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AT THE BEGINNING ON EARTH FROM TITHIS WAS ONLY TWO

AUTHENTIC RACES, GREEKS and DRACONIANS.
GREEKS HAVE THE MARK OF SUNNY SOUL IN THE EYES
DRACONIANS HAVE THE MARK OF KNIFE IN THE BACK BUT
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(From Dialogues of Diomidis with Alexander the Great )

 It was the General Technology Department of the Kiev Polytechnical Institute
that gave rise to the Chernigiv State Technological University in 1960 (Order 84 of
the Ministry of Higher, Secondary and Specialized Education of the Ukrainian SSR
from March 11, 1960).

The Department began its first academic year on September 1, 1960. There
were 175 students admitted. The number of the pedagogical staff didn't exceed 20
teachers. Kalita Yevgeniy Grigorovich was appointed Dean of the Department.

Supported by the industrial enterprises of the Chernihiv region and appropriate

sub-faculties of the Kiev Polytechnical Institute, the laboratories and class-rooms
necessary for the educational process, were created.

A building - the historical monument the Governor's House with the effective
floor-space of more than 1500 sq. m was allotted to the Department. They also
began constructing a new study block and students' hostel.

The first enrolment in the full time training was carried out in the academic year
1962-1963 and amounted to 150 persons on three specialities.

On September 1, 1965 the Chernihiv Branch of the Kiev Polytechnical Institute

was organized according to the order of the Ministry of Higher, Secondary and
Specialized Education of the Ukrainian SSR. It was made up of three faculties:
Mechanical Faculty, Technological Faculty and Faculty of the General Technology.

Kalita Yevgeniy Grigorovich was appointed Rector of the Chernihiv Branch of the
Kiev Polytechnical Institute.

The enrolment in the in the academic year 1966-1967 amounted to 1100

students.

On the Decree Ή 193 of the Cabinet of the Ministers of Higher, Secondary and
Specialized Education of the Ukraine from September 10, 1991 the Chernihiv
Technological Institute was created on the basis of the Chernihiv Branch of the Kiev
Polytechnical.

Dennisov Alexandr Ivanovich, Dr Sc, Professor was appointed the Rector of

Institute.

The enrolment plan amounted to 490 persons and the students body in the
academic year 1991-1992 included 1919 people.

Proceeding from the real opportunities and prospects of survival under

conditions of transition of the Ukraine to market economy, the Engineering-
economic Faculty was created in 1994 .

In 1994 the institute passed the licensing and complete accreditation. As a

result, it obtained level IV of accreditation.
 In 1999 the Chernihiv Technological Institute was entered on the list of priority
higher educational institutions, recognized by the Canadian Engineers Association.

In July, 1999 by the Decree of the Cabinet of the Ministers of Higher, Secondary
and Specialized Education of the Ukraine (Ή 1372 from 29.07.1999) the Chernihiv
State Technological University was created on the basis of the the Chernihiv
Technological Institute.

On November 15, 2000 the Chernihiv State Technological University was

rewarded with the diploma of the International open rating of popularity and quality
of goods and services "Gold Fortune" within the framework of the regional program.
The title of "The Prize-winner of the Rating "was awarded..

University structure

The structure of University embraces the following basic divisions:

The faculty of economics

The faculty of management and business
The faculty of mechanics and technology
The faculty of electronic and information technologies
The correspondence faculty
The faculty of post diploma training and improvement of professional skill
Post graduate study
The system of under-higher training
Publishing department
Library

University campus

The University has at its disposal 11,5 ha of land. The premises accommodate
five study-laboratory buildings, workshops, student hostel, garage and refectory.
The University also has three sports halls (600 sq. Μ of space), sports and
rehabilitation complex for 135 people and weekend guesthouse for 20 people. The
total space makes 38304 sq. μ, including 26507 sq.m of laboratories and
classrooms.

The University classrooms are equipped with modern technical training aids.
They are convenient and spacious. Laboratories have all the necessary equipment.

There are 301 personal computers at the University, including 111 with Pentium
processors. The computer classes are connected to the Internet being widely used
by the teachers and students in the training process and research work.
Chernigov Ukraine history
There are several versions about the origin of the Chernigov city’s
name. Some people think that the name came from forests that
surrounded the city and were so dense that from far away seemed to
be black. (Chornyy in English means black.) There is also an opinion
that the city derived its name from the ancient people Chorni Klobuki,
that is those who wore black hats.

The most romantic version is connected with the legend about Prince
Chornyy, who ruled here in the 10 th century, and his daughter Chorna (or Tsorna).
As the legend has it, the Princess was unusually beautiful; she liked horse-riding,
hunting and was a good archer. The rumors about the girl’s beauty reached the ears
of the Khazars’ Kagan (the prince of normadic tribes who lived south-east from the
Eastern Slavs), whom Prince Chornyy paid tribute. The Kagan sent to Chernigov his
matchmakers with rich presents. But the girl refused to marry her people’s enemy.
The Kagan tried to capture the city and take the girl away by
force. The townspeople beat off numerous attacks and there
was nothing left to the Khazars as to lay siege. At that time
Prince Chornyy was at odds with the Grand Duke Oleg of Kiev
and he could not expect any help. He decided to break the siege
while there was still enough manpower. As soon as the Prince
with his armed force left the city walls, a gang of traitors
rushed into the Princess’s room on
the upper floor of the mansion,
which was as high as old oak
trees. The Princess managed to hit some of the enemies
from her bow and threw herself out of the window when
she ran out of arrows.

No matter how beautiful this legend is, it is in no way connected with the city’s
name, since the first written record of Chernigov dates back to 860, much earlier that
the traditional legend. Most historians believe that the city got its name from the
name of a chief of a local tribe or the first settler Cherniga or Chernega.

Chernigov is rich in ancient and historical sights. Here is the fact that speaks for
itself: the city has preserved one quarter of all architectural monuments of Ukraine of
the pre-Mongol period. Most of them are situated in the Old City that lies on the bank
of the Desna and is called Val.

THE CATHEDRAL OF THE TRANSFIGURATION

OF OUR SAVIOUR
is the oldest Christian Church which has remained in Ukraine . Its construction was
begun in 1033-1034 by Prince Mstislav. The cathedral is a majestic eightpiered
structure in Byzantine style surmounted by five domes. The cathedral was a religious
center of Chernigov principality.

THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINTS BORIS AND GLEB

was built in 1123. It is a classical example of architectural style of the Kiev-Rus
period. This comparatively small one-domed church is decorated with architectural
details made of carved stones. The most interesting thing in the interior of the church
are the Holy Doors which were cast of a pagan silver idol.

THE CHERNIGOV COLLEGE

was built in 1700-1702 in the Ukrainian baroque style and it is decorated with
numerous architectural details. It was one of the first secular higher educational
establishments in the left-Dnepr-bank Ukraine.

ST.CATHERINE CHURCH

was built in the late 17 th – early 18 th centuries in

commemoration of Chernigov Cossacks’ heroism in the
war against the Turks

Ukraine banks services Banks

Banks in Ukraine usually work from 9:00 a.m. till 3:00
p.m., Monday through Friday. Most banks are closed
on Saturday and Sunday. A standard lunch hour is
from 1:00 p.m. till 2:00 p.m. There are a lot of bank
branches in the city center, so it will be easy to gain
access to ATMs, cash travel checks or use other bank
services. Among the first-rate banks of Ukraine are
Pravex-Bank, PromInvestBank, Privat Bank, Aval Bank
and UkrSocBank.
The addresses and phones of Chernigov banks are here.

Cash dispensers
Today all major cities of Ukraine have a huge network of cash dispensers, or
simply ATMs. In Ukraine an ATM will give you money in local currency, that is
in hryvnias. In order to withdraw money from ATMs one should know his
personal identification number (PIN), which must contain numbers only, as
Ukrainian keypads have no letters. One will pay a fee for using ATMs but this
fee is considerably lower than that for traveler's checks. When in Kiev, you
will find ATMs quite easily. You can withdraw money in any bank of Ukraine
as well. Although most ATMs give money in hryvnias, there are a few
locations where you can get money both in hryvnias and dollars. The
Kreschatik Hotel, located in the very center of Kiev, has a cash dispenser
offering money in both currencies.
The Aval Bank of Ukraine has one of the
widest networks of ATMs throughout the city.
The central part of Kiev is crowded with
Automatic Teller Machines, so you should not
worry about finding one.
If you want to avoid any risk of becoming a
victim of credit card scam, you can go to any
bank and withdraw money right there. In this
case you will need to pay 6 per cent for the operation.

Credit cards
There are three main credit cards accepted in major restaurants, stores,
hotels and other venues. These are Visa, MasterCard and Eurocard.
However, note that credit cards are not widely in use in Ukraine and
sometimes they will not be accepted (particularly if the matter concerns
smaller shops, cafes and remote areas). We recommend that you always
have some cash at hand in case your credit card won't be accepted. If you
have some local store credit cards, it's better to leave them at home. In case
your credit card was stolen, you may immediately call the issuing bank (the
bank's number is on the back of your card, so it's better to write this down
somewhere else in order you can find the number fast). An emergency credit
card can be delivered to you within one or two days, depending upon the
bank policy. Finally, it's a good idea to have a different credit card as a
backup. With a different card you will have access to more machines. And if
you have, for example, AMEX card, take Visa or MasterCard as an
alternative, as American Express and Diner are less popular in Ukraine than
those ones. In conclusion we must say that Ukraine operates primarily on a
cash economy. You should be very careful using your credit card, and it is
much recommended not to use it in any shady places.
Traveler's Checks
Traveler's checks are not widely accepted in Ukraine. It's recommended not
to bring them (or bring only as a backup), as a high commission rate and
much paperwork are always expected. If you still want to take some traveler's
checks on your trip, take Thomas Cook or Visa, which are the most common
in Ukraine. To cash traveler's checks you will need a passport and receipt of
purchase. We recommend to cash checks in VABank or Oschadbank of
Ukraine

Money transfer
If you for some reason need to receive or send money while in Ukraine, you can do it
quickly with the help of such internationally known companies as Western Union or
MoneyGram. These companies have a network of authorized agents throughout the
country. Agents' offices are mainly located in the bank buildings. Other options for
sending or receiving money while in Ukraine include a wire bank transfer and a
postal money order, which are less expensive but take more time.

Local currency
Ukrainian currency is Hryvnia and its one hundredth part is kopiika. You can see
specimens of all banknotes in circulation here.The Hryvnia is the official currency
and all banks, restaurants, disco, etc. and all other normal purchases are conducted in
it. If you are paying for something privately, U.S. dollars are the top currency
followed by the Euro.

Travelers checks, American Express and

Barclays can be cashed in local banks into
dollars for 3%. American Express does not
have an office in Ukraine to replace lost
checks. ATM cards are widely used and bank
machines are frequent, at least in the center.
ATM machines dispense the Hryvnia and
some even dispense dollars for an additional 3%. Instructions are in Russian,
Ukrainian and English.

ATM and Currency Exchange

 ATM machines are located near/inside big supermarkets and near
every bank office. You can also exchange foreign currency at banks
offices. Currency exchange can be done during regular business
hours

Chernigov Ukraine hotel

Hotels in Chernigov are still Soviet Era Hotels and we highly do not recommend
westerners staying in this level of accommodations. We do have a very nice
apartment that is dramatically better than the Soviet Era hotels in Chernigov. Please
click here to see it.

Chernigov Ukraine hotels

"Gradetsk “Pridesnyanskiy” 3 stars

y" 2 stars The hotel is located in a quiet place, 150 meters from the Desna
The Hotel river. The best hotel in Chernigov. The Hotel is located in 4 km to
Gradetsky the city centre and 8 km from railway station. There is secured
was built in parking not far from the hotel.
1981 and
was last
renovated in
1997. The
Hotel is
located in 2
km to the
city centre
and 4 km
from railway
station.
Airport in
Kyiv - 130
km. There is
secured
parking not
far from the

hotel.

“Slavanskiy” 2 stars
This Chernigov hotel located in the center of the city, 200 meters
away from the central square, opposite the central post office and
near from several large banks. The hotel is 4 km from railway
station. The hotel has secured parking.

Chernigov Ukraine maps

Chernigov on the map of Ukraine

Chernigov city map

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 Chernigov Restaurants
The culinary geography of Chernigov embraces many countries of the world.
Wonderful restaurants of Italian, Russian, Caucasian and even the so-called Soviet
cuisine are at your disposal. Do not miss an opportunity to taste traditional Ukrainian
cuisine with such hits as varenik (small dough pies with different stuffing), famous
Ukrainian borsch (beet soup) with pampushki (soft rolls soaked in fresh crushed
garlic and oil) and other dishes. Tipping is not mandatory but usually expected in
restaurants. If you believe that the service was good, you can leave some money for
the waiter. Some restaurants put "Service not included" in their menu, and you will
have to pay for the service as much as you consider necessary. Tipping can be 5 to 10
% of your total bill. Check your bill before paying. Tipping is not required in fast
food restaurants, cafes, and other places where you order your food at a counter.

Restaurant “Druzhba” ul. Pyatnitskaya 50 +3804622-35219, 35739

Restaurant “Gradetskij” Pr. Mira 68 +3804622-4-91-85, 4-20-25

Restaurant “Starij Chernigov” Pr. Pobedi 137 +3804622-3-10-56, 3-91-29

Restaurant “Hutorok” Ul. Rodimtseva 5 +3804622-7-27-74

Restaurant “Mayak” Ul. Podvalnaya 23

Hotel-restaurant “Tureckij” Highway E95, 1067 km +3804622-6-98-93

Fast Food Restaurants

With reasonable prices, quick service and versatile menus, offering dishes of
American, Russian and traditional Ukrainian cuisines, the numerous fast foods of
Chernigov welcome everybody, who is short of time and wants to have a snack.
Citizens and guests to Chernigov can also visit Quick and Casual restaurants, which
combine quick service with food quality and more comfortable seating usually found
only in casual dining restaurants. This restaurant category appeared in Chernigov
several years ago.

Mc Donald’s Central Market Open: 8:00-23:00

Master Cook Prospekt Mira, 51 Open: 8:00-23:00

Chernigov sightseeing
Going to ancient Chernigov, about 140 kilometers north of
Kyiv, is nice. The marshrutka (taxi bus) ride from the
capital’s Central
Bus Station
(Avtovokzal) is a
sleepy float
through a
storybook Ukraine
of haystacks, fields
and peasants
messing around
with goats. Old women sit on benches in
front of their huts and wave to you, and if
you crack the bus window, you get a faceful
of grass-scented air.

Then Chernigov ’s domes become visible above the fields and you are seeing the
place as pilgrims to the Kyivan Rus power center – once one of the greatest towns in
Europe – must have 850 years
ago: as a city of God , so to
speak, rising out of the mystical
Slavic soil.

Most of what you want to see in

Chernigov is in the city’s oldest
section, the Val, a shady series
of park-like spaces perched
above the Desna River .

The Val is littered with

churches, most dating back to
the 11th and 12th centuries,
when Chernigov was the wealthy capital of a huge principality, a place that, were it
not for an inconvenient pillaging by the Tatars in 1239 A .D., could have developed
into another Kyiv or Moscow. You’ll want to see Spassky Cathedral, with its golden
towers that resemble up-ended ice-cream cones. Prince Mstislav, Chernigov ’s
golden-age ruler, ordered it built around 1030. Back then it was a major social center;
these days, and especially on a sleepy summer afternoon, it’s (inside) a dim, cool,
gorgeous place.
You’ll also want to see the Cathedral of Sts. Boris and Hleb. Built in 1123, it’s a
great example of the famous Chernigov architecture of the period, and now a
museum.

The Collegium,
meanwhile, built
around 1700, was one
of the first secular
learning establishments in the region. It resembles a
vertically elongated wedding-cake. The beautiful 18th-century St. Catherine’s
Church is also in the Val area, as are some
elegant examples of secular architecture such
as the Archbishop’s House and the Governor’s
House. But individual buildings aside, the
attraction of the Val is more general. Walking
there is like wandering around a peaceful rustic
college campus, with the classroom buildings
replaced by precious churches and the
sophomores by pious babushkas and monks.
Bring a book and sit under a tree for a while,
surrounded by the breeze and the ancient
silences. Then stroll over to check out the
actually kind of interesting Shevchenko
monument and gaze at the Desna . Then wander back and sit under another tree.
Chernigov , indeed, is a good place to visit.

Red Square and Beyond

Chernigov’s main street is wide, elegant and dramatic; moreover, tucked away in a
park over there behind the theaters, you’ll find the wee Church of St. Parascene, a
12th-13th century jewel built according to both Slavic and Byzantine traditions.
 One more crucial part of Chernigov to visit before you get
on the bus back to Kyiv is the Boldiny Mountains , which
are lousy with lovely religious sites. Check out the grave
barrows of the old necropolis: morbid, maybe a little, but
peaceful.

One of Chernigov’s best sights is the St. Anthony monastic

cave complex. There’s even a whole underground church
down there. And
Trinity Monastery
is a great example
of Ukrainian
Baroque
architecture, and one of the most picturesque
religious spots in the ancient city. It’s all
green domes, stretching the church’s pure
white walls heavenward.

Chernigov bars
Tipping is not mandatory but usually expected in restaurants. If you believe that the
service was good, you can leave some money for the waiter. Some restaurants put
"Service not included" in their menu, and you will have to pay for the service as
much as you consider necessary. Tipping can be 5 to 10 % of your total bill. Check
your bill before paying. Tipping is not required in fast food restaurants, cafes, and
other places where you order your food at a counter.

Cafe-bar “Inter”
Ul. Odincova 9
+3804622-3-01-11

Bisness-club “Fortuna”
Ul. Kievskaya 12
+380462-185-767

Bar “Valentina”
Ul. Getmana Polubotka 68
+3804622-3-02-00

Bar “Ditinec” Ul. Preobragenskaya 18 +3804622-7-35-39

Bar “Prohlada” Ul. Gorkogo 47 +3804622-7-35-40

Bar “Spartak” Ul. Gorkogo 5 +3804622-7-48-21

Chernigov billiards
Bowling-club “Svetofor”vvUl. Pyatnickaya 50 185-739

Billiards club “Drughba” Ul. Pyatnickaya 50 185-739

Billiards “Mayak” Ul. Podvalnaya 23

7-71-03

Billiards “Paradise “ Pr. Mira 30a 165-508

Billiards “Flamingo” Pr. Mira 68

Billiards “Strelec-53” Ul. Belova 7 95-20-92

Chernigov cafes
Tipping is not mandatory but usually
expected in restaurants. If you believe
that the service was good, you can
leave some money for the waiter.
Some restaurants put "Service not
included" in their menu, and you will
have to pay for the service as much as
you consider necessary. Tipping can
be 5 to 10 % of your total bill. Check
your bill before paying. Tipping is
not required in fast food restaurants,
cafes, and other places where you
order your food at a counter.
Cafe “Etual”
ul. Pyatnitskaya 50
+380462- 185759

Cafe “Nektar” Prospekt Pobedy, 83 +3804622-45213

Cafe “Mamma Mia” Prospekt Mira, 47 Open: 11:00-1:00

Cafe “Gusar” Ul. Shevchenko 55 +3804622-3-60-50

Cafe “Desna” Pr. Mira 20 +3804622-7-33-50

Cafe “U pani Irini” Ul. Shevchenko 246a +380462-170-148

Cafe “Bluz” Stroitelnaya 6 +3804622-3-11-23

Cafe “Noev Kovcheg” Pr. Mira 12 3804622-7-70-68

Cafe “Afrodita” Ul. Olega Koshevogo 29 +380462-179-331

Cafe “Start” Ul. Ushinskogo 4 +380462-196-615

Cafe “Natali” Ul. Shorsa 62d +3804622-7-24-21

Cafe “European” Pr. Pobedi 21 +380462-165-491

Cafe “Kashatn” Pr. Mira 38a

Cafe “Cosmos” Ul. Krasnoarmejskaya 17a +3804622-5-60-33

Cafe “Kronverk” Ul. Krasnoarmejskaya 8a

Cafe “Lakomka” Ul. Rokossovskogo 16a +380462-95-27-27

Cafe “Margo” Pr. Mira 95 +3804622-7-32-65

Cafe “Gazel” Pr. Mira 257 +3804622-7-32-65

Cafe “Getman” Pr. Mira 139 +3804622-5-62-85

Cafe “Strelec-53” Ul. Belova 7 +380462-95-20-92

Cafe “Piceria” Ul. Shevchenko 22 +3804622-2-53-15

Pr. Mira 42 +3804622-7-39-62

Cafe “Primera” Crasnaya Ploshad +3804622-7-99-36

Cafe “Randevu” Pr. Mira 17 +3804622-7-32-58

Cafe “Tamerlan” Pr. Mira 139 +3804622-5-31-18

Cafe “Skazka” Ul. Preobragenskaya 10 +3804622-7-50-21

Cafe “Ajgun” Ul. Gagarina 21 +3804622-2-00-40

Cafe “Merkurij” Ul. Dneprovskaya 31 +3804622-2-13-90

Cafe “Stil” Ul. Gagarina 11 +3804622-2-13-90

Cafe “Argo” Ul. Kirponosa 40 +3804622-7-47-88

Cafe “Grot” Ul. Gagarina 2a +380462-163-404

Cafe “Ohota” Ul. Shevchenko 33a +3804622-4-25-48

Cafe “Dionis” Ul. Shevchenko 52 +3804622-3-38-91

Cafe “King-Do” Ul. Getmana Polubotka 68 +3804622-3-22-34

Cafe “Svyatoslav” Pr. Mira 172 +3804622-5-25-47

Cafe “Express-Lux” Ul. Getmana Polubotka 68 +3804622-3-22-34

Cafe “Cascad” Pr. Mira 26\2 +3804622-4-49-69

Chernigov Ukraine internet cafes

Following Europe, Internet cafes are becoming very popular in Ukraine. Chernigov
has a large number of Internet cafes, many of which are open around the clock. On
the whole, there are about one dozens Internet cafes and clubs in the city. And this
network has been constantly increasing.

The most convenient location is head post office,

Prospekt Mira, 28 Open hours: 8:00-23:00. Phone: +380462-135262.

You can also go to several other cafes in the center:

“Internet” ul. Kirponosa, 40 +380462-178509

“Meridian” ul. Kotsyubinskogo, 49a

Discovery Pr. Pobedi 95a k. 503 info@ccd.com.ua

Sirius Ul. Odincova 17 +3804622-3-16-82

Ukrtelecom Pr. Mira 28 +380462-135-262

Ul. Rokossovskogo 33 +380462-135-188

Matrix Pr. Mira 32

Chernigov museums.
There are several good museums worth visiting. They are conveniently located in the
historical center of the city, the Val. Historical Museum
ul. Gorkogo, 4
+3804622-72650, 42336, 39040

The collection of antiques will give you a better understanding of Slavonic culture
and the history of Ukraine in general and Chernigov in particular.

Art Museum ul. Gorkogo, 6 +3804622-72715, 70006, 74616

Some very good paintings of European and Ukrainian artists are offered for display.

Gallery “Plast-Art” ul. Gorkogo 6

Museum of folk decorative art

Ekaterinenskaya church

Literary-memorial museum ul. Kocubinsky 3 4-04-59

Military-historical museum ul. Shevchenko 55a 3-90-40

UKRANIAN PAINTINGS STOLEN During WW II

WORLD WAR II RESTITUTION CASES
This list is based on publicly available information and is not intended
to be exhaustive.

I. United States Museums World War II ClaimsResolved

1.Institution: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut

Work of Art: The Bath of Bathsheba, Jacopo Zucchi Date: 1998
Settlement: The painting was taken from an Italian Embassy during or
immediately
after the Second World War. The Wadsworth Athenaeum bought it in
1965 from a Parisian art dealer who had a license from the Louvre to
export the work. The Italian government claimed the painting soon
after
the acquisition, but was unable to provide definitive proof of
ownership
until 1983. Due to changes in the Italian government and museum
leadership, it took approximately twelve years to work out a final
agreement. Italy and the museum agreed that the painting would be
returned to the Italian government in exchange for an extensive
exhibition
from the Galleria Nazionale to the Athenaeum. The exhibition, which
included works never before seen in the US, took place in 1998. The
painting is now in Italy.

2.Institution: Art Institute of Chicago

Work of Art: Bust of a Youth, ca. 1630, by Francesco Mochi Date:
June 2000
Settlement: The Art Institute of Chicago paid the heirs of Mr. Gentili
di Giuseppe for a partial interest of the marble bust and accepted the
remaining partial interest as a donation from the heirs. Mr. di
Giuseppe, who died of natural causes in 1940, was a Jewish resident of
France whose art collection was sold at public auction under order of
the French Court after his death. See I.5, infra.

3. Institution: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Work of Art: Madonna and Child in a Landscape, 16th century,
Lucas Cranach the Elder Date:June 2000
Settlement: The North Carolina Museum of Art paid Cornelia and
Marianne Hainisch
of Austria $600,000 for the painting. The claimants are the great-
nieces of Viennese industrialist Philipp von Gromperz, from whom the
Nazis looted the painting on October 29, 1940.

4. Institution: Seattle Art Museum Work of Art: Odalisque, 1928,

Henri Matisse
Date: October 12, 2000
Settlement: The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) returned the painting to
the heirs of Paul
Rosenberg. The museum determined that in 1941 the painting was
stolen from a vault where Rosenberg had stored 162 paintings.
Knoedler 2 & Co. acquired the work in 1954 from Galerie Drouant-
David, Paris, and sold it to Prentice and Virginia Bloedel. The
Bloedels donated it to SAM in 1991. The museum later sued Knoedler
& Co., contending that the gallery did not have clear title to the
painting and fraudulently or
negligently misrepresented the painting's provenance. The action was
dismissed, but later reinstated --with Knoedler's costs assessed against
SAM --when SAM acquired assignments of rights from the Bloedel
family. Knoedler & Co. and SAM announced a settlement in October
2000 under the terms of which Knoedler agreed to transfer to SAM
one or more works of art to be selected by the museum from
Knoedler's holdings, or the equivalent value in cash.

5. Institution: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Work of Art: Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1725, Corrado Giaquinto
Date:
October 19, 2000
Settlement: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston paid the heirs of Mr.
Gentili di
Giuseppe for a partial interest of the painting and accepted the
remaining
partial interest as a donation from the heirs. Mr. di Giuseppe, who died
of
natural causes in 1940, was a Jewish resident of France whose art
collection was sold at public auction under order of the French Court
after
his death. See I.2, supra.
6. Institution: Denver Museum of Art Work of Art: The Letter, 17th
century, School of Gerard Terborch
Date: November 8, 2000
Settlement: The Denver Museum of Art returned the painting to
Marianne Rosson, the
sell the painting in 1934 and subsequently died in a concentration
camp.
The museum acquired the painting by donation in 1961.

7. Institution: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Work of Art: Still Life with Fruit and Game, ca. 1615-20, Frans
Snyders
Date: November 20, 2000
Settlement: The National Gallery returned the painting to an
authorized representative
through the NGA's web site. The painting was confiscated from the
Stern
collection in Paris by the Nazis and traded by Goering to Haberstock.

8. Institution: The Art Institute of Chicago

Work of Art: Rock at Hautepierre, 1869, Gustave Courbet
Date: May 14, 2001
Settlement: The claim was pursued by Gerta Silberberg of England,
the daughter-in-
law and last remaining heir of Max Silberberg of Breslau, who sold the
painting in Berlin at Galerie Paul Graupe on March 23, 1935. Ms.
Silberberg alleged that the picture was included in a forced sale of her
father-in-law's collection. After extensive research --which the Art
Institute has made available to the public-- Ms. Silberberg and the Art
Institute reached an undisclosed settlement pursuant to which the
museum will retain title to and possession of the picture.

9. Institution: Princeton University Art Museum

Work of Art: St. Bartholomew, Bernardino Pinturicchio
Date: June 2001
Settlement: The Princeton museum, along with the dealer who sold
the painting to the
museum, agreed to pay the fair market value of the painting to the
heirs
of Gentili di Giuseppe. Princeton University Art Museum retains the
picture. Mr. di Giuseppe, who died of natural causes in 1940, was a
Jewish resident of France whose art collection was sold at public
auction
under order of the French Court after his death.

10. Institution: Springfield Library and Museum Association

Work of Art: Spring Sowing, Jacopo da Ponte
Date: June 2001
Settlement: The Springfield, Massachusetts museum returned the
painting, which had
Florence to the Italian Embassy in Warsaw. In 2003, the museum
sued
Knoedler Gallery, from which it had acquired the picture in 1955,
seeking
money damages for various claims, including breach of contract and
breach of implied warranty. Knoedler has moved for judgment on the
pleadings, based on the applicable statute of limitations.

11. Museum:Metropolitan Museum of Art

Work: The Garden of Monet's House in Argenteuil, Claude Monet
Date: August 22, 2001
Settlement: Henry H. Newman, a resident of France, made a claim in
1997 for the
painting, which had been purchased in 1916 by his grandfather, Henry
Percy Newman of Hamburg, Germany, and placed in a Berlin bank
vault
for safekeeping in 1940. The claimant's father, who was then serving
in
the German Army, inherited the work during the Second World War.
How
and when the picture was removed from the bank vault remains
uncertain, but the claimant alleged that it was taken during the Soviet
occupation of Berlin in 1945.The painting was purchased in good faith
from a New York dealer in 1952 and given to the museum in 1994.
Pursuant to the settlement, the museum will pay an undisclosed
amount
to the claimant, who gave up all claims to the painting.

12. Institution: Yale University Art Gallery

Work of Art: Le Grand Pont, Gustave Courbet
Date:October 23, 2001
Settlement: Eric Weinmann, of Washington, D.C., and his sister and
nephew asserted
a claim in October 2000 stating that Mr. Weinmann's mother, a Czech
Jew who lived in Berlin, purchased the painting in 1935 without
knowing
that its prior owner was Max Silberberg, a German Jew who was
forced to
sell his collection. The Weinmann family fled Berlin for Britain in 1938,
leaving behind most of their possessions, including this painting. It
was
acquired in 1938 by Herbert Schaefer, a German who had joined the
Nazi Party in 1937. Dr. Schaefer loaned the painting to the Yale
University Art
Gallery in 1980. Dr. Schaefer has 47 other works of art on loan to
Yale.
Under the terms of the settlement, Dr. Schaefer donated his entire
ownership interest in Le Grand Pont to Yale, which will loan the
picture to
Mr. Weinmann for a maximum of ten years. After the end of the loan
period, the picture will return to Yale for good.

13. Institution: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Florida

Work of Art: The Holy Trinity Seat of Mercy, 16th
century, Georg Pencz
Date: December 13, 2001
Settlement: Mr. Claire Mendel, the Honorary German Consul in Miami,
purchased the
of Miami in 1976. The picture was transferred to Vizcaya Museum and
Gardens in 1981. In early 2001, the curator of the National Museum in
Warsaw studied the painting Miami and presented documentation
indicating that it had disappeared from the National Museum during
World
War II. In July 2001, the National Museum submitted a formal
restitution
claim for the painting. On December 13, the Miami-Dade County
Commission authorized the Vizcaya Museum to return The Holy
Trinity-
Seat of Mercy to the National Museum.

14. Institution: The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

Work of Art: Brook with Aloes, 1907, by Henri Matisse
Date: January 23, 2002
Status:
The claim was being pursued by Francis Warin of Paris on behalf of
The
Association in Memory of Alphonse Kann, which asserted that the
picture
had been taken from the Kann collection when the Nazis occupied
France. The Menil Collection conducted extensive provenance
research,
which was inconclusive about the picture's whereabouts between
1940-
1946. The terms of the settlement are confidential, but the picture
remains in Houston at the Menil Collection. The Menil has made
available to the public the information gathered in their provenance
research.

15. Institution: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Work of Art: Persian or Mughal textile canopy, Late Medieval
Date: March 6, 2002
Settlement: LACMA purchased the work from a Los Angeles textile
dealer in 1971. In
January 2001, a trustee of the Czartorysky Foundation inquired about
a
textile looted from the Foundation during World War II. Research in
Los
Angeles and Poland determined that the textile at LAMCA was the
same
as the one looted from the Polish foundation and LACMA's board of
trustees approved the return of the tapestry to the Prince Czartoryski
Foundation Museum in Krakow, Poland in March 2002.

16. Institution: Detroit Institute of Arts

Work of Art: A Man o' War and Other Ships off the Dutch Coast, 1692,
by Ludolf
Backhuysen
Date: September 2002
Settlement: DIA brought the picture to Detroit to consider for
acquisition. The painting
was not registered with the Art Loss Register (ALR), but subsequent
research determined that it had been left in an Amsterdam bank vault
by
a Jewish collector when he left the Netherlands in 1942. The bank's
Jewish-owned assets were later turned over to a Nazi-controlled
entity.
In October 1942, the picture was sold to Kajetan Mahlmann, a
prominent
figure in Nazi looting of Poland and the Netherlands. The DIA, the
English gallery from whom it was buying the picture, and ALR
negotiated
the sale of the picture from heirs of the pre-war owner. (In announcing
the settlement, the DIA noted that it had previously settled a World
War II
looted art case: upon discovering that a painting in its possession, The
Seine at Asnieres, by Claude Monet, had been stolen during the war,
the
DIA located the rightful owners and returned the picture to them in
1950.)

17. Institution: Metropolitan Museum of Art (loan)

Work of Art: Mt. Sinai, by El Greco
Date: January 2004
Settlement: Shortly before the museum planned to ship the picture
after the end of its
El Greco exhibition, it learned that a Swiss man had filed in state court
(but not served on the Museum) a request for a temporary restraining
order action barring the museum from moving the painting out of New
York State. The court denied the motion and the picture was returned
to
the lender, the Heraklion Foundation in Crete.

18. Institution: Utah Museum of Fine Arts

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Work of Art: Les Amoureaux Jeunes, 18 century, by Francois
Boucher
Date: March 2004
Settlement: While compiling information for a book on Hermann
Goering's collection,
Nancy Yeide of the National Gallery of Art discovered at a Salt Lake
City
museum a Boucher painting that had been looted from the collection of
the French art dealer Andre Jean Seligmann. The painting, listed as
stolen in 1946, was acquired at a New York gallery in 1972 by a
collector
who donated it to the Utah museum in 1993. After extensive
provenance
research with the assistance of the Art Loss Register, the museum
agreed to restitute the picture to Claude Delibes and Suzanne Geiss
Robbins, Seligmann's heirs.

19. Institution: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Work of Art: Portrait of Jean d'Albon, 16th century, by Corneille de
Lyon
Date: August 2004
Settlement: The trustees of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in
Richmond
unanimously voted to deaccession this small oil on panel and return it
to
Kurt Schindler, a resident of the United Kingdom. Mr. Schindler is the
sole heir of an Austrian collector named Julius Priester, who emigrated
to
Mexico in 1938. The Gestapo seized Mr. Priester's collection during
the
war. An American collector purchased the picture from Newhouse
Gallery in New York in 1949 and donated it to the museum in 1950.
The
Holocaust Claims Processing Office of the New York State Banking
Department assisted Mr. Schindler in presenting his claim.

20. Institution: San Diego Museum of Art

Work of Art: Allegory of Eternity, ca. 1625-1630, by Peter Paul
Rubens
Date: May 2004
Settlement: After several years of research and discussions, the San
Diego Museum
of Art reached an agreement that will allow a Rubens oil painting to
remain in its collection. The work had been in the Galerie Van Diemen
in
Berlin when that gallery's inventory was liquidated by order of the
Nazi
Government in 1935. Galerie Van Diemen was owned by Jakob and
Rosa Oppenheimer, who left Germany for France in 1933. Jakob
Oppenheimer died in France in 1941; Rosa was deported and died at
Auschwitz in 1943. The picture passed in commerce to various
owners,
before appearing in the United States, where it was exhibited at the
1940
New York World's Fair. The picture was given to the San Diego
Museum
in 1947.

21. Institution: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Work of Art: Portrait of a Courtier, 16th century, by Jan Mostaert
Date: September 22, 2005
Settlement: The Czartoryski family collection in Poland transferred
this small oil on
panel from the Goluch Castle Museum to safekeeping in Warsaw in
1939. The Nazis located and seized it in 1941, and moved it to the
castle
of Fischhorn in Austria after the 1944 Warsaw uprising. Newhouse
Galleries in New York sold the portrait in 1948 to a collector who gave
it
to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts the following year. The museum
discovered these facts while conducting provenance research on its
collection and turned the picture over to the Polish Embassy on behalf
of
Adam Count Zamoyski, the representative of the rightful owners'
descendants. The family later deposited the painting in the Princes
Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland.

22. Institution: Kimbell Art Museum

Work of Art: Glaucus and Scylla, 1841, by J.M.W. Turner
Date: June 6, 2006
Settlement: The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth returned this
significant oil painting
Jaff, a Jewish collector in Nice, France, owned the picture from 1902
until his death in 1933. He bequeathed it to his wife, who remained in
France until her death in March 1942. Anna Jaff's will left her
property,
including Glaucus and Scylla, to three nephews and a niece. The Vichy
Government, however, seized the contents of Mrs. Jaff's home,
including the painting and other works of art, and sold it at an auction
of
Jewish property ﾝ in July 1943. Although its whereabouts between
1943
and 1956 are uncertain, the painting was in various hands in France,
Britain, and the United States from 1956 to 1966, when Newhouse
Galleries in New York sold it to the Kimbell. Mr. Monteagle presented
his
evidence of ownership to the Kimbell, which agreed that the Jaff's
heirs
had good title, and returned the painting to Mr. Monteagle on their
behalf.

II. United States Museums World War II Claims Pending

1. Institution: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Work of Art: Landscape with Burning City, ca. 1500, Henri met de Bles
Status:
The painting was once in the collection of Franz Koenigs, a Christian
banker who died in May 1941 in Cologne, Germany. Franz Koenigs
used
the pictures as collateral in 1931 and 1935 loan agreements with the
Jewish-owned Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz. Koenigs was unable
to
repay the loans when the bank went into liquidation in April 1940. The
bank appears to have owned Koenig's drawings and paintings by
early
May 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Mr.
Koenigs's granddaughter, Christine Koenigs, claims that her
grandfather
was forced by the Nazi rise to power and the imminence of war to sell
this
and many other works he owned at far less than fair value. In
December
2003, the Dutch Government issued an extensive report concluding
that
Koenigs voluntarily sold the collection in order to satisfy his loan
obligation. The Museum of Fine Arts remains in possession of the
picture, though it does not assert title. See IV.21, infra.

2. Institutions: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago;

Cleveland Museum
of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art,
Washington,
D.C.; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Pierpont Morgan Library;
Barber Institute of Fine Arts of the University of Birmingham,
England;
Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; the British Museum;
Courthauld Institute of Art, London; and the National Gallery of
Canada.
Works of Art: Drawings by Albrecht and his school
Status:
In an unusually complex matter, a dozen European, American, and
Canadian museums face claims to drawings by Albrecht and his
school from The Lviv Stefanyk Scientific Library in Lviv, Ukraine and
the
Ossolinski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.
In 1823, a Polish aristocrat named Prince Henryk Lubomirski
announced
his intention to create the Lubomirski Museum as part of the
Ossolinski
National Institute, a Polish cultural center in what is now Lviv,
Ukraine.
The museum was created in 1866 and the drawings were placed there
pursuant to agreements signed by Prince Henryk and his son. The
agreements were intended to maintain hereditary ownership of the
drawings.
When the Lubomirski Museum was founded in 1866, Lviv (then
known by its German name, Lemberg) was part of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire.
The city (then called Lwow) became part of Poland after World War I.
When Soviet troops invaded eastern Poland in 1939, Lviv became part
of
the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Nazis invaded the area in
1941, occupied Lviv, and removed the drawings from the Lubomirski
Museum. The drawings were sent to Hitler's headquarters in East
Prussia and later were stored in a salt mine at Alt Aussee, Austria. The
Allies recovered the drawings from the mine in 1945 and transferred
them
to the Munich Collecting Point. In 1947, Prince George Lubomirski, a
refugee in Switzerland and heir to
the hereditary estate of Prince Henryk, claimed the drawings. Neither
Poland nor the Soviet Union made a claim at that time. After extensive
study by the State Department and the Office of Military Government
for
the United States, the drawings were returned to Prince Lubomirski in
1950, who later sold the drawings through dealers in New York and
London.
Representatives of the twelve institutions now holding the drawings
met in
New York in December 2001 to discuss claims asserted by Ukraine
and
Poland. The museums have offered to meet with Polish
representatives.
Without addressing the validity of the claims, the U.S. State
Department
has reviewed its 1950 decision to restitute the drawings to Prince
Lubomirski as the rightful owner, and has concluded that its "prudent"
decision was processed "with due diligence, deliberation, and care."

3. Institution: The Museum of Modern Art (loan)

Work of Art: Dead City III, 1911, and Portrait of Wally, 1912, Egon
Schiele
Date:New York State action: commenced January 7, 1998, resolved
September 21, 1999; federal action: commenced September 21, 1999
Status:
Not yet resolved. While on loan to MoMA with approximately 150
other
works by Egon Schiele from the Leopold Foundation in Vienna, two
separate families asserted claims for the paintings, claiming that Nazis
had wrongfully taken them before or during the Second World War.
Citing obligations to the lender and concern for the future of art loans
if
institutions arrogate authority to resolve claims to borrowed art, the
museum declined to turn over the paintings to the claimants. The New
York District Attorney issued a subpoena duces tecum for the
pictures. In
September 1999, the New York State Court of Appeals quashed the
subpoena based upon state law protecting out-of-state art loaned for
non-
profit exhibition, permitting the works to be returned to the lender.
Dead
City III was returned to Austria. U.S. Customs then seized Portrait of
Wally, and the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York commenced a forfeiture action. The
District Court dismissed the action in July 2000, on the ground that the
picture had ceased to be "stolen" property when the U.S. military
recovered it after World War II. At the end of 2000, however, the Court
granted the government leave to file a Third Amended Complaint. In
April
2002, the Court reversed its previous dismissal and denied motions to
dismiss the renewed action, allowing the forfeiture action to proceed.
No
trial date has been set. In June 2005, the Leopold Museum moved for
summary judgment. See II.6, infra.

4. Institution: Detroit Institute of Arts

Work of Art: The Diggers, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh
Status:
Martha Nathan, a member of the Dreyfus banking family, inherited the
work from her husband, who died in 1922. In 1930, Mrs. Nathan
transferred the painting from her home in Frankfurt am Main to Basel,
Switzerland and emigrated to Paris in 1937. While living in Paris, Mrs.
Nathan invited the dealer Georges Wildenstein to view a number of
works
in her collection. Wildenstein and two other Paris art dealers, Justin
Thannhauser and Alex Ball, purchased the work from her in 1938,
along
with a painting by Gauguin. The price for The Diggers was
approximately
$9364. Several years later, in 1941, these dealers sold the work to a
Michigan collector named Robert Tannahill for $34,000. Mr. Tannahill
donated the painting to the DIA in 1970. Starting in 2004 and in
subsequent correspondence and discussions, a group of people
purporting to be Mrs. Nathan's heirs asserted that Mrs. Nathan‘s sale
of
the picture was a coerced transaction. After several years of research
and discussion, DIA declined the demand that it either surrender the
painting to them or compensate the heirs for their loss. In January
2006,
DIA brought an action in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Michigan to quiet title and for declaratory judgment that the heirs have
no
valid claim to the work. See II.5, infra.

5.Institution: Toledo Museum of Art

Work of Art: Street Scene in Tahiti, 1891, by Paul Gauguin
Status:
Martha Nathan, a member of the Dreyfus banking family, inherited the
work from her husband, who died in 1922. In 1930, Mrs. Nathan
transferred the painting from her home in Frankfurt am Main to Basel,
Switzerland. Mrs. Nathan emigrated to Paris in 1937. While living in
Paris, Mrs. Nathan invited Georges Wildenstein to view a number of
works in her collection. Wildenstein and two other Paris art dealers,
Justin Thannhauser and Alex Ball, ultimately purchased the work from
her
in 1938, along with a painting by Gauguin. The price for Street Scene
in
Tahiti was approximately $6865. A few months later, in 1939, these
dealers sold the work to the Toledo Museum of Art for $25,000.
Starting
in 2004 and in subsequent correspondence and discussions, a group
of
people purporting to be Mrs. Nathan's heirs asserted that Mrs.
Nathan's
sale of the picture was a coerced transaction. After several years of
research and discussion, TMA declined the demand that it either
surrender the painting to them or compensate the heirs for their loss.
In
January 2006, TMA brought an action in U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Michigan to quiet title and for declaratory judgment
that
the heirs have no valid claim to the work. See II.4, supra.

6. Institution: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago,

Carnegie Museum
of Art, Indiana University, Museum of Modern Art, Neue Galerie,
Pierpont
Morgan Library
Work of Art: Drawings by Egon Schiele
Status:
Begun in 2005 as an action by David Bakalar, a Massachusetts owner
of
a Schiele drawing, asking a federal court in Manhattan to declare that
he
has good title after his proposed sale through Sotheby's London was
challenged by two men purporting to be Grunbaum heirs. Claimants,
defendants in the original action, seek to certify a defendant class of
institutions, individuals and other entities. The action involves works
by
Egon Schiele alleged to have been in the collection of Fritz Grunbaum,
an
Austrian cabaret performer who was killed by the Nazis during the
Second World War. Bakalar's picture has a provenance similar to
Leopold
Museum's Dead City III, which was the subject of considerable
litigation in
1998-99, in that it was sold by Mathilde Lukacs, Grunbaum's sister-in-
law,
in Bern in 1956. Claimants assert that Mathilde Lukacs did not sell or
consign the pictures to the Bern dealer. They propose that the pictures
were placed in storage after Grunbaum's property was aryanized, and
that Lukacs could never have taken possession of them. They reject as
forgeries copies of contemporaneous correspondence between Lukacs
and the Swiss dealer. Further, they allege that, even if Lukacs
somehow
managed to get possession of the Grunbaum pictures, she had no right
to
sell them, and doing so made her a thief. Bakalar has asked the court to
dismiss the action on the equitable doctrine of laches: all of the
relevant
facts have been public knowledge for many years, yet the claimants
did
nothing to assert their rights, and their delay in doing so has worked to
his
detriment because people with knowledge of the facts have died, and
evidence is no longer available. Bakalar's motion is pending, as is the
claimants' motion for class certification.

III. United States Non-Museum

1. Individual:
Daniel C. Searle
Work of Art: Landscape with Smokestacks, by Edgar Degas
Date: August 1998
Settlement: The picture was owned by Mr. Searle, who transferred half
of his
ownership interest to the Art Institute of Chicago and half to claimants
Lili
Vera Collas Gutmann and her nephews, Nick and Simon Goodman,
the
daughter and grandsons, respectively, of Holocaust victims named
Friedrich and Louise Gutmann. Claimants alleged that the Nazis had
taken the picture from their relatives. The Art Institute agreed to pay
half
the fair market value of the pastel to the claimants in order to obtain
complete ownership. The value of the pastel was established by using
the average of two independent appraisals.

