Kyiv is known as the cradle of the ancient Kyievan Rus. Today Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine. Kyiv is more than 1,500 years old city. It is one of the most ancient and the most beautiful cities in Europe. You will be enchanted with Kyiv’s wide boulevards lined by chestnut trees and poplars. There are magnificent buildings of different architectural styles in our city. So Kiev’s elegance can’t be unnoticed. During its long history Kyiv was attacked and destroyed many times. But it has been rebuilt every time. Kiev has always managed to retain its unique appeal.To get acquainted with our city we invite you to take the Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine tour.

We are going to see the absolutely different Kiev. That’s Kiev in twilight. That’s Kiev drowning in neon light. Any unnecessary details are hidden from our sight in twilight. Nothing will distract our attention from the main things. And the main things are the picturesque sites of the ancient and eternally young Kiev.

The tour of «Mother of Rus Towns» is dedicated to the one of the oldest cities of Europe, the capital of the big state named Kievan Rus, the rival of Constantinople, the rich and flourishing city of the 10th–13th century.

The Holy of Holies for Orthodox believers, half the Vatican in size. Founded in 1051 by two monks Antoniy and Feodosiy. It consists of two parts: the Upper Lavra (more a museum), the Lower Lavra – an active monastery (over 100 monks and novices). Of particular interest is a cave part of the monastery where our experienced guides will take you to see holy incorruptible relics of Lavra’s saints.

Kreschatik is one of the most known central streets of the world. The center of commercial, political and cultural life of Kiev has been bustling here for two centuries. Kreschatik is famous as the site of the first Kiev telephone, telegraph, electric tram, plumbing and sewage system, gas and electric illumination.

Warrior-Temple, the guard of north-western roads to Kiev — St. Cyril`s Temple has been rising in distant outskirts of Kiev since the 12th century. Even wall paintings of Saints are dressed in armors there. It is the second temple in Kiev after St. Sophia`s Cathedral, which has been preserved in its genuine walls since the times of Kievan Rus. The temple contains 800 square meters of wall paintings of that time inside of it. There are wall paintings of famous Mikhail Vrubel nearby — swansong, the masterpiece of modern epoch.

Pechersk was named after Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Lipki – after the gorgeous lime tree alley, which was laid for Klovskiy Palace along present-day Lipskaya Street in the 17^th century. But mansions of Kiev grand people, which were actively built at that time, eventually pressed the sweet “special appeal” of Pechersk. Up to the beginning of the 18^th century Pechersk upland consisted of backwoods; there were no city constructions there.

The 400 acres big National Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle of Ukraine is the biggest open air museum in the Eastern Europe! It is often called Pirogovo museum after the near-by village. Here you can feel the «real Ukraine».

St. Andrew’s Street is the most known street of Kiev except Kreschatik. It is the most «Kievan» street in our city. Matter of fact it is one of the eldest streets in Eastern Europe. We will follow the footsteps of Prince Igor, writer Bulgakov, artist Ivan Kavaleridze and dozens of other famous personalities.

Podil (the Lower Town) can reveal a lot about Kyiv Rus period owing to archaeological excavations before Kyiv Metro ( subway) construction. Unlike the Upper Town with its beautiful palaces Podil was the working area where craftsmen, fishermen ,merchants lived and worked. Visiting the Hetmanate Museum you can learn more about Cossackhood times in Ukraine.

Kiev is a mysterious city. That’s the fact. Kiev historians and such Russian literary geniuses as Gogol, Pushkin and Bulgakov wrote about it in their books. Kiev is the capital of Ukraine. But there are some evil forces in our capital city. You can feel it when you look at Kiev coat of arms. Archangel Michael is the only saint with arms in his hands. And Archangel Michael is the patron saint of our city. He is intended to protect our city against evil forces.

The tour includes one of three museums dedicated to the Ukrainian Nation’s genius: the National Taras Shevchenko museum (in a beautiful residence building of the Tereshchenkos, sugar manufacturers of Kyiv in the 19th – early 20th centuries), The museum-house of T. Shevchenko (Shevchenko lane near Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) and the House on Priorka museum.

The history of Jewish community of Kiev is the integral part of the history of the capital city of Ukraine. The influence of Jewish community can be traced in many spheres of city life of Kiev.

We will walk along the city parks during the tour. We will enjoy the main thing about Kiev. And that’s its amazing landscape. There are 100 meters high green hills in the center of the capital of Ukraine. Time after time you cannot realize that you are still inside of that huge megalopolis.

The past and the present of any city are reflected in masterpieces of city architecture. Kiev is extraordinarily rich with its architectural masterpieces. Any architectural style of the last millennium can be found here starting with the austere temples of Kievan Russ and finishing with constructivism and Stalin’s empire style.

