Overview

Welcome to Ukraine!

Dear visitors of our blog,
European Championship is on the way and you are probably going to visit Ukraine. That’s why I decided to help you with necessary information for planning your visit to Ukraine. I hope you will find it useful.

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What I always do when I’m going to visit a country for the first time?
(Problems and Solutions)

– I look for some general information about that country =about Ukraine=

– I gather information about cities which I’m planning to visit =For those, who are planning to visit Kiev=

– I think about a place where to stay for a night or two. Usually it is not difficult to cope with this task, since Hotel staff is always ready to help you. But during Euro 2012 period most tourists will probably face this problem and also they will probably find unfairly high prices for apartments, hotel rooms or even for a place in small tent cities. We can offer you the following options:  =APARTMENTS for RENT in KIEV=

    In a couple of days I will write a post about small tent cities that will be settled in Kiev for a period of Euro 2012.

– I look for places that might be interesting for me. I do believe that it is the most important and interesting, but at the same time it is quite a difficult task since there are a lot of interesting places to visit in Kiev (Kyiv) and Ukraine, in general. Below you can find a list of my posts about several places:

=Kiev Pechersk Lavra=
=Dreams come true=
=GOLDEN GATE=

=Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art=
=National Museum of Natural History=
=The Ukrainian Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life=
=Museum of Miniatures=
=Museum of the Great Patriotic War=
=Museum of water in Kiev=
=Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine=

=Kiev Nightlife & Nightclubs (part 1)=
=Kiev Nightlife & Nightclubs (part 2)=

– When I’m going to a country where people speak the language that I don’t know, I try to find someone who can give me a useful advice or make an excursion for me. I know how to solve this problem in the capital of Ukraine – Kiev (Kyiv)! Please read the article =About us= where you can find a list of our services. If you are looking for Private Guide Services in Kiev or Personal Gide-interpreters just click =HERE=. If you want to know about Kiev Nightlife, just click =Guided Tours to Kiev Nightlife Venues= and you will have nothing to worry about.

    Specially for our clients we have =Delivery services=

=Limousine Rental = is the best option, if you want to have more grandeur tour. There is a number of occasions for renting a car.

   I hope that this overview turned out to be useful and I kindly ask you to share it with your friends. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to  =contact with us=

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Museum of Miniatures

In the Ukrainian capital on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is the Museum of Miniatures author Nicholas Syadristogo. The museum’s exhibit includes the work of only one master, the talent is simply unique. Feature of his work lies in the fact that all his works he does by hand, according to a special technology to perform each activity. Only in this museum, visitors can see the unique creations, admire all its size and precision execution.

The author of Miniatures was born in Kharkov in 1937. He also graduated from the Kharkiv Art College, and then successfully entered the local Agricultural Institute. Next Nicholas Syadristy worked as an agronomist in the Carpathian region, and later – as an engineer at the Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In addition to the miniatures, he has become famous in sports, becoming a master of sports of the USSR and the absolute champion of Ukraine for diving, which once again proves the versatility of the personality of Nicholas Syadristogo. Creation of thumbnails author has devoted much of his life, doing them for 40 years. It is thanks to Syadristy in the lexicon of artists, a new concept – miniatures.

Nicholas Syadristy known for his unique work, not only in Ukraine but also abroad. His work is in addition to the Museum of Miniatures in Kiev, also presented at the Moscow Polytechnical Museum and the Museum of microminiature, located in Andorra.

The museum’s miniature expand conventional notions of the limit of human capabilities. They affect not only its size and beauty, but also the talent of the author in the field of engineering. For example, Nikolai Syadristy is the author of the very tiny electric current in the world, whose size is 1 / 20 mm3, as compared to the size of a poppy seed is less than about 20 times.

Almost every one represented in the Museum of Miniatures is a unique and unrepeatable. Among them, rose in the hair – miniatures, representing the hair, the length of the cavity is drilled and polished to transparency, and within it placed a sprig of roses, thickness 0.05 mm.

Also noteworthy is the eye of a needle, into which the author has managed to put a caravan of camels, gold.

An interesting exhibit is the glass and petal chrysanthemum size 2×5 mm, which neatly engraved fragment polonaise Oginsky.

The author’s imagination has no boundaries: on a tiny piece of cherry stone 3×4 mm he painted a delightful portrait bas-famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya.

Mock windmill Syadristy could fit on half of a poppy seed. Layout includes 203 items made of gold. All of these exhibits are only a tiny part of the amazing artifacts that visitors can see at the Museum of Miniatures, located in the capital.

Visitors to the question, what knowledge and abilities needed to perform such delicate work, the author of Miniatures answers: “We should have some knowledge and experience in creating the figure, as well as compositions and plastics. Need to clearly know the properties of materials used in the work and a good command of her body to carry out the most subtle movements of the hand holding the tool.

Address: Ivan Mazepa Street, 21, Building 5 (on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra)

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