2. Individual: Marilynn
Alsdorf
Work of Art: Femme en blanc, 1922, by Pablo Picasso
Date: August 2005
Settlement: The pre-war owner, Carlota Landsberg, sent this 1922
Picasso oil painting
1939. The painting was apparently stolen from Thannhauser after the
Germans occupied Paris and was listed in the 1947 list of wartime art
losses in France, the Repertoire des Biens Spolies En France Durant La
Guerre 1939-1945. By 1941, Mrs. Landsberg and her daughter were
located in New York. In 1969, with her recovery efforts unavailing,
Mrs.
Landsberg received restitution from the German government for the
painting in the amount of 100,000 Deutsch marks. The provenance
problem surfaced when Marilynn Alsdorf, a major art collector and
patron of
the Art Institute of Chicago who bought the picture from a New York
dealer
in 1975, sent it to a Los Angeles gallery in 2001. (Mrs. Alsdorf's
husband,
the late Mr. James Alsdorf, was a board member of IFAR, whose
stolen art
database is now included in the Art Loss Register.) A prospective
buyer in
France checked with the Art Loss Register, which discovered first the
involvement of Thannhauser and then Mrs. Landsberg's ownership.
The Art Loss Register located Mrs. Landsberg's grandson, Thomas
Bennigson, in California and notified him of his potential claim. Mr.
Bennigson brought an action in state court in California to recover the
picture after discussions between Mrs. Alsdorf and the Art Loss
Register failed to resolve the matter. The painting was returned to
Chicago just before Mr. Bennigson obtained a court order barring its
removal from California, and Mrs. Alsdorf moved to dismiss the action
for lack of personal jurisdiction. The jurisdictional question, as well as
Mrs. Alsdorf's action for declaratory judgment and to quiet title in the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the
forfeiture proceeding brought by the United States Attorney for the
Central District of California against Femme en blanc (on the theory
that by returning the picture to her home in Illinois, Mrs. Alsdorf
knowingly transported stolen property across state lines and in so
doing had violated the National Stolen Property Act, subjecting the
property to forfeiture) have now been resolved by Mrs. Alsdorf's
agreement in August 2005 to pay Mr. Bennigson $6.5 million to settle
the matter. See III.3, infra.

3. Individual: Stephen
Hahn
Works of Art: Femme en blanc, 1922, by Pablo Picasso and Rue St.-
Honor
Midi, Effet de Pluie, 1897, by Camille Pissarro
Status:
Alleging that defendant's art gallery sold Nazi-looted paintings by
Picasso
and Pissarro in the 1970’s, plaintiffs asked a California court to
impose a
constructive trust in order to avoid unjust enrichment from the
wrongful
sale of property belonging to another. In a decision on certain
procedural
matters, the court found that the facts as alleged permit the plaintiffs to
plead a constructive trust. The court also held that while California's
statute of limitations for some Holocaust-related claims does not allow
imposition of a constructive trust, the claim accrued in California and
the
normal limitation period of three years from discovery of the location
of
stolen property applies, so the claim is not time-barred. Defendant
moved for reconsideration in February 2004, in part on the basis that
the
Pissarro claim is time-barred because Cassirer discovered the location
of
the work by 2000, more than three years before bringing this suit; and
in
part on the theory that the court applied the wrong California limitation
statute. This action is related to two separate lawsuits involving the
current owners of these works See III.2, supra, and IV.16, infra.

4. Individual: Anonymous
Work of Art: The Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison, attributed to
Rembrandt van Rijn Date: November 30, 2004
Resolution: The drawing was looted from the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Arthur Feldman
when Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939.
Neither Dr. Feldman nor Mrs. Feldman survived the war; he died of
abuse
at the hands of the Nazis and she died at Auschwitz. The drawing was
returned to the Feldman's heirs by an American family who had
purchased the work in good faith and later contacted the International
Foundation for Art Research in New York in 2002 when they learned
that
it might have belonged to the Feldmans. After extensive research, and
with the cooperation of the Commission for Looted Art in London, the
American owners, who wish to remain anonymous, returned the
drawing
to the Feldman heirs. See IV.10 and IV.15, infra.

5. Individual: Elizabeth
Taylor
Work of Art: View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy, 1889,
Vincent van Gogh
Date: February 2, 2005
Resolution: A German woman named Magarette Mauthner bought the
picture in
1914. She and her family left Germany for South Africa in1939. The
picture's whereabouts during the war years is not certain: there are
indications that Mauthner sold it in 1925 and that the purchaser himself
fled Germany to Switzerland in or around 1933. The actress Elizabeth
Taylor bought the painting at auction in 1963 for $257,000. The U.S.
District Court for the Central District of California dismissed the
Mauthner
heirs attempt to recover the work, ruling that their claim was time-
barred.
The court found that California's statute of limitations for recovery of
art
lost during the Holocaust era art did not apply because the claim was
against an individual, not a gallery or museum, as the statute requires.
The court also found that no discovery rule applied, so the three-year
limitation period began when Ms. Taylor acquired the picture in 1963.
Even if a discovery rule applied, the court said, plaintiffs failed to
exercise
any diligence in attempting to locate the painting, and Ms. Taylor's
ownership was common knowledge and easily discovered. The court
declined to recognize a new cause of action under either federal or
state
law for the recovery of art alleged to have been misappropriated during
the Nazi period.

6. Individual: Anonymous
Work of Art: Three 19th century outdoor scenes by Heinrich Buerkel
Date: February 10, 2006
Resolution: Three paintings, collectively worth an estimated $125,000,
were part of a group of fifty pictures owned by a municipal museum in
Pirmasens,
Germany that disappeared from an air raid shelter as the U.S. Army
arrived in 1945. Though it is unclear how the works arrived in the
United
States, they were acquired by a New Jersey man in the 1960's and later
bequeathed to his daughter. Museum officials identified the paintings
when they were offered for auction in Pennsylvania in the fall of 2005.
The U.S. Ambassador to Germany returned the paintings to the
Pirmasens Museum in February 2006.

IV. Foreign Museums/Governments—World War II Claims

1. Institution: Republic of Austria

Work of Art: 250 objects, including paintings, drawings, furniture,
carpets, weapons
and coins
Date: February, 1999
Settlement: The government of Austria returned 250 works of art to the
Viennese
branch of the Rothschild family, which had been held by Austrian
museums. In March 1938, Nazis took possession of art, furniture and
decorative objects belonging to Barons Alphonse and Louis
Rothschild.
In 1947, Alphonse Rothschild's widow - who was then living in New
York -
located and tried to export a portion of the collection, but was forced to
donate some of the objects to Austrian museums in order to obtain the
necessary export approvals. An Austrian panel charged with restituting
wrongfully retained art from national museums to their rightful owners
determined that the art was wrongly held by Austria, and returned a
substantial collection of material to the family in 1998. On July 8,
1999
the Rothschild family sold most of the recovered objects through
Christie's in London for $88.2 million.

2. Institution: Berlin National Gallery

Work of Art: Olivette, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh
Date: June 1999
Settlement: The drawing was returned to Gerta Silberberg, whose
father-in-law, Max
sold the painting at auction between 1933-1938. After recovering the
drawing, Mrs. Silberberg sold it at auction at Sotheby's. See I.8, supra,
and IV.3, infra.
3. Institution: Israel Museum
Work of Art: Boulevard Montmartre: Spring, 1897, Camille Pissarro
Date: February 2000
Settlement: The painting was returned to Gerta Silberberg, whose
father-in-law, Max
sold the painting at auction in 1935. Mrs. Silberberg has agreed to a
long-term loan of the painting to the museum, where it will hang with
wall
text explaining the painting's provenance and history. See I.8 and IV.2,
supra.

4. Institution: Sprengel Museum, Hanover Germany/City of Hanover,

Germany
Work of Art: Oil painting, Lovis Corinth
Date: September 2000
Settlement: The painting was returned to the heirs of Gustave and
Clare Kirstein. Mr.
suicide in 1939 after the Nazis confiscated her passport a day before
she
was to emigrate to the United States. This painting, along with the rest
of
her collection, was seized and auctioned by the Nazis. It was recovered
by the Commission for Art Recovery. The heirs of Mr. and Mrs.
Kirstein
auctioned the painting and split the proceeds. See IV.5, infra.

5. Institution: Museum of Plastic Arts, Leipzig/City of Leipzig,

Germany
Work of Art: More than 80 works of art (mostly drawings and prints
by Max Klinger)
Date: September 2000
Settlement: The collection was returned to the heirs of Gustav and
Clare Kirstein.
Mr. Kirstein died in 1934 and left his collection to his wife, who
committed
suicide in 1939 after the Nazis confiscated her passport a day before
she
was to emigrate to the United States. This collection was seized and
auctioned off by the Nazis. It was recovered by the Commission for
Art
Recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Kirstein's heirs auctioned the painting and
split
the proceeds. See IV.4, supra.

6. Institution: National Gallery, Berlin

Work of Art: Olevano, 1927, Alexander Kanoldt
Date: January 2001
Settlement: The National Gallery, Berlin returned the painting to the
heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann, an attorney and art collector who lived in
Poland before World
War II. Dr. Littmann committed suicide in 1934. Part of his collection
was
sold at auction and some was confiscated by the Nazis. An art dealer
bought Olevano at Max Pearl Auction House in Berlin in 1935. The
Municipality of Berlin bought Olevano in 1950 and donated it to the
National Gallery, Berlin in 1951. The painting was recovered as part of
a
settlement arranged by the Holocaust Claims Processing Office of the
New York State Banking Department. See IV.18, infra.

7. Institution: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg

Work of Art: Die Erfuellung (Fulfillment), 1909, by Gustav Klimt
Date: January 2001
Settlement: The government of France ordered the Museum of Modern
and
Contemporary Art in Strasbourg to return the painting to the children
of
Karl Grunwald. Mr. Grunwald's collection was confiscated and
auctioned
by the Nazis in 1942 and 1943. An association representing the
museum
purchased the painting in 1959 from a local painter.

8. Institution: Tate Gallery, England

Work of Art: View of Hampton Court Palace, 1710, by Jan Griffier the
Elder
Date: January 18, 2001
Settlement: Based upon a determination by the Spoliation Advisory
Board, the British
in order to retain the painting. The Tate also agreed to acknowledge the
work's wartime provenance on its wall label. While residing in
Belgium,
the family was forced to sell the painting to flee the Nazis. The Tate
Gallery purchased the painting in Cologne in 1961.

9. Institution: Kiyomizu Sannenzka Museum, Kyoto

Work of Art: Deserted Square of an Exotic Town, 1921, by Paul Klee
15
Date: February 2001
Settlement: In exchange for a symbolic payment the museum returned
this
watercolor to Jen Lissitzky, the son of Russian avant-garde artist El
Lissitzky. Sophie Lissitzky had loaned the picture, among
others, to the Provinzial museum in Hanover in 1926, just before she
left
for Russia to marry El Lissitzky. The Nazis seized the Lissitzky
collection as degenerate art in 1937, and later sold it. See IV.12, infra.

10. Institution: Moravian

Gallery,
Brno
Work of Art: 135 Old Master drawings
Date: April 2002
Settlement: A museum in the Czech Republic returned 135 drawings to
the heirs of
Arthur Feldman, a Czech lawyer who was arrested soon after the Nazi
invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia. Mr. Feldman died in prison
and his wife died at Auschwitz. His collection was placed in the
Moravian
Museum. Family claims for restitution were declined by the former
Communist regime and later by the successor government, but
legislation
enacted in 2000 permitted claims for property stolen by the Nazis. See
III.4, supra, and IV.15, infra.

11. Institution: National Gallery, Prague

Work of Art: Le juif au bonnet de fourrure, after Rembrandt
Date: June 2002
Settlement: The Czech Minister of Culture returned to French
authorities a painting
looted by the Nazis from the collection of Adolphe Schloss in Paris in
1943.

12. Institution: Ernst Beyeler Foundation, Basel

Work of Art: Improvisation Number 10, 1910, by Wassily Kandinsky
Date: July 2002
Settlement: The Beyeler Foundation reached a settlement with Jen
Lissitzky, the son
of Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky and Sophie Lissitzky,
which allowed the museum to retain possession of the painting. The
picture was one of a collection of thirteen works Sophie loaned
to the Provinzial museum in Hannover in 1926, just before she left for
the
USSR to marry El Lissitzky. The Nazi government confiscated the
picture
in 1937 in its efforts to eradicate degenerate art. In 1951, Beyeler
bought the painting from a German dealer who had acquired it during
the
war. In 1978, Ms. Lissitsky died in Siberia, where the Soviet
government had exiled her. See IV.9, supra.

13. Institution: Kunsthalle,

Emden, Germany
Work of Art: Bauernhof, 1924, by Emil Nolde
Date: December 2002
Settlement: The Holocaust Claims Processing Office of the New York
State Banking
Department assisted in the settlement of a claim by heirs of Heinrich
and
Elizabeth Bamberger, the pre-war owners of a painting by German
Expressionist Emil Nolde. Mrs. Bamberger, a widow, left the painting
behind when she left Germany on 1940, en route to Ecuador via the
USSR, Manchuria, and Korea. The picture ended up in the possession
of
Wilhelm Schumann, a Nazi art dealer, and changed hands several
times
after the war before being bequeathed to the Emden Kunsthalle in
1984.
Under the confidential terms of the settlement, the picture will remain
in
the Kunsthalle, where it will be exhibited with provenance information
reflecting the ownership of the Bamberger family.

14. Institution: New Gallery, Linz, Austria

Work of Art: View of Krumau, 1916, by Egon Schiele
Date: December 2002
Settlement: The Austrian city of Linz agreed to return a landscape by
Egon Schiele to
picture after Ms. Hellman left Austria following the Anschluss. A
German
collector named Wolfgang Gurlitt bought the picture at auction in 1942
and sold it, along with the rest of his collection, to the city of Linz in
1953.

15. Institution: British Museum, London

Works of Art: St. Dorothy with the Christ Child, by a follower of Martin
Schongauer;
Holy Family, by Niccolo dell'Abbate; Allegory on poetic inspiration with
Mercury and Apollo, by Nicholas Blakey; and Virgin and Child adored
by
St. Elizabeth and the infant St. John, by Martin Johann Schmidt
Date: April 27, 2006
Settlement: The British Museum resolved a 2002 claim to four old
Master drawings
from the collection of Arthur Feldman, a lawyer whose home and
substantial collection of drawings were confiscated by the Nazis after
the
1939 occupation of Czechoslovakia. Neither Feldman nor his wife
survived the war; he died in prison and she died at Auschwitz. The
museum bought three of the drawings at auction in 1946 and received
the
fourth by bequest in 1949. The British Museum acknowledged that
evidence provided in support of the claim was detailed and compelling
but a British court ruled in May 2005 that the claim's ethical merit did
not override the Museums and Galleries Act, a 1992 statute that
prohibits deaccessioning, except in narrowly defined categories. The
British Museum agreed to make an ex gratia payment of £175,000
($312,000) to the claimant, Uri Peled of Israel, a descendant of Dr.
Feldman. The drawings will remain at the museum. See III.4 and
IV.10, supra.
16. Institution: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Work of Art: Rue St.-Honor Effet de Pluie, 1897, by Camille Pissarro
Status: An 84-year-old San Diego man alleged in U.S. District Court in
LosAngeles that his grandmother, Lily Neubauer, was forced to
surrender the picture to Nazis before leaving Germany for Great
Britain in 1939. The claimant's great-grandfather, Julius Cassirer,
apparently bought the picture from Durand-Ruel, Pissarro's dealer in
Paris, soon after it waspainted in 1897. Ms. Neubauer tried to recover
the work after the war, and in 1958 accepted 120,000 Deutsche marks
from the West German government in compensation for her loss. The
Spanish government, which bought Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen's
collection in 1993 and created the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,
disputes the claim and asserts that it has good title. The museum
moved in February 2006 to dismiss Mr. Cassirer's complaint on the
basis of sovereign immunity and for lack of personal jurisdiction. See
III.3, supra.

17. Institution: Belvedere Gallery, Vienna

Works of Art: Several oil paintings by Gustav Klimt
Date: January 2006
Resolution: Maria Altman brought suit in federal court in Los Angeles
in 2000, alleging Gallery (part of the Austrian National Gallery). Ms.
Altman alleged that the pictures were taken by the Nazis and
coercively obtained by Austria in 1948 in an exchange for export
permits for other family-owned art. Austria maintained that the
pictures are part of the nation's cultural heritage, that Ms. Altman's
aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, bequeathed the pictures to Austria when she
died in 1925, and that the family's attorney acknowledged Austria's
ownership of the pictures, in writing, with the family's express
permission. In 1999, Ms. Altman's claims were rejected
by an Austrian panel charged with restituting wrongfully retained art
from
national museums to their rightful owners. The panel concluded that
certain valuable artwork should be returned to Ms. Altman, but found
that
ownership of the Klimt paintings had passed to Austria through the
will
and the family's subsequent actions. Ms. Altman abandoned litigation
challenging the outcome in Austrian courts, apparently because of fees
imposed by Austrian law upon all civil litigants. In December 2002,
the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court's denial of
Austria's
motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction. Austria
appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue whether certain
actions before 1976 are immune from review by U.S. courts as the acts
of a sovereign nation, and whether an exception to that immunity
adopted in 1976 in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act can be
applied retroactively. The court held that the usual presumption against
retroactive application did not apply to the Foreign Sovereign
Immunities Act because, among other things, foreign nations were not
entitled to rely on the existence of immunity for their acts, and
concluded that the Act could apply to events predating its enactment.
The court remanded to the district court for further proceedings,
including the question whether Ms. Altmann could maintain her claim
under the expropriation exception of the FSIA. The parties agreed in
May to submit the matter to binding arbitration in Austria, under
Austrian law. In January 2006, the three-person arbitration panel
validated Mrs. Altman's claim and directed Austria to return all of the
works to Mrs. Altman. Mrs. Altman and the other heirs later sold one
of the paintings, Portrait of Adele for $135 million for the Neue
Galerie
in New York.

18 Institution: Ernst Strassman Foundation

Work of Art: La Procession, 1929, Lucien Adrion
Date: June 17, 2003
Settlement: The Ernst Strassman Foundation, a German entity,
returned the painting
to the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann, an attorney and art collector who
lived
in Silesia, in what is now Poland. La Procession was sold at auction at
Max Pearl Auction House, Berlin, in 1935, though it is not clear how or
when it came to the collection of Ernst Strassman, a German judge
and
art collector who was active in the resistance to the Nazis. The
painting's
recovery was arranged by the Holocaust Claims Processing Office of
the
New York State Banking Department, the fourth picture to be
restituted to
the Littman heirs. See IV.6 supra.

19. Institution: National Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Work of Art: Le Salon de Madame Aron, by Edouard Vuillard
Date: Late 2003
Settlement: The National Gallery of Canada plans to return a Vuillard
painting to the
Lindon family in Paris, subject to proof that the claimants are the
proper
heirs under French law. The National Gallery had included the picture
in
its website identifying works with provenance gaps during the Nazi
period,
and had repeatedly contacted the Lindon family about a possible claim
to
the painting. Previously, family members had maintained that they had
no claim to the picture, apparently believing that they had sold it in or
around 1940. Additional research, however, turned up German
documents demonstrating that the Nazis had removed the picture from
a
bank vault while the Lindon family owned it.

20. Institution: Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland

Work of Art: Unspecified
Status: In January 2004, the Simon Wiesenthal Center raised questions
about
the provenance of works in the collection of the Hunt Museum,
alleging
that an Irish couple, the late John and Gertrude Hunt, whose collection
is
now owned by the Hunt Museum, had intimate business relationships
with notorious dealers in art looted by the Nazis. In response to the
assertion, which named neither the allegedly tainted works of art nor
the
dealers who provided it, the Hunt Museum appointed a three-member
panel led by a retired Supreme Court judge to conduct an investigation.
All three members resigned in February 2005 over a funding dispute:
the
Irish government had declined to finance the inquiry, and the panel
believed that accepting funding from the Hunt Museum could
compromise
their independence. A subsequent investigation produced no evidence
of
Hunt Museum works having been taken during the Nazi period. The
museum has placed on its website images and information about all of
the works in its collection.

21. Institution: Dutch National Museums

Works of Art: (a) 19th Century Dutch Landscapes by Koekkoek,
Schelfout and Van Os (b) Fisherman on Horseback, 19th century, by
Jozef Israls
Date: July 15, 2004
Resolution: The Advisory Committee of the Assessment of Restitution
Applications recommended that the Dutch Secretary of State for
Culture honor two claims for restitution from the Dutch national
collections. These pictures have been held in the custody of the Dutch
Government since the late 1940's. See, II.1supra.(a) These landscape
paintings, along with others that were not part of the Advisory
Committee's recommendation, disappeared from the Amsterdam
home of their pre-war owner, a Jewish art collector and resistance
fighter in 1942 who had been imprisoned in the Westerbork
concentration camp near the German border. While interned, the owner
sent a postcard expressing his wish to bequeath several works of art to
his illegitimate son. The Committee noted that the son has no rights as
an heir because he was never formally recognized by the father, but
found that there was a valid gift. The Advisory Committee further
noted the Dutch Government's intention not to resolve
restitution questions from a purely legal perspective, but also to take
into
account policy considerations.
(b) The Advisory Committee also recommended the restitution of a
drawing
by the Dutch artist Jozef Israls to the family of the pre-war owner, who
had
left the drawing in storage in Amsterdam when he emigrated to the
United
States. The drawing was confiscated by the Nazis during the war, and
later
returned to the Netherlands.

22. Institution: Glasgow City Council/Burrell Collection

Work of Art: Still Life, formerly attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Simon
Chardin
Date: November 24, 2004
Resolution: The heirs of five Jewish former shareholders of a Munich
art gallery, acting anonymously, asserted that the gallery's stock,
including this work, had been
the subject of a forced sale in 1936. Soon after the sale, a Scottish
couple
named Burrell acquired the picture, which they later donated to the
City of
Glasgow, along with thousands of other objects. The Spoliation
Advisory
Panel found that the Glasgow's concerns about maintaining the
integrity of
the Burrell Collection and about observing the Burrell's prohibition
against
selling, donating or exchanging any object were outweighed by the
morally preponderant right of the heirs to recover their property and
recommended
that the picture be restituted to the heirs. The heirs have apparently
accepted
a cash payment equal to the picture's current value (£7500-10,000).

23. Institution: Dutch National Museums

Works of Art: 202 Old Master paintings, including works by Jan Steen,
Filippo Lippi,
Anthony van Dyck, Salomon van Ruysdael, and others
Date: February 6, 2006
Status:
The Advisory Committee of the Assessment of Restitution
Applications
recommended the restitution of 202 Dutch, Flemish and Italian works
from at least 17 national museums in the Netherlands including the
Rijksmuseum, the Mauritshuis, the Frans Hals Museum, and the
Bonnefantenmuseum. The paintings were owned by a Dutch art dealer
named Jacques Goudstikker who died aboard ship while escaping
Holland soon after the German invasion of Holland in 1940.
Reichsmarschall Herman Goering visited the gallery within days of
Goudstikker's flight, and ultimately acquired the entire collection for a
fraction of its value in a coerced transaction arranged by his dealer, a
German named Alois Miedl. Allied forces recovered the works at the
end
of World War II and transferred them to the Dutch Government for
restitution to the rightful owners. Instead, the works remained in the
Dutch national collections. The Dutch Government had previously
rejected the Goudstikker claim, but the Under Minister for Education,
Culture and Science, Medy van der Laen, accepted the Advisory
Commission's December 2005 recommendation and agreed to restitute
the works. (The Commission also recommended that an additional 40
paintings not be returned to the Goudstikker heirs because there was
insufficient evidence that the works belonged to the gallery at the
relevant
time.) The Goudstikker heirs, led by the widow of Goudstikker's son,
who
lives in Connecticut, intends to continue the search for additional
works
from the Gallery.

24.Institution: Lienz Museum, Lienz, Austria

Work of Art: Totentanz, by Albin Egger-Lienz
Date: March 2006
Resolution: City officials in the Austrian city of Lienz voted to return
an oil painting on Ms. Fox is the heir of an Austrian Jewish family
from whom the Nazis took
the picture during the Second World War. Ms. Fox sold the painting at
auction in May 2006 for $1.7 million.

Bibliography: Looted Art

1. 1940-1948 Museum Acquisitions Project. Washington: Royal
Netherlands Embassy, November 1998.
Note: During WWII, the Nazis looted art from the occupied the
Netherlands and transferred the booty to Germany. Although the Dutch
government in exile in London took measures that enabled many
confiscated art objects to be returned to their rightful owners, the
ongoing problems related to the issue have led the Netherlands to
launch new initiatives: the Origins Unknown Project which will
investigate the origins of art objects returned from Germany and in the
custody of the Dutch State; the Museums Acquisitions Project, a
museum-led project, which will investigate art object acquisitions
during and after WWII.
Online: http://www.herkomstgezocht.nl/eng/index.html.

2. Aalders, Gerard. "By diplomatic pouch: art smuggling by the

Nazis." Spoils of War no. 3 (December 1996): 29-32.
Note: The article's focus is on the transportation of looted art to be
collected or sold. Looted paintings of Old Masters went straight to the
Reich for the planned Führermuseum in Linz or into the collections of
high Nazi officials. Degenerate modern art was sent to Switzerland via
diplomatic packet to be sold or exchanged for German paintings. In
Eastern Europe, ERR, a special plunder force looted both private and
public collections, whereas in the West museum collections were
touched less frequently than the private collections of Jews.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_2.html#13.

3. Adams, E. E. "Looted art treasures go back to France." The

Quartermaster Review 26 (September-October 1946): 16-23, 77-80,
83-84, 87.
4. Akinsha, Konstantin. "The secret depositories slowly open."
ARTnews 91, no.4 (April 1992): 48+.
Note: The author predicted that the thousands of artwork stored in
Russia as looted German objects will become known soon with the
new open policies in Russia.

5. Akinsha, Konstantin. "A Soviet-German exchange of war

treasures?." ARTnews 90, no.5 (May 1991): 134-139.
Note: The General Relations Treaty between the USSR and Germany
in 1990 provided for the return of looted art seized by the Soviets and
the repatriation of art stolen from the USSR by Nazis. Article looks at
the problems of identifying, locating and repatriating these works.
Soviet art scholars are cited.

6. Akinsha, Konstantin. "The turmoil over Soviet war treasures."

ARTnews 90, no.10 (December 1991): 110-115.
Note: Traces new development in German-Russian negotiations about
looted art. Soviet Culture Minster Gubenko's announcement that the
Soviet Union will return objects looted from Germany after WWII
only for equivalent art stolen from the USSR by the Germans is
reported.

7. Akinsha, Konstantin. "Duma does it." ARTnews 96, no.4 (April

1997): 65-66.
Note: The Russian Parliament has passed a law that "trophy" artwork
seized by the Red Army in Germany and Eastern Europe are the
property of the Russian Federation.

8. Akinsha, Konstantin. "Hermitage sequel." ARTnews 96, no.3

(March 1997): 56.
Note: "Master Drawings Rediscovered", the second show of German
trophy artwork hidden since the end of WWII opened at the
Hermitage. The future of the looted art remains unclear.

9. Akinsha, Konstantin. "War loot: drawings for Deutsche Marks?."

ARTnews 91, no.7 (September 1992): 35.
Note: According to Russians, the Bremen Kunsthalle may have to pay
for its Old Master drawings, looted by the Red Army during WWII, if
they are to be returned from Russia.

10. Akinsha, Konstantin. "Russia: whose art is it?" ARTnews 91, no.5
(May 1992): 100+.
Note: Rising nationalism and religious revivalism are demanding that
Russia return cultural property to other former Soviet republics and to
the Russian Orthodox Church.

11. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "Spoils of war: the

Soviet Union's hidden art treasures." ARTnews 90, no.4 (April 1991):
130-141.
Note: The USSR seized a great deal of work from the Soviet
occupation zone of Germany; some of the loot was returned to East
German museums in the late 1950s, but much of it is still in Russia.
There is a debate on the question of repatriation.

12. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "Yeltsin - repatriation is

a long way off." ARTnews 91, no.6 (Summer 1992): 45+.
Note: Russia's Boris Yeltsin indicates that the return of German
cultural loot will take place only on a mutual basis.

13. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "Moscow: war loot -

drawings for Deutsche marks?." ARTnews (September 1992).

14. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "To return or not to

return." ARTnews 93, no.8 (October 1994): 154+.
Note: Disclosure of the fact that Russia has secret museum storehouses
of art looted from Germany during WWII has created a controversy in
Russia between those who believe the art should be returned and those
nationalists who consider the booty legitimate compensation for lost
Soviet culture. Russian and German restitution commissions,
established in 1992, have not been able to agree on exchange issues.

15. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "Moscow: let the

museums decide." ARTnews (December 1992).
16. Akinsha, Konstantin, Grigorii Kozlov and Sylvia Hochfield. Stolen
treasure: the hunt for the world's lost masterpieces. London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. xiii, 301 pp.
Note: Published in the US as Beautiful loot: the Soviet plunder of
Europe's art treasures, this account of how the Soviets looted artwork
at the end of WWII is a detailed and dramatic tale. The story takes
place during the two-year period between the Battle of Stalingrad and
the fall of Berlin in May 1945. The Russians occupying Germany stole
the German art of Berlin and Dresden, as well as art plundered by
Germans, as compensation for Soviet losses.

17. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "Das Gold von Troja
liegt in Moskau (Trojan gold residing in Moscow)." ARTnews 4 (April
1993).

18. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "The Soviets' war

treasures: a growing controversy." ARTnews 90, no.7 (September
1991): 112-119.
Note: Evidence of the existence of German artwork looted by the
Soviets during WWII is creating a controversy in Russia. At last,
documents are being published giving details about the amount of
artwork removed from Germany by the Russian Trophy Commission
after WWII and stored in secret places.

19. Akinsha, Konstantin and Grigorii Kozlov. "The discovery of the

secret repositories." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
162-165. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: The authors' first article in ARTnews magazine, in 1991, on the
secret art repositories removed by the Soviets from Germany at the end
of WWII was written with the naive hope that it would convince
Russia to return the confiscated treasures. In this essay, the authors
note many interesting facts about the creation of the secret repositories,
noting that the removal of art objects was part of Stalin's foreign
policy.
20. Aldous, Tony. "Lost without trace." History Today (London) 42
(August 1992): 2+.
Note: The looting of Czechoslovakian cultural treasures since the
overthrow of the Communist regime threatens to destroy the country's
tangible heritage, according to a leading art administrator at the
International Art Antique & Architectural Theft Conference held in
London in June 1992. Experts at the conference agreed that there is a
growing international epidemic of fine art theft. A new organization,
CoPAT (Council for the Prevention of Art Theft) has been created to
combat the problem.

21. Alford, Kenneth D. The spoils of World War II: the American
military's role in stealing Europe's treasures. New York: Birch Lane
Press, 1994. xii, 292 pp.
Note: Alford chronicles WWII-era looting, noting that the magnitude
of this plunder surpassed everything done in past wars. His emphasis is
on the thievery committed by American military in Germany.

22. "Art confiscated by Soviets uncovered." Facts on File 55, no.2874

(December 31, 1995): 1012+.
Note: Artwork stolen by Russian troops during WWII has been placed
on exhibit in Moscow.

23. Art Looting Investigation Unit: final report. Washington: War

Department, Strategic Services Unit, May 1, 1946. 170 pp.

24. Art with a dubious past (The Irish Times). August 14, 1998.
Note: The dispute over two Egon Schiele paintings detained in New
York City after they were borrowed from European owners for a
MoMA show in January has created a dilemma for museum directors
who fear that the issue of art stolen during the Holocaust will over-
burden museum personnel with research into the provenance of
artwork and affect the amount of European art available to
international audiences.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/04998.html#1.

25. Attias, Laurie. "Looking for loot at the Louvre." ARTnews 97, no.4
(April 1998): 74.
Note: The Von der Heydt Museum claims that the Louvre is
maintaining artwork illicitly shipped out of Germany during WWII.

26. Beck, Ernest. "Hungary asks Russia for missing art treasures."
ARTnews 91, no.4 (April 1992): 45+.
Note: Thousands of missing art treasures looted from Hungarian Jews
during WWII have been located in Russia.

27. Bittman, Alexander. "Spoils of war." History Today 49, no.1

(January 1999): 3.
Note: Over one million Hungarian artwork was looted from Hungarian
Jews by the Red Army; some of these pieces are on display in Moscow
and Budapest. Although a restitution agreement was signed in 1992,
Russia and Hungary have yet to agree on the matter.

28. Bloedow, Edmund. "The authenticity and integrity of 'Priam's

Treasure'." Boreas 14-15 (1991-1992).

29. Blumenthal, Ralph. "Without portfolio: wartime art daredevils."

New York Times Section 2 (February 12, 1995 (Late New York
edition)): 32.
Note: This is a story about WWII missing art.

30. Boguslavskij, Mark. "Legal aspects of the Russian position in

regard to the return of cultural property." In The spoils of war - World
War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 186-190. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: The author's goal is to provide the reader with basic legal
information about Russian-German reciprocal return of cultural
property negotiations along with his comments.

31. Boguslavskij, M. M. "Contemporary legal problems of return of

cultural property to its country of origin in Russia and the
Confederation of Independent States." International Journal of Cultural
Property 3, no.2 (1994): 243-256.
Note: An analysis of the international legal regulations and legal
practice leads to the conclusion that there is a need to sign multilateral
and bilateral agreement on cultural cooperation between the member
states of the Confederation of Independent States.

32. Bohm, Elga. "Der Central Collecting Point Munchen: erste

Kunstsammelstelle nach 1945 (The Central Collecting Point in
Munich: the first collecting point for art works after the Second World
War 1945)." Kolner-Museuems-Bulletin (Germany) (1987): Part 4.
Note: Article on the Central Collecting Point in Munich established by
Monuments officers accompanying the American occupation army
after WWII to collect art confiscated by the Nazis during the war.

33. Boylan, Patrick J. Review of the Convention for the Protection of

Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention
of 1954). Paris: UNESCO, 1993. 248 pp.

34. Braun, Hugh. Works of art in Malta: losses and survivals in the
war. London: HMSO for the British Committee on the Preservation
and Restitution of Works of Art, Archives and Other Material in
Enemy Hands, 1946. v, 46 pp.

35. Breitenbach, Edgar. "Historical survey of the Intelligence

Department, MFAA Section, in OMGB, 1946-1949." College Art
Journal 9 (Winter 1949-1950): 192-198.
Note: Describes the elaborate organization of a German Documents
Center and how looted art works were identified and listed to establish
ownership and to check claims submitted though the MFA&A.

36. Breslau, Karen. "The heist of 1945: the looted treasures of Europe
may at last be returned to their owners." Newsweek 118, no.3 (July 15,
1991): 51+.
Note: Article on the Soviet possession of German artwork stolen at the
end of WWII.

37. Buomberger, Thomas. "The baron's share?." ARTnews (November

1998): 75.
Note: Over forty art objects seized from Baron Eduard von der Heydt
during the Holocaust are to be returned to the rightful owners.

38. Burdick, Ansje M. Ethics, museums and artwork looted during

World War II. Eugene: University of Oregon, 1998. 82 pp., plus
appendices. (Master's thesis for the Arts & Administration Department,
University of Oregon).
Note: This study examined the most recent ethics policies of the
American Association of Museums, the Association of Art Museum
Directors and the International Council of Museums in relation to the
current discovery of looted art in United States art museums. Ethics
policies were analyzed to determine how the policies guide museums
currently dealing with claims against their collection and prevent the
acquisition of looted art in the future. In addition, three professionals
knowledgeable about looted art were interviewed to determine the
perception of the adequate or inadequate nature of the policies. Both
the policy analysis and interview revealed the ethics policies to be
vague. Interview subjects made recommendations to be included in
future policies. (Author's abstract).

39. Burr, Nelson R., compiler. Safeguarding our cultural heritage: a

bibliography on the protection of museums, works of art, monuments,
archives and libraries in time of war. Washington: Library of
Congress, 1952. 117 pp.
Note: Although there are a few titles from World War I, most of the
citations date from 1936 on reflecting the Nazi rise to power and the
Spanish Civil War.

40. Busterud, John A. "The treasure in the salt mine." Army -

Arlington (Association of the United States Army) 47, no.3 (March
1997): 47-51.
Note: At the end of WWII, US and Allied forces discovered looted art
deep in a mine near Merkers, Germany. The author, commander of
both munitions and security platoons, was assigned the task of
guarding and ultimately removing the wealth and art from the mine.

41. Cembalest, Robin. "It's official: the Trojan Gold is in Russia."

ARTnews 92, no.4 (April 1993): 125.
Note: Russian government officials have acknowledged that they are
holding the Trojan Gold Treasures at meetings in February 1993.

42. Chamberlin, Eric Russell. "Adolf Hitler." In Loot! The heritage of

plunder, 149. London: Thames and Hudson, 1983.
Note: This book on looting since the beginning of history has a section
on the warlords, Napoleon and Hitler, the "alpha and omega of
looters." Hitler planned the rebuilding of his hometown, Linz, Austria,
with his own mausoleum at its center as the heart of the Third Reich,
along with the world's greatest art gallery. All party and state officials
were ordered to help Hans Posse, the Director of Dresden Art Gallery
and Hitler's art expert, in collecting art for the Linz gallery. Hitler's
agents divided the artwork into that which was confiscated from the
state's internal enemies and that which was safeguarded from the state's
external enemies; other property was purchased, although frequently at
a low price. The collecting headquarters for the Linz Gallery was
below ground near Munich; all major works were photographed.

43. Clark, Ian Christie and Lewis E. Levy. National legislation to

encourage international cooperation: the challenge to our cultural
heritage. Paris: UNESCO, 1986.

44. Clemen, Paul, ed. Protection of art during war: reports. Leipzig:
Seeman, 1919.

45. Collings, Matthew. "In search of Schliemann's gold." Modern

Painters 8, no.2 (Summer 1995): 29-35.
Note: Matthew Collins visited Moscow and St. Petersburg during the
Spring of 1995 to make a BBC program on art exhibits of works taken
by the Red Army from German collections after WWII. Collins
interviewed collectors and museum officials and reports a shift in
attitudes about where these works should be permanently located.

46. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Authorization to

Secretary of the Army to return certain works of art to the Federal
Republic of Germany. Washington: GPO, 1981. 5 pp. (97th Cong. 1st
sess., H.Rpt.97-298).
47. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Temporary
retention in the U.S. of certain German paintings. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1948. iii, 89 pp. (80th Cong. 2nd sess., S.
Hrg., 1948).
Note: Hearings about German paintings confiscated by the US after
WWII.

48. Czernin, Hubertus. Die Auslschung: der Fall Thorsch (The

extinction: the Thorsch case). Vienna: Molden, 1998.
Note: The "extinction" of the name of Alphonse Thorsch who held a
prominent position as the founder of a Vienna bank was accomplished
when the family fled the Nazis who then expropriated all the Thorsch
private and business property in Austria and those foreign properties
within the Nazi sphere of influence. After the death of their parents,
the Thorsch children sought restitution. Their experiences with the
Austrian authorities are an example of what victims and heirs have had
to go through.

49. Czernin, Hubertus. "Law of return?." ARTnews (November 1998):

80.
Note: The Austrian government is researching a number of paintings
in Osterreichische Galerie believed to have been looted from Jews
during WWII to determine their rightful owners.

50. Davies, Martin and I. Rawlins. War-time storage in Wales of

pictures from the National Gallery, London: the course of events, some
technical problems. London: HMSO, 1946. 15 pp.
Note: Describes the plans for removal and evacuation of the collection
with details of the preparation of pictures for transportation.

51. de Jaeger, Charles. The Linz file: Hitler's plunder of Europe's art.
Exeter: Webb and Bower, 1981. 192 pp.
Note: This is the story of Hitler's great dream of creating a world
center of German and European art in Linz, as well Goering's attempt
to amass a large collection of his own at Karinhal; and how they
competed to gain possession of the masterpieces looted from
conquered Europe. The author's belief that Hitler's failure as architect
and artist was behind his driven rise to power was confirmed by
Professor Robert Waite, author of The Psychopath God: Adolf Hitler,
who associates Hitler's compulsion to destroy and rebuild to a deeply
rooted association in Hitler's mind between being an artist and being a
creative and innovative political leader.

52. De Visscher, Charles. International protection of works of art and

historic monuments. International Information and Cultural Series 8.
Washington: State Department, 1949. [50 pp.] (Reprinted from
Documents and State Papers of June 1949).
Note: These essays by Belgian jurist Charles De Visscher, based upon
the well-established thesis that the protection and preservation of
cultural resources is an international responsibility, offer the reader not
only an excellent review of plunder through history, but also a point of
departure in future planning efforts to safeguard cultural achievements
of all countries through international efforts.

53. Decker, Andrew. "An untapped, if forbidden, source." ARTnews

91, no.7 (September 1992): 36+.
Note: Works of art stolen by the Red Army from German museums
during WWII are beginning to resurface. The author brings up the
issue of whether this artwork can be legally sold.

54. Decker, Andrew. "A legacy of shame." ARTnews 83, no.10

(December 1984): 54-82.
Note: The first in a series of investigative articles on unclaimed Jewish
property in Austria, Decker's article brought attention to the fact that
approximately 8,500 pieces of artwork, once owned by Holocaust
victims, had been kept for fifty years in Austrian repositories.

55. Decker, Andrew. ""My argument was not with the German
people"." ARTnews (September 1992): 36 - 37.
Note: This article focuses on the WWII looting of sheepskin
documents dating from the 15th and 16th centuries from a German
parish house and recording legal transactions. These parchments have
been returned to Germany by an American serviceman's widow, a
concentration camp victim, who found the documents among her
husband's belongings.
56. Decker, Andrew and Konstantin Akinsha. "A worldwide treasure
hunt." ARTnews 90, no.6 (Summer 1991): 130-138.
Note: Negotiations between the Soviet and German citizens for the
return of looted German art focus on the Gerstenberg, Malevich, and
Koenigs Collections.

57. Decker, Andrew and Milton Esterow. "Austria's bid for justice."
ARTnews 95, no.11 (December 1996): 90.
Note: Austria finally agrees to return art stolen from Austrian Jews
during WWII to the heirs of owners. If heirs cannot be found, the art
will be auctioned off with the proceeds going to victim organizations.
This is a switch in policy; in the past, claims submitted were ignored.

58. Decker, Andrew and Ferdinand Protzman. "Vienna: complexity,

contradictions." ARTnews 88, no.5 (May 1989): 63.
Note: Report on Austria's effort to return art to Jews and other rightful
owners.

59. Decker, Andrew and Mariana Schroeder. "Blocking the black

market." ARTnews 94, no.4 (April 1995): 46.
Note: Black market activity in artwork may lessen as a result of a NYC
court ruling calling for the return of three stolen drawings to Germany.
The artwork had been captured by Russians at the end of WWII and
later stolen from a Russian museum.

60. Deshmukh, Marion. "Recovering culture: the Berlin National

Gallery and the U.S. occupation, 1945-1949." Central European
History 4, no.411-439 (27).
Note: Based on records of the US National Archives and Records
Administration, this article traces German-Allied relationships
regarding the National Gallery in Berlin after World War II, including
the repair of damaged museums and the temporary removal of some of
the artwork to the US.

61. Deshmukh, Marion. "Recovering culture: the Berlin National

Gallery and the U.S. occupation 1945-1949." Central European
History 27 (1994): 411-439.
Note: The author used NARA's OMGUS records to ascertain
American contributions to Western Germany's postwar cultural
identity, specifically that of the Berlin National Gallery.

62. Dobrzynski, Judith H. "How did you get that art in the war,
Daddy?." New York Times (January 25, 1998 Late edition): 4.
Note: Two Schiele paintings were on loan from Austria's Leopold
Museum to the Museum of Modern Art when two families claimed
that the Nazis had confiscated the paintings from their relatives. NYC
District Attorney Morgenthau subpoenaed the paintings. This is the
most recent example of an American museum found to be in
possession of looted WWII art.

63. Dobrzynski, Judith H. "A bulldog on the heels of lost Nazi loot."
New York Times (November 4, 1997).
Note: In this interview with Hector Feliciano, a Puerto Rican journalist
who lived for years in Paris and wrote The lost museum, the Nazi
conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art, Feliciano reflects
on the fact that wars seem to make people go beserk. Feliciano, whose
book has proven to be extremely valuable to those who track stolen art,
is now writing a sequel.

64. Dobrzynski, Judith H. "Capitol Hill looks at issue of art stolen in

wartime." New York Times (February 15, 1998).
Note: Still interested in the Holocaust, Congress turned its direction
away from gold, bank accounts, and insurance to look at looted art.

65. Dornberg, John. "The mounting embarrassment of Germany's Nazi

treasures." ARTnews 88, no.7 (September 1988): 130-141.
Note: The author addresses the issues of ownership and legality as they
apply to the Federal German government loaning museums paintings
once owned by Hitler and Goering.

66. Dostert, Paul. "Art recovery in Luxemburg." In Cultural treasures

moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the Second World war:
documentation and research on losses, 103-108. Bremen:
Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of the
International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Luxembourg hopes for strengthened cooperation with the former
Soviet Union and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc to
determine what losses may be discovered there.

67. "Dresden paintings." ARTnews (November 1956 - Part II).

Note: Report on the sudden emergence of the famous Dresden Gallery
of paintings missing since the end of WWII. The paintings were
exhibited in Berlin.

68. Duboff, Leonard D. and Mary Ann Crawford Duboff. "The

protection of artistic national patrimony against pillaging and theft in
law and the visual arts." In Law and the Visual Arts Conference.
Portland, OR: Northwestern School of Law, 1974.

69. Ebeling, Ashlea. "Hey, that's my picture on your wall." Forbes 258,
no.1 (December 14, 1998).
Note: Article on how defective title insurance coverage protects art
owners when there are ownership disputes.

70. Eggen, J. B. "La commission Américaine pour la protection et le

sauvetage des monuments d'art et d'histoire dans les zones de guerre
(The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic
and Historic Monuments in War Areas)." Mouseion (Paris) 55-56
(1946): 1-2.
Note: Eggen tells about the establishment of the Roberts Commission
in 1942 to define the policy of the War Department regarding fine arts
and archives. As a result the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives
Service was set up to carry out the policies.

71. Eichwede, Wolfgang. "Models of restitution (Germany, Russia,

Ukraine)." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the
loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 216-220. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: The author suggests developing models of solution showing
appreciation for all cultures and demonstrating the advantages of
cooperation in restitution efforts.
72. Elen, Albert J. Missing Old Master drawings from the Franz
Koenigs Collection. The Hague: Netherlands Office for Fine Arts,
1989. 280 pp.
Note: This list of the missing Old Master Drawings from the Koenigs
Collection is an introduction to the collection which was illegally
removed from the Netherlands during WWII. Only 35 of the original
527 drawings had been recovered at the time this handlist was
prepared.

73. Esterow, Milton. "A heavenly treasure." In The art stealers, 78-99.
Revised ed. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
Note: This chapter in Esterow's book is on the Belgian polyptych, "The
Adoration of the Lamb", the world's most stolen masterpiece. The
latest theft was by the Nazis who moved the panels to the Altaussee
salt mine where it was found by Monuments Officers at the end of
World War II after the Officers were advised of its location by a
German art expert who had served on the staff of Alfred Rosenberg,
who had been in charge of looting France.