From time immemorial men of letters were inspired by our city.  They wrote about Kiev in their works, in their letters to their friends. During the tour we will visit two museums, we will see Writers’ House and the monument to Oles Gonchar. These are the gems of Literary Kiev. Though there are many more sites dedicated to Ukrainian literature in our city.

The history of St. Flor’s convent is connected with one of the richest women of Russian Empire Natalia Dolgorukova who spent many years at the convent. Having abandoned palaces and glory for the sake of her husband she endured all severities of an exile and after his death she retreated to the holy Kyiv land.

During the tour the information about all the bridges over the Dnieper River in city limits of Kiev will be provided to you. You will hear about the existing bridges and about the bridges under construction. You will be amazed with their artistic style. You will enjoy the unique panorama of our city. And no doubt you will be impressed with the mighty waters of the Dnieper.

During the tour you will hear about the events that took place in Kiev during World War II. The heroic defense of the city lasted 73 days from July till September 1941. Thus the plans of Hitler's "blitzkrieg" were frustrated. The entire plan "Barbarossa" was destroyed. But those events also were also the prologue to one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Red Army, as 630 thousands Red Army soldiers were trapped in the vicinity of Kiev.

That fortress was built on the high hill in the southern outskirts of Kiev in the Kievan Rus epoch. It was a real stronghold. Attackers had to break through five defensive lines while storming the fortress. And some remains of those fortifications have been preserved to present day!

In ancient times Kiev was compared to Jerusalem. That was the level of our city as the Christianity had been introduced for local people there. And later Kiev was known as a very important Christian center. And at present time our city is still considered to be the outstanding religious center very important for the numerous pilgrims. There is a saying like that in our days – no need to have a map if you go to Kiev. Any time any one has been eager to show pilgrims the way to Kiev.

During the tour we will tell you about the culture and religions of different nationalities living in the capital of Ukraine. You will also know how their places of worship were constructed in Kiev.

Feofania is a picturesque area in the southern outskirts of Kiev. There are holy springs, a cascade of lakes and mighty oak groves in the vicinity of the famous Orthodox nunnery. The unique St. Panteleymon’s Cathedral was constructed in the traditional Russian style. All visitors are amazed with its elegance and beauty.

Tserkovshina – Feofania – Kitaevo – Goloseevo – that is the route of the excursion. From time immemorial Kiev was famous as the Sacred City. And each of the city’s cloisters has its history, its Saints, its secrets. We invite you to the excursion about roundabout Kiev monasteries.

You will be fascinated with mysteries, riddles, stories about hermits’ feats and treasure hunting in the caves of Kiev.
Monastic life in those caves was started by local priest Hilarion in the middle of the 11th century. He stayed alone for his praying in the forest in one of the hills over the Dnieper River. Hilarion dug a little cave there for himself. So the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra was founded in the caves. The proper history of the cave monastery was associated with St. Anthony and St. Theodosius.

No tram means no Kiev. The history of electric tram in our city is intertwined with the history of city of Kiev. Will you please have your comfortable seat in the tramcar arranged as a café!

There are not many cities in the world with such a vast and accessible expanse of water as the Dnieper in the Kiev city centre. There is no better way to cool off than to spend some time on the river on steaming-hot summer days. You will definitely enjoy having your time on board of our boat while watching breathtaking banks of the Dnieper River with the golden domes, parks and modern parts of our city.

There are many sites of Polish heritage in Kiev. And there is a good reason for this state of things. The history of the Polish community in Kiev has been started in the epoch of Kievan Rus as the Polish king Boleslav the Brave married a daughter of Kievan Grand Prince Svyatopolk.

The Reception Hall of President of Ukraine is located there. You will see marble grand staircase, the walls trimmed with alder, refined parquet, majolica, mother of pearl and of course the fancy decorations in the form of trophies and mystical creatures during your visiting the Gorodetsky’s House. Don’t miss this unique visit! The opportunity to visit the most unusual Kievan mansion is limited. So hurry up to Prime Excursion Bureau office!

You are in Ukrainian capital. Kiev is ancient. But at the same time, it is young, because every month, every year brings new features, lines and new colors into its look. You will have enough time to examine and feel it and take care of yourself too — of you health, youth and beauty. A beautiful city loves beautiful people. Modern Ukrainian capital is famous for its traditions, but it values activity and appreciates those, who respect themselves. Our package for those who wish to combine rest for soul and body includes excursion about Kiev from “Prime Excursion Bureau” and enjoying procedures at “Perlamutr” clinic.

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Group tours cost is $150 per person.

Prime Excursion Bureau LTD is an official contractor to operate trips to Chernobyl. It is a direct service provider since 2007.

