flights, the flight time from Ukraine to Saudi Arabia will be approximately 5 hours. Previously, it was possible to fly to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia only with transfers at the airports of Istanbul, Doha and Dubai.

Below is a comment of Mariana Oleskiv, the Chair of the State Agency for Tourism Development (SATD) as to the perspectives of cooperation between Ukraine and GC:

"The Gulf countries are a promising direction for the development of tourist flows, especially for Ukraine. The combination of green, mountain, cultural and gastronomic tourism is something that may be of interest to travelers from the Middle East".

15/06/2021

Dear friends, our team is back with good news and some updates on travelling to Ukraine.

Incoming travel business is slowly getting back. Since June 9 Ukraine has entered the green zone, that means:

✔️Ukraine is open for foreign visitors

✔️The majority of services are open, including museums, hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, religious establishments

Foreign guests can enter Ukraine without PCR tests if fully vaccinated. Non-vaccinated travelers must have a health insurance
that covers COVID-19 treatment in Ukraine and a document issued in English or translated into English certifying one of the following:

✔️ a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to entering the country;

✔️ a negative antigen test taken within 72 hours prior to entering the country;

We are ready for travel season and would be happy to support your travel plans if you choose Ukraine as your next travel destination :-)

We are here for you.

17/03/2021

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has launched an official website UKRAINE.UA. This modern digital platform has got a mission - to tell a creative and inspiring story about Ukraine for the foreign visitors. Here everyone can get their first impression of the country and make a decision to come here to study, invest or travel.

Ukraine has a unique history, rich culture and diverse landscape. It will definitely exceed your expectations. It is a creative, dynamic and innovative country. A country of freedom and dignity. A place where a thousand-year history and ambitious visions of the future meet.

UKRAINE.UA visitors will enjoy its lightly written and witty texts, as well as lots of beautiful and high-quality images of Ukraine, showing its diverse nature, old castles, mountains, vibrant cities and more. Millions of people over the globe will now be able to get acquainted and fall in love with Ukraine at first sight.

The COVID-19 pandemic times will be over one day. This will be the day to visit Ukraine and enjoy all it has to give. For now, get an online taste of it at our new online portal, https://ukraine.ua/

Explore Ukraine, an open and modern European country and your next travel destination. Invest in Ukraine. Study in Ukraine. Fall in love with Ukraine right NOW.

17/03/2021

Raise a hand who loves a walking tour of Podil district in Kyiv as we do!

Photo shoot of:
Fountain of Samson (1749)
Church of Assumption of the Virgin Mary Pirogoscha (copy of the originally built church in 1132)
Podolsky Church of the Intercession (1772)
Peter I the Great House
Ferris Wheel
views on Kontraktova Square and Bell Tower of the St.Catherine Greek Church

14/01/2021

The Carpathian mountains are beautuful and worth visiting all four seasons a year. Today we invite you to admire them through our video, but soon when Covid times stay in the past (we truly hope for this!), we would be happy to welcome you on one of our Western Ukraine tours.

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14/01/2021

Ukraine is well-known as a country of arts and crafts. This is especially true for the Ukrainian Carpathians region - Hutzulshchyna. People of this area called Hutzuls are a real heritage of the Hutzulshchyna. A lot of them were and are genious craftsmen that developed and preserved Hutzul local culture carried on through

✔️ornamental and embroidered clothing inspired by nature and landscape around them

✔️handicraft and arts like wooden carving, metalworking, ceramics, Easter egg painting and lyzhnyk weaving

✔️music, highlander songs, dance and usage of folk instruments, especially accordion, cymbals and trembitas -large wooden horns

✔️rich traditions and rituals embraced in everyday life and during celebrations (lively and colourful Hutsul weddings)

✔️legends and folktales of important people, places and events used as a form of education on social norms, believes and acceptable behaviours

✔️Hutsul dialect (based on Western Ukrainian and elements of Polish)

Not long ago we visited a famous wood carver from Kosiv Mykola Strynadiuk and his house museum to enjoy the wood carving art and a private workshop. Please enjoy our small video presentation of the crafstman and his wooden art.

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25/12/2020

Dear friends, Merry Christmas from the Ukraine-Rus' team! May all of you stay healthy, wealthy and with a song in your heart! We send you music greetings on this magic holiday night - Christmas hits performed by Ukrainian high class band G-ART #всепоцимбалах

🌟Щедрик 🌟We wish you a Merry Christmas🌟 Тиха ніч / Silent night🌟Бог ся рождає🌟Jingle bells🌟. ---- Merry Xmass!

https://cutt.ly/Ih3RkSL

Світові та українські Різдвяні хіти в одному треку: 🌟Щедрик 🌟We wish you a Merry Christmas🌟 Тиха ніч / Silent night🌟Бог ся рождає🌟Jingle bells🌟. Магічн...