74. Esterow, Milton. "A little justice in Austria." ARTnews 94, no.7
(September 1995): Editorial.
Note: This editorial traces ARTnews' investigation into Austrian
government maneuvers to avoid returning Nazi art loot hidden in the
Mauerbach monastery to its rightful owners or to other Jewish victims.

75. Estreicher, Charles, ed. Cultural losses of Poland: index of Polish

cultural losses during the German occupation. London: n.p., 1944. xvii,
497 pp.
Note: As a emigré from Poland, Estreicher, a noted art historian,
contributed to Allied efforts to restore property seized by the Nazis.

76. Faison, S. Lane , Jr. "Investigating art looting for the MFA&A." In
The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 139-141. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Faison worked as an art-intelligence officer, investigating the
Nazi confiscation agencies, during WWII, and later became the final
director of the Munich Central Collecting Point in 1950 when he was
assigned the task of close the Munich site. Faison tells of his dismay
when he realized that works still awaiting provenance identification
were to be sent to Austria and notes that Austria has been plagued with
lawsuits about these objects ever since.

77. Farmer, Walter I. "Custody and controversy at the Wiesbaden

Collecting Point." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
131-134. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: At the end of the war, the author, an architect, became the
Director of the Wiesbaden Collecting Point, the central collection site
for German-owned works of art. When, in November 1945, Farmer
received directions to select 200 of the most important German works
of art to be sent to the US temporarily, Farmer called a meeting of
MFA&A members to protest the decision which he felt would discredit
everything that had been done to demonstrate the integrity of the US in
the its handling of German cultural treasures. The group agreed to
prepare and send the Wiesbaden Manifesto, the only act of protest by
officers in WWII. The paintings were sent along with the protest which
was publicized by an article, "German Paintings in the National
Gallery, a protest", by Charles Kuhn, a former Monuments Officer,
which appeared in the College Art Journal in January 1946.

78. Fedoruk, Alexander. "Ukraine: the lost cultural treasures and the
problem of their return." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
72-76. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: While part of the former USSR, Ukraine was not able to pursue
the return of its cultural treasures lost during WWII. Since the collapse
of the Soviet Union, Ukraine is eager to obtain information on the fate
of Ukrainian cultural property lost during and after WWII. The author
presents a clear picture of the wartime plundering activities and notes
the problems of creating an inventory of lost cultural property.

79. Feliciano, Hector. The lost museum: the Nazi conspiracy to steal
the world's greatest works of art. New York: BasicBooks, 1997. ix,
278 pp.
Note: In the late 1930's, Paris was the world's center of art where some
of the most important painters, collectors, art dealers, and experts of
this century resided. We learn how the Nazis stripped French
museums, churches, gallery owners, and art collectors of rare art works
between the years 1939 and 1944, shipping paintings, drawings, and
sculpture for the museum of European art planned for Austria after the
war, as well as for the private collections of high Nazi dignitaries. By
the time of the Liberation in 1944, France was the most looted country
in Western Europe: one-third of all the art in private collections had
been taken by the Nazis for Hitler's planned "super museum" at Linz,
with less desirable works of art sold off to the art trade. The author
focuses on the collections of five Jewish families in France; the
Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss
collections were chosen because of their size and importance, as well
the fact that they demonstrate the methodical nature of the Nazi effort
to confiscate valuable art.

80. Feliciano, Hector. "The Mauerbach Case: an equivocal sale. Part

II." Spoils of War no. 3 (December 1996): 24-27.
Note: The author notes that Mauerbach auction catalog, prepared by
the London auction house Christie's, has a foreward by Thomas
Klestil, President of Austria, stating that the artwork hidden in the Alt
Aussee salt mines and stored at the Mauerbach monastery belonged to
Austrian Jews. Feliciano objects and points out that the Nazis had used
Alt Aussee to store art looted from all over Europe; he also notes that
Austria was very secretive about the unclaimed art and made no real
effort to find the rightful owners. Feliciano is critical of Christie's for
not checking on ownership claims before the sale.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_2.html#11.
81. Fiedler, Wilfried. "Legal issues bearing on the restitution of
German cultural property in Russia." In The spoils of war - World War
II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural
property, 175-177. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: Professor Fiedler is known for his legal knowledge in the fields
of cultural property and state secession. He notes the legal basis for the
German request for restitution is based on treaty regulations made after
the opening of Eastern Europe in 1989 and explains the difficulties
arising from different interpretations of those documents.

82. Field protection of objects of art and archives. War Department

Pamphlet No. 31-103. Washington: War Department, 1944. 46 pp.
Note: A manual of instructions prepared by the American Commission
for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in
War Areas providing criteria for selecting objects for preservation and
outlining procedures for safeguarding art, records and buildings.

83. Fieldler, Wilfried. "Safeguarding of cultural property during

occupation - modifications of the Hague Convention of 1907 by World
War II." In Fifth Colloquium on the Legal Aspects of International
Trade in Art: Licit Trade in Works of Art. Paris: International
Chamber of Commerce, Check status. (Colloquium, Vienna,
September 28-30, 1994).

84. First aid protection for art treasures and monuments. Washington:
GPO, Undated. 2 pp.
Note: WWII instructions to American troops.

85. Fischer, Klaus P. "Life in Nazi Germany." In Nazi Germany: a new

history, 341-393. New York: Continuum Publishing, 1997.
Note: In this chapter, Fischer reminds the reader that "Hitler was not
only a soldier-politician but also an artist with a keen eye for the
aesthetic who knew that persuasion required conversion, and that
conversion, at its deepest level, was emotional rather than cerebral."
Culture was put to the good uses of the state early in the Nazi regime:
Goebbel's Reich Cultural Chamber was established to deal with
cultural life. Artists were forced to join this organization if they wanted
to practice their art and non-Aryan artists were excluded. In parallel,
Rosenberg's Office for the Supervision of Ideological Training and
Education, became the state's official watchdog, involved in book
burning and emptying museums of "non-German" or "degenerate"
works of art. Goebbels and Rosenberg were later responsible for
looting much of Europe's art treasures.

86. Flanner, Janet. "The Beautiful Spoils." In Men & monuments:

profiles of Picasso, Matisse, Braque, & Malraux. New York: Da Capo,
1990.
Note: Flanner's fascinating account of the looting of art by the Nazis.

87. Florisoone, Michel. "La commission française de récuperation

artistique (French commission to recover artwork)." Mouseion (Paris)
55-56, no.1-2 (1946): 67-73.
Note: An account of the creation of a French commission similar to the
Roberts Commission, the British Committee on Works of Art and
other Material in Enemy Hands (Macmillan Commission), and the
Inter-allied or Vaucher Commission/.

88. Fodor, Istv n. "The restitution of works of art in Hungary." In The

spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance,
and recovery of cultural property, 92-94. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1997. (Paper presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War,
sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,
New York, January, 1995).
Note: Hungary's cultural treasures suffered from the Nazis, the
Hungarian Fascists, and the Soviet Army. In the 1980s, the Soviet
Union secretly returned some paintings. In 1992 a commission was set
up whose task was to plan the return of works taken from Hungary and
held in Russia. A 40,000-item database of lost art has been set up in
Budapest where the first meeting of a joint Hungarian-Russian
restitution working group met in 1994.

89. Fodor, Istv n. "The restitution of works of art in Hungary." In

Cultural treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the
Second World war: documentation and research on losses, 79-84.
Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of
the International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2,
1994).
Note: This article focuses on Hungary's loss of artwork during and
after WWII, and on the work of the Committee for the Restitution of
Cultural Property which was set up on May 19, 1993.

90. Foundoukidis, Euripide. The work of the International Museums

Office and associated organizations during the period June 1940-
January 1945. Paris: International Museums Office, [1946?]. 16 pp.
Note: Includes an inventory of monuments and works of art destroyed
or damaged during WWII.

91. Francese, Pier Benedotto. "Art treasures moved because of war: a

cultural legacy of the Second World War - the Italian experience." In
Cultural treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the
Second World war: documentation and research on losses, 85-90.
Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of
the International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2,
1994).
Note: Italy established an Office for the Recovery of Works of Art in
1946.

92. Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Return of the Dresden paintings."

ARTnews 54 (February 1956).

93. Freitag, Gabriele. "Archival material on National Socialist Art

plundering during the Second World War." Spoils of War no. 1
(December 1995): 34-36.
Note: Archival material on Nazi art plundering is widely dispersed.
The ERR records are found in a number of German locations, as well
as Paris, Kiev, Riga and Moscow.

94. Freudenheim, Tom L. "Will everything become suspect?."

ARTnews 97, no.3 (March 1998): 100.
Note: Art institutions and governments both have failed to resolve the
art theft problems dating from WWII. Now authorities and curators are
urged to address the issues legally and ethically.

95. Gambrell, Jamey. "First return of war booty." Art in America 83,
no.6 (June 1995): 31+.
Note: A 19th century painting was returned to the Bremen Kunsthalle
from the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture as the first official return of
looted WWII art to Germany from Russia.

96. Gambrell, Jamey. "Will Russia return spoils of war?." Art in

America 83, no.3 (March 1995): 29.
Note: Russia's plunder of German art at the end of WWII was
discussed at the three-day symposium, Spoils of War, in New York
City.

97. Gambrell, Jamey. "Displaced art." Art in America 83, no.9

(September 1995): 88-95, 120.
Note: The dispute over looted art taken by the Red Army from German
and Hungarian collections continues to be a concern. The Russians
consider the captured art to be legal acquisition as compensation for
Russian losses during WWII inspite of claims from heirs of Holocaust
victims.

98. Ganslmayr, H. "Study on the principles, conditions and means for

the restitution or return of cultural property in view of reconstituting
dispersed heritages." Museum 31, no.1 (1979).

99. Glenny, Michael. "The Amber Room: what happened to the tsars'
greatest jewel? The story of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigman." Art & Antiques (March 1989).
Note: In April 1945, just before the Soviet Army captured
Koenigsberg, the Nazis packed the panels into seventy-two crates and
loaded them onto a convey of trucks. The Amber Room has never been
seen since. Although a few "untiring sleuths" are still hoping to
discover those 72 crates somewhere in Europe, Russians are now
working to replace the Amber Room.
100. The gold of Troy: searching for Homer's fabled city. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Ministry of Culture of the
Russian Federation and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 1996.

101. Goldmann, Klaus. "The Trojan treasures in Berlin: the

disappearance and search for the objects after World War II." In The
spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance,
and recovery of cultural property, 200-203. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium, The
Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the
Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Germany first found out the fate of the missing Trojan Treasures
when they were alerted by news of the forthcoming publication of an
article on the topic by Akinsha and Grigorii in ARTnews in 1991. In
1994 Berlin museum staff were permitted to inspect the Schliemann
treasures.

102. Goldmann, Klaus. "The Treasure of Troy: hidden history." Spoils

of War, no. 2 (July 1996): 12-13.
Note: Author urges a cooperative search for any still missing Trojan
treasures.

103. Graeme, Chris. "Art heritage saved for humanity." (Undated).

Note: This is the second part of the story of how the Hermitage art
collections were evacuated in the Summer of 1941.

104. Graeme, Chris. "Art heritage saved for humanity." (Undated).

Note: During WWII the Soviets ordered the monumental task of
evacuating the contents of the Hermitage to the Urals. Two trains were
sent off before rail routes were cut off and dedicated staff worked to
protect the rest of the collection.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/petersburg2.html.

105. Grambrell, Jamey. "Displaced art." Art in America 83, no.9

(September 1995): 88-95.
Note: Paintings from Germany taken by the Red Army at the end of
WWII have gone on exhibit in Russia; the art world is concerned about
the ownership dispute.
106. Greenfield, Jeannette. The return of cultural treasures. 2d ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xviii, 361 pp.
Note: Dr. Greenfield traces displaced cultural treasures through their
legal tangles, analyzes the work of international agencies and
conventions, and, in the last chapter, offers her own formula for the
resolution of national claims for the cultural property.

107. Greenfield, Jeannette. ""The Spoils of War"." In The spoils of war

- World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery
of cultural property, 34-38. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: In this paper, Greenfield presents the act of plundering in WWII
in historical context starting with the Assyrians in the first millennium
BC, noting that greed and barbarism were behind pillage through the
centuries. Nazi looting only differed in its scale, its ruthlessness, its
planning, its recording, and its emphasis on valuable artwork.

108. Greenfield, Jeannette. "Art theft and the art market." In The return
of cultural treasures, 232-251. 2d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996. xviii, 361 pp.
Note: This chapter notes the theft and looting of art, including that of
World War II.

109. Grenzer, Andreas. "The Russian archives and their files:

researching the Soviet losses of property." Spoils of War, no. 1
(December 1995): 33-34.
Note: Although much of the Soviet archives is now open, researchers
have found very little recorded material on Soviet losses of cultural
property.

110. Grenzer, Andreas. "Research project, "Fate of the Treasures of

Art removed from the Soviet Union during World War II"." In Cultural
treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the Second
World war: documentation and research on losses, 124-132. Bremen:
Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of the
International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Russia has set up a database which provides information on the
loss and restitution of individual artwork and collections removed from
the Soviet Union during WWII.

111. Grenzer, Andreas. "Report on the archive situation in Russia as

relates to researching the losses of cultural property." In Cultural
treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the Second
World war: documentation and research on losses, 142-145. Bremen:
Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of the
International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Some of the Soviet archives are only now being accessed in
terms of researching the losses of cultural property.

112. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. "The fate of Ukranian cultural

treasures during World War II: archives, libraries, and museums under
the Third Reich." Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 39, no.1
(1991): 53-80.

113. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. "'Trophy' archives and non-

restitution: Russia's cultural 'Cold War' with the European
Community." Problems of Post-Communism 45, no.3 (May-June
1998): 3-16.

114. Grogan, David. "A quiet Texan, dead 10 years, is suddenly the
prime suspect in a WWII theft of priceless medieval art." People
Weekly 33, no.26 (July 2, 1990): 48+.
Note: Article on the Quedlinburg Treasures discovered in Texas.

115. "Groups formed to protect cultural treasures war areas." Museum

News 21 (September 1, 1943): 1-2.
Note: Provides information about the establishment of the American
Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic
Monuments in Europe and the Committee on Protection of Cultural
Treasures in War Areas.

116. Guide to the Special Archive. Moscow: MediaLingua and

Classica, 1997. http://www.archives.ru Website.
Note: The Special Archive is a unique, quite recently declassified
archive, containing millions of documents seized by the Nazis from
1939 to 1945, as well as German archives, taken out from Germany by
Stalin after WWII. Included among the holdings are information on
Rosenberg's index on cultural objects of occupied Soviet regions,
information on slave labor in Germany, and material on looted art.

117. Hall, Ardelia R. "The recovery of cultural objects dispersed

during World War II." Department of State Bulletin 25, no.635
(August 27, 1951): 337-340, 344-345.
Note: In this article written six years after the end of WWII, the author
reports on the dispersal of art in the American Zone of Germany where
more than 1800 repositories in mines, castles, churches, monasteries
and remote villages were discovered and the contents transferred to US
collecting points. Once identified by MFA&A Monuments officers, the
objects are returned to their rightful owners. Lists of cultural losses and
missing artwork are still being compiled.

118. Hall, Ardelia R. "The U.S. program for return of historic objects
to countries of origin, 1944-1954." Department of State Bulletin 31,
no.797 (October 4, 1954): 493-498.
Note: In 1954, the Department of State returned WWII displaced
cultural treasures to foreign embassies in Washington to be restored to
their rightful owners. Most of the objects had entered the US through
art-trade channels.

119. Hamlin, Gladys E. "European art collections and the war."

College Art Journal 4 (March - May 1946): 155-163, 209-212.
Note: A survey of the looting, hiding, and discovery of European art
treasures.

120. Hamlin, Gladys E. "European art collections and the war."

College Art Journal 4 (May 1946): 219-228.
Note: Hitler refused to move art from Berlin until the very end of the
war when he consented to move things to nearby flaktowers and to salt
mines; however most other German cities did evacuate their art for
safekeeping. Hamlin writes about the process of checking this art for
loot to be sent to Collecting Points, as well as the procedures used at
the Collecting Points with an emphasis on the one at Munich: most of
the art kept at Munich was taken from the Alt Ausse salt mine where
the largest art collection outside of the Vatican was stored. Hamlin
describes, in detail, the art, as well as, the people involved in returning
the treasures to their rightful owners.

121. Hamlin, Gladys E. "European art collections and the war."

College Art Journal 4 (March 1946): 155-163.
Note: In Part 1 of a two-part survey of the looting, hiding, and
discovery of European art treasures during WWII, the author describes
how before WWII German plans were for made to systematically
looting European art. Experts were sent as scholars and tourists to
other countries to make detailed lists of artwork for looting. When the
Nazis did occupy countries they took what they wanted; in the case of
the Eastern countries, they destroyed material concerning their history
and culture.

122. Hammer, Katharina. Splendor in the dark: the recovery of art

treasures in Salzkammergut at the end of WWII. Vienna:
Osterreichiscer Bundesverlag, 1986. 290 pp.
Note: This book, part of a series on Austria, deals with the storage and
salvage of art works in WWII in Austria. The rescued art included
Hitler's collection, Austrian museum collections kept there for
protection, and other art plundered from individuals, churches, and
museums.

123. Hammett, Ralph. "ComZone and the protection of monuments in

Northwest Europe." College Art Journal 5 (January 1946): 123-126.
Note: Hammett, a Monuments specialist, writes about his experiences
as a Monuments officer mostly in France. He gives details about
procedures followed in recording information, including the catalog
system he created listing all monument, art collections, castles, and
libraries in the G-5 Section, ComZone.

124. Hammond, Mason. "War and art treasures in Germany." College

Art Journal 5 (March 1946): 205-218.
Note: A Harvard University art scholar, Mason Hammond describes
the great cultural losses in Germany, while noting the elaborate and
generally successful protection measures taken by the Nazis.
125. Hamon, Marie. "Spoliation and recovery of cultural property in
France, 1940-1994." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
63-66. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: Before the declaration of war, the German government drafted a
list of artwork it wanted to obtain from other countries. In France, a
gallant French curator, Rose Valland, worked with the ERR to learn as
much as possible to gain as much information as possible about the
confiscation, even making copies of some of the German inventories.
The author has made a list of restitution claims made after the war and
described the recovery procedures.

126. Hamon, Marie. "The Working Group on Cultural Property." In

Cultural treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the
Second World war: documentation and research on losses, 43-63.
Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of
the International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2,
1994).
Note: An exchange of views between France and Germany took place
as early as 1991 owing to the possibility of the GDR's and Russia's
returning French cultural property to France. A working group was
formed to collect information on lost art and archives. Some of the
WWII lost art appears on the art market.

127. Hancock, Lee. "Judge extends order forbidding removal of art."

Dallas Morning News (June 28, 1990).
Note: Legal progress in the Quedlinburg Treasures Case.

128. Hancock, Lee and David Thorne Park. "E. German church files
suit for return of art treasures." Dallas Morning News (June 19, 1990):
1A.
Note: Legal progress in the Quedlinburg Treasures Case.

129. Hancock, Walker. "Experiences of a Monuments Officer in

Germany." College Art Journal 5, no.4 (May 1946): 271-311.
Note: Hancock, a distinguished sculptor at the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, was one of the first Monuments officers to reach France
with the First Army. He describes his work in detail: the discoveries,
the organization of collection centers, the gathering of German experts.
Later, he was one of the Monuments Officers who protested the
movement of German art to the US, saying that he felt that the action
betrayed the confidence of the German scholars who had worked with
him.

130. Hartung, Ulrike. "The 'Sonderkommando Künsberg': looting of

cultural treasures in the USSR." Spoils of War no. 2 (July 1996): 14-
16.
Note: Author presents a picture of how the Nazis confiscated art in the
Soviet Union.

131. Heirs sue museum for painting: art dealer's family says Seattle Art
Museum isn't right to delay return of Matisse work (Universal Time).
August 14, 1998.
Note: The heirs of Paul Rosenberg, considered the most important art
dealer in 10th and 20th century art between WWI and WWII, are suing
the Seattle Art Museum, for possession of an Henri Matisse painting,
"Odalisque." The painting was left behind when the Rosenbergs fled to
New York from Paris upon the Nazis invasion of France in 1940. The
painting was sold in 1954 by a Paris gallery to a New York City
gallery where a Seattle man purchased it; in 1991 the man donated the
painting to the Seattle Art Museum.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/04798.html#1.

132. Helligar, Jeremy. "The art of the matter: Rita Reif fights to
reclaim a painting she says Nazis stole from her family." People
Weekly 49, no.9 (March 9, 1998): 69+.

133. Henry-Künzel, Ginger and Andrew Decker. "Never look a gift

horse in the mouth." ARTnews 93, no.4 (April 1994): 51-52.
Note: Gold treasures from Troy looted by Russia from Germany at the
end of WWII will be shown in Pushkin Museum exhibit soon to the
consternation of German museum officals.
134. Heufs, Anja. "Archives in the Federal Republic of Germany on art
theft: an overall view." In Cultural treasures moved because of the war:
a cultural legacy of the Second World war: documentation and
research on losses, 135-141. Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder,
1995. (Documentation of the International Meeting in Bremen,
November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Article focuses on the archival material in the FRG containing
material relevant to the issue of Nazi art theft.

135. Heuss, Anja. "Der Klosterschatz Petschur (The Petschur

Monastery treasure)." Kritische Berichte 23, no.2 (1995): 44-51.
Note: Author recounts the problems of returning looted art after WWII
due to altered national borders, new governments, and displaced ethnic
groups, focusing on the problems of art works from the Baltic
countries.

136. Hiller, Armin. "The German-Russian negotiations over the

contents of the Russian repositories." In The spoils of war - World War
II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural
property, 179-185. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: A member of both the German-Russian and the German-
Ukranian joint commissions on the return of cultural property, Hiller
asks that Russia honor the spirit and letter of the Good Neighborliness
Treaty of 1990 and that they attune the domestic legislation they have
announced to international law.

137. Hiller, Marlene P. "The documentation of war losses in the former

Soviet Republics." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
81-83. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: Author proposes a plan to approach the problems of finding out
who appropriated culture treasures from Soviet cultural institutions
during WWII; where these objects were taken and what happened to
them; who recovered them; and what happened to them in the period
from 1945 to 1990. Recovering what information about cultural losses
can still be obtained is a goal of the Bremen Research Institute for
Eastern Europe.

138. Hinchberger, Bill. "Brazil uncovers Nazi war loot." ARTnews

(September 1998): 67.
Note: A Picasso and a Monet allegedly taken to Brazil as Nazi war loot
in 1941 have surfaced in a Sao Paulo art gallery, shortly after another
stash of 25 works turned up in southern Brazil, and before the
completion of a joint government-citizen commission report on war
loot in the South American country.

139. Hochfield, Sylvia. "St. Petersburg: will the Hermitage return the
Degas." ARTnews 94 (March 1995).

140. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Under a Russian sofa: 101 looted treasures."

ARTnews 92, no.4 (April 1993): 120-125.
Note: Prints and Old Master drawings, stolen from the German
Karnzow Castle during WWII by Red Army officers, have been found
in a search by Russian art historians, Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorii
Kozlov. Arkinsha and Kozlov have been researching the fate of WWII
looted art for years; it was they who announced to the world in 1991,
the existence in the USSR of secret storerooms filled with artwork
looted from Germany after the war, including the Trojan gold
treasures.

141. Hochfield, Sylvia. "The Russians renege." ARTnews 93, no.6

(Summer 1994): 68+.
Note: At recent restitution meetings, Russians noted that in talks
before the end of the war, the Soviet had told Western Allies of their
plans to take compensation in the form of German property as
compensation for their immense losses; as a result, loot removed by
official trophy brigades was legal. The Germans expressed pessimism
about the restitution talks.
142. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Twice stolen." ARTnews 94, no.4 (April
1995): 85-86.
Note: This article is on the problems of repatriation of looted art taken
from Germany by the Russian army after WWII. The Germans, hoping
to get their own works back, are considering compensation of works
looted by Germans from the Russian collections. Other interests are
concerned that many of the works were stolen by Germany from
occupied countries.

143. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Nobody knows what to do next." ARTnews

94, no.5 (May 1995): 65-66.
Note: More on the debate between the Germans and the Russians
about the return of German works taken by the Red Army at the end of
WWII.

144. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Do the right thing." ARTnews 97, no.2
(February 1998): 66.
Note: The art world has recently taken steps to face the challenges of
restitution: the new Commission for Art Recovery aims to recover art
taken from Jewish victims for heirs or for Jewish charity; the
Holocaust Art Restitution Project aims to act as a clearinghouse for
stolen art information; and the International Research Center for the
Documentation of Wartime Losses is being organized to gather and
disseminate information relating to culture displace in times of war.

145. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Will the Hermitage return the Degas?."

ARTnews 94, no.3 (March 1995): 48+.
Note: The Russians have agreed to return Degas' "Place de la
Concorde" to the heirs of a German collector; the heirs and the
Hermitage Museum agreed to divide the Gerstenberg Collection. There
is concern that the Russian government may not allow the return of
any German artwork. Heirs to the Siemens, Kohler, and Krebs
Collections, moved from Berlin to Russia after the war, are negotiating
the return of these works.

146. Hochfield, Sylvia. "The Malevich legacy: heirs vs. museums."

ARTnews 92, no.9 (November 1993): 65+.
Note: Malevich collections at two U.S. museums are under scrutiny as
the artist's heirs claim the paintings.

147. Hochfield, Sylvia. "The Russian surprise." ARTnews (January

1999): 56, 58.
Note: At the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets in
December 1998, plans were announced for a mega website as a central
registry of art looted by the Nazis for access by claimants and
collectors. Russian delegate Kulishov shocked the conference
participants when he invited victims or heirs to claim their looted art
treasures in Russia, because the Russian parliament adopted a bill
nationalizing most of the cultural property captured by the Red Army
trophy brigades after WWII exempting only church property, non-Nazi
public property, family heirlooms of non-Nazis, and the property of
Nazi enemies and victims. This article raises concerns about what is a
Nazi victim and describes the complexity of making claims against
Russia.

148. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Wrestling with restitution." ARTnews

(Summer 1998): 59.
Note: When the Baroness Rothschild returned to Austria to claim
family property, the government demanded a share of the artwork
under the Export Prohibition Law. In order to export the collections,
she was forced to "donate" 230 objects to Austrian museums. The
Austrian culture minister has announced that Austria will return these
assets to their rightful owners upon inventory; the Rothschild
collections will be the first case to be dealt with because of the clear
proof of possession.

149. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Back to the drawing room." ARTnews

(December 1998): 61.
Note: Nine 19th-century Dresden drawings in the custody of Russians
now living in New York City have been returned to the Dresden
Gallery where they join the bulk of the collection returned by the
Russians in the 1950s. About 1500 prints and drawings remain
missing.
150. Hochfield, Sylvia. "Statute with limitations." ARTnews
(November 1998): 57.
Note: A proposed bill to set limits on reclaiming stolen artwork is seen
by its proponents as stabilizing the art markets by reducing the number
of lawsuits.

151. Hoffman, Barbara. "The spoils of war." Archaeology (November-

December 1993): 37-40.
Note: Author finds the legal framework and applicable laws for
resolving issues of war booty and stolen artwork far from simple. The
two most significant international agreements protecting cultural
property are the Hague Convention of 1954 and the UNESCO
Convention adopted in 1970.

152. Honan, William H. "Germans to get priceless gospels lost in '45."

New York Times (May 1, 1990): A1, A19.
Note: Samuhel Gospels, part of the Quedlinburg Church Treasures, are
returned to Germany.

153. Honan, William H. "A trove of medieval art turns up in Texas."

New York Times (June 14, 1990): A1, D22.
Note: Quedlinburg Church Treasures are traced to Texas.

154. Honan, William H. "Second missing manuscript turns up in

German hands." New York Times (June 16, 1990).

155. Honan, William H. Treasure hunt: a New York Times report

tracks the Quedlinburg hoard. New York: Fromm International, 1997.
289 pp.
Note: Honan, brought into the Quedlinburg art theft case by Willi
Korte, art sleuth, followed a tip and ended up in Texas where the New
York Times reporter turned up the obituary of the thief, a former Army
officer who had found the sacred objects in a mushroom cave.

156. Honan, William H. "Ely Maurer, who repatriated art looted by

Nazis, dies at 84." New York Times (June 29, 1997): 29.
Note: Maurer served as a State Department legal advisor on the
repatriation of cultural treasures after WWII, determining the rightful
owners of looted art. He was called in as an expert by lawyers involved
with the Quedlinburg case involving medieval treasures taken from a
cave by an American soldier at the end of WWII.

157. Honan, William H. "Journalist on the chase." In The spoils of war

- World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery
of cultural property, 153-155. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
(Paper presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War,
sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,
New York, January, 1995).
Note: Honan, New York Times reporter, tells of the clues that led him
to Texas looking for the Quedlinburg Church Treasure's thief.

158. Honan, William H. "Texas bank admits it has missing art." New
York Times (June 19, 1990): C18.
Note: Quedlinburg Church Treasures located in a Texas bank.

159. Honan, William H. "Judge refuses to order silence about stolen

art." New York Times (June 21, 1990): B3.
Note: Quedlinburg Church Treasures as a legal issue.

160. Honan, William H. "Church lawyers say stolen art was moved."
New York Times (June 24, 1990): 19.
Note: Quedlinburg Church Treasures as a legal issue.

161. Honan, William H. "Germans send lawyers to Texas." New York

Times (June 1990): C22.
Note: Quedlinburg Church Treasures as a legal issue.

162. Honan, William H. "Letter show thief knew value of the

Quedlinburg Treasures." New York Times (September 3, 1994): A1.
Note: Meador's letters indicate that he understood the value of the
Quedlinburg Church Treasures.

163. Honan, William H. "Case against heirs of art thief is all but over."
New York Times (April 14, 1998): 14.
Note: The heirs of Joe Tom Meador may have to pay more than $50
million in estate taxes, penalties and interest to the IRS for the Army
lieutenant's Quedlinburg loot taken at the end of WWII and sold by the
heirs to European art dealers who in turn sold them Germany.

164. "How the Republic of Austria forced the Rothschilds to donate

art." Der Standard (February 14-15, 1998).
Note: To allow Clarice de Rothschild, widow of Alphonse, to take the
rest of the Rothschild collection out of Austria after the war, she was
pressured to donate seven paintings and 34 other art objects to the Art
History Museum in Austria.

165. Howe, Thomas Carr. Salt mines and castles: the discovery and
restitution of looted European art. New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1946.
334 pp.
Note: Before joining the Navy in WWII, Howe served as director of
the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In this entertaining book,
he tells of his experiences as a Monument officer in Europe where he
discovered hidden art and was instrumental in establishing Central
Collecting Points directed by Monuments officers and staffed by
German museum personnel who cared for the paintings while
restitution efforts were going on.

166. Huebner, Jeff. "Landscape of pain: the fight over Daniel Searle's
Degas which a Jewish family says was stolen by the Nazis." Chicago
47, no.5 (May 1998): 24+.
Note: An Art Institute of Chicago trustee is the owner of Degas'
Landscape with smokestacks which is the object of a claim by the heirs
of Nazi victims.

167. Hughes, Robert. "Hold those paintings! The Manhattan D.A.

seizes alleged Nazi loot." Time 151, no.1 (January 12, 1998): 70.
Note: Two paintings by the Austrian Expressionist, Egon Schiele, have
been confiscated by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau
from the comprehensive show of Schiele's works at the Museum of
Modern Art (MOMA) pending a criminal investigation into their
rightful ownership. On loan from the government-supported Leopold
Foundation in Vienna, the paintings have been claimed by heirs of
Viennese Jewish families who lost them to the Nazis in the 1930s.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/00498.html
168. Hughes, Robert. "Russia's secret spoils of World War II: the
Hermitage in St. Petersburg breaks its silence on a hidden trove of
Impressionist treasures." Time 144, no.16 (October 17, 1994): 85.
Note: Two paintings by the Austrian Expressionist, Egon Schiele, have
been confiscated by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau
from the comprehensive show of Schiele's works at the Museum of
Modern Art (MOMA) pending a criminal investigation into their
rightful ownership. On loan from the government-supported Leopold
Foundation in Vienna, the paintings have been claimed by heirs of
Viennese Jewish families who lost them to the Nazis in the 1930s.

169. Hume, Christopher. "Art sleuth recovered Nazi loot." Toronto

Star (December 8, 1998): 1-3.
Note: In December, Lane Faison spoke at the Art Gallery of Ontario
about his postwar adventures, first as an art expert with the Art Looting
Investigation Unit of the OSS, and later as the director of the Central
Collecting Point at Munich where he oversaw efforts to gather and
return millions of art objects.

170. Ilatovskaya, Tatiana. Master drawings rediscovered treasures

from prewar German collections. New York: Ministry of Culture of the
Russian Federation and State Hermitage Museum in association with
Harry N. Abrams, 1996. (Catalog of the exhibition held at the State
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, December 3 - March 31, 1997).

171. "Instances of repatriation by the USSR." In The spoils of war -

World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 145-147. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
(Summary of the symposium presentation by Irina Antonova at the
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: In the view of Irina Antonova, the document, "On the legal bases
for a solution to questions concerning cultural property removed to the
USSR as a result of WWII", demonstrates the legality of the art's
presence in the Soviet Union.
172. Interim report. Paris: Commission for the Study of the Spoilation
of Jews in France: April-December 1997, December 31, 1997. 119 pp.
Note: In February 1997, the Prime Minister asked Mr. Jean Mattéoli,
former Resistance member and president of the Council for Economic
and Social Affairs, to study the conditions under which property
belonging to Jews was confiscated in the context of WWII French anti-
Semitic policies promulgated by the Vichy government inspite of
French law founded on principles of secularity and equal rights. The
report, finding that the Vichy government instituted an industry of
spoliation from 1940 to 1944, sets forth the Commission's other
objectives which include research into the origins of artwork deposited
in national museums, and specification for the conditions of future
sales of goods coming from spoliation.

173. International Military Tribunal: Nurnberg, 1. Toronto, Ontario:

Nizkor Project, 1996-1998.
Note: This webpage leads to the transcripts of the postwar Nurnberg
Trials including the U.S. Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis
Criminality's 1946 Nazi conspiracy & aggression which includes
Chapter 8 on "Economic aspects of the conspiracy", Chapter 10 on The
slave labor program", Chapter 11 on "The concentration camps", and
Chapter 14: "The plunder of art treasures" with information on the
Einsatzstab Rosenberg (ERR); the cooperation of Hermann Goering;
General Government's confiscation laws and decrees; the nature,
extent and value of property stolen; and legal references and list of
documents relating to the plunder of art treasures.
Online: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt.

174. Järvinen, Markkhu. Convention of the Hague of 1954 by

UNESCO for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed
conflict. n.p.: International Council on Archives, 1995. 9 pp.
(Presentation at XXXIst International Conference of the Round Table
on Archives, "War, Archives, and the Comity of Nations, 1st working
session, "Protection of Records During War", Washington, September
6-9. 1995).
Note: The Hague Convention of 1907 introduced legal protection to
cultural property at a time when there were separate fighting zones;
WWI with long-range artillery and aerial bombings made this
separation obsolete. During WWII, attempts were made by the Allies
to safeguard cultural property in Europe. After WWII, there was a
fresh movement for international cooperation re cultural heritage
protection under UNESCO resulting in the 1954 Convention. The
speaker reminds us that although the main attention is given to the
more visible monuments, buildings, museums and artwork, archives
and libraries are important issues in the consideration of cultural
heritage.

175. The Jeu de Paume and the looting of France. New York: Cultural
Property Research Foundation, 1998. 3 pp.
Note: The purpose of this project is dedicated to the historical
reconstruction of the Nazis' WWII seizure of Jewish cultural property
in France when the Jew de Paume Museum in Paris became a
notorious collection spot for confiscated art.
Online: http://docproj.loyola.edu/jdp/index.html.

176. Jir sek, Pavel. "Losses of cultural property from the territory of
the Czech Republic due to World War II." In The spoils of war -
World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 232-233. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: Pavel states that there was little outflow of Czech cultural
treasures to Germany until 1945, except for Jewish art. At the end of
the war, many collections were destroyed or relocated by first the
Germans and then the Soviets.

177. Jolis, Alan. "War loot goes on-line." ARTnews 95, no.8
(September 1996): 58.
Note: The French plan to produce a catalog of art works stolen from
Holocaust victims; in the meantime they will put the art illustrations on
the web.

178. Kaplan, Alissa. "Hot on the paper trail: the profits of plunder."
ABCNEWS.com (November 6, 1998).
179. Kaplan, Alissa. "Details emerge on assets' fate: 'all of Europe'
benefited from war booty." ABCNEWS.com (December 19, 1997).

180. Kaufman, Joshua & Kleinman ,Jeff. "Society to prevent trade in

stolen art." Spoils of War, no. 2 (July 1996): 11-12.
Note: The recent establishment of The Society to Prevent Trade in
Stolen Art (STOP), a non-for-profit organization, will hopefully help,
through its education programs and resource services, to combat trade
in stolen and fraudulent art.

181. Kaye, Lawrence M. "The statute of limitations in art recovery

cases: an overview." IFAR Journal (International Foundation for Art
Research) 1, no.3 (Autumn 1998): 22-28.
Note: Statutes of Limitations vary from one state to another in the
United States; European Statutes of Limitations are governed by Civil
Codes except for the U.K. which shares a common law jurisdiction
with the U.S.

182. Kaye, Lawrence M. "Laws in force at the dawn of World War II:
international conventions and national laws." In The spoils of war -
World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 100-105. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: This essay presents an overview of international and national
efforts to protect cultural property with an emphasis on the laws in
force at the beginning of WWII. Although the international agreements
did not prevent the terrible cultural loss of WWII, their principles
served as the basis for the repatriation of cultural property following
the war.

183. Kienle, Christiane. "Return to Dresden after decades: an

exhibition of the State Galleries Dresden." Spoils of War, no. 5 (June
1998): 35-37.
Note: In April, 1998, a "Back to Dresden" exhibition of works of art
lost during World War II, but since returned to former owners, opened
at the Dresden Palace. These artwork thefts happened in 1945 during
the surrender of the depositories to the Soviet Army.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil5_2.html#10.

184. Kienle, Christiane. "The return of ivory sculptures to Germany."

Spoils of War, no. 3 (December 1996): 59-61.
Note: This is the tale of the repatriation of the Darmstadt ivory
sculptures as a result of public pressure and the solidarity of the
international museum world. The sculptures, stolen from a German
hiding place after the war, surfaced at a Parisian auction in 1993. The
fact that museums were informed about ivory figures and the auction
house was put under pressure led to intensive negotiations that resulted
in the five apostles returning to Darmstadt.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_5.html#4.

185. Klessman, Eckart. "Von Bomben gerettet und doch verloren?

(Saved from the bombs and yet lost?)." Art (Hamburg) no. 3 (March
1993): 44-53.
Note: This is a report on WWII hidden art which has disappeared.
Note is made of arrangements for the return of the old master drawings
and prints from the Kunsthalle Bremen which were taken by Soviets at
the end of the war.

186. Klessman, Eckart. "Die Amerikaner beienten sich aus den Depots
der Nazis (The Americans help themselves at the Nazi depositories)."
Art (Hamburg) no. 8 (August 1993): 78-81.
Note: Author criticizes the handling of artwork by the Allies at the end
of the war, especially the American military and speculates that many
items were illegally transported to the US. The artwork was brought
together by Monuments officers at Collecting Points in Europe, but
many objects formerly in Soviet and German collections have never
been discovered.

187. Kline, Thomas R. "Recent developments in the recovery of Old

Master drawings from Bremen." Spoils of War no. 5 (June 1998): 15-
19.
Note: Drawings, estimated to be worth more than $10 million and
believed to have been stolen first from Bremen, at the end of World
War II, and later from Baku, were seized in September 1997 by the
U.S. Customs Service. The criminal case, involving a Japanese
national charged with violating the National Stolen Property Act, sets
the stage for a dispute between Bremen and Baku over ownership of
the drawings.

Among National Archives Library's periodical holdings.

Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil5_2.html#3.

188. Kline, Thomas R. "Recovering wartime losses and other stolen art
and cultural property found in the United States." Spoils of War no. 3
(December 1996): 6-9.
Note: Kline's article offers advice on how theft victims should go
about recovering located cultural property found in the United States.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_2.html#1.

189. Kline, Thomas R. "Legal issues relating to the recovery of the

Quedlinburg Treasures." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
156-158. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: Kline's job with Korte and Honan was to ensure that nothing was
done in the hunt for the Quedlinburg Church Treasures that would
jeopardize the making of a lawful claim to the treasures. In this
presentation, Kline traces the steps along the way to settlement of the
case and remarks on other instances in which victims have brought
claims of cultural-property theft and pursued them to settlement on
favorable terms or to success in courts, including the Bremen Kusthalle
case.

190. Kline, Thomas R. and Willi A. Korte. "Archival material on

National Socialist Art plundering during the Second World War."
Spoils of War, no. 1 (December 1995): 40-41.

191. Klugmann, Claudia. "Kriegsverluste der Gemälde- und

Pleastiksammlung des Museums der bildenden Künste (War losses of
the picture and sculpture collection of the Museum of Fine Arts)." In
Museum der bildenden Künste (Museum of Fine Arts), 7-40. Leipzig:
Jahresheft, 1994.
Note: This is a list of about 200 paintings and pieces of sculpture
missing since the war from the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts.

192. Knyschewskij, Pawel Nikolawitsch. Moskaus Beute. Wie

Vermoegen, Kulturgüter und Intelligenz nach 1945 aus Deutschland
geraubt wurden (Moscow loot: how property, cultural treasures and
intelligence were robbed from Germany after 1945). München:
Landsberg am Lech, 1995. 241 pp.
Note: This book gives a clear picture of how industrial plants were
moved from Germany to the Soviet Union, as well as a view of the
looting of cultural treasures by the Red Army.

193. Koenigs, Christine F. "Under duress: the sale of the Franz

Koenigs Collection." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
237-240. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: The Koenigs Collection included paintings and old master
drawings in 1935 when Koenigs, a German living in Amsterdam,
loaned his collection to the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam. In 1939,
Koenigs was prepared to negotiate with the museum for the sale of the
collection when the threat of invasion forced him to leave Amsterdam.
Parts of the collection were sold separately; the Koenigs drawings are
now in Russia.

194. Kogelfranz, Siegfried and Willi A. Korte. Quedlingburg - Texas

und zurück (Quedlinburg - Texas and back). Unich: Droemer Knaur,
1994. 512 pp.
Note: The tale of Korte's pursuit of the Quedlinburg Church Treasures.

195. Kommenda, Benedikt. "Schiele: Was alles gegen die

Konfiszierung spricht experten verweisen auf einen US-Präzedenzfall,
in dem ein eindeutig von den Nazis geraubtes Kunstwerk nicht den
früheren Eigentümern zurückgegeben wurde (Whatever is said against
the confiscation, experts point to a U.S. precedent wherein artwork
looted by the Nazis is not returned to its previous owner)." Museum
Security Mailing list Reports (March 1998).
Note: Arbitration over the confiscation of two Schiele paintings is
difficult because of the discrepancy between American and European
rights of ownership. In Anglo-American law, the good trust of
ownership principle, cited by Rudolf Leopold in Austrian law, does not
exist; according to the European ownership principle, if the "sincere
owner" buys from a trader through authorized trade means, with "good
trust" and on the trader's recommendation, he or she becomes owner
even, if subsequently, it is discovered that the painting has been stolen.
This principle, which provides for secure ownership in trading, is not
recognized in American law.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/00398.html.

196. Konchin, Evgraf. "Tainik Villii Holzdorf (The hiding place in the
Villa Holzdorf)." Kultura, 30 (July 1994).

197. Koordinierungstelle der Länder für die Rückführung von

Kulturgütern (Coordinating State Office for the return of cultural
treasures). n.p.: Federal States of Germany, Undated.
Note: The German Coordinating State Office for the Return of
Cultural Treasures (Koordinierungsstelle) was founded to research and
document European cultural losses as a result of WWII and postwar
historical events. Close contact with affected archives, museums, and
libraries have been maintained in order to collect missing objects and
research results in a database designed for this purpose. The
Koordinierungsstelle sponsored an international meeting, "Cultural
treasures moved because of the War: A Cultural Legacy of the Second
World War Documentation and Research on Losses" (http://www.dhh-
3.de/biblio/bremen/treasures/contents.html), late in 1994, and began
distributing expert information on cultural losses in its international
newsletter, Spoils of War (http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/start.html) as a
result of that meeting.

198. Korfmann, Manfred. "The value of the finds to the scientific

community." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the
loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 207-211. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Korfmann expresses his view that the Trojan Treasures are
extremely important for cultural and scientific research.

199. Korkmazova, Evgenia. "Review of the 1997 Russian press on the

issue of the restitution of cultural values. Part II.." Spoils of War no. 5
(June 1998): 41-43.
Note: This review of the Russian press draws on the "Restitution File"
maintained by Bibliographer Korkmazova.

Among National Archives Library's periodical holdings.

Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil5_2.html#12.

200. Korte, Willi. "Trans-Art." Spoils of War, no. 10 (1995): 5-7.

Note: Trans-Art International has created an international database, the
Historic Art Theft Registry, for stolen works of art that protects the
ownership claims of WWII victims of looting.

201. Korte, Willi. "Search for the treasures." In The spoils of war -
World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 150-152. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: The Quedlinburg Church Treasures were stored by the Germans
in the Altenburg cave near the church. In 1945, Joe T. Meador, an
American officer, stole many of the most valuable objects and sent
them to his home in Texas. When Meador's heirs began to sell parts of
the treasure after his death in 1980, Korte, a private investigator
specializing in WWII displaced art, became involved through the
Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin. Korte persuaded
first New York Times reporter Bill Honan and then Tom Kline, an
attorney with a Texas law firm, to join him in working on the case
which resulted in the return of the treasures.
202. Korte, Willi. Trans-Art. Washington, Trans-Art. 2 pp. Vol.
Undated.
Note: Description of the Historic Art Theft Registry of Trans-Art
International, L.C., an international database for stolen works of art
that protects the ownership claims of war theft victims regarding their
missing property without paying fees.
Online: http://www.dhh-3.de/biblio/bremen/sow/transart.html.

203. Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden treasures revealed: Impressionist

masterpieces and other French paintings preserved by the State
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, in
association with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and
the State Hermitage Museum, 1995. (Catalog of the exhibition held at
the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, opened March 30, 1995).

Note: This catalog lists paintings from the Krebs, Gerstenberg, Scharf,
Koehler and other collections that were removed from German
repositories in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and shipped to the
USSR. When some of the public art was returned to Germany, the
privately owned collections were kept; now their rightful ownership is
contested.