You are going to visit the «ghost town» situated in the zone of the largest nuclear disaster in the history of the modern humanity. It is your chance to feel yourself a character of some computer game. The «Zone» attracts and repels. You will see the «Red Forest», abandoned villages where all houses were buried in the ground and the ghost town of Pripyat fenced with barbed wire — life stopped there in 1986.

Archeologists and historians still argue if it was a full-fledged state or not. One thing is unquestionable — thousands of years ago big cities existed on the territory of modern Ukraine. And exclusive ceramics, unlike anything of that kind, is the evidence of uniqueness of that civilization.

The initiator of creation of the museum Alexandr POLISCHUK:
“ANTIQUE ARTICLES TALK TO PEOPLE
WITH EXCEPTIONAL BEAUTY HERE…”
Specially for “Prime Excursion Bureau”.

“Prime Excursion Bureau” invites you to subjugate the “fifth ocean” — as they call the sky. You will be among those, who have discovered secrets of the sky. If you decide to subjugate the sky space as a couple or with friends, the air space will certainly endow you with the feeling of happiness and charge with the energy of involvement in eternity.

The General Director
of Kiev Aeronautic Society Sergey SKALKO:
“EVERYTHING IS IN THE WIND`S POWER…”
(Specially for “Prime Excursion Bureau”)

If you make your trip to Yasnogorodka (Yasnogorodka is a little village founded in the 16th century) you will learn about Byelgorod kissel (kissel is a kind of starchy jelly), you will see ostriches from Africa - the biggest birds in the world; a camel, peacocks, and pigs from Asia; as well as sheep, goats and ducks from Europe.  

In Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky there is the biggest number of museums comparing to any of Ukrainian towns. Totally there are 27 museums there meaning that there is almost a museum on every thousand of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky inhabitants! We have chosen for your visit the best of the best from these 27 museums. And you know the best open air museum in Ukraine is located here!

This is a grand project. No one dared to reproduce ancient Kiev, the capital of the biggest country of medieval Europe, till construction of “Kievan Rus” Park was started to the South of Ukrainian capital. The Park is supposed to reproduce the city in the way it looked in the period of its golden age. Celebrations, knight tournaments, historic reconstructions, master – classes and tasting are conducted in the park almost all year round. We invite you to visit this remarkable place and feel as if you were in the bygone epoch.

This oldest house in Kiev region, which is over 300 years old, is the live ethnographic Museum. It’s alive because it is not just museum exposition, but a house where a real Ukrainian family lives and welcomes guests. The owners of this unusual isolated homestead meet guests in national costumes, with bread and salt, treat them to food made by hand without using modern kitchen devices. You get into atmosphere of real Ukrainian country mode of life, to be more exact, the mode of life of Poleshchuki – people, who live in Ukrainian Polesye in the North of Ukraine. That’s the way Ukrainians lived in isolated homesteads half a century ago. In Mr. Savka`s hut you can immerge into real, not cinema-affected life of an old Polesye village.

There you can find 50 species of tropical plants. They are bananas, lemons, pineapples, tangerines, pomegranates and papayas. You can find even such rare fruit as naranjilla. Naranjilla is often called water of gods. The tastes of pineapple, strawberry, lemon and mandarin are combineв in this fruit juice. All this and that can seen in the large "thermos" style hothouse in village of Rozhny in Kiev region.

We invite you to visit the surrounding Kiev fortresses. Once there were big and mighty towns located around Kiev. All of them has been glorified in history of Kievan Rus. They are Vyshgorod, Belogorodka (Belgorod) and Vasylkiv.

Baturyn is in Chernihiv oblast on the bank of the Seim river. Once it was a powerfull fortress, later – a town that exercised Magdeburg Law rights. At present the architectural and historical ensemble of Baturyn is being restored on the initiative of the President of Ukraine.

Director of the National Historical –
Cultural Reserve “Hetman`s Capital” Natalia REBROVA:
“OUR BATURIN IS THE SYMBOL OF THE NATION IN A WAY”
Specially for “Prime Excursion Bureau”

In Middle Ages Chernigov was the capital of the ancient principality. It was known as the former rival of Kiev. Chernigov is a cozy, poetic town. There is a lot of old architecture in Chernigov. Chernigov is about 14 centuries old town.

Located in the town of Uman, the famous Sofiyivka arboretum was laid out at the end of the 18th century. Its beautiful scenery reveals some old Greek myths. The park is the sample of harmonious combination of people’s talent and natural beauty. The Sofiyivka park was laid out by Stanislaw Potocki for his beloved wife Sophia.

The Alexandria arboretum is a masterpiece of landscape architecture on the banks of the RosRiver, the museum of marble sculptures where one can see among others Three Sleeping Cupids statue.

