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Our site is designed to help foreigners visiting Kyiv, or living there, to make their stay/life safe and comfortable and to enjoy every day spent in Kyiv. Please use this unique site to quickly find local providers of many essential goods and services and to free up your time for enjoying Ukraine’s capital.

Information about local businesses is organised around the most important (in our opinion) needs of a visitor/resident (see the Site Overview). We used several criteria to select for you the most relevant providers and are fully committed to expand our current list to help you find better goods and/or services a year from now. Indeed, information offered on those businesses shall be viewed as our suggestion not an endorsement.

Additionally, this site offers articles that contain useful information for a visitor/resident. For instance, articles on Ukrainian holidays in Exploring Ukraine, an overview of health emergency service providers in Emergencies in Kyiv. To a first-time visitor, we present some key facts about Ukraine and its major city below.

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Ukraine

Earliest settlements: about 34,000 years ago

Independence (year): 1991

Territory: more than 600,000 sq. km

Population: about 40 million people

GDP per capita (nominal), US$: about $5,000

Largest city: Kyiv

Mobile Internet: 3G/4G

Kyiv

Earliest settlement: about 1,500 years ago

Area: about 840 sq. km

Population: about 3 million people

GDP per capita (nominal), US$: about 10,000

Religion: a major Eastern Christianity centre

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To support national and international aid collection efforts, an article War in Ukraine: Major Aid Channels in Ukraine’s News subsection contains links to the major Ukrainian organisations and platforms dealing with financial, military, and humanitarian assistance.