204. Kot, Sergei. "The Ukraine and the Russian Law on removed
cultural values." Spoils of War, no. 5 (June 1998): 9-15.
Note: This discussion of the effect on the Ukraine by Russian law on
removed cultural assets notes that cultural property was evacuated
from the Ukraine to Russia during WWII and Ukranian cultural
property was transferred to the USSR in the scope of postwar
restitution and now kept in Russia.

205. Kot, Sergei. "Ancient Ukranian mosaics and frescos lost during
the war and now located in Russian museums." Spoils of War, no. 5
(June 1998): 37-41.
Note: In 1934-1936, the Mikhailovsky Cathedral in Kiev was blown
up by communist leaders sent from Moscow. The most valuable
mosaics and frescos were removed and sent to museums of Kiev.
During the German occupation, the Germans moved engravings, maps,
drawings, plans, and photographic negatives and positives, mosaics,
frescoes were taken to Germany. At the end of the war, possessions of
Ukranian museums were given over to the Soviet Union, but they
never made their way back to the Ukraine.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil5_2.html#11.

206. Kotzsche, Dietrich. "Der Quedlinburger Schatz wieder vereint: 31

Oktober 1992 bis 30 Mai 1993 (Quedlinburg Treasure united again:
October 31, 1992 until May 30, 1993." Museums-Journal (Berlin) 7,
no.1 (1993): 47-49.
Note: Treasure taken from the Quedlinburg church to the US after
WWII has been restored to the church and exhibited in Berlin.

207. Koulichov, Valery. "The history of the Soviet repositories and

their contents." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath:
the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 171-174.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: This is a history of the Soviet repositories - how they came into
being and what they contain.

208. Kowalsi, Wojciech. "Introduction to International Law of

Restitution of Works of Art Looted during Armed Conflicts. Part II."
Spoils of War, no. 3 (December 1996): 10-11.
Note: In this part of his series, the author quotes legal philosophers to
show that citizen's property should be excluded from war and given
proper protection.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_2.html#2.

209. Kowalski, Wojciech. "Introduction to International Law of

Restitution of Works of Art looted during armed conflicts. Part III."
Spoils of War, no. 4 (August 1977): 39-41.
Note: The author traces looting and restitution up to the 19th century,
noting that Napoleon's looting activities had an effect on the
development of international law.

210. Kowalski, Wojciech. Liquidation of the effects of World War II

in the area of culture. Warsaw: Institute of Culture, 1994. 115 pp.
211. Kowalski, Wojciech. "Internationaler Kulturgüterschutz in
Europa: deutsch-polnische Fragen (International cultural asset
protection in Europe: German and Polish questions)." Kritische
Berichte 23, no. 2 (1995): 52-57.
Note: This account tells of Poland's attempts to reclaim her cultural
treasures taken as booty through history from the middle ages to the
present with a positive focus on current talks between Germany and
Poland about the exchange of WWII looted art.

212. Kowalski, Wojciech. "Poland. Part I: Historical overview." Spoils

of War, no. 1 (December 1995): 22-24.
Note: After their WWI experience, Polish scholars collected
information on their cultural losses from the first days of war in 1939.
The author tells of the efforts to inventory losses and prepare
restitution claims during and after WWII.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil1_3.html#8.

213. Kowalski, Wojciech. "World War II cultural losses of Poland: a

historical issue or still a 'hot' political and legal topic." In The spoils of
war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and
recovery of cultural property, 235-236. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1997. (Paper presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War,
sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,
New York, January, 1995).
Note: Polish art collections, kept mostly in residences and palaces,
were not well documented before 1939 when the Germans ordered that
all public art be confiscated, including all church property with the
exception of liturgical objects needed for ordinary services. There has
been some progress toward restitution during this decade and there is
now hope for more.

214. Kowalski, Wojciech. "Introduction to International Law of

Restitution of Works of Art looted during armed conflicts. Part I."
Spoils of War, no. 2 (July 1996): 6-8.
Note: An history of wartime plundering and early attempts to restrict
looting during the war and return loot after the war.
Among National Archives Library's periodical holdings.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil2_3.html#1.

215. Kowalski, Wojciech. "Introduction to International Law of

Restitution of Works of Art looted during armed conflicts. Part IV."
Spoils of War, no. 5 (June 1998): 7-9.
Note: Author notes that the 19th century witnessed the adoption of the
first legal acts banning destruction and looting of what is today
referred to as cultural property. The Lieber Code of 1863, the Brussels
Declaration of 1874, and the Hague Convention of 1899 paved the way
to modern laws on the protection of cultural heritage in time of war.

Among National Archives Library's periodical holdings.

Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil5_2.html#1.

216. Kreis, George. Switzerland and the looted art trade linked to
World War II. n.p.: Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research,
1997.
Note: Switzerland played a central role in the movement of art during
WWII as a secure storage place for endangered art, and as a center for
negotiating the sale of artwork. Kreis reports on the situation at the
outset of the war, the role of Switzerland as a storage site, and
Switzerland as a market place beginning with the Gallery Fischer sale
in Lucerne in 1939 of German "degenerate art."

217. Kuhn, Petra. "Comment on the Soviet returns of cultural treasures

moved because of the war to the GDR." Spoils of War, no. 2 (July
1996): 45-47.
Note: Over two million cultural objects have been returned to the GDR
by Russia, according to the author.

218. Kuhn, Petra and Doris Lemmermeier. "Documentation and

research of cultural losses related with World War II in the Federal
Republic of Germany." In Cultural treasures moved because of the
war: a cultural legacy of the Second World war: documentation and
research on losses, 91-102. Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder,
1995. (Documentation of the International Meeting in Bremen,
November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Germany has dealt very carefully and sensitively with other
European countries about their cultural losses during WWII. They
have registered lost public and private cultural property and recorded
its whereabouts if known.

219. Kuhnke, Monika. "Poland. Part II: Problems related to the

recording of the war losses in the area of works of art." Spoils of War,
no. 1 (December 1995): 25-29.
Note: The author notes that the "Loss Catalogue" based on reports sent
to London during the war and published in 1944, failed to account for
the immense devastation Warsaw suffered after the fall of the Rising in
1944 when the city virtually ceased to exist. More recent work has
resulted in a number of catalogues and a database of information about
over 41,000 lost artwork most of them identifiable by photograph.

220. Kunzelman, Charles J. "Some trials, tribulations, and successes of

the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives teams in the European theater
during WWII." Military Affairs, 52 (January 1988).

221. Kurtz, Michael J. American cultural restitution policy in Germany

during the occupation, 1945-1949. Washington: Georgetown
University, 1982. iv, 224 pp. (PhD Dissertation, Georgetown
University, 1982).
Note: The author provides a valuable insight into the Western program
for cultural restitutions at the end of the war, with emphasis on
American policies and Soviet lack of cooperation.

222. Kurtz, Michael J. Nazi contraband: American policy on the return

of European cultural treasures, 1945-1955. New York: Garland, 1985.
v, 309 pp.
Note: The only study known on the topic of policy and WWII cultural
restitution, this book presents in detail the American approach to
cultural restitution as based on: its propaganda value as an Allied effort
to preserve cultural treasures; the Anglo-Saxon concepts of justice
calling for the return of stolen property; and, the pressure placed on the
government by Americans in the arts and archives spheres with an
interest in cultural preservation and restitution. His descriptions of the
looted art recovery process offer a clear picture of the Nazi efforts to
protect their looted art and gold in castles, bunkers and mines.

223. Kurz, Jakob. Kunstraub in Europa 1939-1945 (Art theft in

Europe, 1939-1945). Hamburg: Facta Oblita, 1989. 444 pp.

224. La Farge, Henry. Lost treasures of Europe: 427 photographs. New

York: Pantheon, 1946. 352 pp.
Note: Photographs of monuments and architecture before and after
bombing.

225. Lambsdorff, Hagen Graf. "Return of cultural property: hostages

of war or harbingers of peace? Historical facts, political positions, and
an assessment from the German point of view." In The spoils of war -
World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 241-243. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: Art historians in uniform hunted down cultural property in other
countries under Hitler's instructions to transfer cultural property to
Germany. After the war, much of the German-looted cultural treasure
was sent by the Allies to Collecting Points for return to their rightful
owners. In the Soviet Zone, the stolen cultural property was moved
directly to the Soviet Union. The author states that the return of
cultural property is one of the most difficult problems facing Germany
and Russia.

226. "The last prisoners of war." Economist (London) 335, no.7910

(April 15, 1995): 15.
Note: According to this editorial, Russia signed the Hague Convention
of 1907 outlawing looting in war and should return Germany's
treasures.

227. Latham, Ernest Tyger ." Conducting research at the National

Archives into art looting, recovery, and restitution, 6-page typescript.
Washington: Ernest "Tyger" Latham, 1998. (Paper presented at the
Holocaust-Era Assets Symposium, National Archives and Records
Administration, College Park, Maryland, December 4, 1998).
Note: Tyger Latham tells of his research experience at the National
Archives and Records Administration's College Park facility working
with records related to looted art, its recovery, and its restitution.

228. Lauria, Joe. "An amicable resolution." ARTnews 97, no.9

(October 1998): 54.
Note: Holocaust victim heirs and art collector Daniel Searle settled on
an equal division of the present mark value of a Degas pastel looted by
the Nazis.

229. LeBor, Adam. "The last Nazi art scandal." Independent

(November 18, 1998).
Note: The fact that governments are finally taking action to address the
fact that many art collections belonging to Jews were looted by the
Nazis before and during WWII will be looked at by the Conference on
Holocaust Era Assets participants to be held in Washington. Countries
have made commitments to identifying looted art in databases in order
to ensure the art's return.

230. Lee, Rensselaer W. "The effect of the war on Renaissance and

Baroque art in Italy." College Art Journal 4, no.2 (January 1945): 81-
91. (Paper presented at the Archaeological Institute of America's
Symposium, "Europe's Monuments as Affected by the War," at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, December 28, 1944).
Note: This survey of damaged Renaissance and Baroque monuments
and architecture in Italy also notes that paintings and movable
sculptures placed in deposits for safekeeping were sometimes looted
by Nazis. In a final postscript paragraph, the author gives information
about French losses: stolen private collections and Renaissance
architecture.

231. Leistra, Josefine. "A short history of art loss and art recovery in
the Netherlands." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
53-57. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: Leistra describes the losses in the Netherlands caused by specific
Nazi art policy. Kajetan Mühlmann, Nazi art historian, was in charge
of Nazi art looting; he confiscated a number of private collections, but
the public collections and the royal collection were left intact. Some of
the private collections were located after the war; in 1947, it was
estimated that 80% of the museum quality artwork had been recovered,
whereas only 25% of the lesser quality objects were located.

232. Leistra, Josephine. "New York Conference "Spoils of War".

Spoils of War, no. 0 (1995): 8-9.
Note: This report on the Bard Conference, "The Spoils of War", held
in NYC in January 1995, gives a summary of the present situation
concerning the recovery of art and archives missing since WWII.

233. Leistra, Josephine. "The Mauerbach Case. Part I." Spoils of War,
no. 3 (December 1996): 22-24.
Note: In 1955 Austria was given looted artwork along with the
responsibility for returning them to the owners; objects unclaimed by
January 1956 were to be given to organizations set up by the Allies to
assist Holocaust victims. This was not done and much of the collection
remained as Austrian state property deposited in the Mauerbach
monastery near Vienna, with some works placed in Austrian museums
and embassies. As a result of an article by Andrew Decker in
ARTnews, a list of the objects was published to enable claimants to
file their claims before September 30, 1986. After that date, Austria
transferred title of ownership of the unclaimed objects to the Jewish
community in Austria which sold them at auction in 1996.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_2.html#10.

234. Leistra, Josephine. "Art recovery in the Netherlands." In Cultural

treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the Second
World war: documentation and research on losses, 28-42. Bremen:
Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. (Documentation of the
International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Research into missing art was stopped in the 1950s in the
Netherlands because all the Collecting Points in Germany had been
explored for missing art. Some complicated missing art cases were left
unsolved; in the late 1980s, the European political climate changed and
a number of old master drawings from the Koenigs Collection were
returned to Netherlands by the German Democratic Republic.

235. Leonard, D. G. "Archives, bibliothèques et oeuvres d'art en Italie

durant la guerre (Archives, libraries and artwork in Italy during the
war)." Revue historique (Paris) 202 (July 1949): 24-51.
Note: A review of the damage done in Italy during WWII with a list of
damaged monuments and works of art.

236. Levin, Itamar. The last chapter of the Holocaust? The struggle
over the restitution of Jewish property in Europe. Revised ed. Jewish
Agency for Israel and the World Jewish Restitution Organization,
1998. 208 pp.
Note: Levin, Journalist and Deputy Editor of the "Globes", Israel's
business newspaper, has been reporting for several years on the
property looting that took place during WWII. This book is about the
struggle for the restoration of Jewish property in Europe; the second
edition reports on the significant developments that have occurred
during the past year including: the Swiss banking settlements,
acknowledgment of the property seized by the Custodian of Enemy
Property in the UK, and progress in Norway and France on the issue.
Art and insurance are now being looked at more closely. Levin's
chapters cover different topics and different countries - all related to
restitution.

237. Lipman, Thomas W. "44 nations pledge to act on art looted by

Nazis." Washington Post (December 4, 1998): A2.
Note: The Holocaust-Era Assets Conference participants in
Washington approved guidelines for restoring ownership to looted art
worldwide.

238. Lorentz, Stanislaw. Canada refused to return Polish cultural

treasures. Warsaw: National Museum, [1950?]. 85 pp.

239. Lowenthal, Constance. "The Quedling embarrassment."

ARTnews 91, no.6 (Summer 1992): 158+.
Note: Commentary on the controversy over medieval church art looted
by a US serviceman during WWII. The soldier's heirs have returned
the art after receiving payment from Germany.

240. Lowenthal, Constance. "German booty in Texas." Wall Street

Journal (August 2, 1990).
Note: Quedlinburg Church Treasures located in Texas.

241. Lowenthal, Constance. "The Quedling embarrassment."

ARTnews 91, no.6 (Summer 1992): 158.
Note: Commentary on the controversy over medieval church art looted
by a US serviceman during WWII. The soldier's heirs have returned
the art after receiving over a million dollars in payment from Germany,
a payment considered ransom by some. The author suggests that the
Department of Justice should take action to support the US policy to
restore cultural property to the rightful owners.

242. Lowenthal, Constance. "Stolen art: a positive move toward

international harmony." Museum News 70, no.5 (September-October
1991): 22-23.
Note: A review of the draft Unidroit proposal on how claims for stolen
or illegally exported cultural property should be treated.

243. Lowry, Glenn D. Testimony. Washington: House of

Representatives, 1998. (Testimony by Glenn D. Lowry, Director, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, before the House Banking &
Financial Services Committee, in Washington, February 12, 1998).
Note: Speaking on the fate of works stolen or misappropriated during
the WWII era, Lowry noted that provenance research on art in Europe
during the 1930s and 1940s is very complicating. Archival documents
are written in many languages and distributed all over Europe. Art
dealers frequently act as middlemen protecting anonymous clients. In
illustrating the time and effort needed for provenance research, Lowry
cited the Museum of Modern Art's experiences with a Matisse, as well
as the Museum's recent experience with the Schiele paintings. .
Online: http://financialservices.house.gov/banking/21298low.htm.

244. Lust, Jacques. "The spoils of war removed from Belgium during
World War II." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath:
the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 58-62. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: During WWII, Belgium was plundered of its cultural resources,
as well as its gold reserves, industry and workforce. The Nazi ERR
seized Freemason, socialist and Jewish assets.

245. Lust, Jacques. "Recovery of Belgian artwork and libraries lost

during the Second World War." In Cultural treasures moved because
of the war: a cultural legacy of the Second World war: documentation
and research on losses, 13-22. Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der
Länder, 1995. (Documentation of the International Meeting in Bremen,
November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: Looted art.

246. MacLeish, Rod. "The art and the glory." Vanity Fair (March
1995): 125.
Note: Comments on a Hermitage exhibit of art treasures taken from
Nazi Germany by Russia at the end of WWII.

247. Mann, Vivian B. "Jewish ceremonial art and private property." In

The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 84-87. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: The Nazis did not address Jewish art holdings in a uniform
manner. In Bohemia and Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic),
the Nazis envisaged a "Museum of the Extinct Jewish Race" in Prague,
as a result, collected Jewish art was cataloged by Jewish curators;
much of the collection survived the war intact and is now cared by a
Jewish community. In Danzig, a Free City after WWI, members of the
Jewish community met in 1938 to send their archives to Jerusalem and
sell their communal property to finance the emigration of members.
Two tons of ceremonial objects were sold to an American-Jewish
organization for deposit at the Jewish Theological Seminary in
Manhattan; other memorabilia went to the Jewish Museum in New
York. Nearly all of the Danzig Jews and their tangible heritage were
saved. The Jewish community of Worms, the oldest surviving
synagogue in Germany until Kristallnacht, suffered total destruction,
the plight of most Jewish communities in Europe. During the war, a
Jewish commission, headed by Professor Salo Baron of Columbia
University, researched and created a list of works known to have
belonged to European Jewish institutions. Following the war,
recovered objects were distributed to Jewish communities worldwide.

248. Marks, John. "How did all that art end up in museums?." U.S.
News & World Report 124, no.22 (June 8, 1998): 38-40.
Note: Looted art has turned up in US museums and museum directors
are being forced to deal with issues related to how they acquired the
art.

249. Maser, Werner. Hitler's letters and notes. New York: Harper and
Row, 1973.
Note: Hitler considered the planned Linz museum, a showcase for his
collection, to be an important part of his legacy to Germany.

250. Maurer, Ely. "The role of the State Department regarding national
and private claims for the restitution of stolen cultural property." In
The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 142-144. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Maurer describes the role of the State Department in the postwar
recovery of looted cultural property that was looted in Europe and
ended up in the United States. The State Department, without legal
power, has tried to persuade disputed art owners and conciliate
disputes, before suggesting the application of legal powers by other
agencies including the Justice Department, the Defense Department,
and the Internal Revenue Service.

251. Meisler, Stanley. "The Hermitage." Smithsonian, 25 (March

1995): 40-41.
Note: Article about the display of Impressionist art confiscated from
Germany during WWII by the Red Army.

252. Merryman, John Henry. "The protection of artistic national

patrimony against pillaging and theft." In Law and the visual arts, 153-
172. Portland, OR: Leonard D. DuBoff and Northwestern School of
Law, Lewis & Clark College, 1974.
Note: The author writes about the legal issues related to the
international traffic in stolen and illegally exported works of artistic
and cultural importance.

253. Meyer, Karl E. "The hunt for Priam's treasure." Archaeology 46,
no.6 (November-December 1993): 26+.
Note: Russians admit that Priam's Treasure, found by Schliemann at
Troy in 1873, is in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

254. Meyer, Karl E. The plundered past. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
xxv, 353 pp.

255. Meyer, Karl E. "Russia's hidden attic: returning the spoils of

World War II." New York Times Current Events (February 1, 1995):
A20.
Note: Meyer analyzes the reasons for Russia's reluctance to return art
seized from Germany after WWII and suggests that submitting the
dispute to the World Court would be a face-saving solution for Russia.

256. Meyer, Karl E. "Who owns the spoils of war." Archaeology 48,
no.4 (July 1995): 46-52.
Note: Germany and Russia dispute the ownership of booty the Red
Army took from Germany at the end of WWII. Old Masters,
Impressionist paintings and the Treasure of Priam are involved in this
international discussion.

257. Meyer, Karl E. "Who owns the gold of Troy?." New York Times
Current Events (September 26, 1993): 414.
Note: Meyer believes Russia should return the Trojan gold treasure to
Berlin.
258. Meyer, Karl E. "The lost spoils of Hitler's war." New York Times
Current Events (September 2, 1990).
Note: Meyer describes the art looting that took place at the very end of
WWII.

259. Mihan, George. Looted treasure: Germany's raid on art. London:

Alliance Press, 1944. 94 pp.
Note: Nazi art looting satisfied three needs: their desire to return all
German works of art to their fatherland; their interest in using art
treasures to obtain foreign currency needed for German armaments;
and, the need of Nazi high-ups to acquire an air of culture. This work
affords the reader early research into the robbery committed by the
Nazis.

260. "MoMA fights Schiele subpoena." Art in America 86, no.3

(March 1998): 33.
Note: The Museum of Modern Art is fighting a subpoena from district
attorney Robert Morgenthau which resulted in the seizure of two
paintings in the museum's show, "Egon Schiele: The Leopold
Collection, Vienna."

261. Moorehead, Caroline. The lost treasures of Troy. London:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. xiv, 306 pp.

262. Morey, Charles R. "What we are actually doing to save Europe's

art." ARTnews, 43 (May 15-31,1944): 9-10, 24-25.
Note: Includes General Eisenhower's order to the troops in Italy late in
1943 respecting the preservation of artistic treasures and describes the
special organization to safeguard monuments and works of art.

263. Morey, Charles R. "The war and mediaeval art." College Art
Journal 4, no.2 (January 1945): 75-80. (Paper presented at the
Archaeological Institute of America's Symposium, "Europe's
Monuments as Affected by the War," at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York, December 28, 1944).
Note: This is a detailed account of the war damage suffered by
mediaeval art in Europe. The author reports that most of Europe's
mediaeval treasures survived, but that we do not know the fate of
Germany's artwork.

264. Morris, Collin R. "The law and stolen art, artifacts, and
antiquities." Howard Law Review 36, no.1 (1993): 201-226.
Note: The article focuses on the legal side of art theft, looking at
international and U.S. law.

265. Morris, Naomi. "On the trail of looted art." Maclean's (Canada)
111, no. 30 (July 27, 1998): 48-51.
Note: Legal claims are forcing curators and collectors worldwide to
examine their collections for looted art; at this time in history, the
declassification of documents, the increased accessibility of online
information, and the death of collectors of the WWII generation have
brought up new questions of ownership. The art world is now trying to
deal with issues of restitution; issues that have come to the surface
following the publication of Lynn Nicholas' book, The rape of Europa,
and Hector Feliciano's 1996 work on stolen French works, The lost
museum. The author details the looted art issue as it relates to
Canadian galleries and museums.

266. Muntz, Eugene. "Les annexions de collections d'art ou de

bibliothèques et leur roule dans les relations internationales,
principalement pendant la Révolution française (Annexations of art
collections and libraries and their role in internatinal relations,
especially during the French Revolution)." Revue d'histoire
diplomatique Check this article it says 94,p.481; 95, 375, 96,p. 481
(1894-1896): 375,.
Note: According to Charles De Visscher in the foreword of
International Protection of Works of Art and Historic Monuments, this
classic study by Eugene Muntz gives a long account of the seizure and
appropriation of works of art from ancient time to the first Empire. In
the 18th century, for the first time, limiting the effects of war solely to
the destruction of the enemy's armed forces became a mark of national
virtue and the long held practice of plundering artwork was almost
given up only to return at the end of the century with unprecedented
violence.
267. "Museums adopt Holocaust-Era art restitution guidelines." IFAR
Journal (International Foundation for Art Research) 1, no.3 (Autumn
1998): 20-21.
Note: The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) adopted a
broad set of guidelines for American museums to deal with WWII
looted art not yet returned to the rightful owners. The guidelines had
been drawn up by a Task force chaired by Philippe de Montebello,
Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

268. Naimark, Norman M. "Cultural trophies." In The Russians in

Germany: a history of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949, 175-
178. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1995.
Note: The Soviets followed an official policy of claiming German art:
first of all, they sought to recapture cultural treasures seized earlier by
official German orders; next they wished to locate objects taken by
individual Germans; and finally, they seized German artwork as
trophies of war. Trophy battalions flew their loot, much of it German
loot from other countries, to the USSR.

269. Nazi-plundered art hard to trace. July 22, 1998. (Article appears
on the Museum Security Mailinglist Reports at http://www.museum-
security.org/reports/04098.html#1).
Note: Philippe de Montebello, Director of MoMA, and Chair of a
taskforce on looted art from the Association of Art Museum Directors,
reports that it is very difficult to trace the ownership of pieces
plundered by Nazis through art records. During the 1990s, there have
been claims for Swiss gold, Italian insurance policies, and now looted
art. During the Fall of 1998, the State Department will co-host a 39-
country conference on how to accomplish the remaining restitution of
looted goods.

270. Nicholas, Lynn H. The rape of Europa: the fate of Europe's

treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. x, 498 pp.
Note: In this thoroughly researched book, Nicholas reports on the fate
of cultural treasures during a European conflict in which works of art
were sought by Nazi Germany: "Never had works of art been so
important to a political movement and never had they been moved
about on such a vast scale, pawns in the cynical and desperate games
of ideology, greed, and survival." Hitler's cultural impact started with
his fight on degenerate art in 1937, a fight involving the removal of
16,000 objects from German institutions for sale or burning.
Collections of approved art confiscated from Jews and seized from
occupied countries by military art specialists were sent to German
museums, set aside for Hitler's proposed Linz art center, or acquired
for Goering's private collection at Carinhall. Nicholas tells remarkable
stories about art collector and art dealers and the extent to which they
went to hold on to their artwork.

271. Nicholas, Lynn H. "World War II and the displacement of art and
cultural property." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
39-48. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: An overview of the unprecedented scope of WWII art
displacement accompanied by ideological, legal, and political
justifications and watched over by highly trained art specialists
assigned to the armies of most of the belligerents. Nicholas traces the
importance of art to Hitler's idea of a pure Germanic Empire, purged of
"degenerate" art and rich with plundered artwork in accordance with
Nazi laws and theories. Thanks to the American museum and archival
establishments, the Roosevelt administration assigned archivists and
art-specialist officers, "monuments officers' to army groups who
secured and sorted out cultural caches at the end of war for restitution
to rightful owners. Great Britain had a similiar approach, but the USSR
considered cultural treasures as trophies to replace their own wartime
losses.

272. Nikandrov, Nikolai. "The transfer of the contents of German

repositories into the custody of the USSR." In The spoils of war -
World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of
cultural property, 117-120. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper
presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored
by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New
York, January, 1995).
Note: The Committee on Art Affairs of the USSR received hundreds
of railroad cars of treasures from Germany at the end of WWII.

273. Noblecourt, André. Protection of cultural property in the event of

armed conflict. Paris: UNESCO, 1958. 406 pp.
Note: A technical manual containing references to archives.

274. Nowikowski, Frank. "The tangled web of art's war victims."

History Today (London) 44, no.5 (May 1994): 3+.
Note: Russians admit they have artwork stolen from Germany at the
end of WWII.

275. Object ID: bibliography. Los Angeles: Getty Information

Institute, Undated. 10 pp.
Note: This bibliography on object identification, art theft and illicit
traffic in cultural property is not dated, but its entries are dated as late
as early 1997.

276. Opper, Dieter, Jost Hansen and Doris Lemmermeier, eds. Cultural
treasures moved because of the war: a cultural legacy of the Second
World war: documentation and research on losses. Bremen:
Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995. 189 pp. (Documentation of the
International Meeting in Bremen, November 30 to December 2, 1994).
Note: The German Coordination of the States for the Return of
Cultural Treasures organized this international meeting to exchange
information on the cultural spoils of WWII.

277. Petropoulos, Jonathan. "For Germany and themselves: the

motivation behind the Nazi leaders plundering and collecting of art.
Part II.." Spoils of War, no. 5 (June 1998): 28-35. (Among National
Archives Library's periodical holdings; on the web at
http://www.beutekunst.de/).
Note: The second largest art collection among the Nazi elite belonged
to Goering who collected Renaissance masters, Old Masters, and the
court art of 18th century France, as well as Impressionist art in his
private collection. Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Himmler and others were
involved in art collecting which conformed to the political and racial
conceptions of the Nazi leadership corps: to be Aryan meant to be
cultured. These subleaders followed Hitler's lead in using public and
party funds for personal art acquisitions.

278. Petropoulos, Jonathan. Art as politics in the Third Reich. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xviii, 439 pp.
Note: This revision of Petropoulos' Harvard University Dissertation,
concentrates on the Nazi use of visual arts to display Germany's power
and authority. The Nazi art plunder is described chronologically within
the framework of the competing administration bureaucracies of
Himmler, Goebbels, Rosenberg, Speer, Ley and Rust: the discrediting
of modern 'degenerate' art and artists, the looting of art from Jewish
collectors, and, finally, the plundering of cultural treasures in
conquered territories, all with the goal of creating huge German art
centers in Hitler's hometown, Linz, and in Berlin. The author,
providing extensive documentation and rigorous scholarship, attributes
the competition between Nazi leaders to share Hitler's cultural
interests, and to use art as a means of rewarding favorites as the
motivation behind their plunder.

279. Petropoulos, Jonathan. "Not a case of "art for art's sake": the
collecting practices of the Nazi elite." German Politics and Society no.
32 (Summer 1994): 107-124.
Note: According to the author, Nazi elite approached the visual arts
and its collection, as "a means of articulating their fundamental
ideologic tenets, a mode of legitimizing authority, and an expression of
their position within the social and political hierarchy of that elite."
Collecting art became a means of expressing power relationships
among the Nazis and establishing the collectors' sense of identity as an
elite group. Looting art was justified as repatriation by the Nazi
prescription that no foreign country should possess German cultural
objects.

280. Petropoulos, Jonathan. "The importance of the second rank: the

case of the art plunderer Kajetan Mühlmann." In Austro-corporatism:
past, present, future Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka, 177-221.
Contemporary Austrian Studies 4. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers, 1996.
Note: The author uses the example of Mühlmann, an Austrian artist-
intellectual and middle-level Nazi functionary, to demonstrate the
crucial role of opportunistic supporters of the regime. Central to the
expropriation of the Rothschild art collection in Austria, Mühlmann,
art adviser to Hans Frank and protege of Goering, confiscated artwork
in conquered Poland and then art belonging to Jews in the
Netherlands . At the end of the war, Mühlmann, who cooperated with
OSS/Art Looting Investigation Unit by testifying against his superiors
and helping locate missing art, was able to escape from a prison
hospital and virtually avoid postwar justice.

281. Petropoulos, Jonathan. "German laws and directives bearing on

the appropriation of cultural property in the Third Reich." In The spoils
of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and
recovery of cultural property, 106-111. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1997. (Paper presented at international symposium, The Spoils of War,
sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,
New York, January, 1995).
Note: Petropoulos contends that an investigation of the Nazi endeavor
to appropriate cultural property is one of the best ways to understand
the nature and structure of the Third Reich. His examination of Nazi
laws and directives made it apparent that the Nazi programs started
with modest and relatively nonviolent measures that escalated with
time; that Nazi policies, based on Hitler's orders and the initiatives of
subleaders, reflected a complex interaction between the leader and his
subordinates; that many of the measures were first tried outside
Germany, especially in Austria where the Vienna model tested Nazi
plundering methods; and, these laws and directives were closely linked
to the Holocaust with the expropriation of property leading to the other
stages of dehumanization.

282. Petropoulos, Jonathan. "Saving culture from the Nazis." Harvard

Magazine 92, no.4 (March-April, 1990): 34-42.
Note: During the Hitler regime, Harvard University became a haven
for many German artists and scholars forced into exile by the Nazi
regime (in 1933, 28 of Germany's museum directors were forced into
exile). Harvard also became a haven for art rejected by the Nazis:
works by Klee, Kandinsky, van Gogh, Picasso, Nolde and others. In
1939, Harvard also organized the American Defense/Harvard Group, a
team of art historians knowledgeable about European art, to identify
and locate valuable artwork in the war zone; this Harvard team worked
in cooperation with the American Commission for the Protection and
Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas to protect
Europe's art. The two groups were superseded by a government
organization in 1943.

283. Petropoulos, Jonathan. "Exposing "deep files"." ARTnews 98,

no.1 (January 1999): 143-144.
Note: Noting the mysteries surrounding the fate of property displaced
during WWII, the author warns that museums are still keeping
researchers from certain "deep files" in their archives.

284. Plagens, Peter. "The spoils of war: pictures looted by Nazis hang
in top museums.." Newsweek 131, no.13 (March 30, 1998): 60+.
Note: Claims by heirs for artwork looted from Holocaust victims are
disturbing the art world because many of the works have found their
way to major museums. As lawsuits increase, museums wrestle with
the legal and moral issues involved.

285. Plaut, James S. "Loot for the master race." Atlantic Monthly 178,
no.9 (September 1946): 57-63.
Note: The author, a valued member of the OSS Art Looting
Investigation Unit, writes about his experiences during WWII as
Director of the Art Looting Investigation Unit, OSS, directly
responsible for recovering looted art hidden in Germany.
Online:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nazigold/loot.html.

286. Plaut, James S. "Investigation of the major Nazi art-confiscation

agencies." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the
loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 124-125. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Plaut, Director of the Art Looting Investigation Unit, OSS, from
1944 to 1946, investigated the Nazi confiscation agencies as part of an
intelligence component to MFA&A branch of the U.S. Army with the
mission to provide information helpful in the art-restitution process,
and, to provide evidence for the Nuremberg trials. In this essay on his
experiences, Plaut tells of his wartime efforts which focused on the
ERR, the official Nazi looting organization in France, and which were
aided by the meticulously prepared inventory of Nazi-captured art
found in Bavaria, as well as by the cooperation of Bruno Lohse, a
Munich art dealer and executive officer of the ERR in Paris, Gustav
Rochlitz, one of Goering's chief art procurers, and Gisela Limberger,
Goering's secretary.

287. Plaut, James S. "Hitler's capital." Atlantic Monthly 178 (October

1946): 57-63.
Note: Plaut, Director of the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit of the
OSS during WWII, tells the story of Linz, Austria, as Hitler's art
capital.
Online:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nazigold/hitler.html.

288. "The plunder of art treasures." In Nazi conspiracy and aggression.

Vol. 1. Washington: GPO for the International Military Tribunal,
Nurnberg, Germany, Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the
Prosecution of Axis Criminality, 1946. 1097-1116
Note: Chapter 14 of the first volume of the background information for
the Nurnberg Trial is about the work of defendants Hermann Wilhelm
Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop who were responsible for the
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), and defendant Hans Frank
who was responsible for securing all Polish art treasures for the Third
Reich.

289. Pomrenze, Seymour J. Personal reminiscences of the Offenbach

Archival Depot, 1946-49: fulfilling international and moral
obligations. Washington: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 1998. 6 pp.
Note: Pomrenze, former Director of the Offenbach Archival Depot
(OAD), spoke on the accomplishments of the OAD in distributing
some two million restituted objects to five countries and to the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research.
290. Pool, James. Hitler and his secret partners: contributions, loot and
rewards, 1933-1945. New York: Pocket Books, 1997. xiv, 415 pp.
Note: This is the tale of bizarre financial relationships during the Nazi
regime involving Germany's top businessmen including financiers and
industrialists, as well as foreign bankers and statesmen. The author
describes how Nazis profited from looted art, labor camps, and stolen
property.

291. Posey, Robert K. "Protection of cultural materials during

combat." College Art Journal 5, no.2 (January 1946): 127-131.

292. Posner, Ernst. Memorandum concerning the protection and

salvage of cultural objects and records in war areas. Washington:
American Council of Learned Societies, 1944. 10 pp.
Note: The memorandum, prepared by Dr. Posner for the American
Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic
Monuments in Europe, was created as a guide to provide monuments
officers of tactical units with a general description of depositories of
books, manuscripts, archives, and records in prospective war areas and
to acquaint them with first-aid measures for the protection and salvage
of their contents.

293. Preliminary inventory of the records of the American

Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic
Monuments in War Area. NC124. Washington: General Services
Administration, National Archives Records Service, 1965. iii, 6 pp.
Note: Description of the records of the American Commission for the
Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War
Area.

294. Progress report, September 15, 1997. Stockholm: Commission on

Jewish Assets in Sweden at the Time of the Second World War, 1997.
3pp.
Note: All members of the Commission and its staff were appointed in
March and April 1997 with the goal of submitting its report in the
spring of 1998. The schedule calls for four stages: preparation (March-
April, 1997); research and fact-finding (May-December, 1997);
analysis (monthly reports) and compilation to be done by the end of
February 1998.

295. Protection of cultural resources against the hazards of war.

Washington: Committee on the Conservation of Cultural Resource,
National Resources Planning Board, 1942.

296. Prott, Lyndel V. and Jan Hladik. "The role of UNESCO

'Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural
Property' in the resolution of disputes concerning cultural property
removed in consequence of the Second World War." Spoils of War,
no. 4 (August 1977): 59-61. (Among National Archives Library's
periodical holdings).
Note: The intergovernmental committee was set up in 1978 to handle
claims by recently decolonized states for the return of cultural property
lost to colonial countries. The committee has not been used to settle
conflict-linked removed cultural property, but the authors note that it
would have jurisdiction under Article 4 of its Statutes. The committee
would offer mediation in a neutral forum.

297. Pruszynski, Jan P. "Poland: the war losses, cultural heritage, and
cultural legitimacy." In The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property,
49-52. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at
international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: In this presentation, Pruszynkas explains the difficulty of
compiling detailed lists of losses incurred as a consequence of WWII
and its aftermath, a time when Poland suffered under the occupation of
both the Nazi and Soviet regimes. The author suggests that
international rules be promulgated prohibiting the trade of plundered
art.

298. Pruszynski, Jan P. "Cultural losses of Poland and their

restitution." In Cultural treasures moved because of the war: a cultural
legacy of the Second World war: documentation and research on
losses, 64-78. Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995.
(Documentation of the International Meeting in Bremen, November 30
to December 2, 1994).
Note: In 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Poland created
an office to pursue restitution of cultural losses during WWII and the
German and Soviet occupations.

299. Puloy, Monika. "Imperialists, dictators and supermuseums."

Issues (London) 4, no.2 (1996): 104-116.
Note: European art looting by Napoleon and Hitler are compared in
this article. The capture of the Ghent altarpiece by the Germans is
described, as is Stalin's intent to build a huge Moscow museum for
looted German art. The author notes that the looted art chosen by
Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin indicate the same artist's names and a
similar ranking of status.

300. Rastorgouev, Alexei. "Displaced art in private hands." In The

spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance,
and recovery of cultural property, 166-170. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium, The
Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the
Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: The author, pointing out that there is little documentation for
displaced artwork that ended up in private hands, writes about items
that may be in private collections in Russia. It is known that art objects
have been stolen from collections; a significant number of the Dresden
drawings and prints that were not returned are now in private hands.

301. "Recovery of lost European treasures." The Record (Department

of State) 7, no.3 (May-June 1951): 39-42.

302. Report of the AAMD Task Force on the Spoilation of Art during
the Nazi/World War II era (1933-1945). n.p.: Association of Art
Museum Directors, June 4, 1998. 3 pp.
Note: The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has
prepared this report on the spoilation of art during WWII. .

303. Report of the American Commission for the Protection and

Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946. 238 pp.
Note: In 1943, the American Commission for the Protection and
Salvage of Artistics and Historic Monuments in Europe (also known as
the Roberts Commission), was formed to work with military and
civilian organizations engaged in protecting works of cultural value.
The Commission was instrumental in starting the Monuments, Fine
Arts and Archives Program for the protection of cultural works in war
areas; it was also instrumental in bringing about the restitution of
identifiable looted art founded in the American Zone of Occupation.
This report traces the background of the Commission and its activities.

304. Report on measures taken by agencies of the federal government

to protect records, library holdings, museum collections, and works of
art against enemy air attack and other hazards of war. Washington:
Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources, April 12, 1943. 12
pp.
Note: This committee, established by the National Resources Planning
Board in 1941, worked in cooperation with the National Archives and
the Public Buildings Administration to promote measures to protect the
cultural resources of the United States against the hazards of war.

305. "Return of looted objects of art to countries of origin."

Department of State Bulletin (February 23, 1947): 358-360.
Note: This memorandum by the State Department member of State-
War-Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC) proposes a program to
deal with the introduction of looted objects of art into the US. A letter
from the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of
Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (the Roberts
Commission), and an earlier circular from the Roberts Commission
related to the return of cultural objects imported by members of the
Armed Forces are included in the appendices.

306. Rickman, Gregg J. Swiss banks and Jewish souls. Piscataway,

N.J.: Transaction, Forthcoming.

307. Riding, Alan. "Art looted by Nazis goes on show in Paris, seeking
its owners." New York Times Current Events (October 25, 1994): C15.
Note: The tale of a small exhibit of impressionist works, stolen by the
Nazis and returned to France in 1994.

308. Rigby, Douglas and Elizabeth Rigby. "Embattled collectors: how

treasures of art and culture flee from war." Harper's Magazine 182
(January 1941): 200-208.
Note: Primarily concerned with the activities of refugees and private
collectors to save their artwork.

309. Ritchie, Andrew. "The restitution of art loot." Gallery Notes

(Albright Art Gallery) 11 (July 1946): 3-10.
Note: Ritchie served as technical adviser and representative of the
Commanding General, US Forces in Austria, where he supervised
restoration of art to and from the US Zone in 1945-1946. He reviews
the administration and operations of the Munich Collecting Center
where looted art was sorted, and writes about the Nazi hoard in the Alt
Ausse salt mine.

310. Ritchie, Andrew C. "Return of art loot from and to Austria."

College Art Journal 5, no.4 (May 1946): 353-357.
Note: The writer accompanied the US occupation troops entering
Austria in August 1945 as part of a project to ship Austrian loot
through Germany to western owner nations and return Austrian-owned
art property, then in Germany, to Austria. It was decided to use the
Central Art Collection Point in Munich as the collecting and
distributing point for loot from both Austria and Germany. Austrian
loot stored in the Alt Aussee salt mine was moved to Munich where it
was stored separately for identification and allocation to owner
nations. Receiving nations were made responsible for the return of loot
to their own nationals, or to another country if necessary; problems of
individual ownership were left up to the Governments concerned. A
large part of the material found in the salt mine was intended for
Hitler's future museum in Linz, Austria. Some of Hitler's collection
had been looted from the Dutch.

311. Ritter, Waldemar. "Die sowjetischen Trophaenkommissionen: zur

Verschleppung von Kunstschatzen aus deutschen Museen und
Sammlungen (The Soviet Trophy Commissions: the abduction of art
treasures from German museums and collections)." Museums-Journal
(Berlin) 10, no.4 (1996): 6-8.
Note: Traces the looting of art from German collections by the Red
Army at the end of World War II and provides a list of military and
freight transport with a description of the shipments' contents.

312. Robinson, Walter V. "Monet painting's past unexplained by

MFA." Boston Globe (November 28, 1998): A1.
Note: The Boston Museum of Fine Art does not note that Monet's
"Water Lilies, 1904", part of the Monet exhibit at the museum, is one
of nearly 2000 pieces of artwork in French government custody that
are believed to have looted or sold under duress after the Nazi takeover
of France in 1940.

313. Robinson, Walter V. "Art buyer fights Holocaust heirs." Boston

Globe (May 18, 1997): A1.
Note: The number of lawsuits, involving heirs of WWII Jewish
victims, is growing at the same time that lawyers and museum officials
are calling for more rigorous inquiries about ownership in the art trade.

314. Robinson, Walter V. "US tracked WWII influx of looted art:

government did little to prevent sale of works here, files suggest."
Boston Globe (May 9, 1997): A1.
Note: End of the war attempts by art dealers to smuggle art in the
United States for sale were monitored by government agents, at the
same time that they showed little concern about the looting.
Online: http://www.dhh-3.de/biblio/news/1997/0509/.

315. Robinson, Walter V. "Sotheby's takes work tied to Nazis off

block." Boston Globe (11/25/97): A1.
Note: Acknowledging that a 17th century Dutch painting may have
been looted by Nazis, Sotheby's removed the artwork from a London
art auction. Sotheby's had included the painting in its December
auction, even though its catalog noted that the work had been acquired
in 1941 for the Linz Gallery. The firm's representative noted that there
was no record that the painting was looted and there had been no
claims made.
316. Robinson, Walter V. "Family says art will be returned if it was
stolen." Boston Globe (November 27, 1997): A1.
Note: The German owners of the painting pulled from Sotheby's
auction because of concern that it may have been looted by the Nazis
have pledged, if the art is proven to have been stolen, to return the
work if an heir is located; if no heirs are located, they will donate the
painting to a national museum.

317. Robinson, Walter V. "Museums' stance on Nazi loot belies their

role in a key case." Boston Globe (February 13, 1998): A1.
Note: Major American museums promised to facilitate the return of
any artwork plundered from European Jews during WWII, at the same
time they are joining a legal battle to protect trade in antiquities
illegally exported from countries with archeological sites. The
movement toward creating liability for people who handle stolen art.

318. Robinson, Walter V. "An ignominious legacy: evidence grows of

plundered art in US." Boston Globe (April 25, 1997): A1.
Note: This article points out that many people who purchase art do not
do a search about its authenticity or its possibility of having been
stolen.
Online: http://www.dhh-3.de/biblio/news/1997/0425a/.

319. Robinson, Walter V. "The "Lost" masterpieces in France, an

uneasy look inward." Boston Globe (March 16, 1997).
Note: Francis Warin searched for his great uncle's paintings that had
been stolen by the Nazis for fifty years before he discovered that two
are hanging in French national museums inspite of records indicating
the paintings' source. With events like this still happening, the issue of
France's wartime behavior and behavior since has become a national
scandal. .

320. Robinson, Walter V. "New York DA bars return of Austrian art:

two paintings are allegedly Nazi loot." Boston Globe (January 9,
1998): A1.
Note: DA Robert M. Morgenthau opened a new front in the effort to
recover art looted from Jews by the Nazis by halting the return to
Austria of two paintings MoMA borrowed for an exhibition. .
321. Robinson, Walter V. "Portrait Nazis stole is hotly disputed:
auction buyer, Customs hope it's a Rembrandt; specialist isn't so sure."
Boston Globe (May 5, 1997): A3.
Note: A painting looted by the Nazis from the French Jewish collector,
Adolphe Schloss, is the object of a dispute over whether it is a
Rembrandt or not.

322. Robinson, Walter V. "A dispute in miniatures: Sherborn man

seeks to keep art Germany wants back." Boston Globe (April 1, 1998):
A1.
Note: It is believed that the miniatures purchased by an American
antique dealer in the 1970s were probably stolen from a German state
library by U.S. soldiers in 1945.
Online: http://www.dhh-3.de/biblio/news/1997/0401a/.

323. Robinson, Walter V. "Theft admission ends tug-of-war over

artwork." Boston Globe (May 13, 1998).

324. Robinson, Walter V. "Holocaust victims' heirs given share of a

Degas." Boston Globe (August 14, 1998): A1.
Note: Daniel C. Searle purchased Degas' "Landscape with
Smokestacks" with the advice of Art Institute curators who missed
evidence that it had been owned by Hans Wendland, successful
wartime fence for Nazi Art. It was later found that the painting had
belonged to Freidrich and Louise Gutman, major Jewish art collectors
in Western Europe, the only collectors of their calibre to lose their
lives in concentration camps. In response to the ownership claims of
Gutmann relatives, Searle noted that he had relied on the expertise of
Art Institute of Chicago curators when he purchased the Degas. The
case has been settled, Searle will cede half interest in the painting to
the heirs and donate the remaining half to the Art Institute, which will
then pay the Gutman heirs half the value of the work.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/04998.html#7.htm .

