Kiev's Fact
| Population (2010) | : | 2,797,553 |
| City's Area | : | 839 km² |
| Coordinates | : | 50°27'00"N 30°31'24"E |
| Time Zone | : | CET (UTC+2), CEST (UTC+3) when summer time |
| Motto | : | --- |
| City's Stadium | : | Olympic Stadium (69,004 seats) |
| Top Football Club | : | Dynamo Kiev, Arsenal Kiev |
| Website | : | www.kmv.gov.ua |
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| Coat of Arms |
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, Kiev will also be the host city for Euro 2012 final match in July 1, 2012. Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational and cultural centre of Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education institutions and world-famous historical landmarks. In Kiev just a few people who can speak English. Pocket dictionary of Russia and Ukraine will be very useful for those of you who will visit this city. There is no problem for the local community if you have trouble pronouncing their language, but a few sentences with local dialects will make you more welcome.
Kiev is also known by his extensive infrastructure and highly developed system of public transport such as Kiev Metro. The Kiev Metro is a metro system and the first rapid transit system in Ukraine. You can pay 2.00 hryvnia (US$0.25) for a single ride regardless of destination and number of transits within the metro. Kiev Metro have vivid and colourful decorations like all Metro systems in the former Soviet Union. The original stations of the first stage are elaborately decorated, showing the postwar Stalinist architecture blended with traditional Ukrainian motifs. Overall, the condition of the metro is very satisfying for most people. For example vandalism and graffiti are not common in Kiev. Public order is now being maintained with Militsiya (police) personnel on all stations. In the wake of recent terrorist fears, all of the stations are now fitted with CCTV surveillance cameras.
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| Monument at Dnieper River |
One of the tourist destination in Kiev you should visit is a monument on the right side of the river Dnieper depicting a vessel containing three brothers and a sister of the Slavs. Lybid's sister stood in the bow elegantly. Schek and Khoryv standing behind him holding a spear with an attitude of proud and vigilant. The third brother who gave the name to Kiev, Kyj, standing at the back, holding the arrow aware of the dangers from behind. They are the three legendary brothers, sometimes mentioned along with their sister Lybid, who, according to the Primary Chronicle (local tale) were the founders of medieval Kiev city.
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| Milla Jovovich |
If you ever watch any of the four Resident Evil movie, Alice would surely know, the film's heroine fights a legion of zombies created by the evil Umbrella Corporation. Yes, Alice is starring by Milla Jovovich Alice who was born on December 17, 1975 in Kiev. Starting his career as a model when I was 9 years old, Milla Jovovich is currently known as an actress, model, and singer-songwriter. For her acting in the Resident Evil trilogy, Jovovich received a nomination for the Saturn Best Actress Award for the first Resident Evil in 2002 and won Best Actress in a sci-fi/action film for Resident Evil: Extinction from the Scream Awards in 2008. We will see her acting again as Alice in the fifth movie of the Resident Evil series, Afterlife, the which was directed by her husband, Paul W. S. Anderson and scheduled release at September 14, 2012.
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| Kiev's Map |
Distance to other Euro 2012 Venues
| Kharkiv | : | 480 km |
| Lviv | : | 540 km |
| Donetsk | : | 700 km |
| Warsaw | : | 820 km |
| Wroclaw | : | 1,090 km |
| Poznan | : | 1,140 km |
| Gdansk | : | 1,190 km |
Source : goal.com, wikipedia, bolaeropa.com
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