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Boryspil Airport is planning to open a new Terminal F, designed for international flights, already in April this year. Now the terminal B is fulfilling this function.
Its total capacity should be a half thousand people per hour.
This spring the city plans to begin reconstruction of Andrew’s descent. The fate of the street and the time of its reconstruction have already been discussed at the City Hall.
In Kyiv, several observation areas have been equipped with special units, which allow Kyiv residents and the guests of the Ukrainian capital to view the panorama of the city.
In particular, viewing areas near the Arch of Friendship and the Monument to the Holodomor Victims (near Lavra) will allow tourists to enjoy the city panorama with the help of telescopes.
The biggest Ukrainian Flower Clock will start ticking again approximately in April, 2010 near the Independence Square, on Instytutska Sreet. A competition for the best design of the clock has already begun. For example, one of the ideas is to put in the center of the dial the logo of Euro 2012 (a soccer ball with two flowers).
Deputies of five fractions (two from the Party of Regions, one from Lytvyn Bloc, Communists Party, BUYT and NUNS) suggested Ukrainian Parliament to introduce a visa regime to enter Ukraine for citizens of EU, USA, Canada, Japan and Switzerland and some other countries.
The Group of Companies St Sophia Homes (Kiev) has resumed the previously suspended due to problems with financing construction of 24-storied hotel complex with residential apartments on blvd. Shevchenko, 28-30 in Kyiv. Hilton Hotels Corporation will be an operator of it.
Kyiv City Hall and the Great Patriotic War Museum is going to offer a new amusement for Kievans and tourists, who love extreme. For only 800 hryvnia you will be tied with the rope and raised to the top of the shield of the Kyiv famous Statue of Motherland.
Kyiv airport “Boryspil” is closed until 12:00 for technical reasons.
At 4 am airport website reported about a delay of only three flights, but already at 04:30 information on the delay of over two dozen flights (from 14:00 to 16:00) has appeared on the airport display.
The first in Ukraine Museum of Honey will be opened in one of the districts of Zakarpattia ( Transcarpathia ). The initiators of its creation are the beekeepers of Mukachivskiy District, together with the Tourism Department of Uzhgorod National University.
A real submarine SS-130 will be brought to Kyiv from Kherson, where a museum complex called “Peremoga” (Victory) dedicated to naval topics will be created. This submarine was given to Ukraine as a gift by Russia in 2000.