325. Robinson, Walter V. and Maureen Goggin. "Murky histories

cloud some local art." Boston Globe (November 9, 1997): A1.
Note: European artwork acquired during and after WWII arrived in
this country with questionable backgrounds. Newly-opened documents
provide new evidence that some collectors donated artwork to major
museums that may have been plundered from Jews and other European
collectors.

326. Robinson, Walter V. and Maureen Goggin. "A network of

profiteers." Boston Globe (November 9, 1997): A1.
Note: This list of Nazi-collaborating art dealers with the highlights of
their activities includes: Karl Haberstock, Cesar Mange De Hauke,
Georges Wildenstein, Hans Wendland and Alexander Ball.
Online: http://www.dhh-3.de/biblio/news/1997/1109a/.

327. Robinson, Walter V. and Elizabeth Neuffer. "Austria confronts

dark past by combing art for Nazi links." Boston Globe (March 5,
1998): A1.

328. Rorimer, James Joseph. Survival: the salvage and protection of art
in war. New York: Abelard, 1950. xi, 291 pp.
Note: A former Monuments Officer, Rorimer relates his experiences
from the invasion of Normandy until the recovery of art treasures from
the castles and salt mines of Germany and Austria. Rorimer had been
apprised of the loot locations by French curator Rose Vallant who had
secretly gathered information about art shipments while working with
Nazis in the art collection center in occupied Paris.

329. Rosenbaum, Lee. "Will museums in U.S. purge Nazi-tainted

art?." Art in America 86, no.11 (November 1998): 37+.
Note: The Association of Art Museum Directors has issued an action
plan for the return of WWII looted art.

330. Ross, Marvin C. "Art storage in Germany reported as

inadequate." Museum News 23 (December 1, 1945): 6.
Note: The Germans, assured by Goering that they would not be
bombed, did not take precautions early enough.

331. Ross, Marvin C. "War damage in Chartres." College Art Journal

5, no.4 (May 1946): 229-231.
Note: A charming account of the slight damage suffered by Chartres.
332. Ross, Marvin C. CHECK THIS. "Kuntschutz in occupied
France." College Art Journal, 5 (May 1946): 336-352.

333. Roth, Cecil. "The restoration of Jewish libraries, archives and

museums." Contemporary Jewish Record, 8 (June 1944): 253-257.

334. Roundtable discussion on Nazi-looted art: summary. Washington:

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, June 9, 1998.
Note: In June 1998, a roundtable discussion on Nazi-looted art was
held at the Holocaust Museum in preparation for the Washington
Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets in November-December 1998.
There were three parts to the roundtable discussion.

335. Rousseau, Theodore. The Goering Collection. Washington: Office

of Strategic Service, Art Looting Investigation Unit, 1945. 175 leaves.
(Consolidated interrogation report no. 2).
Note: Report is a preliminary study of the history and formation of the
Hermann Goering Collection and the methods used by the
Reischmarschal of German Third Reich to strip occupied Europe of
their cultural heritage.

336. Roxan, David and Ken Wanstall. The rape of art: the story of
Hitler's plunder of the great masterpieces of Europe. New York:
Coward-McCann, 1965. 195 pp.

337. Rubenstein, Raphael. "Schieles seized at MoMA." Art in America

86, no.2 (February 1998): 27.
Note: Victims' heirs claims that two Schiele paintings exhibited at
MoMA were stolen from Austrian Jewish collections during the
Holocaust.

338. Rubin, Dana. "A soldier's secret." Texas Monthly 18, no.8
(August 1990): 82+.
Note: The story of the WWII-plundered Quedlinburg Treasures found
in the late Joe Meador's art collection.

339. Rubin, Dana. "A soldier's secret." Texas Monthly 18, no.8
(August 1990): 82+.
Note: The story of the WWII-plundered Quedlinburg Treasures found
in the late Joe Meador's art collection.

340. Russell, John. "Masterpieces caught between two wars.." New

York Times (September 3, 1989).

341. Sailer, Gerhard. "Austria." In The spoils of war - World War II

and its aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural
property, 88-91. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented
at international symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York,
January, 1995).
Note: Losses of Austrian art during WWII tended to be due to the
borrowing of art by Nazis and the transfer of treasures to hiding places.
It is known that some of the art work has found its way to Russia; it is
also known that the Nazis blew up a castle containing an important art
collection on May 8, 1945. In 1948, unclaimed objects in the allied
Munich Collecting Point, including the objects collected at Mauerbach,
were handed over by the US to Austria for distribution to rightful
owners. The last of these assets were given to the Austrian Jewish
community in 1995.

342. Schaffer, Michael. "Art hunter: archive hound Willi Korte is the
art world's no-shit Sherlock." Washington City Paper (November 29,
1996): 22-29.
Note: When Friedrich Gutmann's heirs sought to find the Degas and
Renoir works confiscated by the Nazis, they turned to Willi Korte for
help. Willi Korte dedicates himself full-time to returning artistic
property to its rightful owners. Although plunder has been common
throughout history, Hitler's Germany made an art of it; when war broke
out, Hitler's looting spread through Europe. Many art collectors and
dealers were Jewish; although some escaped, few had the chance to
take their art which was sent to Germany. When Stalin's armies took
Berlin, where most art treasures were held, they were not inclined to
return property. As a result, parts of the Nazi victims' property as well
as Germany's own inheritance disappeared during the Cold War. Willi
Korte has stayed with the search for stolen art and in the process he has
built a body of knowledge on the topic. In the early 1980s, Willi Korte
was asked by German contacts to look into rumors about the
Quedlinburg cache missing since World War II. Korte tracked down
medieval German manuscripts worth over $25 million dollars in a tiny
North Texas town, leading one journal to call him "art's Indiana
Jones." The Quedlinburg case demonstrated to Korte the seaminess of
the art world with its "don't ask/don't tell" attitude toward historical
theft.

343. Schiele - and no end? In New York the Schiele case took the next
turn. July 17, 1998. (Article ran in Die Press, July 16, 1998 and
appears on the Museum Security Mailinglist Reports at
http://www.museum-security.org/reports/03898.html#8).
Note: Two Schiele paintings are the objects of an appeal entered by
attorney Robert Morgenthau against the return of two Schiele
paintings.

344. Schuman, Joseph. U.S. museum curators frustrated in hunt for

looted Nazi artwork. July 17, 1998. (Article filed in library at S18;
accessible online at the Museum Security Mailinglist Reports at
http://www.museum-security.org/reports/03898.html#2).
Note: Museums are hunting down the origins of works of art acquired
since the 1940s in an attempt to locate Nazi looted art. The Nazis kept
vague records of their confiscations.

345. Schwartz, A. "Arresting the flow of stolen art." Asian Art &
Culture 9, no.1 (1996): 12-21.
Note: The author discusses UNIDROIT and its role in the art theft
business which is the third largest illicit business in the world.

346. Schweid, Barry. Effort is set to find art Nazis stole. July 3, 1998.
(Article appears on the Museum Security Mailinglist Reports at
http://www.museum-security.org/reports/03598.html).
Note: The US and 38 other nations announced a drive to identify Nazi-
looted art and to compensate the victims or their heirs. The search will
also deal with unpaid life- and property-insurance claims.

347. Shvidkoi, Mikhail. "Russian cultural losses during World War II."
In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 67-71. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: This essay presents a clear picture of the terrible plunder and
destruction of Russian cultural treasures by the Nazis during WWII.
The author then goes into recent efforts to examine the problems
involving the wartime displacement of cultural property: 1) the
German removal of property from the USSR; 2) the return by Germany
to the USSR of removed cultural property; 3) the removal of cultural
property belonging to Germany and its allies to the USSR; and 4) the
return of cultural treasures to Germany and other states by the USSR.
Plans are now being made to produce a catalog of Russian losses.

348. Simon, Matila. The battle of the Louvre: the struggle to save
French art in World War II, x, 214 pp. New York: Hawthorn Books,
1971.
Note: The story of efforts to protect the collections of the Louvre.

349. Simpson, Elizabeth, ed. The spoils of war - World War II and its
aftermath: the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 336 pp. (Based on the papers of an
international three-day symposium, sponsored by Bard Graduate
Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995.).
Note: At this symposium, marking the 50th anniversary of the end of
WWII, most of the world's leading authorities on the repatriation of
displaced cultural property gathered together to discuss the
consequences of the looting and destruction fifty years later. The
papers are published in this volume in the same order in which they
were heard, in order to preserve a historical approach to the topic; the
book also includes legal texts related to cultural property issues and
wartime photographs confirming acts of looting as well as
reproductions of missing art.

350. Simpson, Elizabeth. ""The Spoils of War": proceedings of the

1995 New York Symposium." Spoils of War, no. 3 (December 1996):
27-29.
Note: An overview of the Spoils of War - World War II and its
Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural
Property" which took place in New York City in January 1995.
Online: http://spoils.libfl.ru/spoils/eng/spoil3_2.html#12.

351. Simpson, Elizabeth. "Schliemann's 'Treasures' from the Second

City of Troy." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath:
the loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 191-193.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: This introduction to the session on the 'Treasures of Priam' gives
an overview of excavations at Troy, including those of Schliemann.

352. Siviero, Rodolfo. Second National Exhibition of the Works of Art

Recovered in Germany. Florence: Sansoni, 1950. 60 pp., 32 pages of
plates
Note: Siviero was charged by the Italian government after WWII with
recovering the country's treasures looted by the Nazis.

353. Siviero, Rodolfo. Arte e Nazismo: esodo e ritorno delle opera

d'arte italiano 1938-1963 (Art and Nazism: exodus and return of Italian
works of art, 1938-1963). Florence: Cantini, 1984.

354. Skilton, John. Défense de l'art européen: souvenirs d'un officier

americain specialiste des monuments (Salvaging European art:
memories of an American Monuments Officer). Paris: Editions
Internationales, 1948. 100 pp.
Note: Written mainly about his personal experiences as a Monuments
Officer, the author offers information about the types of war damage
done to artwork. Has many illustrations and is well indexed.

355. Smyth, Craig Hugh. Repatriation of art from the collecting point
in Munich after World War II: background and beginnings with
reference especially to the Netherlands. The Hague: Schwartz-SDU,
1988. 126 pp. (Gerson Lecture held at the University of Groningen,
The Netherlands, in 1986).
Note: Smyth's lecture covered the history and beginnings of the
Central Art Collecting Point in Munich established by MFA&A
Monuments Officers as part of a network of collection centers for
looted art works with emphasis on the Netherlands.

356. Smyth, Craig Hugh. "The establishment of the Munich Collection

Point." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 126-130. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: This summary of Smyth's work in creating and managing the
Munich Collecting Point is most informative about the problems of
competing with the military for space for cataloging and storing art
loot.

357. "Spoils of war: impressionists at the Hermitage." Economist

(London) 335, no.7910 (April 15, 1995): 80.
Note: Over seventy paintings captured by the Soviets in 1945 have
been put on exhibit in St. Petersburg.

358. "Swiss banks, Nazi plunder." Atlantic Unbound (June 26, 1997).
Note: Noting the recent government report, "U.S. and Allied efforts to
recover and restore gold and other assets stolen or hidden by Germany
during World War II," the Atlantic Monthly explores Nazi past
through its articles beginning in September 1946.

359. Talley, M. Kirby. "Lost treasures." ARTnews 89, no.2 (February

1990): 138+.

360. Taper, Bernard. "Investigating art looting for the MFA&A." In

The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 135-138. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Taper, an art-intelligence officer for MFA&A in Germany,
assigned to the task of recovering lost and looted artwork, notes that
his most significant interrogation was of the art dealer, Hans
Wendland, the key link in moving artwork confiscated from French
Jewish collections by the ERR through Goering, and then by
diplomatic pouch to Switzerland for sale in Lucerne. The interrogation
resulted in locating a number of important paintings and in providing
documentation needed to persuade the Swiss government to look at
their policies regarding wartime art transactions.

361. Tenative list of Jewish cultural treasures in Axis-occupied

countries. [New York]: Commission on European Jewish Cultural
Reconstruction, 1946. 103 pp. (Also published in Jewish Social
Studies, v.8, no. 1).
Note: During WWII, the American Conference on Jewish Social
Studies named a commission to consider how to save the cultural
heritage of European Jewry. As a result of their research, a tentative
list of European Jewish cultural treasures was compiled. The list was
published in 1946 by the Commission on European Jewish Cultural
Reconstruction which went on to distribute heirless Jewish property.

362. Thornes, Robin. "Protecting cultural objects through

documentation standards." Spoils of War, no. 2 (July 1996): 38-41.
Note: To encourage recovery, cultural objects need to be photographed
and adequately described. Ms. Thorne describes the Getty Institute's
collaborative project on international documentation standards. Core
information regarded as essential by museums, insurance companies,
art dealers, and law-enforcement agencies have been identified for
inclusion.

Among National Archives Library's periodical holdings.

363. Tolstikov, Vladimir. "Some aspects of the preparation of the

catalogue for the exhibition 'the Treasure of Troy: Heinrich
Schliemann's excavations' at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts,
Moscow." In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the
loss, reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 212-213. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international
symposium, The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: The catalog itself has been published as The gold of Troy:
searching for Homer's fabled city (New York: Harry Abrams, in
association with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and
the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 1996.).

364. Tomkiewicz, Wladyslaw. Catalogue of paintings moved from

Poland by the German occupation authorities during the years 1939-
1945. I. Foreign paintings. Publications of the Reparations Section,
No. 9. Warsaw: Ministry of Culture and Art, 1950.

365. Treasures untraced - an inventory of the Italian art treasures lost

during the Second World War. Rome: Minister per i Beni Culturali e
Ambientali and Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca della Stato, 1995. 339 pp.

366. Tully, Judd. "The war loot questions: no easy answer." ARTnews
94, no.6 (Summer 1995): 144.
Note: At the end of WWII, German artwork was taken to Russia by the
Red Army. Some of these works have been exhibited at Moscow's
Pushkin Museum and at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg now that
German-Russian discussions about what to do with the art have
reached an impasse. This article reports the ambivalence of a number
of U.S. art museum directors asked for suggestions; several noted that
some of the works were taken not from museums but from individuals,
others asked if any of the works had been appropriated during Nazi
purges. In the long run, the preservation, representation and exhibition
of the artwork does everyone a service.

367. Tully, Judd. "The war loot questions: no easy answer." ARTnews
94, no.6 (Summer 1995): 144.

368. "Unplundering art: when spoils of war seized from Germany are
returned, where can the line be drawn on the repatriation of other art
treasures?." Economist (London) 345, no.8048 (December 20, 1997):
126+.
Note: Recent claims for the return of WWII looted art have created
questions about similar looting and thefts in the past.

369. Unterberger, Andreas. "Der Raub der Schieles (The heist of the
Schiele paintings)." Museum Security Mailinglist Reports (March
1998).
Note: According to the author, the United States, in confiscating
Schiele paintings that have never been claimed by heirs of the owners
and rejecting the offer of the Leopold Museum for independent
arbitration, has threatened not only the further exhibition of the great
Schiele exhibit, but threatens future international exhibits. He asks:
What museum in the world is going to be ready to send its works into
someone else's jurisdiction?
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/00398.html.

370. Urice, Stephen K. "Claims to ownership of the Trojan treasures."

In The spoils of war - World War II and its aftermath: the loss,
reappearance, and recovery of cultural property, 204-206. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. (Paper presented at international symposium,
The Spoils of War, sponsored by Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts, New York, January, 1995).
Note: Urice, a specialist in law and the visual arts, summarizes the
position papers submitted by representatives of Turkey, Germany and
Russia.

371. Usborne, David. "America: 'stolen' Nazi art seized in New York."
The Independent (London) (January 19, 1998).
Note: Two paintings exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
were seized by city authorities just before they were to be shipped back
to the Leopold Museum in Austria. The Egon Schiele paintings, stolen
from their Jewish owners by the Nazis during WWII and claimed by
the victims' heirs, were seized although the Leopold had pledged a
panel of experts to consider the claims with the promise to surrender
the works if the claims were upheld.

372. Vagheggi, Paolo. "Capolavori d'arte prigionieri di guerra (Art

masterpieces as prisoners of war)." La Republica.it: culture & scienze
(February 21, 1998).
Note: Nations, going back to biblical times, have looted the art
treasures of other nations they have conquered. This brief article traces
the activities of the Romans, the Crusaders, Napoleon, the British, the
Nazis, and the Russians in capturing art as booty. In the past, attempts
at getting art items back to their original owners have not been
successful. Much of the art stolen by the Nazis has been returned to the
rightful owners. There is a movement in the art world to get other Nazi
loot back to the owners and to ensure that art treasures are returned in
the future.

This article is filed at V1 in the Library.

Online:
http://www.repubblica.it/online/cultura_scienze/arte/portante/portante.
html.

373. Valland, Rose. Le Front de l'art: defense des collection franŁaise

(The art front: defending the French collections), 262 pp. Paris: Plon,
1961.
Note: Rose Valland, a French curator, while working in a German-
occupied museum center collected information on art shipments to
Germany and secretly consulted and copied German inventories.
Valland instructed Monuments Officer James Rorimer on where to
find the treasures when he accompanied combat troops into Germany.

374. Van Rijn, Michel. Hot art, cold cash. London: Warner Books,
1994.

375. Varadarajan, Tunku. Gallery is sued over 'looted' art (Times of

London). August 14, 1998.
Note: Prentice Bloedel gave the Henri Matisse painting, "Odalisque",
to the Seattle Museum years after he had purchased it from a NYC
gallery. Soon after, a new book, "Lost Museum, the Nazi Conspiracy
to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art", cited the painting as
stolen from Paul Rosenberg, a Jewish Paris art dealer who left his
collection behind when he fled from the Nazis in 1940. Bloedel's
grandchild recognized the illustration as matching the painting given
by his family to the Seattle Art Museum. The Bloedel family contacted
Rosenberg heirs who filed a legal demand for the return of the
painting. At this time, the Seattle Art Museum has indicated an interest
in going to court as a test case. Rosenberg family members are
unhappy at the Museum's forcing them to incur the expense and delay
of a lawsuit.
Online: http://www.museum-security.org/reports/04798.html#7.
376. Varon, Elana. "NARA web site to aid Holocaust asset research."
Federal Computer Week (December 7, 1998): 8.
Note: This article on the NARA web site unveiled at the Holocaust-Era
Assets Symposium describes the site's features and notes that one
historian said, "They've created a little research nucleus. If I were
starting to look at this for the first time, as a place to begin, it's really
unmatched.."

377. Vlug, Jean. Report on objects removed to Germany from Holland,

Belgium, and France during the German occupation of the countries.
Amsterdam: Report of Stichting Nederlands Kunstbesit, 1945.

378. Vrublevskaya, Valentina and Sergei Kot. "Cultural property of the

Ukraine lost as a result of World War II: problems of research and
restitution." In Cultural treasures moved because of the war: a cultural
legacy of the Second World war: documentation and research on
losses, 109-123. Bremen: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder, 1995.
(Documentation of the International Meeting in Bremen, November 30
to December 2, 1994).
Note: After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukranian
independence, the return of lost cultural assets became an important
element of government cultural policy.

379. Walker, John. "Europe's looted art." National Geographic 89

(January 1946): 39-52.
Note: A description of the work of the MFA&A Branch in protecting
artistic treasures in the course of war and of the discovery of masses of
Nazi loot secreted away. There are special notes on looting in Italy.

380. Watson, Peter. Sotheby's: the inside story. New York: Random
House, 1997. vii, 324 pp.
Note: An investigation into how art objects of great historical,
economic, and sometimes religious, value found their way to the
Sotheby's auctions.

381. Watson, Peter. "Battle over Hitler's loot." The Observer, no.
10683 (July 21, 1996): 28.
Note: WWII victims' heirs seek to retrieve paintings looted by Nazis
from American art collector Daniel Searle who claims to have
purchased the paintings legally.

382. Waxman, Sharon. "Austria: ending the legacy of shame."

ARTnews 94, no.7 (September 1995): 122-125.
Note: For nearly 50 years, a cache of Jewish-owned art confiscated by
the Nazis during WWII was stored - much of it in a monastery in
Mauerbach, outside Vienna. The artwork had been turned over to
Austria by the US in 1955 with the provision that Austria distribute
them to rightful owners or contribute them to a Holocaust victims
organization. After a brief and unadvertised claims period ended in
1972, Austria claimed title to the remaining objects, placing the finest
ones in museums and galleries. In 1984 ARTnews published an
investigation, "A legacy of shame: Nazi art loot in Austria", which
revealed the Austrian actions, resulting in an extension of the claims
period making possible the return of several hundred objects. Not until
1995 did Austria take steps to transfer the remaining art objects to the
Jewish Community of Austria.

383. Waxman, Sharon. "Justice in Austria... finally?." ARTnews 94,

no.1 (January 1995): 154+.
Note: Because of the claims of a 1984 ARTnews article that Austria
had mishandled the restitution of artwork stolen by the Nazis,
legislation was passed in December 1985 calling for an extension of
the claims period for victims' heirs and for an auction for the
unclaimed objects, stored in a monastery in Mauerbach, with the
proceeds going to victims of the Third Reich in Austria. Some Jewish
leaders argued against an auction, saying that it would be more
appropriate to exhibit them in a museum at Austrian government
expense. .

384. Weber, John Paul. "Spoils of war." In German war artists, 55-75.
Columbia, SC: Cerberus Books, 1979.
Note: This chapter traces the history of the legitimacy of military
confiscation, noting that after the Hague Convention of 1907, art
would be granted an absolute immunity, under international law, from
seizure by an invading army. The author focuses on the WWII and
post-war occupation practices of the Allies.
385. Weber, John Paul. "Second thoughts." In German war artists, 77-
99. Columbia, SC: Cerberus Books, 1979.
Note: This chapter focuses on the Nazi-looted art found in Merkers.
Military leaders proposed that these masterpieces and other German-
owned works of art be transported to the US for safekeeping "in trust"
for the people of the defeated nation. This action approved by
President Truman was opposed by both the members of the Allied
Commission on Reparations who requested that the final disposition of
any removed art should be subject to future Allied decisions, and by
U.S. Monuments Officers, as establishing " a precedent which is
neither morally tenable nor trustworthy." The removed art was
returned in 1948 and 1949; the controversy over this artwork spurred
military historians to seek a formal legal opinion about the propriety of
their continued possession of the works by German artists. Those
works deemed to have been "erroneously seized" were returned to
Germany during the 1950s.

386. Weinbaum, Laurence. Righting a historic wrong: restitution of

Jewish property in Central and East Europe. 3d ed. Policy studies no.
1. Jerusalem: World Jewish Congress, 1995. 41 pp.
Note: Most Jewish properties looted by the Nazis were later seized by
the Communists before they could be claimed by their rightful owners.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and its hold over Central and East
Europe has given Jews a new opportunity to reclaim lost property. In
1992 the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) was formed
to negotiate Jewish communal claims. The WJRO has found a
disturbing pattern of national laws restricting the rights of Jews to
reclaim their property.

387. Wildenstein, Georges. "Works of art - weapons of war." La

République franŁaise (December 1943).

388. Williams, Sharon A. The international and national protection of

movable cultural property: a comparative study. Dobbs Ferry, NY:
Oceana Publications, 1978. xvii, 302 pp.

389. Wilson, David. "Return and restitution: a museum perspective."

In Who owns the past?, 99-106. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1985. (Paper presented at the annual symposium of the Australian
Academy of the Humanites).
Note: This call for support from the great universal museums of the
world against claims for the return of cultural property.

390. Wolff Metternich, Franz. Die Denkmalpflege in Frankreich (The

preservation of historic buildings and monuments in France). Berlin:
Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1944. 54 pp.
Note: Count Wolff Metternich headed the protection of cultural
treasures as part of the German military government. He summarizes
the history of the French administration for the protection of
monuments previous to 1942, of all laws on the topic, and presents a
survey of organizations concerned with the topic.

391. Woolley, Charles Leonard. A record of the work done by the

military authorities for the protection of the treasures of art and history
in war areas. London: HMSO, 1947. 71 pp.
Note: Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, a prominent scholar, appointed to
the position of Archeological Advisor in the War Office, describes the
beginning of the British MFA&A program. Appendix B is a previously
published detailed statement of war damage.

392. Works of art in Austria (British Zone of Occupation): losses and

survivals in the war. London: HMSO for the British Committee on the
Preservation and Restitution of Works of Art, Archives and Other
Materials in Enemy Hands, 1946. 60 pp.
Note: Compiled from reports supplied by the Monuments, Fine Arts
and Archives Branch of the Control Commission for Austria (British
element) this notes the loss and survivals in the war with remarks
about individual museums, galleries, libraries and private art
collections.

393. Works of art in Germany (British Zone of Occupation): losses and

survivals in the war. London: HMSO for the British Committee on the
Preservation and Restitution of Works of Art, Archives and Other
Materials in Enemy Hands, 1946. x, 65 pp.
394. Works of art in Italy: losses and survivals in the war. Vol. 1:
South of Bologna; Vol. 2: North of Bologna. London: HMSO for the
British Committee on the Preservation and Restitution of Works of
Art, Archives and Other Materials in Enemy Hands, 1945, 1946.
Note: A catalog of destroyed, damaged, and undamaged works with
photographs and repair notes. Volume I was compiled while the war
was going on from field reports from Monuments Officers. Volume 2
was compiled after the war and includes an appendix on the protection
of archives in Italy by Hilary Jenkinson and E.E. Bell.

395. Yanowitch, Lee. "French museums to exhibit 900 works taken

during WWII." Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc. (March 2, 1998).
Note: Four French museums announce special exhibits for art the
Nazis took from France during WWII.
Online: http://www.dhh-3.de/biblio/news/1996/0302/.

396. Zagorin, Adam. "Saving the spoils of war." Time 150, no.23
(December 1, 1997): 87-91.
Note: Whereas the search for Nazi gold and cash centered on Swiss
banks, the hunt for art stolen from Holocaust victims is worldwide.
According to the author, top U.S. museums own allegedly WWII
looted art. In planning a gallery of cultural masterpieces, Hitler had
directed Hermann Goering to assemble a collection of captured art,
including works confiscated from Jews. It is believed that German
forces had control of one-fifth of the world's Western art by the end of
WWII. Even during the war, some of this loot found its way to New
York's art market. Survivors and their heirs are now being helped in
their quest for the stolen art by Members of Congress, as well as other
organizations, including the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP),
and the World Jewish Congress.

397. Zaldumbide, Rodrigo Pallares. "Return and restitution of cultural

property: cases for restitution." Museum 34, no.2 (1982).

Source: This page retrieved from the National Archives and Records
Administration.
URL:
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art.html

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by Donna Healy, The
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Etnografiya 1988, No. 4
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December 26, 2002
• PYSANKA REQUEST
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Pysanka Museums in the
K World
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By Paul Miazga, Kyiv Post Staff Writer From Yaroslava Tkachuk,
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May 26, 2004 Kolomyia Museum of
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UKRAINE OF ART STOLEN DURING wearing a Ukrainian shirt
WWII and eating perogies,"
Drawings collection is considered she says." Its a way of
one of the most important in the preserving their heritage
world and making it come alive
By Helen Fawkes, BBC correspondent for them," said Gerry
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 By Reporter Britainy
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• KOLOMIYA, UKRAINE: POTTERY Saskatchewan, Regina,
AND ART HELP TO SHAPE IT'S Saskatchewan, Canada,
HISTORY April 17, 2003
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built a new museum shaped like a ANCIENT ART OF EGG
large Easter egg, or pysanka DECORATING"
By Natalia Feduschak, The Kyiv Post, Dell Kasinskas, pysanky
Kyiv, Ukraine, March 27, 2003 artist/instructor for the
past 34 years
• KOZAK-MAMAI (MAMAI THE By: Jay Nowakowski,
COSSACK) Correspondent,
Often Portrayed in 17th-19th Century CTValleyNews.com,
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Ukrainian Museums by Krychevsky
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ARCHIVE COLLECTION AT THE Some eggs decorated in
EMBASSY OF UKRAINE IN the traditional Ukrainian
WASHINGTON, D.C. pysanka style are
Krychevsky Collection Being Donated included in the
to Museums In Ukraine collection
By E. Morgan Williams, Ukraine Market The White House,
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May 5, 2003 • Pysanky Art, Books
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TRADITION, ARTIST
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LOST"; NO PLACE LIKE HOME 2003
Alienation and absurdity in post-
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Ukrainian Gift Shop, Inc.
• KYIV APPROVES DIASPORA'S (Founded 1947)
MEMORIAL TO GREAT FAMINE St. Anthony Village,
by Roman Woronowycz, Kyiv Press Minnesota
Bureau; The Ukrainian Weekly;
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USA, November 3, 2002 Liubov Ktytorova and
Tetiana Vlenenko
• KYIV LAVRA: UNEARTHING THE Kyiv, Ukraine
KYIV PECHERSK LAVRA
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by Emily Urquhart, Kyiv Post Staff MAGICAL PYSANKA,
Writer, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar THE ANNUAL
17, 2004 EXHIBITION
There is no Ukrainian
• KYIV RENAISSANCE YEAR folk art object that has
DESIGNATED FOR 2003 such universal audience
UIA Designates 2003 as 'The Year of appeal as the pysanka
the Renaissance of Kyiv' By Marta Baczynsky,
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Washington, D.C.
Monday, November 4, 2002 • PYSANKY...."BETTY
CHRISTENSON'S ART
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"Emanation of Mysterious Light" with Ukrainian Heritage.
Reported By Lyudmyia Kornienko and By Ellen Margulies,
Mykola Volga....OR-GALLERY, Kyiv editor, artist and
freelance writer
• LIFAR, SERGE: BALLET DANCER "American Profile"
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Between Nijinsky and Nureyev
An Antique Tapestry Treasure Found • PYSANKY: BEVERLY
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November 10, 2002 ANNUAL WHITE HOUSE
EASTER EGG DISPLAY
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BIRTH, HAD BRILLIANT CAREER AS decorating eggs
A CHOREOGRAPHER WITH BALLETS Ukrainian style
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London, UK, Agence France-Presse Morning Journal, Lorain,
(AFP), December 4, 2002 Ohio, April 6, 2003

• Liza (Elisaveta) Myronova • PYSANKY:

Ukrainian Folk Artist CANADIAN EGG ARTIST
Kyiv, Ukraine SHARES HER FLAIR
Susan Turner of Agassiz
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(Podil) By James Baxter, Agassiz
Kyiv, Ukraine, January - March, 2001 Harrison Observer,
Agassiz, British Columbia,
M Canada, Thursday, April
• MALAKHOV, VLADIMIR: 8, 2004
UKRAINIAN BALLET DANCER TO BE
FEATURED ON USA'S PBS ON • PYSANKY:
FEBRUARY 3, 2003 CHRISTIAN TRADITION
By Fletcher Roberts, The New York Artist Uses Egg Shells
Times, February 2, 2003 As Canvus, Makes
Ukrainian Easter Eggs
• MALAKHOV, VLADIMIR Rose Albano Risso, Staff
(UKRAINE); A MACHO SPIN ON Writer, Manteca Bulletin
BALLET, 'DANCE IN AMERICA' Online Daily, Manteca,
FOLLOWS 4 STARS' PATHS California, Tuesday,
Angel Corella (Spain), Jose Manuel March 30, 2004
Carreno (Cuba), Vladimir Malakhov
(Ukraine) and Ethan Stiefel, (USA) • PYSANKY CREATED
By Sarah Kaufman, The Washington FOR HOLODOMOR
Post, Monday, February 3, 2003 COMMEMORATIONS
"Tough Face of Famine"
• MALEVICH: THE FULLEST By Ivan Mishchenko,
EXPRESSION OF PURE FEELING Town of Korsun'
Ukrainian Artist Kasimir Malevich Shevchenkivskiy,
By Dmytro Horbachov, Ukrainian Art Cherkassy oblast',
Critic, Welcome to Ukraine magazine, Ukraine, Ukraina
Kyiv, Ukraine, 1998, Issue One Magazine, Kyiv, Ukraine,
1999
• MALEVICH'S SHAPES OF THINGS
TO COME--A Revolutionary Whose • PYSANKY:
Brush Was Mightier Than His Pen. CHRISTINA LAZOR
Kazimir Malevich was born near Kiev DEMONSTRATES THE
ART OF PYSANKIES IN
in 1878 FLORIDA, HAS BEEN
By Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, MAKING THEM SINCE
Washington, D.C., May 27, 2003 1949
By Renee LePere, Staff
• MALEVYCH: "THE UNKNOWN Writer, Sun-Herald.com,
MALEVYCH" Charlotte Harbor, Florida,
Internationally Renowned Artist: On Wednesday, April 16,
his 125th Birth Anniversary 2003
By Olena Papeta, Art Researcher, The
Day Weekly Digest in English Kyiv, • PYSANKY: EASTER
Ukraine, Tuesday, March 9, 2004 TRADITION CONTINUES
Nadia Poluch Teaches
• WORKS BY MALEVICH STIR the Traditional Art of
CONTROVERSY AT GUGGENHEIM Ukrainian Egg
Kazimir Malevich was born near Kyiv Decorating in Canada
in 1878 By Andrew Bruce,
The Russia Journal Daily, Moscow, The Mercury Staff, The
Associated Press, New York, May 23, Guelph Mercury, Guelph,
2003 Ontario, Canada,
Saturday April 19, 2003
• RETHINKING MALEVICH..
Two-Day Conference in New York In • PYSANKY: EASTER
Celebration of the 125th Anniversary TRADITIONS
of [Ukrainian] Artist Kazimir Malevich REPRESENTED IN
(1878-1935), February 6-7, 2004 FLORIDA
The Malevich Society, Charlotte Ola Kryway, 86, of
Douglas, NY, NY, Tues, Jan 13, 2004 Titusville, celebrates a
Ukrainian
• MARTYNIUK, LARYSA: tradition...pysanky
"REMEMBERING" By Linda Jump, Florida
The Great Famine in Ukraine, 1932- Today, Melbourne,
1933, Artwork Created in 1982-1983 Florida, Saturday, Apr 10,
Also Recent Paintings by Larysa 2004
Martyniuk, Ukrainian/American Artist,
Colorado Springs, Colorado • PYSANKY: EGG ART
BRIDGES CULTURES
• MATRYOSHKA: THE SECRETS OF AND BELIEFS
THE MATRYOSHKA Ukrainian Craft has Pagan
Russian Nesting Doll roots
By Tatyana Sinitsyna, RIA Novosti Special to the Chicago
Writer RIA Novosti, Moscow, Russia, tribune
January 23, 2004 Chicago, Illinois, March
• Mazepa, Ivan; Cossack Hetman and 15, 2002
Russian Czar Peter the Great
IN UKRAINE, A FILM'S HAZY • PYSANKY: EGG-
HISTORY LESSON CELLENT ART
Washington Post Foreign Service York County [PA]
Front Page, Style Section, The women keep the ancient
Washington Post tradition of dyeing
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, pysanky eggs alive year-
October 2, 2002; Page C01 round
Olga Romanchak-Ahrens,
• MAZEPA: UKRAINIAN COSSACK Instructor; By Jennifer
HETMAN IVAN MAZEPA: A LOOK Vogelsong, York Daily
THROUGH CENTURIES Record, York,
Exposition at the Lviv Art Gallery in Pennsylvania, Thursday,
Lviv, Ukraine March 11, 2004
By Iryna Yehorova of Lviv, The Day
Weekly Digest, The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine, • PYSANKY: EGG-
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 DYEING ART MAKES
FOR A COLORFUL
• "MAZEPPA, SONGS OF UKRAINE" COLLECTION
Bolshoi Theater hits a high note with Mary Jane McIntee has
its new production of 'Mazeppa' been hooked since she
By Raymond Stults, The Moscow learned about pysanka
Times, Arts & Ideas Moscow, Russia, in the 1970's, the ancient
Feb. 6-12, 2004 Ukrainian art of egg
dyeing
• MINISTRY OF ARTS AND By Crystal Bolner,
CULTURE Statesman Journal,
Government of Ukraine Salem, Oregon,
Kyiv, Ukraine. Contains a wide array of Thursday, April 8, 2004
information about the Ministry and the
major cultural events that take place in • PYSANKY, EGGING
Ukraine. The website is in Ukrainian US ON: UKRAINIAN
only DECORATOR KEEPS
ART FORM ALIVE: Zoria
• MISS DEAF WORLD: UKRAINIAN Zetaruk is an 88-year-old
LADY WINS MISS DEAF WORLD 2003 folk artist born to
CONTEST HELD IN PRAGUE Ukrainian parents who
Galina Broiko Named The Most immigrated to Canada
Beautiful Deaf Girl in the World By Kristen Peterson, Las
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Vegas SUN, Las Vegas,
Service (ARTUIS), Kyiv, Ukraine, Nevada, Thursday, April
Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3, 2003

• "UKRAINIAN MODERNISM 1910- • PYSANKY: EGG

1930," A NEW ART EXHIBITION MASTERPIECES MORE
Agreement on the Joint Project THAN HOBBY FOR
"Ukrainian Modernism 1910-1930" MARBLEHEAD, OHIO
National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, WOMAN
Ukraine, Tuesday, June 10, 2003 Helen Jean Cooley has
been decorating for the
• "MOSES" past 32 years
New Opera Prepares for World By Kate Botti, News
Premiere Week During Visit of Pope Herald correspondent,
John Paul II To Ukraine. Port Clinton, Ohio,
Composer Myroslav Skoryk, Lviv State Saturday, April 10, 2004
Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet.
Lviv, Ukraine, June 23-30, 2001 • PYSANKY: THE
EGGSACTING ART OF
• MOSES... "A New Opera For A PYSANKY
Nation In Search of Itself" Artist Adelaide Rusch
By Joe McLellan became fascinated by
Classical Music Critic Emeritus of The the craft in 1974
Washington Post, July 20, 2001, Grace By Evelyn Ryan, The
Notes Dominion Post,
Morgantown, West
• UKRAINIAN MOVIE PORTAL Virginia, April 20, 2003
"KINOKOLO.UA"
A wide range of information about the • PYSANKY EGGS
Ukrainian movie scene, past, present RECALL UKRAINIAN
and future TRADITION
Lake Mills mother-
• MUSEUM OF CRAFT & FOLK ART daughter duo hooked on
Innovative Exhibitions of Craft and Folk
pysanky, Ukrainian
Art from Cultures Past and Present,
method
Educational Programs and Publications.
By Margaret Krueger,
San Francisco, California
Watertown Daily News,
Watertown, Wisconsin,
• MUSEUM: UKRAINIAN MUSEUM
Saturday, April 10, 2004
WILL STAY IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
New two-story building to be built • PYSANKY: EGGS-
behind current structure, maps, TRAORDINARY,
photos used by Nazis to invade DECORATING FOR
Ukraine in World War II will now be EASTER UKRAINIAN
displayed
By Angela Townsend, Plain Dealer STYLE
Reporter, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, By Karl B. Hille, The
Ohio, April 17, 2004 Winchester Star,
Winchester, Virginia,
• MUSIC THEATER PIECE "KUPALA" Thursday, April 1, 2004
TO BE PERFORMED IN UKRAINE
YARA ART GROUP'S NEW SHOW • PYSANKY: EGGS-
"KUPALA" TRAVELING TO UKRAINE TRA SPECIAL
DURING NOVEMBER OF 2002 Ukrainian Easter eggs
ArtUkraine Information Service offer students lesson in
(ARTUIS): November 4, 2002 art
The Indiana Gazette,
• MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN Indiana, PA, March 28,
UKRAINE THROUGH THE 2004
CENTURIES: Lute, Torban, Kobza,
Bandurka, Bandura. History, Artists, • PYSANKY: "EGGS
Illustrations, Photographs, Folk Music THE UKRAINE WAY"
Eaton, Greeley,
• NALEPYNSKA-BOICHUK, SOFIA: Colorado residents learn
"FAMINE" ancient technique
Ukrainian Avant-Garde Artist, Wood Story by Roxye Arellano,
Engraving, 1927, State Museum of Greeley Tribune, Greeley,
Ukrainian Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine Colorado, March 21, 2004

• NARAZYAN, VACHAGAN AND SIX • PYSANKY FROM

OTHER UKRAINIAN ARTISTS WITH SHEVCHENKO'S
TIES TO KHARKIV TAKE ON BEAUTY HOMELAND
IN ART EXHIBITION "Pysanka" a book by
Beacon, New York Gallery Hosts Vadym Mytsyk and Oles
Exhibit "The Interconnection of Time" Fysun
Artworks by Vachagan Narazyan, Published by Rodovid in
Dmitriy Dymshyts, Edward Yashin, 1992 in Kyiv
Stas Gidzevich's and three other Article by Orysia
Ukrainians Paszczak Tracz
By Rebecca Rothbaum, Poughkeepsie The Ukrainian Weekly
Journal Poughkeepsie, New York, May April 22, 2001
12, 2003
• PYSANKY: THE
N GOOD EGG, SYMBOL
• NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC OF FERTILITY AND NEW
SOCIETY OF UKRAINE LIFE
Holding Concerts Seasons Since 1863 By Angela Vasquez, Staff
Writer, U-Daily News -
Kyiv, Ukraine L.A. LIFE, Los Angeles
Daily News, Los Angeles,
• NAZI ART: TRAIL OF NAZI California, April 17 2003
PLUNDER LEADS TO HIGH COURT
Case has wide implications in art • PYSANKY: INDIANA
world, foreign policy TEACHER'S HOOSIER
By Richard Willing, USA TODAY, EGG ON DISPLAY AT
Washington, D.C., Mon, Feb 23, 2004 WHITE HOUSE
Sheri Johnson
• Nil Khasevych, Artist Demonstrated the
Ukrainian Underground Art Ukrainian Art of Pysanky
Album Of The Woodcuts Beth Hlavek, Jounal and
Made In Ukraine, 1947 - 1950 Courier Online Great
LaFayette, Indiana, April
• Nina Marchenko 19, 2003
Ukrainian Monumental Artist
Kyiv, Ukraine • PYSANKY IN UK:
ROSSLYN'S SUCH A
GOOD EGG!
Rosslyn Nelson eggs are
decorated in colourful
Ukrainian folk style
By Andy Coleman,
Evening Mail;
Birmingham, United
Kingdom, Apr 10 2004

• PYSANKY: LOCAL
ARTIST IN ALASKA,
USA, WORKS
WONDERS WITH EGGS
Mary Black Sells Egg-
Crafting Supplies At Her
Business, Alaska Eggery
KTVA Article, Anchorage,
Alaska, April 18, 2003

• PYSANKY:
NEBRASKA WOMAN
DESIGNING INTRICATE
UKRAINIAN EASTER
EGGS KNOWN AS
PYSANKY
Lisa Klinzing of North
Bend
By Beverly J.
Lydick/Tribune Staff, The
Tribune, Fremont,
Nebraska, Thursday,
March 31, 2004

• PYSANKY: OUR
CULTURAL HEIRLOOM
and One of Ukraine's
Best Cultural
Ambassadors
EDITORIAL, The
Ukrainian Weekly, April 7,
1996

• PYSANKY: AN OVAL
ART FORM
Kelly Graeber practices
pysanky, ancient
Ukrainian folk art
By Bob Holliday,
Pantagraph.com,
Connecting Central
Illinois on the web,
Bloomington, Illinois,
Thursday, April 8, 2004

• PYSANKY--"PLANET
EGG"
Ukrainian Pysanky
By Linda Lishchuk Hupert

• PYSANKY: POLISH
ART CENTER
Ukrainian Pysanky Kits
For Sale, Egg Art,
Importer of Items From
Poland, Hamtramck,
Michigan
• PYSANKY
SHOWCASE
Featuring the Award
Winning Art of Patty
Wiszuk-De Angelo
Wide Selection of
Pysanky in Traditional,
Contempory, and Custom
Design Using The
Traditional Ukrainian
Method of Waxing and
Drying

• PYSANKY: SOME
EASTER TRADITIONS
PREDATE BIRTH OF
CHRIST
By Alison Hawkes, Bucks
County Courier Times,
Levittown, Pennyslvania,
Sunday, April 4, 2004

• PYSANKY: SYMBOL
OF SPRING FROM
UKRAINE
Romeoville, Illinois
Annual Egg-Decorating
Workshop
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago, Illinois, Sunday,
April 4, 2004

• PYSANKY: SYMBOLS
OF THE
RESURRECTION
Docia Pawluk, who grew
up in Ukraine, made the
eggs from age 6 until
she was 101 years old
By Kathy Kish, Bluefield
Daily Telegraph,
Bluefield, West Virginia,
April 21, 2003

• PYSANKY: THIS
PROCESS TAKES A
'GOOD EGG'
Gloria Horbaty
decorating eggs in the
traditional Ukrainian
method
By Christopher
Symington, Record-
Journal staff, Record-
Journal, Meriden,
Connecticut, April 4,
2004

• PYSANKY: A
TRADITION OF FINE
ART
Ukrainian-Americans
Continue Their Cultural
Practices By Using
Ukrainian Techniques to
Decorate Easter Eggs
By Jennifer A. Uihlein,
Newsday.com, USA, April
18, 2003

• PYSANKY,
UKRAINIAN EASTER
EGGS BY OLGA
Olga's Egg Files: Chicken
Eggs, Duck Eggs, Goose
Eggs, Ostrich Eggs, How
to Make Pysanky, History
of this Art

• PYSANKY
UKRAINIAN EGG
DECORATING COURSE
OFFERED AT
KENNESAW STATE
UNIVERSITY IN
GEORGIA
By D. McKee Marietta
Daily Journal Online,
Marietta, Georgia,
December 16, 2002

• PYSANKY:
UNBROKEN TRADITION:
UKRAINIAN EGG
DECORATING DATES
TO PRE-CHRISTIAN
TIMES
By Laura Thomas, San
Francisco Chronicle, San
Francisco, California,
Saturday, April 12, 2003

• PYSANKY: WHY
EGGS AT EASTER
The Ukrainian Pysanky
eggs were intricately
decorated by drizzling
beeswax on the eggs
and then dipping them
into several dyes
New Straits Times,
Malaysia, April 21, 2003

• THE SYMBOLISM OF
THE UKRANIAN
EASTER EGG
Adapted from the original
story by Sofia Zielyk,
Ukrainian-American
Artist, New York, New
York

• ASSETS: EGGS--
FABERGE TO
PYSANKY--SIZZLE
Decorated Eggs Are On
A Roll; Ukrainian Folk
Style Called Pysanky
By Richard Chang,
Reuters, New York April
13, 2003

Q
R
• RUSLANA: WILD
DANCES IN UKRAINE
AS IT CELEBRATES
FIRST EUROVISION
CROWN,
'Ukraine is going nuts'
and 'Everybody is
playing 'Wild Dance'!'
Agence France-Presse
(AFP), Kiev, Ukraine,
Sunday, May 16, 2004

• RUSLANA: SATURDAY
NIGHT UKRAINE JOINED
EUROPE, A MUSICAL
EUROPE, Ukraine
Conquered the Heights
Called Eurovison, It's
unbelievable but it's a fact.
Ruslana Won. Serhiy
Shvets Reports from
Istanbul, Turkey,
ICTV television, Kiev, Ukraine,
in Ukrainian, 16 May 04,
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in
English, Sunday, May 16, 2004