24/12/2020

Kyiv is getting ready for Christmas time :-)
Amazing picture made by Ivan Stetsenko

07/08/2020

Hanami - is a Japanese🇯🇵 word and notion that stands for contemplation of the flowers' and trees' blossom. For centuries Japan has especially worshipped cherry blossoms. 🌸🌿

A lot of Ukrainians dream and travel 🌍✈️🎒to Japan 🇯🇵to see these beauty🤩. And as for the Japanese - they choose often the July time in Ukraine 💛💙 to come for Ukrainian Hanami - that is watch the blossom of sunflowers🌻🌿.

That's a truly amazing experience for them. And we are incredibly happy too 🤗 that this beauty of nature is next to us! And lucky for us, sunflowers' blossom 🌻🌿 lasts for 20-30 days, while sakura only 7-10 days.

So let's enjoy this beauty! Sunflower🌻 - the flower of the sun🌼and is a symbol of Ukraine🇺🇦!

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01/08/2020

Let's video travel to Lviv on the first day of August! Enjoy and happy August to you!

Thank you Pavel Tymoshenko for this amazing job!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uICNS2VTE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1bBgdft-wQ2iUgt1Rci_NvvPqw2X0myt1kE_BvMycdjQihmpnZcqxgOFc

Відео-проект для міста Львова. https://instagram.com/pavel_tymoshenko?igshid=5npav3smvbf3 Особлива атмосфера міста в якому органічно переплелись минуле І суч...

31/07/2020

This year we may not share with you stories and pictures of our clients that visit Ukraine, but with pleasure we recollect our memories and would like to share with you some of our remarkable events. The one told below was very interesting and emotionally rich!

In 2001 Atakoy Marina Yacht Club Ataköy Marina from Istanbul organized KAYRA Black Sea Cruise for 52 yachts with international teams. They sailed across the Black Sea and visited the ports of all countries on the Black Sea. Once arrived in Odesa yachts could not sail north by the Dnipro river to Kyiv since yachts had high sails and could not go through the sluice gates and bridges of the Dnipro.

The participants took a night train to Kyiv and once landed in the capital of Ukraine embarked on a cruise ship that took them down the river Dnipro back to Odesa. Yachtsmen turned into Dnipro cruise passengers :-) Our team from Ukraine-Rus' helped with the cruise program and set on a cruise together with 150 people.

There were 7 fun days and nights on the Taras Shevchenko ship along the route Kyiv – Kanev – Kremenchuk – Dnipro – Zaporizhzhia – Kherson – Odesa. Music by famous Ukrainian band Gorlitsa (now G-ART #всепоцимбалах) accompanied our guests all way through. As well as fun activities. In Kanev after visit the Taras Hill yachtsmen bought Ukrainian style clothes, fell in love with broidery, and made a costume party. It was quite funny to see Turkish men turned Cossacks. Visit to the Dnipro city coincided with the Bastille Day and French yachtsmen turned sad as they remembered they had forgotten their flag on board of a yacht in Odessa. So while the participants were visiting the Aerocosmic Museum, the team of Ukraine-Rus did some sewing and prepared the French flag.

Other impressions included: in Zaporizhzhia - Hortitsa island and Cossack horse show, in Kherson – Dnipro Delta and fish soup tasting, in Odessa – city sightseeing.

On this voyage our team member and vice president Catherine Romanyk saw for the first time the yucca plant in Kanev. Now, 19 years later it grows in her garden and reminds of that memorable Kayra event.

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30/07/2020

We stay optimistic and wait for our guests. Meanwhile we work as a team with our colleagues, prepare new videos for you, being at the same time actors, script writers and filmmakers. Ready to welcome tourists in Ukraine!

Please share this video to remind people all around the world about Ukraine!🤗😊🌹



https://www.facebook.com/AITOUkraine/posts/146657110411921

08/07/2020

Kupala night is an ancient celebration of the Eastern Slavs dedicated to the summer solstice. From year to year it comes on July 6 and ends on July 7 according to the Georgian calender.

Ivana Kupala Day (official name of the holiday) combines the words Ivan, the Slavic name of John the Baptist, and Kupala, derived from the Slavic word for bathing. However, is also said the name of the day is associated with Kupajla or Kupalo, a harvest god.

Most of the traditions for Kupala Night trace back to the pagan past. For instance, one of the most widely adhered to is that all the possible evil spirits like witches, snakes, water, mermaids, and werewolves awaken at this time. Therefore, you shouldn’t sleep on Kupala Night. It is customary to go to a pond, a river or a lake and celebrate the holiday there. However, you cannot swim, as bad spirits can make you drown.