The Director of the National Park “Alexandria” Sergey GALKIN:
“ALEXANDRIA IS A KIND OF A ROUND-THE-WORLD TRIP”
(Specially for “Prime Excursion Bureau”)

The Kachanivka Park spreads over an area of 570 hectares (1407 acres) which makes it the biggest park in Ukraine and one of the biggest in Europe. 130 hectares of this area are ponds. There are several architectural landmarks of considerable architectural and historical value on the estate. There are bridges, earthworks, gazebos added to the overall architectural set-up of the park. Dozens of species of trees, hundreds of species of other plants, lanes and paths meandering through the Park, make it a place of paradisiacal beauty.

Zhytomyr is famous for Ukraine’s only museum of space aeronautics. It’s a birthplace of the chief designer of space aircraft – Sergey Korolyov. Zhytomyr’s art gallery is also worth seeing.

Zakrevsky’s dynasty Manor Complex is located in the small village of Berezova Rudka, Piryatinsk district, Poltava region one and a half hundred kilometers east from Kiev. Many talented and famous people were descended from that family. Gregory Zakrevsky decided to found his estate there. Zakrevsky’s estate was known as a place of noble assembly too. The palace was built there in 1838. The visitors are still affected with its beauty and size.

Strategic Missiles Troops Museum is the unique museum of world level. Nothing of the kind exists neither in Europe nor in the countries of the former USSR.

350$ per person.

Trip avaliable for 2 person.

 "The Battle for the Dnieper in 1943" museum is really an outstanding military-historical museum. It is located to the north of Kiev in the village of Novy Petrivtsi. This is the site of the former Lyutezh bridgehead.

During the tour we will visit the native area of Ukrainian genius. The villages of Moryntsi, Kyrylivka and Budysche are considered a "golden horseshoe" of Shevchenko's native area. Taras Shevchenko strolled there a lot as a child. Many of those sites were painted by Shevchenko in his works.

The original name of the town was Boguslavl. The town was founded more than a thousand years ago. Boguslav is located in the luxuriant forests. River Ros flows there rapidly through its rocky banks. Boguslav is situated in a distance of 125 km from Kiev. The town is famous ... by two Maries and one Ivan. 

Eventually our history was created by horses and human beings. Horses and human beings worked the land, built houses and sold things, traveled and fought. That was the mode of life for thousands of years. As the result of technological advances a horse - a man tandem has been separated only recently. And almost immediately it has been clear that people driving cars, being squeezed in public transport or sandwiched within the walls of their offices long for horses as their proven, reliable partners and friends.

On the way to Lubny you will stop in the old town Pyryatyn. Then you will see the church of the 17th century, the museum of local lore in Lubny during sightseeing. This trip also includes visiting of the Mhar monastery. At your discretion we can stop at the village of Biyivtsi – a birthplace of Vasyl Symonenko, the Ukrainian poet of the 20th century

The area of the largest in Ukraine Aqua Park is 20, 5 square kilometers big area. There is always tropical temperature in the aqua park.

On generous Poltava land, in Sorochintsy village on the Psel River, one of numerous local fairs used to be held. There were many of them in those times, separated from us by two centuries. It would have been lost in centuries and wiped off by whirlwinds of future revolutions, if a boy had not been born in the family of a local doctor on April 1, 1809 — future outstanding writer Nikolay Gogol.

The head of the project “Sorochinskaya Fair” Svetlana SVISCHEVA:
“THERE WILL BE MORE LITERARY HEROES
IN THE CURRENT, JUBILEE, “SOROCHINSKAYA FAIR”
(Specially for “Prime Excursion Bureau”)

Kiev is the most ancient center of Slavonic culture. There the beauty of nature is combined with the creative ability of human beings harmoniously... If you visit Kiev for the first time you will make sure yourself quickly that all enthusiastic reviews about our city are more than just the words. There is its special story about every street in This City. You hear the stories and you feel the time stopping.

Cossacks’ movement was founded in those places over the Dnieper River. Chigirin is located there. It was the first capital of Cossacks. Chigirin was the capital of Bogdan Khmelnitsky’s state. The quiet town called Subbotov is located there too. The estate and the grave of the great leader of Ukraine Bogdan Khmelnitsky is situated there. Kholodny Yar is one of the most unique landscapes in Ukraine. There are many historical and cultural sites there. Probably this is the site where a giant meteorite fell. The history of Kholodny Yar area is full of historical mysteries, dramas and tragedies.

Christmas Toys Factory is located in Klavdievo near Kiev. It used to be one of only three such factories in the former Soviet Union and the only one in Ukraine. Here we see the way a fairy tale, joy and Christmas mood can be created. Practically all factory products are exported all over the world because of their high quality. But our tourists will be able to use their chance too...