• RUSLANA'S DIKI
TANTSY VIDEO, DETAILS
ABOUT THE SHOOTING
"Wild Dances"
Performance for
Eurovision Song
Competition,
EUROVISION.TV, Istanbul,
Turkey, Ukrainian Song and
Dance,
"Wild Dances" May, 2004

• RUSLANA: UKRAINE
WINS EUROVISION,
Ruslana hands Ukraine
its first victory at the
celebrated European
Event,
Agence France-Presse (AFP),
Correspondents in Istanbul,
Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May
16, 2003

• RUSLANA OF UKRAINE
WINS EUROVISION WITH
SONG "WILD DANCES,"
Inspired by the folk music
and dances of highlanders
in the Carpathian
Mountains,
Associated Press (AP), Istanbul,
Turkey, Sunday, May 16, 2004
• RUSLANA WINS!
UKRAINE WINS!
COMMENTARY: E. Morgan
Williams, Publisher and Editor,
THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT,
Washington, D. C., Sunday, May
16, 2004

• UKRAINE WINS
EUROVISION SONG
CONTEST,
Ruslana's Ukrainian Song
"Wild Dances,"
By Daren Butler, Reuters,
Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, May
15, 2004

• RUSLANA: UKRAINIAN
SONG "WILD DANCES"
PERFORMED
BY RUSLANA
ATEUROVISION 2004,
Unique character of the
picturesque land of the
Hutsuls permeates the
song through the sounds
of ethnical music
instruments, elements of
the Hutsul traditional
dance, Kolomyika, vivid
exclamations 'Hey! Hey!'
and 'dana-dana'.
EUROVISION.TV, Ukrainian
Song "Wild Dances," Istanbul,
Turkey, May, 2004

• RUSLANA: POPULAR
UKRAINIAN SINGER,
COMPOSER, PRODUCER
Always Unpredictable,
Ruslana is "wild" energy.
EUROVISON.TV, Istanbul,
Turkey, May, 2004

• RUSLANA: NEWS
BRIEFS FROM 2004
EUROVISION SONG
CONTEST
Ukrainian Singing Star
Ruslana, Eurovison Will be
Viewed by 100 Million
People,
EUROVISON: Istanbul, Turkey,
Friday, May 14, 2004

• RUSLANA:
EUROVISION KICKS OFF
WITH
LOVE SONGS AND
STOMPING,
Ukrainian Star Ruslana
One of the Favorites,
Agence France-Presse (AFP),
Istanbul, Turkey, May 13, 2004

• RECORDINGS:
SMALL USA
RECORDING LABEL
FEATURES UKRAINIAN
ARTISTS
International Piano
Legend "Sviatoslav
Richter Live in Kiev,"
and More
TNC RECORDINGS & TNC
JAZZ, Las Vegas, NV,
August, 2003

• REVERSE PAINTING
ON GLASS
ANASTASIA RAK
Ukrainian Folk Art
Master--For Fifty Years
Some of Anastasia Rak's
works are for sale
Contact ArtUkraine.com
If You Are Interested

• Reverse Painting On
Glass
Ivan Skolozdra, Folk
Artist
Painting Exhibition,
Ukrainian House
Kyiv, Ukraine, March,
2001

• Reverse Painting On
Glass
Yaroslava Surmach Mills
Artist, Illustrator, Author
West Nyack, New York

• ROCK BAND:
UKRAINIAN BAND
ROCKING THE FORMER
SOVIET WORLD AND
BEYOND
Five-piece guitar-playing
band Okean Elzy [Elsa's
Ocean] from Lviv, the
heart of nationalism in
western Ukraine
By Elizabeth Piper,
Reuters, Kiev, Ukraine,
Sunday, March 14, 2004

• RYPAN DESIGNS
Ukrainian Style
Beadwork [Gerdany]
by Maria Rypan, Toronto,
Ontario and Warren,
Michigan

S
• SADOVSKA,
MARIANA: UKRAINIAN
BORN SINGER,
ACTRESS AND
MUSICIAN
PERFORMING
CONCERTS AROUND
THE UNITED STATES
ArtUkraine.com
Information Service,
January 24, 2003

• SAVCHENKO, SERHIY
Outstanding Young
Artist from Lviv, Ukraine
His Works Are Quite
Interesting and
Luminous
Virtual Gallery Of Lviv
Artist Serhiy Savchenko
Biography, Exhibitions,
His Works, Articles

• Sculpture Art

• SEDLIAR, VASYL:
KOBZAR BY TARAS
SHEVCHENKO
The Collectivization-
Famine Kobzar?,
Illustrations and
Quotations Focus on
Stalin's Crimes, not
Tsarist Russia
Illustrations by Vasyl
Sedliar, Edited by Andriy
Richytsky, 1931 and
1933 Second Edition.
Sedliar and Richytsky
were both later murdered
by the Soviet secret
police

• SHEVCHENKO:
SACRED FREEDOM
Who helped liberate
Taras Shevchenko from
serfdom and how
By Ihor Siundiukov, The
Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv,
Ukraine, July 8, 2003

• SHEVCHENKO: THE
SPIRITUAL EYES OF A
GENIUS
Shevchenko's
philosophy of art
By Mykola Skyba,
Research Associate,
National Taras
Shevchenko Museum,
Kyiv, The Day Weekly
Digest in English,
Tuesday, March 16,
2004, Kyiv, Ukraine

• SHEVCHENKO,
TARAS: THE MOST
FAMOUS OF THEM ALL
Bard of Ukraine, Poet,
Artist, Freedom Fighter;
History, Photographs,
Postcards, Monuments,
Writings, Folk Art,
Figurines, Sculptures

• SHOSTAKOVICH,
DMITRI: COMPOSER
His 13th Symphony
(1962), decried the
Ukrainian and Nazi
massacre of Jews at
Babi Yar in Kiev
DANGEROUS DRAMA:
"LADY MACBETH OF
MTSENSK" "Lady Macbeth
of Mtsensk" was banned
in the Soviet Union for 30
years CLASSICAL MUSIC:
Chris Pasles, Los Angeles
Times; October 27, 2002

• SHYP, WOODEN
SCULPTURE ARTIST:
Ukraine Through the
Eyes of Laslo Shyp,
Renowned
Transcarpathian Master
of Wooden Sculpture
By Yury Zelinsky, The
Day Weekly Digest, Kyiv,
Ukraine, May 27, 2003

• SILVESTROV'S
POETRY OF MUSIC-
NEW ALBUM IN 2002
Ukrainian Composer's
CD Features the Munich-
based Rosamunde
Quartett

• SILVESTROV,
VALENTIN: AN
ELEGANT
INTRODUCTION TO THE
UKRAINIAN COMPOSER
By Melinda Bargreen,
Music Critic; Seattle
Times, Seattle,
Washington; Friday,
November 08, 2002

• SILVERSTROV,
VALENTIN NEW CD OF
UKRAINIAN
COMPOSER'S MUSIC
Romantic Ghosts in a
Rueful Present:
"Leggiero, Pesante"
By PAUL GRIFFITHS; New
York Times, August 11,
2002

• HRYHORY
SKOVORODA MUSEUM
RENEWES ITS WORK IN
SKOVORODYNOVKA
VILLAGE, KHARKIV
OBLAST
Ukrainian Poet and
Philosopher, UNIAN, Kyiv,
December 2, 2002

• SPORTS FOOTBALL:
NO-ONE WOULD STOP
THEM
February 24, 1943: It has
now been sixty-one
years since FC Start
Ukrainian football
[soccer] players were
murdered by Nazis
By Rachel Sproule, The
Hibernian Football Club
Web Site, Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK, 24
February 2004

• SPORTS: FRANCE-
BOUND UKRAINIAN
ROWER THEODORE
REZVOY KNOWS WHAT
FLOATS HIS BOAT
"I do it for my country,"
he said. The blue and
yellow flag of Ukraine
will be aboard
By Charles Zusman, The
Star-Ledger, NJ.com
website, Newark, New
Jersey, June 29, 2003

• SPORTS: IRYNA
KOVALENKO OF
UKRAINE WAS A
SURPRISE WINNER IN
THE WOMEN'S HIGH
JUMP AT THE 3RD IAAF
WORLD YOUTH
CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD
AT SHERBROOKE,
CANADA

• SPORTS: KLITSCHKO
BROTHERS LEARN TO
SHARE
Ukrainian Heavyweight
Contenders Poised to
Claim Pieces of Title>
By Kevin Iole, Special to
The Washington Post,
SPORTS, The Washington
Post, Washington, D.C.,
Friday, April 9, 2004;
Page D01

• SPORTS: OKSANA
BAIUL, BACK ON THE
BLADES AND HAPPY
Tiny Ukrainian girl won
Olympic gold and the
hearts of the world
By Marie Vasar, Los
Angeles Daily News, Los
Angeles, CA, Jan 17,
2004

• SPORTS GALLERY
Ukrainian Athletes
Achieving Excellence On
The International Scene

• SPORTS: SWIMMING:
UKRAINE LEADS THE
WAY IN EUROPEAN
CHAMPIONSHIPS,
Gold Medallists Yana
Klochkova and Danys
Sylantyev
By Astrid Andersson in
Madrid, Telegraph.co.uk,
London, UK, Fri, May 14,
2004

• SPORTS: UKRAINIAN
VITALI KLITSCHKO
STOPS CORRIE
SANDERS IN EIGTH
ROUND TO WIN
HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING
TITLE
By Nigel Hunt, Reuters,
Los Angeles, California,
Saturday, April 24, 2004

• SPORTS: UKRAINIAN
VITALI KLITSCHKO
STOPS CORRIE
SANDERS TO WIN WBC
TITLE
By Tim Dahlberg, AP
Boxing Writer, Los
Angeles, Saturday, April
24, 2004

• State Bandura Players

Concert - Ukrainian
Palace
Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30,
2000

T
• TATAR ART: A
CRIMEA LEFT ONLY IN
PICTURES
European Cultures
Museum in Berlin stores
Crimean Tatar works of
art
By Mykyta Kasianenko,
Simferopol, Interview
with Crimean Deputy
Minister of Culture Ismet
Zaatov, The Day Weekly
Digest in English, Kyiv,
Ukraine, Tuesday, April
20, 2004

• TATARS
News and publications,
online communities,
periodicals, books,
organizations, culture and
history, architecture,
language, literature,
music and dance, travel
and tourism guides,
transporation, maps.
Crimean Tatar Internet
Resources Website

• CRIMEAN TATAR
HISTORY AND
CULTURE CD-ROM
CREATED WITH U.S.
EMBASSY SUPPORT IN
UKRAINE
www.ArtUkraine.com
Information Service
(ARTUIS), Friday, July 4,
2003

• TAURIC
CHERSONESOS--"LEGA
CIES OF A SLAVIC
POMPEII"
City of Tauric
Chersonesos has been
included on the World
Monuments Watch List
of 100 Most Endangered
Sites Since 1996, was
founded in 421/422 B.C.
near Sevastopol,
Ukraine. The cradle of
Rus [Eastern Slavic]
Orthodoxy
By Kristin M. Romey,
Managing Editor;
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine
Volume 55 Number 6,
Pages 18-25; Long Island
City, New York

• Toys and Dolls

Ukrainian Traditional Folk
Art Exhibition, Taras
Shevchenko Museum in
Kyiv, December, 2000

• TRYPILLIAN CLAY
POTTERY
"Molding Ancient Culture"
by Anna Kozmina
Kyiv Post Staff Writer
23 May 2002

• TRYPILLYA CULTURE
IN UKRAINE
Atlantis in the Steppes of
Ukraine
History, Discoveries,
Beliefs, Pottery
By Natalya Mykhaylova

• TRYPILLIAN
CERAMICS GALLERY
Home of Beautifully
Handcrafted Ceramics
Inspired by the Artistry of
the Ancient Trypillian
Culture by Artists Marika
and Myron Bokalo

• TRYPILLIAN
CIVILIZATION
Study and Tour in
Ukraine, Summer 2004
By Mykola Ponomarenko,
Kolos Corporation,
Alexandria, VA, February
13, 2004

• TSYTUYEV, IHOR--
YOUNG UKRAINIAN
PIANO PLAYER
Performs at the
"Ukrainian Autumn in
Japan" Event
Tokyo, Japan, September
20, 2002

• FIRST THEATRICAL
VOCABULARY
DICTIONARY
PUBLISHED IN UKRAINE
Kyiv Weekly, Kyiv,
Ukraine, December 20,
2002

U
• Ukrainian Concert
Series,
Washington, D.C.

• UKRAINIAN
CULTURE: ART FORM
IN THE UNITED STATES
SIGNS OF THE CROSS:
Iron Landmarks of the
Great Plains
By Deneen Gilmour, THE
FORUM, Accent on Living
Section, Pages B1 and
B8, Fargo, North Dakota,
USA, September 1, 2002

• "Ukrainian Heritage"
A culture website
supported by "Memorial"
organization. Contains a
wide array of information
on Ukrainian history, arts
and culture. Here you can
also find the complete list
of Ukrainian historical
sites by region and the
list of all Ukrainian cities
and towns with the dates
of their first mention in
historical data. The
website is in Ukrainian
only.

• UKRAINIAN
INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
(UIA) GIVES MAYOR OF
KYIV OMELCHENKO
"MAN OF YEAR" RANK
Honors Reconstruction
of Historical
Monuments, Photo
Exhibition to be Held in
New York City and
Around USA in 2003
UNIAN-NEWS, Kyiv.
Ukraine, October 2, 2002

• UKRAINIAN INSTITUE
OF MODERN ART
2320 W. Chicago Avenue
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

• UKRAINIAN
LANGUAGE, CULTURE
AND TRAVEL PAGE
A website complied by
Linda Hodges, a free-
lance writer and
journalist from Iowa.
Linda is the co-author
with George Chumak of
the book "Language and
Travel Guide to Ukraine"
now in its third edition.
Major galleries on the
website include Folk and
Fine Arts; Folk traditions
and Religion; Food,
Travel and tourism;
Destinations and
Sightseeing, Books,
Language Aids and much
more

• "UKRAINIAN POWER"
Fun, educational
children's products such
as puppet videos and
much more. Also
Ukrainian language tools
for speakers of English.
Milford, Michigan
• Ukrainian Tapestry
Art
Stepan Hanzha Cossack
Dancer, Poet, Tapestry
Artist Hanzha Tapestry
Exhibition,
The National Union Of
Folk Art Masters
November, 2000, Kyiv,
Ukraine

• "The Undefeated"... A
Feature Film
Award Winning Film
Director Oles Yanchuk's
True Story Of Roman
Shukhevych, Leader Of
The Underground Army
Who Fought Against Both
The Nazis and the Soviets

V
• VIRSKY IS
COMING! VIRSKY IS
COMING! VIRSKY
UKRAINIAN
NATIONAL DANCE
COMPANY
VIRSKY 2004 CONCERT
TOUR SCHEDULE
Internationally
Acclaimed Dancers
Celebrate the Spirit of
Ukraine USA-Canada,
September 13, 2004 to
December 5, 2004 Virsky
will perform over
seventy concerts
By E. Morgan Williams,
Publisher and Editor
THE ACTION UKRAINE
REPORT
www.ArtUkraine.com
Information Service
(ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C.,
Sunday, August 22, 2004

• VESNIVKA CHOIR....
Ukrainian Liturgical,
Folk and Classical Music
A Community Based
Choir Founded in 1965,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

W
• Woodcarving
Exhibition
Volodymyr V.
Lupiychuk,
Master Woodcarver
National Union Of Folk Art
Masters Of Ukraine,
Exhibition Hall, Kyiv,
Ukraine
March, 2001

• Woodcarving
Exhibition
"Wood Is Singing"
Serhiy Karpenko, Master
Woodcarver
Taras Shevchenko
Museum
Kyiv, Ukraine, March,
2001

• WOODWORKING:
LOCAL CRAFTSMAN
WITH UKRAINIAN
HERITAGE BUILDS
REPUTATION OF A
MASTER IN SALEM,
OREGON
 Learned the intricate
skills and techniques
from his Ukrainian-born
father
By Matt Monaghan,
Business, Statesman
Journal, Salem, Oregon,
February 16, 2004

• Woskobiynyk
[Woskob] Ukrainian Art
Exhibition
Paintings By Fifteen
Ukrainian Artists The
Ukrainian Institute Of
America November, 1998
New York, New York

• Woskobiynyk, Olexiy
(Alex Woskob)
'THE STORY OF MY LIFE"
Recorded by Oleh
Chornohuz
Published by "VUS"
Kyiv, Ukraine 2000

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine is unlikely to return more than a dozen paintings by

Western European artists brought here from a German museum as Soviet war
trophies during World War II, an official said Thursday.

The German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it wants to negotiate the return of
the works, which are on exhibit at the Simferopol Art Museum in Crimea.

The Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany, claimed the paintings after

receiving a letter this month from German tourists who spotted them in Simferopol.

Simferopol Art Museum director Larina Kudryashova said the museum had 87
works by 16th to 20th century painters from the Netherlands, Germany and France,
but that not all of them initially belonged to the museum in Aachen. She said she is
now studying its catalogues to see how many works match.
But Ukrainian law prohibits the return of World War II trophy art, she noted,
adding that many Ukrainian paintings seized during the war have been exhibited in
Germany but "nobody is returning them to us."

Heinrich Becker, curator of the Aachen museum's gallery of lost artworks, said he
believes 15 of the missing paintings are at Simferopol and was certain about nine of
them after seeing a DVD of the exhibition made by a German couple on holiday.

He said the paintings included

Hans Herrmann's "October Morning in Amsterdam,"

Johann Gottfried Pulian's "Aachen Cathedral,"

August von Brandis' "Autumn Sun,"

Gregor von Bochmann's "Farmhouse in Estonia,"

Carl Georg Adolph Hasenpflug's "Roman Cloister,"

Christian Friedrich Mali's "Shepherd Resting,"

Pedro Orrente's "John the Baptist."

Becker also cited two painting by anonymous artists,

"The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine" and

"The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian."

The curator said he identified six others to a high degree of probability."We would, of
course, be pleased if the paintings were to be returned, but the most important thing is
knowing that they haven't been destroyed," Becker said. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry
declined immediate comment. Ukraine and Germany are disputing the right to a
number of artworks seized during the war. There have been similar art disputes
between Germany and Russia.

Chernigov nightclubs
“ Monarch ”
ul . Schorsa 68
+3804622-40510, 21968, 41218

“ Courage ”
ul . Pyatnitskaya 50
+380462-185759
“ Brussels ”
Prospekt Pobedy 71
+38 0462 - 165399

“ Imperial ”
ul . Svyatonikolayevskaya 12a
+380462-179919

“Angkor”
ul . Primakova 2
+3804622-42002

“777”
ul. Shevchenko 103
3-05-66

“Svetafor”
ul. Pyatnickaya 50
3-52-19, 3-57-39

“999”
ul. 50 years USSR

“Devyatij val”
pr. Mira 194

“Magnoliya”
ul. Rokossovskogo 15

Chernigov theatres
Musical-dramatic theatre
Red Square
7-30-30, 7-30-09, 7-30-29

Youth theatre
ul. Rodimceva 4
7-36-17, 7-39-53

Summer theatre
Central park
95-29-95, 95-27-38
Child theatre “Dovzhenko”
pr. Pobedi 135
3-34-31, 3-42-41

Philharmonic
pr. Mira 15
7-36-89, 7-34-61, 7-35-10

Chernigov Airlines

Airport or train pickup and drop-off

The nearest international airport is Borispol (KBP). It is
160 km ( 100 miles ) from Chernigov center.

We have an English speaking employee and driver meet

you at Borispol airport. Our employee will be waiting
outside of customs with a sign that has your name on it.

Our employee will take you directly to your apartment or

hotel in Chernigov which is about a 2 hour drive from Kiev .

This is a great and comfortable service. After a long flight you will be tired and the
airport is a very confusing place. The cost of this service is $90.00.

Please let us know your flight arrival time and flight number.

You can book tickets at

“Kiyavia”
Prospekt Mira, 65
+3804622-53141, +3804622-53484
Unfortunately staff at the local office does
not speak English. You can also book tickets in Kiev:
Air France ul. Velyka Zhytomyrska, 6/11 +38044-464-1010

Air Ukraine Prospekt Peremogy,14 +38044-216-7040

Austrian Airlines ul. Vel. Vasykivska, 9/2 +38044-244-3540/41/42

AeroSvit T. Shevchenko Blvd. , 58a http://www.aerosvit.com/

British Airways ul. Yaroslaviv Val, 5 +38044-490-6060

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_ua
Delta Airlines ul. Shevchenka +38044-246-4314 or 246-3848
http://www.delta.com/

Egypt Air ul. Khreschatyk, 14 +38044-228-2343

El Al Israel Airlines ul. Luteranska,16 +38044-490-2995/96/98

Estonian Airlines ul. Velyka Vasylkivska, 9/2 +38044-220-9853

http://www.estonian-air.ee/

KLM ul. Ivana Franka, 34/33 2nd. Fl. +38044-495-2402

Ukraine International Airlines Prospekt Peremogy,14 +38044-461-5050

www.ukraine-international.com

Luftansa ul. Khmelnytskoho, 52 +38044-490-3800

www.lufthansa.com.ua

Borispol Airport Kiev Ukraine

Borispol Is the International Airport in Kiev Ukraine

Borispol Airport in Kiev Ukraine has recently been renovated and the experience will
be much better than in most other cities of the Former Soviet Union. Customs is not
pleasant but not too bad. There is a green and a red customs line. You will probably
need to go through the red line. Anyone bringing in more than $100.00 will need to
use the red line. If you are using Kiev Connections for your airport pick up we will
be waiting for you outside of customs with a sign that has your name on it.

Airport or train pickup and drop-off

The nearest international airport is Borispol (KBP). It is 160 km ( 100 miles ) from
Chernigov center.
We will have an English speaking employee and driver meet you at Borispol airport.
Our employee will be waiting outside of customs with a sign that has your name on
it.

Our employee will take you directly to your apartment or hotel in Chernigov which is
about a 2 hour drive from Kiev .

This is a great and comfortable service. After a long flight you will be tired and the
airport is a very confusing place. The cost of this service is $90.00. ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΗ
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Chernigov Apartment private Lodging

Why stay in a claustrophobic hotel room with Soviet
service when you can stay in a luxurious apartment
located close to everything and feel just like home?
Our apartments will make you feel like you are in a
home and not in a hotel!

This one bedroom recently remodeled apartment is

conveniently located in the center of Chernigov at the
crossroad of two central streets -Prospekt Mira and Prospekt Pobedy. In just a
hundred meters you will find the central post office where you can use the Internet,
fax, ATM, make an international call or send mail. The historical center of the city is
one kilometer away. After a short walk through a green park you
will see a beautiful 11th century cathedral, old churches, museums and the most
romantic and picturesque place in Chernigov - Val (the rampart). The agency's office
is also very close - 7 minutes' walk down Prospekt Mira. The apartment has
independent hot water, refrigerator, microwave, color TV, king size bed, electric
stove, electric kettle, crockery. The apartment has a Ukrainian style design and great
comfort.

This apartment is only $65.00 per day. If you would like to reserve this apartment
please e-mail your arrival and departure dates to info@kievconnections.com
Chernigov Ukraine banks services
Local currency
Ukrainian currency is Hryvnia and its one hundredth part is kopiika. You can see
specimens of all banknotes in circulation here.

The Hryvnia is the official currency and all banks, restaurants, disco, etc. and all
other normal purchases are conducted in it. If you are paying for something privately,
U.S. dollars are the top currency followed by the Euro.

Travelers checks, American Express and Barclays can be cashed in local banks into
dollars for 3%. American Express does not have an office in Ukraine to replace lost
checks.

ATM cards are widely used and bank machines are frequent, at least in the center.
ATM machines dispense the Hryvnia and some even dispense dollars for an
additional 3%. Instructions are in Russian, Ukrainian and English.
 ATM and Currency Exchange

ATM machines are located near/inside

big supermarkets and near every bank
office. You can also exchange foreign
currency at banks offices. Currency
exchange can be done during regular
business hours.

Some addresses of ATM machines and currency exchange

offices:

• Prospekt Mira, 53 (the building agency located in)

• ul. Pyatnitskaya, 50
• Prospekt Mira, 33

The largest banks in Chernigov are departments of Aval, Prominvest and UkrSoc
banks. At each of departments you can exchange money into grivnas, cash travelers
checks and use your ATM cards.

Chernigov Ukraine health services

Chernigov medical services are significantly worse than those you are used to in the
west but if you need help you can use policlinics at the following addresses:

Regional policlinics – ul. Volkovicha 25

2 nd policlinics – ul. Pershogo Travnya, 168

3 rd policlinics – Prospekt Mira, 44
1 st policlinics - Prospekt Mira, 33
For emergency medical help call 03.

Chernigov Institutes
"Chernigov state institute of economy and management"
Address: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Streleckaya, 1
Phone: (+38-04622)5-61-70, 5-90-72

Chernigov branch of Kiev Slavic university

Address: 14010, Chernigov, ul. Gagarina, 24
Phone: (+38-04622) 4-79-44
E-maіl: ksu@open.net.ua

Chernigov branch of European university

Address: 14038, Chernigov, ul. Hetmana Polubotka, 53, к. 107
Phone: (+38-0462) 173-024
E-maіl: eufіmb@cn.relc.com

"Ukrainian - Russian institute" - Chernigov branch of Moscow

state opened university
Address: 14033, Chernigov,pr. Mira, 137
Phone: (+38-0462) 179-718, 5-63-73, 5-63-76

Chernigov branch of Harkov national pharmaceutical

university Address: 14013, Chernigov, ul. Hetmana Polubotka,
53
Phone: (+38-0462) 177-407, 175-143
E-maіl: nfau@cn.relc.com

Chernigov institute interregional academy personal

managment
Address: 14000, Chernigov,ul. Kocubinskogo, 42
Phone: (+38-04622) 4-91-17, 177-719

Chernigov mobile and telephone

You have several options to make
international calls from Chernigov. One
of these options is using public phones.
In order to use a public phone, you
need a phone card that can be
purchased at any postal office and some stores. Long distance calls in
Ukraine are operated by Ukrainian Telecommunications, or shortly Utel. Utel
telephones are located in the city's major hotels, restaurants, stores and
other places. Visitors to Chernigov can also buy a cellular phone with a SIM
card and use it for both domestic and international calls. If you stay at a hotel
you can make international calls from there. As a rule, such calls are much
more expensive than using a phone card. However, it is better to ask a
receptionist about the procedure and fee for service that can vary from $7 to
$15 per minute. Another option you can use, only provided that your
telephone has a tone dial, is IP telephony cards, which are very popular and
can be bought almost in every stall. IP telephony cards are also sold in postal
offices throughout the city. To call with such cards is a much cheaper option.

Communication means
Dialing rules

To call from another country or mobile phone to Chernigov you dial +3804622
XXXXX or +380462 XXXXXX (depends on whether the local number consists of 5
or 6 digits). The number you dial should consist of 12 digits. For codes of small
towns of Chernigov Region (oblast) see here.
To call from another city of Ukraine from public call-box or standard phone dial 11
digits - 804622 XXXXX or 80462 XXXXXX.
When you are in Chernigov you can call abroad by dialing 8-10-country code-city
code-phone number(wait for continuous signal after dialing 8).
You can visit for any information about phone codes and to get more information
about the procedure of placing a call.

Mobile
Mobil, or cell telephones, in Ukraine are not like they are back home. Most
people here have them but can not afford mobile telephones and it is
extremely important that you know how the system works here before
you make a purchase of a telephone in Kiev Ukraine.

There are three mobile phone operators in the city:

UMC http://www.sim-sim.com/eng/news.htm - most stable network.

Jeans http://www.jeans.net.ua/ukr/ (the site only in Ukrainian) – cheapest prices,
1 UHR($0.19)/min for calls to mobiles, 2.50 UHR($0.48)/min to standard phones.
Super Jeans package offers calls to any phone in Ukraine for 1.25 UHR per minute
($0.24).
Kyivstar http://www.kyivstar.net/site.php/en

In October 2003 all mobile telephone incoming calls became free. This is very
important because your Ukrainian friends probably can not afford to make a call but
will be very happy to receive a call from you.

Outgoing tariffs are around $0.25 per minute but can be as little as $0.10 if you call
the same phone company as you use. Please see details at sites of the companies.

Vouchers can be bought in any supermarket.

You can send free SMS to mobiles using the following URLs:

+38050 XXXXXXX - http://www.sim-sim.com/eng/sms.htm

+38066 XXXXXXX - http://www.jeans.net.ua/ukr/sms.php

+38067 XXXXXXX - http://www.kyivstar.net/en/sms/

Public call-boxes can be easily found in the center of the city but they are rarer at the
outskirts

Chernigov post office

The head post office is
conveniently located in the center
of the city – Prospekt Mira, 28.

It works from 8:00 till 19:00 on

weekdays, 8:00 – 16:00 on week-
ends. Here you can send
international mail, use Internet, fax
or ATM. You can use a variety of
mail services provided by such
companies as DHL Worldwide
Express, Federal Express, Pony Express, TNT Express Worldwide and United Parcel
Service. Important to note that, according to customs regulations, one cannot send
traveler's checks, personal checks, credit cards, cash and passports through the
international mail to Ukraine. Such a mail can be forfeited by postal authorities. To
send a regular mail from Ukraine you should use Ukrainian postage stamps that can
be purchased at any post office. Postage rates depend on a recipient country. Though
this is a very cheap way to send a letter, it's not so convenient. The main
disadvantage of sending a regular mail is that such a mail in Ukraine is really snail-
like: your letter will go for about a couple of weeks, so it's advisable to use express
mail services.

Chernigov shopping

Supermarkets “Soyuz”

Open: 24/7

ul . Bogunskogo , 40 ul .
Boyevaya , 1 ul . Shevchenko , 41
ul. Dotsenko, 19

“Soyus Express” - food only

Central Market , Prospekt Mira , 21 ul .

Schorsa , 25
ul. 50 let SSSR, 2 Food shop near Central
Market; currency exchange and ATM inside.
ul. Rokossovskogo, 62

Delivery service available from 9:30 till

23:00 for 5 UHR ($1).

Shopping Center “Pyatnitskiy”

ul. Pyatnitskaya, 50 Open: 10:00 – 22:00 Food and drinks dept. 24/7

Here you can buy food, drinks, souvenirs, jewelry, perfume, cosmetics, toys, flowers,
mobile phones and vouchers. There is also currency exchange, ATMs and drug store
here

Chernigov taxi
Taxi currently costs from 6 UHR ($1.2) to 12 UHR ($2.5) within city limits. You can
call one the following phone numbers to order a taxi. When ordering a taxi you
should give your address and phone number. As soon as the car arrives they call back
and inform that the taxi is ready and waiting near the entrance.

“Darna” +38 04622 - 75130 , 0620

Akkord” +38 04622-72434

“ Alva ” 0622, +3804622-73265, +3804622-73266, +380462-175665

“ Ari ” 0038, 052, +380462-177901

“ Navigator ” 0628

“ Sonet” 063

“Radiotaxi” 069, +38 0462 - 101069

“Adva” 0627, +38 0462 - 174838

City transport
Small bus (“marshrutka”) is a comparatively quick
means of transport, cost 0.6 UHR ($0.14).

Buses and trolley buses are usually crowded and not very
comfortable, cost 0.4-0.5 UHR ($0.1).

Chernigov transport
Airports
The nearest international airport is Borispol (KBP). It is 160 km ( 100 miles ) from
Chernigov center.

We have an English speaking employee and driver meet you at Borispol airport. Our
employee will be waiting outside of customs with a sign that has your name on it.
Our employee will take you directly to your apartment or hotel in Chernigov which is
about a 2 hour drive from Kiev .
This is a great and comfortable service. After a long flight you will be tired and the
airport is a very confusing place. The cost of this service is $90.00. Please let us
know your flight arrival time and flight number. Please contact us.

Borispol Airport is the largest and most modern airport in the whole country.
The airport, located 38 km, or 24 miles, away from Kiev, was considerably
rebuilt in 2000. This operates mainly international flights, receiving regular
flights of 31 foreign airlines. The airport services more than 6 thousands
clients, operating about one hundred flights every day. The airport features
currency exchange offices, duty-free shops, post office, left luggage, drug
store and restaurants. The registration at Borispol Airport starts 2 hours and
30 minutes before the departure time and finishes 40 minutes before the
flight. One should not miss the ticket registration, since the ticket can be sold
to another person. Most domestic flights operate from Zhuliany Airport, which
is located 11 km, or 7 miles, from the center of Kiev. Domestic flights connect
all the major cities of Ukraine, including Odessa, Lviv, Donetsk, Sevastopol
and others. Note that air fares for foreigners for domestic flights are more
expensive than for Ukrainian citizens.
More information on airlines and airport here

Trains
Trains are one of the most popular means to travel between Ukrainian cities. It is
much cheaper than air travel, and one of its advantages is that you can see the
country "from within". Trunk railways link the capital of Ukraine to Russia, Poland,
Hungary and to southern and western parts of the country as well. The railway
station of Chernigov is located not far from vity center of Chernigov.

Trains offer three types of compartment for long-distance train trips: first class
compartments with 2 berths, second class compartments with 4 berths and the so-
called platskarta, a carriage with numbered reserved seats, with 6 berths. If you need
more privacy and more comfort, it's advisable to buy tickets for the entire
compartment and travel alone.

Commuter trains, the so called "elektrichki", are aimed at suburban trips.

Such trains are less comfortable and are equipped with wooden benches. In
summer commuter trips can be very overcrowded.

Public Conveyances
While in Chernigov Ukraine you can save on traveling using public transport.
Buses, trolleybuses are as commonly used here as private cars. A passenger
fare is 50 kopiykas (approx. $0.10) per ride. This fare is the same for buses
and trolleybuses. One may buy tickets at a controller on the bus.
Alternatively, if you stay for one month or longer you can buy a monthly pass
and use it as many times as you wish. Such a pass will cost you about 25
hryvnias (5$). Today a large network of minibus services develops fast in
Ukraine, especially if the matter concerns small cities like Chernigov.
Minibuses are available in every corner of the city and can get you to your
destination much quicker than common public conveyances. A passenger
fare for minibus service is not fixed. It usually varies from 70 kopiykas to 1
hryvnia (approx. $0.14-0.20). Public transport in Ukraine operates from 6
a.m. till 1 a.m.

Taxi
Like in any big city of the world, you can easily use a taxi in Chernigov. Taxi can be
ordered by phone or right in the street. As a rule, official rate is about 1,2 hryvnia per
kilometer. A good alternative to a taxi can be a private, non-metered car you can hail
in the street. The ride will cost you less but it's better to negotiate the price
beforehand, as many drivers do not speak English at all. To hail a car one should put
out one's hand and flag down a car.

Chernigov travel agencies

«Travel agency in Chernigov oblast»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Shevchenko, 99 а
(+38-04622) 3-32-94,95-48-28

«Alta»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr. Mira, 12
(+38-04622) 7-47-43

«Bureau of traveling and exhibitions»

Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Shevchenko, 93 а
(+38-04622) 3-50-27, 3-81-55

«Gaudeamus»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr. Mira, 33, of 322
(+38-04622) 7-46-51, 7-70-48

«Kiev Rus»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr Pobedi, 95, к 7
(+38-0462) 165-498
«Roksolana»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr. Mira, 33, к. 322
(+38-0462) 165-72

«Toros»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr Pobedi, 95а, к. 26
(+38-0462) 106-460

«Sputnik»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr. Mira, 27
(+38-04622) 7-46-30, 7-61-34

«Chernigovturist»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Shevchenko, 103
(+38-04622) 3-06-82, 3-81-56, 3-81-55, 3-81-69

«Ekstur»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Pyatnickaya, 4
(+38-04622) 7-38-06, 2-92-61, 165-480

«DaugavA»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Schorsa, 12, к. 61, 62
(+38-04622) 4-41-37
E-mail: daugava@gls.net.ua

«Aliran»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Schorsa, 12, к.16
(+38-04622) 4-42-64, 4-88-26, 7-96-13

«Green Island»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Hetmana Polubotka, 8а
(+38-0462) 101-253, 101-538

«Delta-99»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, proulok Tranzitnij, 17
(+38-04622) 2-08-80

«Duna»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, pr Pobedi, 95, к. 19
(+38-0462) 101-854

«Afrodita+»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Rokossovskogo, 43, к. 21
(+38-04622) 3-03-85
«Аристей и С»
Postal: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Pyatnickaya, 177, к. 26
(+38-0462) 160-345, 160-357

Chernigov Ukraine Universities

Chernigov State Pedagogical University
Address: 14000, Chernigov, ul. Hetmana Polubotka, 53
Phone: (+38-04622) 3-22-54

Chernigov State Technological University

Address: 14027, Chernigov, ul. Shevchenko, 95
Phone: (+38-04622) 3-16-51, 3-42-44, 95-21-14
http://stu.cn.ua/

Chernigov climate
The climate of Chernigov is temperately continental, the
average temperatures of January and July, the coldest and the warmest months of the
year are accordingly: 19,2° F (-7,1°C) and 66,7° F (+18,7°С).

Chernigov has cold (up till -20 C) snowy winters and very hot (up till +35 C)
summers. Rains are not a rare case, especially in springs and autumns. Springs are
usually cold until the end of March - beginning if April, and after that it gets warmer.
May is commonly very warm, more summer like. The autumns are warm till the end
of September - beginning of October. This time of year is called Indian summer. It is
a very pleasant time with yellow leaves, small rains, and temperature level of
approximately +20-25C.

Language in Ukraine
Ukrainian is an official language of Ukraine. However, Russian is widely in use
in the country. Most people in Kiev and in Eastern Ukraine speak Russian as a main
language, while Ukrainian is a main language in Western Ukraine.

If you are familiar with one of these languages you will be able to communicate
with Ukrainians without any problems.

It is interesting, and quite evident, that in rural areas Ukrainian is spoken more
than in big cities, which represent a bilingual society of the country. Very often one
can even hear the mixture of the two languages, Russian and Ukrainian. The situation
when one interlocutor speaks, for instance, Russian and another one - Ukrainian is
possible even on TV or over the air.

As of English, now more and more people learn this language, which is the
most popular one among other foreign languages in Ukraine. Major restaurants, bars
and hotels have English speaking staff, but in general not much English is spoken in
Ukraine. We recommend that you have a phrase book at hand or someone who can
help you (at least for your first day in the country).

Look at helpful phrases in Ukraine

Safety in Chernigov Ukraine

As compared with large cities of the world, Chernigov is quite a safe city. Crime in
respect of foreigners adds up with pick pocketing and cheating in the markets. It is
mainly due to the fact that offensive weapons are illegal both to have and carry in
public. In order to avoid pick pocketing, one should keep any valuables, important
documents and money in a safe place and not to flaunt in public.

A special money holder can be a good choice. Today you can buy it almost in
every local shop for travelers.There are some security points that one should
remember to be safe in Ukraine. First, upon your arriving check your luggage and
other belongings. If something is missing do not hesitate to contact an airport or train
station official. Second, keep your bags and pockets closed and try to store important
documents or money in a safe deposit boxes at a hotel. Wear valuables only in
special holders for travelers. Third, never exchange money in not authorized
locations. Illegal exchange is considered to be a criminal offence in Ukraine. Besides,
you can be badly "done" by illegal money-changers. If you happen to be a victim of a
crime, it's necessary to immediately contact the nearest consulate and report the
crime to the local police.

Chernigov time
Time in Ukraine is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT. Daylight
Saving Time is from late March till late October. Clocks are set one hour forward in
the last week of March and one hour backward in the last month of October. You
may always find out the exact local time in Ukraine dialing 060.

Car rent in Ukraine

Car rental in Kiev Ukraine is not like it is back home. Car rental is very
expensive and the car driving style is much more aggressive than you will
find back home. I do not suggest renting a car. Car rental is expensive,
exhausting and dangerous. Drivers can be hired for less or the same price as
car rental.

Car Rental Companies in Kiev Ukraine

Avis Rent a Car: 4 Kamyshynska 490-9890
http://www.avis.com.ua/

Europcar: 48a Horkoho 238-2691

Hertz Rent a Car: 4 Muzeyny Prov. 531-9999

Customs in Ukraine
Visitors should obey Ukraine's customs formalities and regulations. When you
cross the Ukrainian border you must fill out a customs declaration. It's recommended
to declare valuable items and money you bring with you in Ukraine.

You can freely bring money if it doesn't exceed $10,000. If your cash-in-hand
is more than $1,000, the sum must be declared in writing. If you need to bring more
than $10,000 in cash you will have to obtain a special form from the National Bank
of Ukraine. The process can take up to several days. Note that you cannot leave the
country with a sum more than stated in the declaration you have filled out upon
arrival. The export of local currency is limited to UAH 85. Do not loose your entry
declaration, as a custom office has the right to confiscate all your valuable items,
including cash.

It's important to remember that one cannot send money through the
international mail. Money sent this way can be a subject to confiscation.

You can bring the following items with you in Ukraine duty-free: alcohol (1
liter of spirits and 2 liters of wine); cigarettes (200 cigarettes or 200 grams of tobacco
or cigars); foodstuff for private use; personal belongings and toiletries; gifts. Note
that only persons over 20 years of age can bring alcohol to Ukraine.

Items of high artistic and historical value cannot be exported without a

permission issued by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. This applies to art
collections or separate works of art, archeological or numismatic items, precious
metals and jewels, manuscripts, books published before 1966, furniture made before
1945, hand-made carpets, samovars and some other things. When buying artwork, it's
advisable to request a special certificate attesting to its value and artistic significance.
The Ministry of Culture office on Prorezna Street can issue such certificates, but the
process can be quite complicated.
 There is a list of prohibited items you cannot import or export. The list includes
weaponry, radioactive and other harmful materials; printed materials, films, records,
scripts and other stuff containing propaganda of war, racism, discrimination, etc.;
objects prohibited to import or export by Ukrainian laws.

Upon departure from Ukraine your customs declaration will be carefully

examined. So it's better not to forget to declare all your valuable items upon arrival
and to keep all the receipts for purchases in Ukraine and other countries if you just
transit the country.

System of the Education of Ukraine

Education in Ukraine has a complex structure of the European type, it includes pre-
school education, comprehensive secondary education, extra-school education,
vocational technical education, higher education, graduate, postgraduate and doctoral
education, self-education. Besides there are the following educational levels: primary
general education, basic general secondary education, full general secondary
education, vocational education, basic higher education, full higher education;
educational qualification levels have the following gradation: qualified worker,
junior specialist, bachelor, specialist, master. Adoption of such a ramified scheme is
of a principal importance since it guarantees to a person a free choice and gives
him/her a possibility to obtain education according to his/her mental and professional
abilities. In pursuance of the Low of Ukraine "On education" citizens of Ukraine
have the right to get education of different forms: daytime, evening, extra-mural and
distant. Distant learning is successfully developing and improving alongside with the
development of information technologies.

Today Ukraine possesses function 17,2 thousand pre-school institutions with 1,055
thousand children, or about 39% of the total number of pre-school children. The
children with mental and those having chronic diseases of internal organs are being
taught at the institutions of a compensatory type - 1,3 thousand special institutions,
507 sanatorium type institutions.

Special kindergartens with a priority development of the certain type of activity

implementing author's programs, experience of the outstanding teachers of the past
and present are being actively organized; they offer additional educational services.
There are more than 1,7 thousand of such institutions.

The national system of secondary education of Ukraine embraces 21,6 thousand

secondary educational institutions with 14,9 thousand ones situated in the
countryside.

273 gymnasiums, 232 lyceums, 25 colleges have been established for gifted children,
and the number of such educational institutions increases annually.
The boarding schools experience proved their necessity as establishments for social
and working rehabilitation. If the social - pedagogical work with children with
mental and physical defects, children-invalids is organized properly, they develop
successfully.

According to the changes of the demographic situation and social - economic

conditions the network of boarding schools is being constantly unproved. At the
beginning of a new academic year 401 special boarding schools for children with
mental and physical defects and social rehabilitation secondary schools and 221
private schools functioned in Ukraine.

Today, taking into account the international experience the concept of the 12-year
term of study in the general secondary school and the 12-point scale marking system
for pupils' knowledge assessment is adopted and is being implemented in Ukraine.
All the marks according to this 12-point scale will be entered into the relevant
general certificate of education. Though the 12-point scale system is not the aim hi
itself. It can become effective if it is accompanied by the list of compulsory school
subjects', state attestation and other above-mentioned measures.

The transition of the Ukrainian school onto the 12-year term of study prompts
revising the contents of primary education. In regard to primary school children's
abilities primary school is called upon to provide raising children as citizens of
Ukraine, ensuring their intellectual, social and physical development and their further
development as personalities. The content of education is based on the human values,
on the principles of scientific and cultural development, humanism, democracy,
mutual respect among different ethnic groups. It aims at the protection of interests of
an individual, family, society and the State of Ukraine.

According to the International program on education in human rights, the UN

"Convention on Children's Rights", the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine
on "On Out-of-School Education" which defines the State policy in the sphere of
extra-school education, its legal, social-economic, organizational, teaching and
educational principles is adopted in Ukraine. The main objectives of extra-school
education are:

• free development of a personality and formatting of his/her social

experience and civil spirit;
• creation the conditions for creative, intellectual, spiritual and physical
development of a child;
• search, development and support of capable and gifted children and
young people.

Daring the dynamic social development and market transformations vocational

education gets a very great importance.
Vocational educational system performs a very important function in social
protection of the youth. Educational institutions provide instruction and financial
assistance to 81 thousand orphans 50 thousand children with one parent and 178
thousand children from disadvantaged and problem families (45% of the total
number of students).

In recent 5 years the number of vocational schools of a new type has doubled.
Nowadays there are 110 higher vocational schools and centres of vocational training,
14 vocational-and-art schools, 4 agrarian firm-colleges.

The structure of higher education in Ukraine is build up in accordance with the

structure of education of the world's higher developed countries which is defined by
UNESCO, UN and other international organizations.

The higher education system comprises state-owned as well as private higher

educational institutions. The network includes 979 higher educational institutions of
I-IV accreditation levels (vocational and technical schools, colleges, institutions,
academies, universities), among which 664 higher educational institutions of I-II
levels of accreditation including 593 state-owned ones and other 71 with other forms
of ownership training 528 thousand students.

The higher educational network of III-IV accreditation levels numbers 315

establishments including 223 state-owned ones.

For the first time hi 2000 in pursuance of the Decrees of the President of Ukraine and
Resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the system of crediting students'
tuition was introduced. In the years to follow the State Budget provides 5 mln.
hryvnyas for this purposes.

Decrees of the President of Ukraine "On State Assistance for Training Personnel for
Rural Regions" etc. play an important social role in establishing legal framework for
social protection of the young people.

Recently, Ukraine has faced a considerable increase in the number of children under
18 who study at technical and vocational schools, colleges and have limited
possibilities for then- development; they need a special social care and governmental
support for receiving professional education. Primarily it concerns all children -
invalids, children with physical defects, ill children and those who are victims of the
nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl NPP. Such children study at technical boarding
schools for the disabled. The International Human Development University has been
recently founded in Ukraine. The University is known for the application of new
education technologies, distant learning hi particular, it allows everyone to obtain a
full-scale education of the I-IV levels of accreditation in 27 specialties depending on
the state of health and residence of a student. The university branches are scattered
all over Ukraine. Comprehensive education-scientific-rehabilitation complexes (from
kindergartens to master courses) have been established. Besides technical schools
and colleges of Ukraine provide special training courses for the disabled allowing
them to obtain the qualification of a junior specialists.