People believed that all plants had special magical powers on this day. That is why, young girls were collecting the healing plants, and they were singing at the same time. Bunches of grass, gathered on the holiday, hung in the house and acted as a charm for the whole family.

On Kupala Night, primarily young women guessed about their fiancé and future family. The popular divination is to weave a wreath of wildflowers while making a wish, and then to let it go on the river. If the wreath floats far away, the wish will come true, and if it is beaten to the shore or sinks, then you should forget about your dream for a while.

Another ritual implies jumping over the flames of a bonfire - to get rid of evil spirits and test braveness and faith. The failure of a couple in love to complete the jump, while holding hands, is a sign of their destined separation.

We, the team of Ukraine-Rus', find it fun and useful to support some old customs connected with national and folk holidays since it reminds us and our kids of our roots and traditions, helps us get closer to nature and surrounding world, and is yet another occasion to get together )))

30/06/2020

In hard times we stay united. Ukraine's incoming tour operators have created an Assosiation of Incoming Tour Operators of Ukraine to support incoming travel business, promote our country as a cool travel destination on a professional level and inform future quests about safety measures for travel during Coronavirus situation.

We are glad to present you the first video produced by the AITO. The video shows safety measures, which have been taken in the tourism industry to be ready to welcome tourists in Ukraine in the post-Covid-19 time. Members of the AITO played as actors for this video including Ukraine-Rus’ team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=binaFSGSLYo

In this post-COVID time, it is time to prepare for your next adventures and trips. As Association of Incoming Tour Operators, we have created this video to s...

28/06/2020

Covid-19 quarantine and hot summer have brought changes to our company. We sacrificed our business-center-based city office for the village house. Fresh air, fresh fruit and fresh ideas are included into the village work package. Would you like to try the village tour? We invite you to get local experience from your local Ukraine-Rus’ team :-)

24/06/2020

Dear tourists!

We miss You so much❤️!
Can’t wait to see You again🤗!
We are ready to welcome 🌏🎒✈️ You in Ukraine!

Warm hugs 🤗 from Ukraine💙💛!

26/02/2020

Ievhen Klopotenko - is a person who definitely makes a difference in the Ukrainian food culture today. Half a million people follow Ievhens’ social media pages. He popularizes food culture, asks questions whether Ukrainians truly knows their food culture, improves menus in Ukrainian schools, rediscovers dishes and brings fresh air into Ukrainian kitchens with new recipes. Ievhen claims that 2 million people has tried recipes offered by him.

In the article below (unfortunately it is only available in Ukrainian language) Ievhen Klopotenko explains why we are mistaken when think that such dishes as “borsch”, “varenyky and “salo” are not truly Ukrainian and names 4 truly Ukrainian dishes.

In fact, varenyky – came to us from Turkey, borsch was initially the meals for village people not only in Ukraine, but also in the nearby countries like Poland, Belarus and Romania and salo – lard (pig fat) comes from Italy! Citizens of the small town of Colonnato in the Tuscany were the first to make a lardo. It was an ideal food for the people who extracted marble and prisoners in the quarries.

http://vsviti.com.ua/interesting/food/85600

Website of Ievhen Klopotenko https://klopotenko.com/
FB https://www.facebook.com/evgeniy.klopotenko

Євген Клопотенко розповів про забуті автентичні українські страви. Кожна країна пишається своїми національними стравами, вони стають своєрідною “кулінарної віз....

21/02/2020

NTERNATIONAL TOURIST GUIDE DAY 2020
21st February 🌏
Dear colleagues, warm congratulations for this special day! Let you have memorable trips and endless energy for introducing Ukraine proudly! Thank you for showing the rich heritage of our country to foreign and local guests and making positive image of our country that needs so much true love from its people!❤️

Some of our guides we keep constant touch with
Helena Tomina, Iryna Tretiak, Olena Oros, Olena Goncharuk, Sharyak, Natalia Odessa Guide, Селюк Валентина, Kovalchuk, Kaitan, Maryna Chemerys, Kuternoha, Olena Vydzhak, Павлик Равлик and many others!

13/02/2020

You may not be a star but our team feels like it being invited to the President Hotel for the partner party.

Happy to have President Hotel as our reliable partner for many years. Either leisure or corporate groups - the hotel provides comfortable hich class stay for all our guests!

11/02/2020

Have you already seen the amazing video called Ukraine is My Home released by a Kyiv native Nazar Dorosh? Such a cool video revealing unknown landscapes and corners of Ukraine.

"Come to Ukraine, enjoy our hospitality, landscapes, wonderful climate and create for yourself one of the most memorable adventures in your life!" the author of the video says.

Этим видео я хочу обратиться ко всем, кто способен видеть прекрасное, кто в поисках новых ощущений, незабываемых эмоций, к тем, кто в поиске чудесных и сказо...