Kharkiv

As a person who’s born here and knows the place well I can give some valuable tips and share a biased view 😄 The city and people are great if you know how to navigate it. If you don’t know, it’s a big problem. Have an advice from the local, it’s important ⚠️ You should have a key for great experience in Kharkiv, get it! 🔑 WHY KHARKIV? Cool, well-educated people with own opinion, business-minded, direct. You’ll not find old historical buildings here the city was rebuilt ground up after WW2. The city is managed better than any other Ukrainian city, it’s clean. Not soviet in it’s heart ❤️ WHERE TO BE? Draw a triangle between Gor Kafe 1654 (tip), Otakara Yarosha st. (bottom). Rent there, live there, walk there, party there 😎 WHERE I LIKE TO WALK 1) Gorky Park, 2) Sarzhyn Yar (subway station Botanical Garden), 3) Pushkinskaya str. + around NTU “KHPI”, 4) Sumskaya + Rymarskaya. TAXI ONLY right now ON Taxi app with business class cars is the best and rather cheap, Uber and Bolt are so-so. HOTEL ONLY I’d not rent an apartment as prices aren’t fair (you can get a lot of money if you rent your apartment 10-15% a year 😉) rather look for a modern hotel like: 4 rooms and villa 4 rooms, Cosmopolit, Mirax, etc. normal Eastern European prices, rooms are spacious. DON’T WORRY it’s a safe place to be. I was never robbed or attacked even in scary 90-s, walking alone around dark, grotesque post-soviet haunted houses or empty streets, np at all. Locals love tourists and will help when they can, if you lost and people around don’t know English, you’ll soon find someone who’ll guide you, give you money and a good advice. People here are proud of the place and want others to know it. Good luck, see you here!