A mportant task of the system of education of Ukraine is the realization of the

concept of lifetime learning. The labour market changes quickly, that dictates the
necessity to elaborate short-term teaching program for retraining qualification
improvement of personnel. The system of post - graduate education must perform
this important function.

Today positive changes are taking place in the formation of a complex system of
post-graduate education as a constituent of national education. There function over
500 state-owned and non-governmental educational establishments and their
subdivisions, with about 200 higher educational establishments of post-graduate
education directly subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
At the same time 23 ministries and administrations have their own network of
educational institutions, the most important of them being agrarian, industrial and
transport institutes. Annually the post-graduate system of education trams 300
thousand specialists of whom 30 thousand get a higher education of different
educational and qualification level in 58 specialties.

Important info on Ukraine

Electicity
The electrical current in Ukraine is 220V AC. The plug-and-socket connection
is different from one used in the United States. If you take appliances from your
home, do not forget to take a converter and a plug adapter in order you could use
your electrical appliance in Ukraine. For valuable equipment, it is recommended that
you bring a surge protector to keep your electrical appliance safe. Note that devices
not rated for 50 Hz will hardly operate properly.

Water
Tap water is chemically safe in Ukraine, but it is recommended to boil water
before drinking it. It is even better to use bottled purified water available almost in
every shop. However, we recommend that you buy water in supermarkets, so you can
be assured that the water is not spurious. Note that hot water can be turned off for
about one month during the summer time. Most hotels provide electrical heating
facilities in a bathroom, so you will not face such problems.
Working Hours
Most offices and shops in Ukraine are open for eight hours a day, from Monday
to Friday, with one hour for a lunch. One hour's interval is usually from 1 p.m. to 2
p.m. Banks are open to public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Most businesses start working at
9 a.m. and finish at 6 p.m. As regards grocery stores, there are a lot of such stores in
Kiev and other major cities that work 24 hours a day, without a break. Some cafes
and restaurants are open until late at night.

Smoking and Drinking

Cigarettes and alcohol are much cheaper in Ukraine than in most
Western countries. You can buy alcohol on reaching 18. Do not forget that
Ukraine is a zero-tolerance country, so never drink and drive. Ukraine doesn't
have any strict regulations regarding smoking, but indeed smoking is
prohibited in public places and on transport. It is advisable not to buy
cigarettes and especially alcohol in the street.

CHERNIVTSY
• Population 260,000.
• 650 km from Kyiv.
• Situated on the Prut river which flows down from the Carpathians to the
Black Sea.
• The city has a complex history that is still reflected in the downtown
architecture with Byzantine, Gothic, Baroque, and Russian influences.

DNEPROPETROVSK
• Population 1,153,000.
• 592 km from Kyiv.
• Founded by Prince H. Potyomkin in 1787 on the site of the village of
Polovytsya. He renamed the new city to honour Empress Catherine II.
• City began growing in the 1870's when a rail line linked it with Kryvy Rih
and the Donets Basin.

KHERSON
• 25 km from Dnipro River mouth.Population 360,000.Founded in 1778
where previously a fort had existed from 1737.Named in honour of
Khersones Tavriysky, a city on the southwest bank of Crimea.
 • Originally a city-fortress and shipyard. First ship of the Black Sea Fleet was
built here in 1783.

LVIV
• Population 800,000+.
• Founded in the mid-13th century by a Galician-Volynian king who named
the city in honour of his son, Lev.
• A major metropolitan city that is now conveniently serviced by Ukraine's
second major international airport.
• The city and its surrounding areas are rich in history, architecture and art.
With its markets, theatres, churches, towers, colleges, university,
monuments, circus, parks, libraries, archives, department stores, bookstores,
museums and notable Lychakiv and Yanivsky Cemeteries, you'll not want
for something to do here! R.J.'s Tours Ltd. tour guides will bus and escort
you to the most significant attractions of this vibrant city.

ODESA
• 490 km south of Kyiv.
• Population 1,132,000
• Third largest city in Ukraine and long a destination for international
travellers because of its climate and resort beaches; often referred to as
"Little Paris".
• Seven theatres, plus the world famous "Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre", a
philharmonic orchestra, a circus and much more!
• Hospitable, bright, cheerful, modern and picturesque. The city was
developed most during the reign of Catherine The Great.
• Southern gateway to the state and one of the largest seaports on t6he Black
Sea.

RIVNE
• Population 300,000.
• City and regional administrative centre located 321 Km from Kyiv on the
Ustya river.
• Earliest records mention it in 1282 when a battle was fought there between
Lithuanian and Polish armies.
• Despite frequent Tatar raids, it survived and expanded into an important
trading town.
 • Occupied by Russian troops in 1660, Polish forces in 1667 and Swedish
armies in 1706.
• Churches, museums, theatres, philharmonic, educational institutes, libraries,
archives, parks, sports complexes, banks and department stores.

TERNOPIL
• Population 170,000
• In 1349 the area was occupied by Poland.
• The nucleus of the present city was a castle, constructed on the ruins of
Sopilche in 1540. Sopilche was an ancient Ukrainian fortress which was
destroyed during Khan Baty's campaign into the Carpathians.
• The castle was rebuilt as a palace in the 19th century by Count F.
Korytovsky. The fortifications were removed along with the tower and gate.
Then an ordinary wall was built around the new palace
• Churches, monuments, a castle, plus the central man-made lake make this
city a beautiful stop for sightseers and photographers

UZHGOROD
• Population 125,000.
• In its early history, the city changed names several times: Ung; Ongvar;
Hungvar; Unguyvar; and Ungvar.
• In 1080 armies of the Polovtsian Khan Kutesko devastated the entire region
but were unable to penetrate Uzhhorod's well-built fortress. In the Middle
ages, the city was destroyed and rebuilt several times during the wars
between the Habsburgs and Transylvanians. Between the 11th-13th
centuries it was under Hungarian rule until Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack
troops freed the population. Today, the Hungarian government maintains a
diplomatic representative in this city.
• A university, churches, castles, museums, monuments, theatres, and
philharmonic orchestra make for some great exploration opportunities.
• Parks and the University of Uzhhorod Botanical Garden offer a quiet refuge
for those who do not want to avail themselves of the shopping, postal and/or
banking opportunities.

ZAPORIZHZHIA
• Until 1921 was known as Oleksandrivsk.
• Population over 800,000.
• City was founded in 1770 or possibly as early as the late 11th century.
 • Territory was settled in the early Paleolithic period. The earliest remains so
far uncovered are located near the village of Fedorivka. Over 100
monuments from the Bronze age have also been excavated.

ZHYTOMIR
• Territory was settled during the Early Paleolithic era. Later, various Slavic
tribes including the Zhytychi lived here.
• City was founded in 884.
• A possible derivation of the name has been attributed to the Slavic words for
"to live in peace".
• Through the centuries the city was burned to the ground several times, then
rebuilt. Khan Baty burned it on his infamous campaign in 1240.

Travel Preparation

Visa information
Foreign citizens need a Ukrainian visa to enter the country. There are several
types of visa an international traveler may apply for.

To apply for a tourist visa, you will need: a passport valid for six months
beyond the date of travel, two recent passport-type photographs and tourist voucher
with a confirmed hotel booking. Independent travelers also can apply for a private
visit visa if they intend to visit someone they know in Ukraine.

At present, no letter of invitation is needed to enter the country with this type of
visa for nationals of EU countries, the USA, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Turkey and
Slovak Republic. No letter of invitation is required if you apply for a business visa to
Ukraine and are a national of one of these states as well. Note that the Ukrainian
Government doesn't issue visas at the time of entry into Ukraine. One should obtain a
visa in advance, before traveling.

If you are transiting the country, without staying there, a visa is also required.
Single-entry visas are valid for 6 months maximum since the date of issue; double-
entry and multiple-entry visas are valid for 6-12 months; transit visas are for 5 days
for each entry. Despite the fact that Ukraine is part of Commonwealth of Independent
States, or CIS, Ukrainian visas are not valid in Russia, just as Russian visas are not
valid in Ukraine. So if you intend to visit Russia from Ukraine, take care of your
Russian visa. Travelers without visas or travelers with expired number of entries are
usually denied admission to Ukraine. An exit visa is not necessary for departing the
country, but for departure to take place it must be valid.

More information about VISA here

Health insurance
Before traveling to Ukraine, it's recommended that you contact your insurance
company and find out if its policy applies overseas and which health expenses it may
cover. As a rule, cover is rather limited. It's advisable to shop around and choose the
most appropriate one, as prices and conditions might vary greatly.

Note that the Medicare and Medicaid programs pay for medical services only in
the USA. In addition to your medical insurance you can buy Ukrainian Medical
Insurance at the border. This insurance is not obligatory at all and may cost about
$10-15 depending on the period of your stay. There are no vaccination requirements
or other special requirements for international customers visiting Ukraine. As of
medical facilities, Ukrainian standards of care are different from American or
Western European standards. If you need some prescription medicine, take it with
you, as only basic supplies may be available in Ukraine.

Accommodation
Choosing accommodation is one of the most important things one should do
prior to getting on a plane. Information about hotels here and information about
apartments here.

Packing Tips
It's advisable that you take all important belongings in your carry-on bag. It will
help in case your luggage is lost in the airport or on a train. Pack passport, tickets,
itineraries, money, wallets and insurance cars in your carry-on bag. It's important that
you check your documents, visas, money and other important things prior to leaving
home.

If you must take any prescription drugs (or drugs you are not sure about finding
in another country), keep them at hand. Do not forget to write down the generic
names of your medications, as brands might vary. Also, we recommend that you take
a first-aid kit, which usually contains bandage, court plaster, antiseptic wipes, cold
remedies, etc. It might be as well to take needed phone numbers or other contact
information of people at your destination and back at home.
 If you are taking shampoos, soaps, laundry kits, shaving creams and other
things like that, take travel size products. Note also that such products can be
purchased in Ukrainian stores or markets. One more thing you should take is a map.
It will help you much to orientate yourself in a city you have never been to.

Some information was taken from www.kiev.info

Ukraine money

The national currency of the Ukraine is the Hrivna (Pronounced Grivna). The Hrivna
is now stable and as of February 2004 is trading at 5.3 to the U.S. dollar. The Hrivna
is the official currency and all banks, restaurants, disco, etc. and all other normal
purchases are conducted in Hrivnas. If you are paying for something privately, U.S.
dollars are the top currency followed by the Euro.

Travelers checks, American Express and Barclays can be cashed in local banks into
dollars for 3%. American Express does not have an office in the Ukraine to replace
lost checks.

ATM cards are widely used and bank machines are literally every 100 yards (98
meters :-). ATM machines dispense the Hrivna and some even dispense dollars for an
additional 3%. Instructions are in Russian, Ukrainian and English. Some machines
have German and French also.

Cash is king in the Ukraine. Charge cards are not widely accepted and are best to not
be used. The Ukraine is famous for credit card fraud and often, some estimates as
high as 30%, your credit information is stolen and used before you can report it. I
highly suggest NOT using a credit card in Ukraine.

Currency exchange April 19th 2005

USD – 5.05 hrn.

Euro – 6.60 hrn.
Ruble – 0.19 hrn.
Swiss franc – 4.25 hrn.
GBR – 9.40 hrn.
Money Exchange Rate Sign

Ukrainian visa
You will need a visa to come to the Ukraine. Citizens of the US, Canada,
Japan, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Turkey, or citizens of the countries of the
European Union do not need an invitation to obtain a visa.

Embassy of the Ukraine in the United States Try calling these people, I
dare you. If you do you will find out what Soviet Service is like. Their web site
is good though. It will give you all the pricing and time frame of the visa
process, as well as, this is where you need to download the visa application.
http://www.ukraineinfo.us/ Washington 202-333-7507, Chicago 312-642-4388,
San Francisco 415-398-0240.

If you live in England and would like help with your visa processing I
recommend Thames Consular Services 44 (0) 208-996-2912
http://www.thamesconsular.com/

Passport Travel in Melbourne Australia

PASSPORT TRAVEL
Suite 11, 401 St. Kilda Road
Melbourne 3004
phone: +613 9867 3888
fax: +613 9867 1055
email: colin@travelcentre.com.au

If you live in Australia and are coming to Ukraine call Colin at Passport
Travel. They will
be glad to help
with your visa and
airplane tickets.

http://www.travelcentre.com.au/

Embassy of Ukraine in England

First Floor,
78 Kensington Park Road,
London W11 2PL
Telephone: (020) 7243-89-23,
(090) 0188-77-49 (information line)
Fax: (020) 7727-35-67
E-mail: gc_gb@mfa.gov.ua
Reception: Monday to Friday: 09.30 to 12.00 hours
Website:
http://www.ukremb.org.uk

Canada: Consulate General of Ukraine in Toronto

2120 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6S 1M8
Telephone: (416) 763-3114
Fax: (416) 763-2323
Website:
http://www.infoukes.com/ukremb

How to Understand your visa

1. Place of visa issuance (Washington, D.C., New York or Chicago).
2. Traveler's visa is valid from this date. It reads Day-Month-Year. Thus,
visa is valid from December 1, 2002 (not January 12, 2002).
3. Visa expiration date. Visa is valid until this date. It reads Day-Month-
Year. Thus, visa is valid until June 1, 2003 (not January 6, 2003).
4. Visa control number.
5. Number of entries.
o (1) - single entry visa (one entry only). (2) - double entry visa
(two entries only).
o (M) - multiple entry visa (unrestricted within visa duration).
6. Type of visa:
o - Diplomatic;
o C (C-1, C-2, C-3) -Service;
o Business;
o Rescue service (workers) employees;
o O - Student visa;
o H - Scholar visa;
o M - Visa for mass media representatives;
o P - Religious visa;
o Humanitarian visa;
o K - Cultural and Sport visa;
o T - Tourism;
o Private visa;
o IM (IM-1, IM-2) - Immigration visa;
o O -Crew member visa (engaged in transportation);
o TP (TP-1, TP-2) - Transit visa.
 7. Traveler's last name in Ukrainian and English (as it appears on your
passport).
8. Traveler's first name in Ukrainian and English (as it appears as on
your passport).
9. Traveler's passport number.
10. Traveler's sex.
11. Traveler's date of birth.
12. Traveler's nationality.
13. Host in Ukraine.

If you need help with your fiancйe visa processing I suggest INS
immigration lawyer Jim Phair. He charges $485.00 for the processing plus
the $110.00 INS fees. You can contact him at 360-901-4555
http://www.fianceevisas.net/

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Room Prospekt Mira,
Property For CH1001001 $52
Chernihiv
Short Term
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Center,
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Chernigov

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Daily Rent
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bars, a cinema, bowling, a casino. Apartments are located on the second floor of the
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One Room Flat

For Short
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Chernigov

Samostrova
CH1003002 $39
St., Chernigov

Daily, cozy one-room apartment in the center of Chernigov. The successful

arrangement of apartment, allows to move operatively on a city. Near to the house a
rich infrastructure – park, restaurants, bars, cafe, a parking, bowling, billiards, a
casino, a cinema, supermarkets and food shops. Apartments are located on 8 floor
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One Room CH1002001 Center, $32

Property Chernigov
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in 5-floor house in Chernihiv's (Chernigov) centre.
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* bed-clothes
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Chernihiv One
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Property For
Daily Rent
Center,
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Chernigov

One-room apartment for residing 1-2 person. The apartment is located on a 1st floor
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* TV-set
* utensils
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* hot and cold water round-the-clock
* bath
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About Chernihiv

The oldest section in Chernihiv is the Val, a shady series of park-

like spaces perched above the Desna River. The Val is littered with
churches, most dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries, when
Chernihiv was the wealthy capital of a huge principality.

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the XI

century was ordered by prince Mstyslav,
Chernihiv’s golden age ruler. Back then it was
a major social center, these days, and
especially on summer season it’s a dim, cool,
gorgeous place.

You will easily recognize the Cathedral because

of its Golden towers resembled up-ended ice-
cream cones. The Cathedral is located
immediately next to the Cathedral of Sts. Boris
and Hleb.

You’ll also want to see the Cathedral of Sts. Boris and Hleb
(Borisohlebsky Cathedral). It was built in the 12th century and
belongs to the oldest cathedrals in Europe. It’s a great example of
the famous Chernihiv architecture of the period, and now a
museum. Several renovations took place after severe pillages in
the 13th and 17th century and also after World War Second.

The Collegium was built in the early 18th century and was one of
the first secular learning establishments in the region. The students
were mostly sons of priests and Kozak officials who learned general
education. During the rule of Catherine II of
Russia, the school was turned into a
theological seminary, which it remained until
its closing in 1917. Nowadays the building
houses a little museum. It resembles a
vertically elongated wedding-cake.

Dytynets (Fortress) is located on the site

of settlements dating to the beginning of the
first millennium. From the 7th century, these
early settlements grew into a succession of
fortified towns. By the early 12th century
Dytynets was a mighty fortress containing royal chambers and
living quarters of the boyars. Today the Dytynets is called the M.
Kotsyubynsky Central park of culture and recreation.

Twelve cast-iron cannons of the 18th centuries were presented

by Petr the First, as a sign of heroism Chernihiv’s Cossacks in the
struggle against the Swedish army. This is a good place to take a
stroll and look at the famous sightseeing of the Val.

St. Catherine Church was built between 17th and the beginning
of the 18th centuries. It is used to be a symbol of Chernihiv. The
Church is built in Ukrainian Baroque style by Yakov Lisogub,
representatives of Cossacks. The museum of Ukrainian decorative
arts is located here.

Troisko-Ilyinsky Monastery (1069) was founded by Antoniy

Pechersky, who also founded the famous Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. One
of Chernihiv’s best sights is the St. Anthony monastic cave
complex. The largest underground church in Ukraine is located in
Antoniy caves, which are 316 meters long. The monastery also has
Ilyinska church, Troitsky Cathedral was
constructed in Ukrainian Baroque stile in the
second half of the 17th century, Vvedenska
church with the refectory, 58 meter Bell-
tower and cells. The Bell Tower was built
between 1774 and 1778. The yellow white
tower can be climbed for magnificent views
of Chernihiv and the Troitsky Cathedral.
Troisko-Ilyinsky Monastery is located on the
highest place in the city called Boldyn Hill.

One of the most famous pagan mounds of

the Old Russian time is The Black tomb (X
century), corner of Proletarska and Vorovska
Streets. According to the legend, the prince-
founder of Chernihiv was buried there.

About Chernihiv

Chernihiv is one of the most ancient cities in northern Ukraine. It is

the administrative center of the Chernihiv region. The current
population is around 295,500 (as of 2004). Best place to visit for
tourists who are interested in historical monuments and ancient
sights. Chernogiv is famous for its monasteries, cathedrals and
other ancient buildings.

History
Chernihiv was first mentioned in chronicles in 907, but is
considered to have existed at least in the 9th century, as
uncovered by archeological excavations of a settlement which
included the artifacts from the Khazar Khaganate. Towards the end
of the 10th century, the city probably had its own rulers. The
famous Black Grave, one of the largest and earliest royal mounds
in Eastern Europe, was excavated these in the 19th century.

The city was the second in importance and wealth in the southern
part of the Kiev Rus. In the early 11th century it became the heart
of powerful Grand Principality of Chernigov, whose rulers at times
vied for power with Kievan Grand Princes, and often overthrew
them and took the primary seat in Kiev for themselves. The grand
principality was the largest in Kievskaya Rus and included not only
the Severian towns but even such remote regions as Murom,
Ryazan and Tmutarakan. The golden age of Chernigov, when the
city population peaked at 25,000, lasted until 1239 when the city
was occupied by Batu Khan hords, which started a long period of
relative obscurity.

The area fell under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1353. The city
was seizes again by Crimean khan
Meli I Giray in 1482 and 1497 and in
the fifteenth to seventeenth
centuries it changed hands several
times between Lithuania, Muscovy
(1408–1420 and from 1503), and
the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth (1618–1648),
where it was granted Magdeburg
rights in 1623 and in 1635 became
a seat of Czernihiv Voivodship. The area's importance increased
again in the middle of the seventeenth century during and after the
Khmelnytsky Uprising. In the Hetman State Chernihiv was the city
of deployment of Chernihiv Cossack regiment (both a military and
territorial unit of the time).

Downtown
Chernihiv's architectural monuments chronicle two most flourishing
periods in the city's history - those of Kievan Rus (11th and 12th
centuries) and of the Cossack Hetmanate (late 17th and early 18th
centuries). The Saviour Cathedral of Chernihiv (1030s) is the oldest
in Ukraine. Marble pillars of the Savior Cathedral provide the only
glimpse to the Byzantine opulence of the original 1036 interior.The
5-domed Saviour Cathedral, commissioned in the early 1030s by
Mstislav the Bold and completed several decades later by his
brother, Yaroslav the Wise. The Cathedral of Sts Boris and Gleb,
dating from the mid-12th century, was much rebuilt in succeeding
periods, before being restored to its original shape in the 20th
century. Built in brick, it has a single dome and six pillars. The
crowning achievement of Chernigov masters was the exquisite
Church of St Paraskeba (Pyatnitskaya), constructed at the turn of
the 12th and 13th centuries. This graceful building was seriously
damaged in the Second World War; its original medieval outlook
was reconstructed to a design by Peter Baranovsky.

The earliest residential buildings in the downtown date from the

late 17th century, a period when a Cossack regiment was deployed
there. Two most representative residences are those of Polkovnyk
Lyzohub (1690s) and Polkovnyk Polubutok (1700s). The former
mansion, popularly known as the Mazeppa House, used to contain
the regiment's chancellery. One of the most profusely decorated
Cossack structures is undoubtedly the ecclesiastical collegium,
surmounted by a bell-tower (1702). The archbishop's residence
was constructed nearby in the 1780s. St Catherine Church (1715),
with its 5 gilded pear domes, traditional for Ukrainian architecture,
is thought to have been intended as a memorial to the regiment's
exploits during the assault of Azov in 1696.

Monasteries
All through the most trying periods of its history, Chernigov
retained its ecclesiastical importance as the seat of bishopric or
archbishopric. At the outskirts of the modern city lie two ancient
cave monasteries, formerly used as the bishops' residences.

Eletsky monastery cathedral was

modeled after that of Kiev Pechersk
Lavra. Thre is a contrast between its
austere 12th-century walls and
baroque 17th-century domes. The
caves of the Eletsky Monastery are
said to predate those of the Kiev
Pechersk Lavra. Its magnificent 6-
pillared cathedral was erected at the turn of the 11th and 12th
centuries; some traces of its 750-year-old murals may still be seen
in the interior. After the domes collapsed in 1611, they were
augmented and reconstructed in the Ukrainian baroque style. The
wall, monastic cells, and bell-tower all date from the 17th century.
The nearby mother superior's house is thought to be the oldest
residential building in the Left-Bank Ukraine. The cloister's holiest
icon used to be that of Theotokos, who made her epiphany to
Svyatoslav of Chernigov on February 6, 1060. The icon, called
Eletskaya after the fir wood it was painted upon, was taken to
Moscow by Svyatoslav's descendants - Princes Boryatinsky - in
1579.

The nearby cave monastery of St Elijah and the Holy Trinity

features a small eponymous church, which was constructed 800
years ago. The roomy Trinity cathedral, one of the most imposing
monuments of the Cossack baroque, was erected between 1679
and 1689. Its refectory, with the adjoining church of Presentation
to the Temple, was finished by 1679. There are also the 17th-
century towered walls, monastic cells, and the 5-tiered belfry from
the 1780s

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ILYA MUROMETS
 In the church of Murom, Ilya repeated his oath to renounce violence
until his arrival in Kiev. Then he hastened on. Halfway to his
destination his steed suddenly stopped and made a hole in the ground
with his hoof. Living water bubbled up. Ilya cut a cross from an oak
tree growing by the road and planted it in the earth next to the hole.
He carved the following words onto the cross: 'Ilya Muromets, the son
of a peasant and a bogatyr of Holy Russia, passed this way'. Later a
chapel was built on that spot and animals fortified themselves with the
water from the well.
In three leaps Ilya's stallion reached Chernigov. Three Tsars were
besieging the city. Despite his indignation Ilya did not resort to armed
violence. However, he tore a giant oak from the ground, much larger
than the one which he had used to make the cross, and with this and
his horse, which trampled on everything, he defeated the three armies
of the Tsars. However, as he had no dungeon, he set the three Tsars
free. He found the inhabitants of the city in the cathedral of Chernigov
preparing to die. The young peasant bogatyr explained to them what
had happened and that they were free. In gratitude they asked Ilya to
rule over their city, but he refused twice with the words: "I am not a
ruler and I do not wish to rest here. I am hastening to Kiev to serve
Vladimir."
He also refused their gold. The people of Chernigov told him
that the shortest road to Kiev had been blocked for 30 years.
There was grass growing between the stones. Three obstacles made
the road absolutely impassable: the Brynski marshes, which sucked in
every passer by; the Nightingale the Robber (Solovey Razboynik),
who had been laying in wait by the so-called Levanidov cross on the
Smorodina for 30 years, all the while hypocritically whistling like a
nightingale in an intolerable manner; and finally, by the seven old
oaks, there was the dragon's impassable house, wife, three large
daughters and six small sons. However, llya was not to be
discouraged, and went on his way.
Thirty verst before Kiev, llya Muromets went to the Brynski
marshes. He quickly built a bridge over the swamp with oak trees torn
out of the ground and approached the Smorodina, which sprang from
nowhere, where the Levanidov cross stood. This is the cross where
Vladimir's bogatyrs had one sworn to each other to be brothers in
spirit. A voice screeched: 'Who is the bold person who dares to ride
past my nest?' llya picked some poppies and stopped up his ears with
them so that he was unable to hear the roaring, hissing, and whistling
of the Solovei Ilya did not fall down dead from the terrible din, like
every other bogatyr who had ever taken up the fight against this
'nightingale'. Instead he urged his frightened horse to continue
undaunted. In order to catch sight of this miracle of endurance,
Solovei leaned too far out of his nest. Ilya forgot his promise of peace
and shot an arrow into the dragon's right eye so that the latter fell out
of his nest. The hero caught him, tied him up, put him upside down on
his steed, and continued on to Solovei house. This house was seven
verst long and built on seven old oak trees. On every spike of the
railings there was a hewn-off head of a knight.
Solovei's wife, his three daughters and six sons saw the group
approaching. The children thought that their father was coming home
with another victim, but their mother could see more clearly. In order
to save her husband, she sent her daughters to meet the peasant to
distract him, but in vain. Ilya mowed them down and kicked them
away. Solovei called out: "Children, ask your mother to offer this
peasant the magic gifts and conclude an agreement with him."
The mother, Akulina Dudenchevna, then sent her six sons to Ilya
with all the stolen goods she had. However, they changed into ravens
and attacked the hero. Then Ilya grasped his whip and beat them out
of the air. Finally, the mother and daughters went to Ilya themselves
with the magic gifts. However, he was intransigent and took Solovei
with him to Kiev. He made the family promise that they would stop
robbing and killing. When he came to a house of God, he asked a
priest for forgiveness for violating his promise to temporarily renounce
violence.
From Karacharov, Ilya reached Kiev in an hour and a half, tied his
horse and the giant Solovei to a post in front of the royal stables, and
entered the palace. He was welcomed by King Vladimir, the Red Sun,
and when asked, he told him who he was, where he had come from,
and how he had been bedridden and paralysed for 30 years, but had
recently been cured by three kaliki.
Finally he said that he had decided to serve Holy Russia in the
name of Christ for the rest of his life, without seeking any reward for
this. He related how he had taken the shortest road from Karacharov
to Kiev to offer the king his services ... Then the ever-suspicious
Alyosha Popovich tired of his story and interrupted: "How did you say
you came here?" He pointed out to the court that the invincible Solovei
Razboniek had cut off the shortest road to the north for 30 years. Ilya
answered: "What this bogatyr says is true. Or at least it was true, but I
have defeated Solovei and brought him here. He is tied upside down
to my horse. He was not invincible."
All the bogatyrs went to the stables. The robber cowered. Vladimir
challenged Solovei to prove the power of his terrible voice then and
there. Solovei answered: " No one other than this peasant defeated
me. I will listen only to him." Ilya then commanded him: "Solovei
Razboniek, whistle, hiss, and roar with half your strength." However,
Solovei demanded food and drink first. After a gigantic meal, he
whistled, hissed, and roared, but to everyone's despair he did so with
all his strength. Ilya ordered him to stop, and when he continued to
whistle, immediately killed him with an arrow. Vladimir thanked Ilya
and made him Russia's first bogatyr. The king had hardly finished
speaking when Solovei's wife arrived unexpectedly with his three
daughters, six sons and carts full of stolen valuables. Alyosha
Popovich suggested to Vladimir that they accept the family's wish and
take all this wealth in ransom for the father's body. Ilya ignored
Alyosha's proposal, and on his own authority ordered the family to turn
straight round with all the stolen goods: "Akulina Dudenchevna, take
the body of your husband, bury it decently, and bring up your children
properly." The family slunk off. The bogatyrs went back into the palace
and made fun of Alyosha Popovich for misjudging the new bogatyr

A.Kosterin."Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber"

Box. 1963 Kholui

As the central figure in the Russian epic tradition, Ilya Muromets is the
subject of more songs and has a more complete epic biography than
any other bogatyr.. His appearance dating from the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries reveals that he was an established hero by that
time in Kievan epics. Since that period the characteristics of Ilya
Muromets as an epic hero have undoubtedly changed. For example,
even though he is frequently referred to as an "old Cossack,"
folklorists believe that this appellation appeared in the sixteenth or
seventeenth century. They also note that the adjective "old" does not
indicate age but rather respect, experience, and seniority.
The importance of Ilya Muromets in Russian culture is also shown
by the act that his relics were long believed to lie in a Kiev monastery
and he appeared in many tales circulated in chapbooks in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The song "Ilya Muromets and
Nightingale the Robber" has been recorded 132 times and is one of
the most popular Russian epics. Singers may more accurately call this
bylina "The First Journey of Ilya Muromets” because in it he leaves his
village of Karacharovo near the city of Murom, performs his first
exploits, and for the first time come to Kiev, where he is accepted as a
bogatyr at Prince Vladimir’s court.
The bylina "Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber" reflects a
transitional period in the Russian epic tradition when mythological
features were blended with historical features. The glorification of a
hero who has defeated a monster no longer could satisfy the artistic
sense of singers. As a result, a struggle with a monster was losing its
heroic appeal, and only a person who fought a real historical opponent
could become a bogatyr. Thus the mythological Nightingale acquires
partial human characteristics and a Turkic patronymic; the hostile
force near Chernigov dimly
A.Sotskov."Ilya Muromets" Box. 1972 Kholui suggests struggles
with the historical adversaries of Kievan Rus.

rom the city of Murom,

From the village of Karacharovo,
Rode a daring and stout good youth.
He attended matins in Murom,
He wanted to be in time for vespers in the capital city of Kiev.
He rode up to the famous city of Chernigov.
Near the city of Chernigov
A vast army had been assembled,
A vast army as black as a black raven.
No one walked past there on foot,
No one rode past there on a good steed,
No bird, no black raven flew past,
No gray animal scoured past.
Ilya rode up to this great army,
He attacked this great army,
He trampled it with his steed and jabbed it with his spear,
He defeated this great army.
He rode up to the famous city of Chernigov,
The men of Chernigov came out
And opened the gates to the city of Chernigov,
They invited Ilya to become voyevoda in Chernigov.
Ilya spoke these words to them:
"Hail to you, my men of Chernigov!
I won't become voyevoda in Chernigov.
Point out for me the straight-traveled road,
The straight-traveled road to the capital city ofKiev."
The men of Chernigov spoke to him:
"Hail to you, our daring stout good youth,
Famous Holy Russian bogatyr!
The straight-traveled road is filled with fallen wood,
The road is filled and is overgrown with grass,
Along that straight-traveled road
No one has passed on foot,
No one has ridden past on a good steed.
By that Swamp, by that Black Swamp,
By that birch, by that crooked birch,
By that stream, by Smorodina,
By that cross, by that cross of Lebanon
Sits Nightingale the Robber in a damp oak,
Sits Nightingale the Robber, Odikhmanty's son.
Nightingale whistles like a nightingale,*
He screams, the villain robber, like a wild animal,
And from the whistle of a nightingale,
And from the scream of a wild animal
All the grasses and meadows become entangled,
All the azure flowers lose their petals,
All the dark woods bend down to the earth,
And all the people there lie dead.
The straight-traveled road is five hundred versts,
But the round-about road is a whole thousand."
lya urged on his bogatyr's good steed,
He rode along the straight-traveled road.
His bogatyr's good steed Jumped from mountain to mountain
And bounded from hill to hill,
It leaped across small streams and lakes.
He rode up to the stream Smorodina,
Up to that Swamp, up to that Black Swamp,
Up to that birch, up to that crooked birch,
Up to that cross, up to that famous Lebanese cross.
Nightingale whistled like a nightingale,
The villain robber screamed like a wild animal
So that all the grasses and meadows became entangled,
The azure flowers lost their petals,
All the dark woods bent down to the earth.
His bogatyr's good steed stumbled against some roots.
The old Cossack Ilya Muromets
Took his silken whip in one white hand
And he beat his steed on its strong ribs.
Ilya spoke these words:
"You food for wolves and bag of grass!
Don't you want to walk or can't you carry me?
Dog, what are you stumbling against some roots for?
Haven't you heard the whistle of a nightingale?
Haven't you heard the scream of a wild animal?
Haven't you felt the blows of a bogatyr?"
Then the old Cossack Ilya Muromets
Took his taut supple bow,
He took it in his white hands,
He stretched the silken string,
He laid on a tempered arrow,
Then he shot it at Nightingale the Robber,
He knocked out Nightingale's right eye and temple,
He dropped Nightingale to the damp earth,
He tied him to his right steel stirrup,
He carried him through the famous open field,
He carried him past Nightingale's nest.
In Nightingale's nest ...
He came to the famous capital city of Kiev
And went to the wide courtyard of the famous Prince.
Vladimir the Prince had left God's church,
He had gone to his white-stone palace
To his hall, to his dining hall...
Vladimir the Prince then questioned the youth:
"Please tell me where you're from, stout good youth,
What name do they call the youth by,
What patronymic do they honor the daring youth by?"
The old Cossack Ilya Muromets spoke:
"I'm from the famous city of Murom,
From the village of Karacharovo,
I'm the old Cossack Ilya Muromets,
Ilya Muromets, the son of Ivan!"
Vladimir spoke these words to him:
"Hail to you, old Cossack Ilya Muromets,
Did you leave from Murom a long time ago
And by which road did you ride to the capital city of Kiev?"
Ilya spoke these words:
"Hail to you, our famous Vladimir of capital Kiev!
I attended Christ's matins in Murom
And I wanted to be in time for vespers in the
capital city of Kiev.
Then my journey was delayed.
I rode along the straight-traveled road,
Along the straight-traveled road I rode past the
city of Chernigov,
I rode past that Swamp, past that Black Swamp,
Past that famous stream Smorodina,
Past that famous crooked birch,
I rode past that famous Lebanese cross."
Vladimir spoke these words to him:
"Hail to you, my peasant bumpkin!
Peasant, you lie before my eyes,
Peasant, you mock me before my eyes!
Since an army of great number has been assembled
Near the famous city of Chernigov,
No one has walked past on foot,
And no one has ridden past on a good steed,
No gray beast has scoured past there,
No bird, no black raven has flown past.
By that cross, by that Lebanese cross
Sits Nightingale the Robber, Odikhmanty's son.
When Nightingale whistles like a nightingale,
When the villain robber screams like a wild animal,
Then all the grasses and meadows become entangled,
The azure flowers lose their petals,
All the dark woods bend down to the earth,
And all the people there lie dead..."
Ilya spoke these words to him: "
Vladimir, Prince of capital Kiev!
Nightingale the Robber is in your courtyard,
His right eye and temple have been knocked out,
And he's fastened to a steel stirrup..."
Then Vladimir, Prince of capital Kiev,
Quickly stood up on his nimble feet,
He threw his marten coat on one shoulder,
Then he threw his sable hat on one ear,
He went to his wide courtyard
To look at Nightingale the Robber.
Vladimir the Prince then spoke these words:
"Whistle, Nightingale, like a nightingale!
Scream, dog, like a wild animal!"
Nightingale the Robber, Odikhmanty's son, then spoke to him:
"Prince, I didn't eat dinner today with you,
You aren't the one I want to listen to,
I ate dinner with the old Cossack Ilya Muromets,
I want to listen to him."
Vladimir, Prince of capital Kiev, spoke:
"Hail to you, old Cossack Ilya Muromets!
Order Nightingale to whistle like a nightingale,
Order him to scream like a wild animal."
Nightingale then whistled like a nightingale,
The Robber screamed like a wild animal
The cupolas on the palaces were twisted,
And the windows in the palaces were shattered
From the nightingale's whistle,
And all the people there lay dead.
Vladimir, Prince of capital Kiev,
Took cover under his marten coat.
Then the old Cossack Ilya Muromets
Quickly mounted his good steed,
He took Nightingale to the open field
And he cut off his reckless head.
Ilya spoke these words:
"You've whistled enough like a nightingale,
You've screamed enough like a wild animal,
You've made enough fathers and mothers cry,
You've made enough young wives widows,
You've made enough little children orphans."
Since then a song of praise has been sung to Nightingale,
A song of praise has been sung to him for ever after

Ukraine culture
is a reflection of its turbulent
history.

--> Modern Ukraine culture has a lot in

common with Russian and Belarusian
cultures. It is quite understandable. All three nations have their
historical roots and origination from Kievan Rus. They went
separate ways starting in the 13th century. History demonstrates
that every nation tends to create some kind of legends about its
historical past. Very often historical events are interpreted in a way
people desire to see them. But not the way real events took place
indeed. It is really difficult to read historical past. It becomes even
more difficult when that past went such a long way to become a
modern history of Ukraine. To be objective and honest, talking
about Ukraine culture, we always have to remember that
Byelorusians, Russians, and Ukrainians originated from the
common home Kievan Rus. Many times history separated them and
brought them together again. Today each nation has its own state,
its own home. But all of them have the same historical and cultural
roots. All of them are Slavs.

How was it possible not to loose national cultural past under

unstable and severe conditions?

The Ukraine is presently experiencing a difficult period of transition

to a democratic style of life. Many times its history went through
extremely turbulent periods. In some mysterious way Ukraine
culture managed to survive those historical whirls, when nobody
even cared about its existence.Sometimes when you look for
information about Ukraine culture, search engines bring you quite a
standard set of its "major attributes". Here they are: "pysanky " (a
painted Easter egg), Cossacks , bandura (a musical instrument),
hopak (a Ukrainian dance ), borscht (national soup), Chicken Kiev
the famous cooked chicken, and salo (pig fat). rtainly, each of
them is a small symbol of the Ukrainian culture. But, perhaps,
there are some elements of culture which are much more viable
and powerful. They went through centuries from one generation to
the next creating and preserving national culture.

I hid a piece of salo here yesterday!

I know it!!!
Source: http:/oops.com.ua

What are these elements of culture? They are just our routine life
events: customs, language, literature, music, behaviors,
superstitions, moral and spiritual values, beliefs, food, holidays,
etc. People don't think about them every day. They just live the
way many generations of their ancestors lived.

Some Facts about Ukrainian Culture.

• According to the All-Ukrainian Population Census which took

place on 5-th of December 2001, population of Ukraine
accounted for 48 million 457 thousand persons. 32 million
574 thousand persons, or 67.2% of Ukraine population live
in the cities. The rural population is 15 million 883 thousand
or 32.8%.
•
• 77.8% of population are Ukrainians, 17.3%-Russians, 0.6%-
Byelorussians.
•
• 85.7% of Ukrainians, 3.9% of Russians and 17.5% of
Byelorussians consider Ukrainian language as their native.
95.9% of Russians, 62.5% of Byelorussians and 14.8% of
Ukrainians consider Russian language as their native.
•
• Ukrainian language is considered the official language of the
state. The majority of Ukraine's people are bilingual. They
don't need any interpreters to understand each other.
•
• Ukrainian culture includes the rich and diverse heritage of
more than 110 ethnic groups which live in the country.
There are 14 administrative regions (oblast) and an
autonomous Crimean Republic in Ukraine.
•
• Numerous faiths are practiced in Ukraine. Over 97% of the
religious communities registered in Ukraine are Christian.
About half of these communities are of the Orthodox
 tradition. The other half is divided among Catholics and
Protestants.

Social Do's and Don'ts.

Sometimes the smallest things in life can cause offense. Below is
an introductory guide to Ukraine superstitions, customs, and
traditions you should be aware of to avoid embarrassing or
insulting situations. Some of the Ukraine superstitions are based on
common sense, while others may leave your feeling utterly baffled.

• If someone gives good wishes, or you talk about

Do's.
your good fortune, you must spit three times over
your left shoulder to keep your good fortune. If this
strikes you as too bizarre, then knocking on wood should
also produce the desired effect.
• Before leaving a house for a long (even for a couple of days)
journey, you and everyone in the house should sit for a
minute in silence.
• Ensure that all your debts are settled before 31st
December; otherwise you will be in debt for the whole of the
next year.
• Before entering a newly built house, send a cat in first to
greet the house spirit.
• If a knife falls down from the table, a male guest will come
soon. If a spoon or a fork falls down, a female guest will
come soon. If you don't want them to come, you have to
immediately knock three times with the utensil on the table
and say 'stay at home'
• If your right palm itches you're going to spend money. If
your left palm itches you're going to receive some money.
• If someone gives you an animal as a gift (a kitten, a canary
or a puppy, for example), you should give them a symbolic
sum of money. One hryvya is enough.
• If you leave the house, but then return immediately before
leaving for a second time, make sure that you change
something about your appearance slightly, otherwise you
run the risk of encountering bad luck.
• If you do not recognize someone when you see them or call
them on the phone, this person will get rich.
• It's good luck to break a dish.
 Here's a list of common Ukraine
Dont's or Taboos.
superstitions that Ukrainians regard
as traditions. If you don't want to look
rude, don't violate them in Ukraine.

• It is considered quite rude to whistle while indoors. You may

feel a few stares, not to mention, it is believed you will also
lose a large amount of money soon after.
• If you are going to buy flowers for somebody, make sure
the number is odd, even numbers are for funerals. Don't be
surprised when the seller asks you, "Are they for a funeral?"
while you are trying to buy four roses.
• When you are celebrating a birthday, it is tradition to
celebrate it on the day or after, but it is considered bad luck
to party before the day arrives.
• An unmarried girl mustn't sit at the corner of a table, or she
won't be wed for seven years. So, if she is 15 only, it might
be O.K.
• Never throw bread crumbs in the trash or you'll go hungry.
• Don't give handkerchiefs, mirrors or sharp objects as
presents. If you decide to give a purse or a wallet, then
remember to put some money in it first.
• Refusing to drink vodka at a funeral banquet is absolutely
unacceptable. If you are a total abstainer simply avoid any
commemoration.
• Whatever you do, don't sit on cold stones because you won't
have children, especially if you're a girl.
• Never light a cigarette from a candle. It will bring you bad
luck.
• Never buy or accept as gifts baby clothes, shoes, toys,
furniture, etc. before the baby is born.
• Don't put your hat, money, and especially your keys on the
kitchen table.
• Don't drink without a toast - only at Easter can you drink
without a toast (and of course funerals…)
• Do not return into the house once you've started on your
way from it. But if you have to, then look into a mirror.
Otherwise you'll have a bad journey.

Ukraine Superstitions and

Culture.
 Are they really superstitions or just national
traditions?

Ukraine superstitions play a significant role in the social life. It's

probably impossible to know all of them. Some
are very common, but some are taken seriously
only by a limited number of older people. I t is
true that most Ukrainians belong to the
Christian faith. But ten centuries ago, like
most Slavic people, they were Pagans. They
worshiped water, fire, trees, plants, and
mother earth nature. Today you still can
detect the remnants of those pagan beliefs in
countless Ukraine superstitions, traditions, and customs. Ten
centuries ago... It is pretty long term. But they still remember
them. If you want to seem like a polite visitor, while traveling in
Ukraine, it is wise to gain a
deeper understanding of the
Ukraine superstitions and
national culture. Important
When it comes to the topic of
Ukraine superstitions, there is
a fine line between what is
considered to be a
superstition compared to
what is actually a tradition or
custom. Be aware. Some
things which in your culture
are regarded as superstitions, Ukrainians may consider as
traditions or customs.

For your consolation. Thankfully, many Ukrainians believe that a

person who doesn't know the Ukraine superstitions is free from it.
But you still have a chance to be stopped from doing something
"wrong".

So, cross your fingers and do what they say.

If you feel the environment makes you absolutely crazy, here's

what you can do. Go in the street and try to see a pig. (Hm...I am
afraid it can be a problem in the big city.) Wait, wait! To see a pig
in the street it's a good luck!
Ukrainian Borscht Recipe.
Follow the recipe or invent your own borscht.

Ukrainian borscht recipe...Apparently it

is practically impossible to describe!
There is no a single "correct way" of
cooking borscht. Each hostess has her
own idea about ingredients and the way
borscht has to be cooked. As a result
we have as many versions of Ukrainian
borscht recipes as many hostesses exist
in Ukraine.

What is Ukrainian borscht? On the one hand, borscht is a Ukrainian

national soup, but on the other hand it is not a soup at all. There
are zillions kinds of soup, but BORSCHT is the only one. What is
that special about Ukrainian borscht?

Borscht is not just a regular meal. It is one of the Ukraine's

national symbols. It took its name from the word "br'sch" which
means beet in old Slavic language. Since the time immemorial
there is nothing better than to eat a big bowl of hot borsch when
you come from the cold winter street. It will warm up your soul and
body, bring much more optimism to your life. Each region in
Ukraine has its own borscht recipe. All the recipes have
different names to distinguish them from each other. But there is
one thing which they have in common. The real borscht is a home
made meal. You can try borscht at some restaurant, but even the
best of them can offer you no more than quite decent borscht. It
will never have that special home taste and spirit which made
Ukraine famous for its borscht. Ukrainian borscht can be cooked in
number of ways. Every hostess can change not only borscht
ingredients from time to time, but also the way of cooking every
time she cooks borscht. Everything depends on her today mood.
Here is just one borscht recipe. It can be a starting point for you if
you decided to try to cook your own variant of Ukrainian borscht.

Borscht Recipe. Ingredients.

• 1.5 - 2 pounds of beef with bone

• 0.5 cup dry beans
• 1 medium beet root
 • 0.5 medium cabbage
• 5 medium potatoes
• 3 medium carrots
• 2 medium onions
• 2 medium parsley roots
• 2-3 bay leaves
• 2-3 table spoons tomato paste
• 2 green peppers
• 5-6 black peppercorns
• 1 medium garlic
• 0.25 lb salted salo (pig fat)
• salt

How to cook Ukrainian borscht.

You will need a 5-6 liter cooking pot. You have to invite all your
relatives and friends to try Ukrainian borscht which you cooked
yourself. Besides that next day Ukrainian borscht is considered the
tastiest one. O.K., let's start. You can follow the borscht recipe
exactly or experiment on your own.

1. Soak dry beans for 2-3 hours.

2. Cut the meat on pieces (they have to stick out your soup
bowl while you eat borscht), place them in a pot filled with
the cold water. Bring to a boil, skim off any fat on the
surface. In 30 minutes add soaked beans, cover and cook
for about 1 hour.
3. While meat is cooking, chop the beet as thin as you can, put
it in a frying pan, add sunflower or vegetable oil, and fry
untill soft (don't make it too soft!). You can add 1 tea spoon
of vinegar to save beet color.
4. Chop cabbage (try to make the slices thinner!), peel and
chop potatoes. Leave them along for now.
5. Chop 3 carrots, 2 onions, 2 parsley roots, fry them until the
onion is going golden.
6. Now the fun part of borscht recipe. Let's put all together to
make a master piece. Wait, wait! One step at a time. When
the meat is ready, add some salt, 2-3 bay leaves,
peppercorns, potatoes.
7. In 5-10 minutes add fried carrots, onions, parsley roots, and
beets. Add chopped cabbage. Slow cook about 10 minutes.
 8. Add 2-3 table spoons of tomato paste, wait until it boils.
Add a little bit sugar if it is too sour for you. Turn off the
stove. No, borscht is not ready yet.
9. Cut salted salo into the tiny cubes. (Don't worry! You will
never see salo in your borscht if you do it proper.) Chop 0.5
head of garlic and the dill. Grind them together in a deep
bowl with a wooden spoon. Throw it in cooked borscht. Wait
for 10-15 minutes more even if you can't because of all
those smells. Enjoy!

Ukraine Traditions.
Some things to know about Ukraine Etiquette.

Ukraine traditions of social behavior don't differ too much from

Western standards. An average Ukrainian perceives the world
around him in a way an average Westerner does. They have similar
life values. However, every nation is unique and has certain
national peculiarities in its lifestyle, public behavior and etiquette.

Every country has its own

"appropriate" and "not appropriate" things
to do in public. Ukraine is not an
exception.
Ukraine Traditions: Ukrainian National Character.

Most likely, you will find that many of Ukraine traditions are the
same like in your native country. Some of them will look
incomprehensible or irrational. They are not "good" or "bad". They
just are different being born by another culture. Let's try to
understand their nature.

• It is very typical for Ukrainians to avoid "standing out".

Generally, Ukrainian culture is non-individualistic. We often
 say: "One is not a soldier in the
battlefield". Parents usually teach
their kids: "Be like everybody else.
Don't stick out!"
• Ukrainians seem a bit cold and
reticent at first glance. Especially in
the big cities. Foreigners are usually
confused not seeing smiling faces
around. It is true. Ukrainian daily life
is unpredictable and unstable and it's
probably the reason why they smile so seldom in the streets
or on the public transportation where you usually meet
them.
• Don't be confused. Very soon you will realize that they are
very warm and friendly people. It is common for people to
invite you to their home, where they will put on the table
their best food and drink, striving to impress guests with a
great variety of prepared dishes. (Not from the grocery
store!). You will certainly be their the most honored guest
that day.
• Be prepared to drink vodka or any other strong drink.
According to Ukraine traditions process of drinking is pretty
specific. When the glasses of all company members are full,
somebody will propose a "toast". They often say: "Hopefully
it's not the last time when we drink, with God's help". After
the toast people clink their glasses with each other and
drink their drinks.
• From the first glance toasting looks like "wasting of time".
But one has to remember that Ukrainian parties are not that
much about eating or drinking, but about communication
first of all. Ukrainians spend hours at the table
communicating, eating and drinking. More about Ukraine
traditions and drinking can be read at Ukraine Customs
page.
• Most of the time Ukrainians keep their emotions inside. But
if they feel necessity to express their indignation in public,
they do not hesitate to say what they think. In general,
Ukrainian people are much more spontaneous and
straightforward than Westerners. Don't expect them
often to say: "How are you? Nice to meet you". The way of
doing things in Ukraine is to go straight to the point.
• Ukrainians don't have a deep respect towards any law
or authorities. They always scold them. It is a special
honor to disobey rules. Don't be surprised if some driver or
 pedestrians move on the red light or somebody sings songs
at 3 a.m. in the street. These are Ukraine traditions.
• Ukrainians love their country. They can scold and criticize
their government severely, but be careful. Don't try to do
the same. They will defend their country. You can cause
their furious indignation by your careless remark. They are
proud to be the citizens of the country, which has rich
history and deep cultural roots.

Ukraine Traditions: Ukraine Etiquette.

Ukraine traditions of etiquette don't have anything special to

compare to Western etiquette. But unwritten rules of etiquette
evolve within culture. They prescribe and restrict the ways in which
people interact with each other. An excellent etiquette in one
country may be considered as inappropriate in another one. Here is
a short guide for rules of etiquette typical for Ukrainian culture.

Visiting somebody's home.

• It is not a bad idea to bring some gift if you are invited to
visit someone's home. You can never go wrong with a cake,
flowers (odd number of flowers only!) or a botlle of
wine, but a gift that will remind them about your home
country would be greatly appreciated by your hosts. If
there are kids in the house, bring some small gifts for
them (chocolate, fruits or souvenirs).
• When eating dinner at someone's home, casual dress is
recommended.
• Most of Ukrainians live in a small apartment or house. To
keep them clean they don't wear shoes inside. It is
traditional to leave your shoes at the door when you enter a
home. Most likely your hosts will provide you some slippers.
If they don't, it's normal to enter the room without shoes.
• It is considered bad luck to shake hands across the
threshold of a door. Take your gloves off your, when
shaking hands! Sure, it is superstitions, but you are in
Ukraine.
• Ukrainians love to demonstrate their natural and generous
hospitality. It's a big thing for them to feed everyone who
comes to their home. Be ready at least to try all food
 and drink offered you when visiting somebody's
home. In most cases food prepared at home is
delicious.
• According to Ukraine traditions of hospitality, most likely
you will be asked to give a toast at dinner. Be
prepared to say something nice about the home and
its hosts.
• It is not that great idea to demonstrate your feet putting
them on the furniture. You might be able to do it in your
own house, but not in somebody's house or in a public
place. Don't force anyone to jump over your legs stretched
in the aisle, please.
• Offer to share your cigarettes with those around you if
you smoke.
• It is considered an extremely rude gesture if you
demonstrate your thumb between your second and first
fingers. They call it "dulia". For centuries this gesture has
been used as a sign of defiance against numerous Ukraine's
invaders. If you really feel you must make this gesture, be
sure nobody can see it!
• According to Ukraine traditions of hospitality it is quite
acceptable to ask very personal questions about your
life, earnings, and relationships. Even if you are not
used to such types of questions , try not getting angry and
do not shy away. People are sincere and just do not know
that in your country it might not be considered very polite.

Business Etiquette.
A few words of precautions at the street wisdom level for the
beginning. Please, avoid:
 Unregistered companies.
 Salesmen in the streets. Both of them usually provide only a
cell phone number for contact.
 Don't choose your business partners through shady Ukrainian
classifieds newspapers.

If you are invited by a reputable company, it is considered polite to

"attach" a special helper to you, who will be your interpreter, show
you the city, take you to the most important sights.

• Personal and informal contact is a central part in doing

business in Ukraine. Toasting at the dinner table in a local
 bar or at somebody's place is just as important as the work
achieved during the day negotiations.
• Getting things done in Ukraine takes longer and
requires more effort. It is not bad idea to bring all
relevant documents with you. Out side of the big cities
computers and photocopiers are not always accessible.
• Business cards are essential. If possible, ensure that one
side is printed in Ukrainian and the other side in
English.
• For business, dress should be conservative. Men usually
don't take their jacket off unless asked to do so.
• Try to be reserved in public. Loud speaking or laughing
will cause negative reaction most likely, as Ukrainians
generally tend to be pretty somber.
• And again about superstitions. Don't shake hands across
your desk or table. Come around to face the person. But
actually, don't worry too much about what you are doing
wrong. To follow all Ukraine traditions and superstitions was
not the real purpose of your visit to Ukraine.

It is not easy to do business in Ukraine. Ukraine is a unique country

where traditional business rules or etiquette just don't work.
Despite of all the problems, business in Ukraine does go on and in
many cases presents unprecedented opportunities.

Ukraine Traditions and Feminism.

Sometimes you can hear: Ukraine is 20 years behind the West. Hm...
it might not be a bad thing "to be behind" sometimes. Especially if we
talk about relationships between men and women. I won't take a risk
to discuss the problems of social, political, and economic inequality
between men and women. Let's leave these problems to feminists.

I would only like to remind you, that God created men and women
with unique, but different natural abilities. Both men and women
have their strong and weak sides. Very often we become
excessively aggressive trying to adjust ourselves to modern
society. Sometimes it is really necessary. But let's just
remember not to put down our nature. Like practically
everywhere in the world, you won't see very refined manners in
Ukraine. But being "20 years behind the West", Ukrainians still
remember that men should be strong and assertive and
women should be smart and beautiful. Following these
stereotypes of Ukraine traditions, you will look good in public and
women will admire you. It is considered proper for men to do such
things for women:

• Open the door and let her in or out first.

• Assist woman entering or exiting a vehicle
or public transportation.
• Help them put on and take off their coats.
• Help them carry heavy bags.
• Pour their drinks and serve their food first. Don't expect her
to uncork the bottles!
• Light their cigarettes (even if it means rubbing two sticks
together).
• On public transportation, man offers his seat to coming in
mothers with children, the old or infirm, and women. Don't
try to make flirt with a lady who is standing by you, while
you are sitting! You will fail.
• If you invite a woman somewhere, be prepared to pay
for everything. If you invite a man, he'll pay for himself.
There's a good chance he'll pay for you as well without
telling you about it.
• Ukrainian women consider it unfeminine to shake hands
when they meet.
• According to Ukraine traditions you should never kiss
a woman on her forehead. It is reserved for funerals.

By the way, proper Ukraine traditions are carefully watched by our

"Vice Squad". Our babushkas (old women) spend the most part of
their day sitting on the benches by the apartments. They are
active, pushy, know everybody and everything. Don't argue with
them if they say you don't behave proper, it would be better to
disappear.

Hopakis not the only Ukrainian

Dance.
Archeological finds show that Ukrainian
dance takes its roots from the Pre-Christian
pagan rituals of the Slavic tribes which
inhabited the lands of Kievan Rus'. The main
occupation of our ancestors was agriculture. It was vitally
important for them to get along well with nature and the numerous
Pagan gods and goddess. That's why since at least the 3rd
millennium BC music and ritual dances have been served for the
Slavic tribes as a very important form of communication. For
centuries these "Christianized" seasonal ritual dances people used
in order to ask their gods to be kind to them. At some villages even
today you can watch the Spring Dances, or Vesnianky. Ivana
Kupala Day - the day of summer solstice - is one of the most
spiritual East Slavic holidays. Its ritual songs and dances inspire
modern Ukrainian choreographers and remain a favorite theme for
their creative work. Another type of Ukrainian dance is the story
dance. The dancers entertain their audience telling some stories
through movements about particular professions, social groups,
funny situations, and etc. Here are a few examples of the story
dances: "Shevchiky" ("The Shoemakers"), "Kovaly"("The
Blacksmiths"), and "Kosary" ("The Reapers"). Perhaps the most
numerous of the Ukrainian folklore dances is a social dances
group. The main feature of the social dances is improvisation. You
will never be able to watch the same dance. Many Ukraine's
regions have their own style of dance, form of dress, and music:
Central Ukrainian or Cossack Dance, Hutsul, Transcarpathian,
Boiko, Bukovynian, Volinian Dances. Each performance is different.
The Cossack dance "Hopak" (gopak) is the most well-known among
them. Its name originated from the Ukrainian verb "hopaty" (to
jump). Hopak is mainly men's dance. It is energetic, physically
demanding, requires good acrobatic skills and energy. You are not
able to sit still while watching this Ukrainian dance. Today, the
Ukrainian dance hopak became a base for the new type of the
Cossack martial art- Boyoviy Hopak. This idea was brought by
Vladimir Pylat in 1985. He believes that hopak used to be a kind of
Cossack's physical training. Not all Ukrainian scientists support his
claim. But everybody is sure that a hopak-based Ukrainian martial
art is a good way to bring up a generation of patriotic, brave and
strong young people. It looks like they are right. Ukrainian youth is
ready to absorb the spirit and knowledge of their glorious
ancestors.
Ukraine Wedding Traditions.
Time changes, so do traditions.

We never say about Ukraine wedding "to

celebrate", but always "to play wedding". It
comes from the old Ukrainian wedding
traditions, when wedding was not just a
party but a whole set of special rituals
which symbolized creation of a strong life
foundation of a new family and its future
well-being. It was more a theater play than
a party where the solemnity and merry-
making played together.

If you are lucky, you still can watch this

kind of mysterious play and become a part of it somewhere in
Ukrainian villages. The traditional Ukrainian weddings differ from
village to village in details, but all of them follow the same pattern
in the order of wedding actions.

The very first action of the Ukraine wedding is a formal

engagement. The groom invites two married men (they call them
starosty) to visit the home of
the bride and to request her
parents for her hand in
marriage. If the bride
agrees, she will drape the
starosty with traditional
rushnyky (towels), both
parties exchange the gifts
and loaves of bread.
Sometimes, when she
doesn't want to merry a guy,
visitors can get a pumpkin
(garbuz) instead of a loaf of
bread.
The wedding ceremony starts at least one week after engagement.

Usually on Thursday or Friday they bake special wedding ritual

bread - korovai and shiskas. The groom and bride walke the village
and give shishkas to their wedding guests as an invitation.

Before the wedding both groom and bride have separate parties
with their close friends. At the girl
party (devich vecher) they make a
ritual tree (giltse). Together with
korovai it stays on the wedding table
as a symbol of youth and beauty of
the bride and groom. Saturday and
Sunday are the days of the main civil
marriage ceremony or the church
service. After the ceremony the groom
takes the bride to her parents home
and returns to his own home. Both families have meal with their
friends and relatives. After meal it is time for the groom to take a
wedding train (poizd) and bring his bride to his home.

At the bride's house groom has to pay a ransom to be admitted in

the house to join the bride's family at the table. At the end of the
day the bride and groom travel to his home where they will live
after wedding.
Next day is a day of
merry-making, frivolity,
and pranks. The wedding
quests, who are dressed
like gypsies, visit houses,
take gates off of hinges,
steal chickens, hide
equipment, and commit
other silly things. They
seat the parents of the
groom or bride in the
decorated cart and pull
them to the water. There
they overturn the cart and
dump the parents into the
water make them
completely wet.

All this actions may seam silly and irrational, but they absorbed the
wisdom of the ancient Ukraine traditions preserved during
hundreds of years and are full of deep meaning.

Here are a couple videos which will show you some Ukraine
wedding traditions. They were taken in the West Ukraine village.
The wedding in the village doesn't happen every day. It is a
remarkable event which people will discuss long before and after
wedding. What about new
Ukraine wedding traditions?
Time changes, so do
traditions. It is not easy to
find that almost theatrical
wedding action which took
place one-two hundreds years
ago in Ukraine. But even
today every wedding in
Ukraine has the elements of
the ancient rituals preserved by people memory.There is some
thing which has not been changed during the centuries: the life is
continuing here on the Earth. And every year we will meet happy
newlyweds like this young couple and watch their weddings - two
days of their life which can never be forgotten.
Before you go to Ukraine.

I am not a sales person who is trying to sell you a typical travel

package. Since I was born and lived in Ukraine I spent many
years traveling and researching this beautiful country. As a result I
have created this free on-line guide - Ukraine Travel Advisor.
This means that all information presented here is based on my
personal "have lived, seen, and traveled there experience."

I believe that this approach will provide an unforgettable

experience - discovering one of the largest and most ancient
countries of Europe. This Ukraine Travel Guide covers a lot more
than just the usual attractions suggested to the tourist who visit
the country. It gives you opportunity to see this ancient and
beautiful country from inside.

There is a lot more information here than you will be able to see on
one trip. It is a smart approach to take some time and look around
the site before planning your travel to Ukraine in details.

Ukraine Travel Tips

Explore your options and plan everything ahead:

• develop a sense for this beautiful country and find out about
Ukraine history and ancient Ukraine culture.
• discover FOUR the most interesting areas: plan your own
Kiev tour, find the best places to visit on Crimean
peninsula (Crimea) , figure out why City of Odessa is
called "A Pearl of the Black Sea", touch special atmosphere
of Carpathians mountains and their capital city Lviv (Lvov).
• watch Ukraine videos to feel real spirit of the "life in the
streets" and look at the exhibition of traditional Ukrainian
arts at our on-line Ukrainian Store. to get the idea of our
national traditions and customs.

To make your travel planning easy, Ukraine Travel Guide will

introduce you to more practical things required for your visit to
Ukraine:
 • Find Cheap Flights to Ukraine. Choose the best and the
smartest way to travel to Ukraine and around the country:
by air, train, bus, ferry or car.
• to determine type of accommodations which is the best for
you among available: Find hotels, private apartments,
hostels, or timeshares in Ukraine.
• find out how much Ukraine money can buy and what are
the best options to pay.

How to find your way around this

site.
1. The navigation column to the left will bring you to all the major
sections of the Ukraine Travel Advisor, and I think the titles are
self explanatory.

2. The Site Map page includes information about ALL PAGES

available on this site.

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I invite you on a virtual tour of my favorite places. Here are a lot

of pictures for you to see:
 Ancient and forever young Kiev (Kyiv)
where shining golden domes can be seen everywhere. I hope when
you return home from your travel to my Ukraine you will have learned
to love this beautiful country as I do. Enjoy your trip!
Ukraine History. Long Way to Independence
The Ukraine history possesses two unique features. Kievan Rus' is the
predecessor of three nations-modern Belarusians, Russians, and
Ukrainians. Original state history was written by the foreigners.

Ukraine Culture. Ukraine People. Education. Religion.

Ukraine culture reflects its turbulent history. It was shaped by the rich
heritage of the Kievan Rus and enriched by diverse nationalities which
live in the country.

Ukraine People. How do they live? Nation of Survivors.

Ukraine People. More than 7 centuries Ukraine's neighbors considered
that this country has too many Ukrainians in it. Ukrainians deserve
gratitude for the fact that they managed to survive.

About Ukraine Tourism.Objective Facts and Statistics.

The Ukraine tourism industry has achieved good results during the last
few years. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) has placed Ukraine in
the top 25 most visited countries in the world.

Travel to Ukraine. Low-budget travel in and from Ukraine.

Your travel to Ukraine can be either a very enjoyable experience or a
small nightmare. Everything depends on the way you have prepared for
your trip. Prevent problems before they happen.

Accommodation in Ukraine. What should you expect.

Accommodation in Ukraine. Find out about available options: hotels,
apartments, hostels.

Ukraine Real Estate Market. To Buy Property in Ukraine.

In Ukraine real estate market money can be made when you buy right.
Going to buy property in Ukraine, study up the rules and know your
limits. Why People Invest into Ukraine Property.

Kiev Map is the best helper to discover real Kiev.

Take a good Kiev map and forget about boring guides from the tourist
buses. Beautiful ancient Kiev is literally in your hands now. Leave the
beaten path. Discover your own Kiev.

Living in Kiev-the Capital of Ukraine. Practical Information.

Practical information necessary for every day life in the capital of
Ukraine. Whether you are going to stay in Kiev a few days, one month,
one year, or a whole life.

The Black Sea and Crimea. Crimean Historical Sites. Prime

destinations.
The Black Sea and Crimea attractions: Byzantine cave cities, Greek ruins,
Russian palaces, Genoese castles, Soviet battleships, wild steppes and
plantations of roses, warm seas and mountains with snow

City of Odessa, Ukraine.

According to European standards, city of Odessa is a relatively young
city. But there is something what makes it special.

Ukraine Guide. Recommended Ukraine Tour Guides.

Ukraine Guide is your opportunity to stop being a tourist and become a
guest. Design your tour based on what you want to see and not on what
a guidebook said you should see.

Travel Ukraine Search Engine. Save Some Time.

A simple travel Ukraine search engine that will deliver search results
related to practical information necessary for visitors to Ukraine.
Ukraine Real Estate Market.
How to buy property in Ukraine.

Until recently, Ukraine real estate attracted second-largest volume

of foreign and domestic investments following the financial sector.
At the time main materials of this article written (May, 2009), the
once-booming Ukrainian real estate market is going through its bad
period. Due to the world financial crisis developers and investors
into Ukraine real estate were faced with big economic troubles. As
a result, many construction projects were frozen and number of
them are "for sale" now. Have you ever noticed, when you turn on
the news they usually have to tell you the bad news first. Then, if
they have time, they might will tell a "feel good" story at the end.
The same can be said about the way the media is portraying
conditions on the Ukraine real estate market. Everywhere you can
hear how terrible the Ukraine investment market is. Bad news
SELLS. In no way I am a real estate specialist. But let's just try to
invite our common sense and ask a real estate professional's
opinion. Our common sense tells us that sooner or later economy
will get better. Everything goes in circles. -:) What about
professionals? Here is opinion of one of the brightest among them -
Donald Trump. "If you're one of the fortunate few who is looking to
buy, you could hardly be in a better position. I think the housing
market is going to get better and it's going to get better fairly
quickly. The market is depressed and that's when you want to go
in. So if you have the money, now's when you want to go out and
buy. But that's just my opinion. After all, what does Donald Trump
know about real estate! Smart people are always caution when it
comes to spending their hard earned money. Thinking about buying
Ukraine real estate either for investment purposes or just as a
place to live, you shouldn't make your decision following some
one's opinion or your own emotions only. Study up the market to
get a general idea first. Let's look at the big picture.

Why People Invest into Ukraine Real Estate.

The two major rules of real estate are:

• To make money, buy it right.

• Buy low-sell high.
Can you really "buy low" in Ukraine? Prices for residential real
estate presented (January, 2007)

Rank City Price/sq.m, USD Population,

thousands
1 Kiev 2 600 2 108
2 Odessa 1 820 1 020
3 Dnepropetrovsk 1 340 1 043
4 Sevastopol 1 275 379
5 Kharkov 1 170 1 463
6 Simferopol 1 120 371
7-10 Lvov 1 100 735
7-10 Nikolaev 1 100 508
7-10 Uzhgorod 1 100 117
7-10 Chernovtsy 1 100 243
11 Khmelnitsky 1 050 257
12 Vinnitsa 1 000 382
13 Ternopol 995 220
14 Rovno 925 248
15 Zhitomir 910 276
16 Zaporizhye 900 795
17-18 Ivano-Frankovsk 870 221
17-18 Lutsk 870 205
19 Donetsk 865 994
20 Chernigov 840 300
21 Poltava 820 309
22 Cherkassy 820 292
23 Lugansk 800 450
24 Sumy 760 280
25 Kherson 750 316
26 Kirovograd 645 246
Relatively low to compare to West-European countries prices per
Square Meter of residential property looked very attractive for
investors. But at the same time highly dynamical rise of Ukraine
real estate prices during the last few years made Ukrainian market
one of the most lucrative and desirable places in Europe for
investors.According to Kiev real estate company Blagovest , an
average rise in price of Kiev flats, amounted to 51 % in 2006, 44
% in 2007, and 17.6 % in 2006. What are the causes of Ukraine
real estate boom and such high yearly rise real estate prices?
Independent Ukraine is a young country. As any new born and
growing system it has powerful "natural engines" to make it grow.
In Soviet times all people were artificially kept "equal" to each
other. Not much could be done legally to increase your income
level. Nowadays most of those restrictions have gone and people
have possibility to earn money. Ukraine real estate is one of the
best ways for doing this. Here are the major reasons of the rapid
rise in price of real-estate in Ukraine:

• Due to the rising income level people look for investing

opportunities and improving their living conditions .
• Real estate is traditionally one of the safest kinds of
investment since after banking crisis of the early 1990s
when people lost their savings they don't trust banks.
• Ukraine's economics doesn't still have too much investment
alternatives to offer.
• Since Ukraine became independent people tend to move to
the big cities where more capital and opportunities are
concentrated. They were not allowed to move freely before.
• There was no system of widely accessible bank loans and
mortgages in the Soviet Union. They are available now and
in spite of very high interest rates people actively borrow
bank money.

Ukraine real estate is going through many challenges (May, 2009).

According to Colliers International "Real Estate Review" (2009,
Ukraine) one shouldn't expect full recovery of investing
transactions until Ukraine's economy demonstrates clear signs of
recovery. Nevertheless, foreign investor's interest to Ukrainian
market will remain strong. This year (2009) may be a good time to
reconsider an existing real estate strategy and look for a good
opportunity to find reasonable priced properties that will become
valuable income generators over the coming years.
What you need to buy property in Ukraine.
To buy property in Ukraine is more difficult than in the US, for
example. It is not that simple even for the Ukrainian/Russian native
speakers. The main reasons are a lack of legal infrastructure,
pointless regulations and far not perfect way of paperwork
execution. However, it is manageable. To buy property in Ukraine
you will need:

• Study up and know the market if you're going to dive

in. Overview of Ukraine real estate market can found
at the Global Property Guide.
• It is essential to have a well-established real-estate
agency or a well-informed independent adviser to
guide your through the process. It is impossible to check the
legal status of a property without an agency.
• It is easier to transfer money to the seller's bank account or
to pay him in cash if you have your bank account in
Ukraine. You don't need any special documents to bring up
to $15,000 USD into Ukraine.
• Be patient and have a decent local lawyer. It will cost you
less time and money than your own attempts to figure out
how to avoid numerous legal "pitfalls" on the way.
• Be careful and know your limits

Kiev Map.
Forget about boring guides from the tourist buses. With a
good Kiev map beautiful ancient Kiev is literally in your
hands.

Leave the beaten path. Take a good Kiev map and discover
your own Kiev. Once you get to Kiev, you can pick up a free one
at the airport. Any hotel, book store or a newspaper booth in the
street should have them.
Surely, an updated folding paper Kiev Street Map is the most
convenient. But to make finding your way around Kiev a little easier, I
have included a few Kiev maps on this website. Do your homework,
understand the way Kiev is laid out. It will really help you to discover
your own Kiev. Let's start our Kiev journey. Administratively, the city
is divided into 10 raions (districts).

Three of them (Darnytskyi, Desnianskyi, and Dniprovskyi raions)

are located on the left (east) bank of the Dniepr river.

Seven raions (Holosiyivskyi, Obolonskyi, Pecherskyi, Podilskyi ,

Shevchenkivskyi, Solomianskyi, Svyatoshynskyi) are located on the
right (west) bank.

As of the All-Ukrainian Census conducted in 2001, the population of

Kiev is 2,611,000. It is a big city which is not easy to manage.
That's why each district (raion) has its own unit of central and local
government with jurisdiction over a limited scope of affairs.

If you ask Kievans where they live, most likely, they will use
another (non-formal) names to describe their neighborhoods. Most
of them have lost their distinctive topographic limits since they got
their original names from the times immemorial. But people still
use those historical names. Here are the most notable informal
historical neighborhoods of Kiev.

Right (west) Bank: Akademmistechko, Borshchahivka, Holosiiv,

Koncha-Zaspa, Lukyanivka, Lypky , Nyvky, Obolon, Pechersk,
Podil, Puscha-Vodytsia, Shulyavka, Svyatoshyn, Tatarka ,
Vydubychi, Vynohradar, Zhulyany,Zvirynets',ets.

Left (east) Bank: Bereznyaky, Bykivnya, Darnytsia, Kharkivskyi

masyv, Lisovyi masyv, Livoberezhnyi masyv,Osokorky, Poznyaky,
Rusanivka, Trojeshchyna,etc.

To find some place in Kiev you would have to know:

• Formal raion
• Historical (informal) neighborhood
• Nearest metro (subway) station or train stop
• Formal address

We already have some idea about formal and informal names of

Kiev's neighborhoods. Kiev Metro system is another special kind of
presentation of Kiev Map. This kind of map makes orientation easy
even for the newcomers. You will find Kiev Metro lines scheme at
UrbanRailNet site (new window opens) together with a lot of
useful practical information and pictures.

Kiev street map to check addresses can be found at InorComUa

site. It has clear image, allows you not only view details but also
has convenient search for the streets. Site works pretty good, but
not very fast. Well, we have to pay something for quality. Here is a
map of the rail and auto roads around Kiev. (new window
opens).

This Google satellite Kiev map is a good toy. I would not try to
find my way around Kiev using this map, nevertheless, it looks very
interesting : a piece of Dniepr river, a bridge over it, the
Independence Square, the Cathedrals of St.
Sophia and St. Vladimir. You can see them
pretty clear.

The last tool for you to find your way in the

Kiev streets. Kiev is a city of the golden
domes. You can see them everywhere.

All Orthodox churches have been built

according to the strict architectural rules. Their
altars and chapel are always located from the
east side, while their campanile look west.
Crosses on the domes always have major
horizontal and one slanted line which crosses
the vertical main line. An elevated end of the
slanted line always points to the north, while its opposite end
points to the south.Now when we have our Kiev maps ready, let's
start our Kiev journey. Its glorious history goes back 1,500
years. This ancient and yet ever young city has a lot to be proud
of:

• warm stones of the majestic monuments of the past

• theaters and museums
• ancient history where legends merge with reality
• steep slopes of the Slavutich (the ancient name for the
Dnieper River) and Kiev's symbol kashtany (horse-
chestnuts).
• modern megalopolis with crowds of people, streams of cars,
fashionable restaurants, stylish night clubs, theaters which
has so many trees that in the summer time you can walk
from one end of Kiev to the other without leaving the shade.

Welcome Kiev!

Kiev Street Map.

Take a tour downtown Kiev.

You will certainly need a Kiev street map to find your way in this
large and modern city. This map of Kiev presents you its downtown
where the most tourist objects are located. It will help you to
visualize your tour which I described at Kiev guide page.

This map is a fragment of a good quality Kiev street map from the
InorComUa site. A complete map and description of its features can
be found at Kiev Map page. Besides that it has a map of the rail
and auto roads around Kiev and Kiev Metro lines scheme.

The best variant of Kiev map of course is a regular folding map.

You can buy it without any problems once you arrive to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, let's look at our screen variant of the Kiev street map. I
am writing this article at the end of April. The best time to visit
Kiev is May June. It is time when the famous Kiev's chestnuts are
in a full blossoming. (Click to enlarge the map in a new window.)

Downtown Kiev is located pretty close to the river Dnieper on its

steep right bank. If you decide to take a rest after the whole day of
walking, there is a good opportunity to do so. These green areas
along the bank are beautiful parks. In the very middle of the map
you can see the Khreschatyk street. It a one of the busiest Kiev's
streets. It connects Bessarabska Square on the south and
European Square on the north. Bessarabsky farmer market, popular
restaurants and stores, active social life and the freshest news, the heart
of Orange Revolution - Independence Square everything is here, on
Khreschatyk street. Taras Shevchenko Boulevard starts right at the
Bessarabska Square and is perpendicular to Khreschatyk. One of
Kiev's few remaining Lenin statues, park named after the famous
Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko, the beautiful red building
of the Kiev Taras Shevchenko National University are located here.
Turn around the corner onto the Volodymyrskaya Street. It is quite
possible to spent a whole day there: The Taras Shevchenko Opera
and Ballet House, Golden Gate, Saint Sofia Cathedral, The National
Museum of Ukrainian History. Three blocks away from St.Sophia
Cathedral you will see the St. Michael's Golden Domed Cathedral.
From there Triehsviatitelskaya Street will bring you back to the
very beginning of the Khreschatyk street European square. "The
Ukrainian House" located there always hosts something interesting:
exhibitions, concerts, cultural and business meetings. The famous
Kiev Philharmonic is here also. This Kiev street map gives you a
rough idea about the most interesting objects located down town.
For more details please check Kiev guide page.
Kiev Guide.
Feel the unique character of this ancient and
forever young city.
To write a short Kiev guide is actually an idea which can confuse
anybody. During its 1,500 history Kiev accumulated so many
treasures that every time you visit
Ukraine capital you discover something
completely new for you. Cities are like
people. Each of them has its unique
character and charm. You have to see
Kiev with your own eyes to feel its
unforgettable beauty.

Kiev is an extraordinary city. Perhaps

there are no too many cities in the world which would have so
many historical and cultural monuments like Kiev has: churches,
theaters, museums, monuments, concert halls, and so on. The
same old story again - so many places to see, but so little time.
Let's do one step at a time. This page of our Kiev guide is about its
downtown.

The central part of Kiev is the oldest, most visited by tourists, and
perhaps the most interesting part of Ukraine capital. It is
impossible for any Kiev guide to miss this place.

Let's take a stroll under the huge chestnut trees that line the
streets. We will start at Bessarabska Square (closest metro:
Teatralna). This is the very end of the Khreschatyk street - the
most famous and one of the busiest Kiev's streets.

Khreschatyk street is much younger than Kiev itself. The first

buildings appeared there at the end of the 18th century. It used to
be one of the favorite hunting places of Kiev princes. It has always
been the place of the popular stores and restaurants, the freshest
news and active social life.

The entire street was completely destroyed during World War II by

the retreating Red Army and rebuilt in the neo-classical style of
post-war Stalinist architecture that rises sheer like carved canyon
walls. The street is closed for auto traffic on weekends that makes
it a large outdoor party place. Thousands of people have a good
time in nearby restaurants, clubs and outdoor cafes.I guess that
any decent Kiev guide would suggest you to visit the Bessarabsky
central covered market built in 1910 - 1912, which is located here.
It has a large selection of fruits, vegetables, cheese, meat,
seafood, fish, caviar, spices and fresh flowers. You can make a
great breakfast while shopping there. None store can compete with
their variety and prices.Market is certainly worth a visit even if you
don't like shopping. It is a lot of fun and will make your Kiev
experience unique. The market is opened from 8am to 7pm. If
shopping at the market, bring some bags as more vendors won't
supply you with any.

After you leave the market, walk up Taras Shevchenko Boulevard.

At the junction of Khreshchatyk and Taras Shevchenko Boulevard
one of Kiev's few remaining Lenin statues is located.

About a 5 minute walk from Khreschatik there is a park named

after the famous Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko.
Across the street facing directly onto the Taras Shevchenko Statue
you will see the beautiful red building of the Kiev Taras Shevchenko
National University.

Take a right onto Volodymyrskaya Street. I guess that any Kiev

guide would agree that none of Kiev's streets has as many
historical and cultural monuments as Volodymyrskaya Street has.
On this street can be found:

• The Taras Shevchenko University.

• The Taras Shevchenko Opera and Ballet House.
• The Golden Gate.
• The Saint Sofia Cathedral.
• The National Museum of Ukrainian History.

Having crossed Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street, you'll find yourself in

front of the Taras Shevchenko State Opera and Ballet Theater. The
theater was built during 1898 - 1901 according to the project of the
architect V. A. Shreteron on the site of the pre-revolutionary
municipal theater which was burned down in 1896.

The building of the theater is noted for the great acoustics of its
auditorium. Cane and slabs of cork-tree were set in the walls to
aim such effect. In the 1980s the vast reconstruction works were
carried out at the theater. As the result the exterior and the interior
of the ancient building were renovated, and the theater was
supplied with the latest equipment.

Much of the theater's creative efforts are concentrated on

productions of classical Ukrainian and Russian operas and ballets.
Ukrainian opera singers and ballet dancers are and always have
been among the most talented in the world. They are to be found
performing now in many ballet and opera companies of the world.

Information about theater's plays can be found at the National

Opera and Ballet Theater official website. Ticket prices range from
5 to 50 Hryvnia ($1.00 to $10.00) per performance and are
available at the ticket box near the theater office (Phone: 234-
7165) or from ticket outlets located throughout the city and
shopping malls.

Passing the Opera Theater, after a couple of blocks you'll reach the
Golden Gate, a reconstruction of the historic gateway in the ancient
city walls of Kiev. This gateway was constructed by Yaroslav the
Wise, Prince of Kiev, in the mid-eleventh century. In 1240 the
Golden Gate was partially destroyed by Batu Khan's Golden Horde.
Through the years it gradually fell into ruins.

In 1832 the ruins were excavated and an initial survey for their
conservation was undertaken. In the 1970s an adjacent pavilion,
housing a museum of the gate was added. In 1982, the gate was
completely reconstructed for the 1500th anniversary of Kiev.
Although there is no solid evidence as to what the original gates
looked like.

Keep going along Volodymyrska and you you'll get to Sophievskaya

Square. The Square has been considered to be public and trade-
economical center of Kiev since the period of Yaroslav’s the Wise
reign (1019-1054). There is the equestrian monument to B.
Khmelnytsky in the middle. This monument is a peculiar emblem of
Kiev.

Next to the monument the impressive 250ft campanile is located.

Behind the white wall shining in the
sun the golden domes of St.
Sophia’s Cathedral can be seen. The
complex now remains a museum of
Ukraine's Christianity. More about
the Cathedral of Saint Sophia you
can read at Kiev Churches page.

Once you leave St.Sophia's

Cathedral, go to the monument to
B. Khmelnytsky and look around. You will see a lot of golden domes
not too far (3 blocks away) from the monument. Those domes
belong to St. Michael's Golden Domed
Cathedral. More about St.Michael's
Cathedral you will find at Kiev
churches page.

If you are not very tired, you can

continue your way to European
Square. This is a place where
Khreschatyk street begins. Two more
streets - Vladymyrsky Decent to Podil
area and Grushevsky street meet
each other here. Another choice to
reach European Square is
"Khreschatyk" or "Maidan
Nezalezhnosty" metro stations.

There are two interesting buildings located in European Square.

The big building made of glass and light marble is "The Ukrainian
House". It always has a lot of exhibitions, concerts, cultural and
business meetings. On the opposite side of the Square you will see
the Kiev Philharmonic.

Kiev Philharmonic is known for the finest recordings and concerts in

every major city in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Two famous Kiev Monuments - Volodymyr the Great's Monument

and The Friendship Arch can be reached from the European Square.

One block west from the

European Square the city's
main square and one of the
most popular places for
meetings and dates
Independence Square (Maidan
Nezalezhnosty) is located.
Always full of life, crowds of
people, and different actions.

Now your Kiev guide invites yo

to find more quiet place. Let's go up to Architect Horodetsky street
pass the Kiev Conservatory building, the famous Ukrainian theater
named after Ivan Franko and continue up to Bankova Street.

Building #10 on Bankova street is the famous Horodetsky Building.

Perhaps any Kiev guide will tell you some scary legend about this
building. It was built by the well known architect and extravagant
person Vladislav Horodetsky, as a private residence in 1902.

The walls and the roof of the structure are decorated with intricate
sculptural ornaments of mythological and hunting themes. There is
an art gallery "Ukraine" in this building. Even if you are not going
to buy anything there, it is certainly worth a visit. Interior of the
building is as much whimsical as its exterior part.

Now it is time to visit Andriyivsky Uzviz (Decent)- the shortest

route between the aristocratic Upper Town and the tradesmen's
town, Podil. Your Kiev guide suggests you to go back to
Khreschatyk street and take a metro ride to "Pochtovaya Square"
station. Right by the metro exit you will see the funicular (cable
car) station. Take a short (about two minutes) ride and enjoy a
magnificent panorama of Kiev and the Dnipro River that uncovers
from the funicular.

Andriyivsky Uzviz starts right behind the Historical Museum located

at 2, Vladymyrskaya st. Open daily from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.
Wednesday - day off. Phone: 228-65-45.

At the very top of Andriyivsky Descent you will see St. Andrew's
Cathedral. From the Cathedral a steep Andriyivsky Descent runs
down to Podil. The street has some special spirit. It lined with
galleries, antiques stores and artist studios in late 19th-century brick
buildings. The street is usually crowded. Especially on weekends.

From the early morning numerous artists hang their pictures,

sculptures, souvenirs on the walls, arrange them on the shelves or
just on the lawns. You can watch improvised performances given
by actors, musicians, poets or other people posing for artists.
Certainly there are a lot of talented people over there.

Halfway down the street is the house where a Russian novelist and
playwright Mikhail Bulgakov grew up. It is now the Mikhail
Bulgakov museum. Bulgakov's best known novels are "The Master
and Margarita", "The White Guard", "Heart of a Dog".

Our downtown Kiev excursion is over. You worked hard during the
day and deserved a good rest at some pleasant outdoor place if the
weather is fine. If the weather’s poor, Kiev has a lot of activities to
offer: theaters, concert halls, night clubs, restaurants, and etc.

This page took you through many interesting places. But as I

mentioned at the beginning of this short Kiev guide, the city has
extremely reach historical and cultural past. You have to spend
days in Kiev to visit at least the most interesting part of it. You will
find more pages added as I built this site.

For now you can check a few more short Kiev guide pages available
for you:

Kiev Monuments.
Why did people erect them? What can they tell
you about?

Kiev monuments are like a mirror which reflects its 1,500-year

history. There are a lot of them in Kiev since fifteen centuries for
the city is pretty respectful age.

People usually create monuments in order to commemorate some

significant events of the state history or to honor some national
heroes. Kiev monuments are not exception from this rule. But there
is one interesting thing about all those monuments. For some
reason people don't treat them the same way.

Some monuments people visit, stop to

lay flowers or to take a picture while the
others hardly anyone ever visits. For
example, the monument of Volodymyr
the Great on the high right bank of the
river Dniepr, Kiev's the oldest religious
monuments St. Sophia Cathedral and
St.Michael Golden-Domed Monastery are
gathering spots for tourists, for wedding
parties taking pictures and just unique
spiritual places in Kiev one must see.
Then there's the other kind of Kiev monuments, like Motherland
Statue (Defense of the Motherland), Kiev Arch (Friendship Arch),
statues of Lenin here and there. One can consider some of them
sooner as curious engineering design than the monuments to be
particularly proud of. People don't visit them often. Monuments are
well maintained, but look alone and abandoned.During last 7-10
years Kiev monuments family "adopted" new generation of
monuments. They are not actually the monuments yet, but rather
so called "garden sculptures". When you look at those garden
sculptures, you will notice that some spots on them are
polished by people's hands. People love to touch them, to greet
them, and make jokes. The most famous among this kind of Kiev
monuments are "Pronya Prokopovna and Svirid Golohvastov", "Cat
at the Golden Gate", "Panikovsky", "Actor Leonid Bykov", "Architect
Vladislav Horodetsky", "Actor Nikolay Yakovchenko", etc.
Information about these and other extremely warm and human
"garden sculptures" you will find at the Great Gate of Kiev page.

Kiev Monuments.
Memorial to the founders of Kiev.

Location: Navodnytsky Park.

Unveiled: 1982. Was set commemorating the 1500 anniversary of

Kiev’s foundation.

Description:The monument
is dedicated to the legendary
founders of Kiev the brothers
Kiy, Schchek and Khoriv and
their sister Lybed. The
sculptor Vasily Borodai and
the architect Nikolai
Feshchenko made it as an
ancient Russian shallop. A
good way to find this monument is to walk down the alleys of
Navodnizky Park which begins near the Ye. O. Paton Bridge or from
the Dnipro Metro Station south along the bank of the Dniepr River
(around 20 minutes).
Kiev Monuments.
Bogdan Khmel'nitsky's monument.

Location: Sofiyskaya Square by the St. Sophia Cathedral.

Unveiled: 1888.

Description: The monument is

dedicated to the Cossack leader Hetman
Bogdan Khmel'nitsky, who led the
Ukrainian people during national
liberation wars against Turks, Crimean
Tatars, and the Polish nobility. To secure
a military ally against Poland, Hetman
Khmel'nitsky signed an agreement with
Muscovy in 1654, known as the
Pereiaslav Agreement.

The authors of the monument are the

sculptor M. Mikeshin and the architect V.
Nikolaev. Besides the major sculpture,
original project included dozens of
smaller sculptures. But due to the luck of
money they have never been made. The more, since pedestal also
was not built at that time, the sculptures spent eight years "under
arrest" in the yard of the Starokievsky police department.Finally
the monument was "rescued". Architect Nikolaev suggested the
best possible at that time solution. Pedestal was made of the
leftover of the granite boulders which were used to build the Chain
bridge in Kiev. It came out lower than it was originally
designed.Although the monument looks somewhat disproportional,
we already can't imagine something different on that place. The
monument became one of the Kiev's easily recognizable symbols as
a part of the Sofiyskaya Square ensemble.

Kiev Monuments.
Volodymyr the Great's Monument.

Location: Volodymyr's Hill.

Unveiled: 1853.

Description: Sculptors: V. Demut-

Malynovsky and P. Klodt. Architect:
O. Thon. Monument to Volodymyr the
Great or Saint Vladimir, first Christian
grand duke of Kiev (c.980–1015)
stands tall on the slope of the
Volodymyr's Hill. From there one of
the best panoramas of Kiev opens
out onto the Lower City – Podil.

Volodymyr the Great, certainly

deserved his name. In many

ways he was an outstanding
and extraordinary person.
Volodymyr's most important
merit was the Christianization
of Kievan Rus. The foundation
of the Desyatynna Church,
the first brick Christian
temple in Kiev, is located
nearby the monument.

St.Michael's Golden-Domed
Cathedral is not too far from Volodymyr's monument. A
surrounding park is the most beautiful of Kiev's parks. It is an
inspirational place for artist, poets, ans writers. In some mysterious
way it attracts both Kievans and tourists. Astrologers say that there
is an energetic tunnel between Earth and Universe over there.

Kiev Monuments.
Yaroslav the Wise's Monument.

Location: Next t the Golden Gate.

Unveiled:1997.

Description: Sculptors: V. Chepelik. Architect: N.Kisliy. The small

original sculpture of Yaroslav the Wise, created by the outstanding
sculptor, film-maker, and dramaturgist Ivan Kavaleridze became
the source of their inspiration.

The monument to the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev Yaroslav

the Wise is located downtown Kyiv, just outside the Zoloti Vorota
(Golden Gate) metro station. Yaroslav is holding a model of the
Saint Sophia Cathedral in his hands. It is an attractive and talented
sculpture, but looks pretty lonely at the place where it is installed.

Kiev Monuments.
Monument to Cyrill, Methodius, St. Andrew and Princess Olga.

Location: Mikhailivska Square. Next to the St. Michael's Golden-

Domed Monastery.

Unveiled:1911.

Description: Sculptor: Ivan Kavaleridze. Coauthors: F.Balavensky,

A. Snitkin, and V.Rikov.

Princess Olga was the first and the only woman in Ukraine history
who ruled the state (945-
962). In 1919 Olga's
monument was broken by the
communists into many pieces
and buried under the flower
bed. For a long period of time
it was considered to be lost.
Statues of Cyrill, Methodius,
and St. Andrew were
destroyed in 1923.
The monument was reopened once again and installed in its
original place during the reconstruction of the Mykhailivska Square
in 1995. Sculptors of reconstructed statues are: V. Sivko and
N.Bilik (Cyrill's, Methodius,and Princess Olga's statues), V. Shishov
(St. Andrew's statue ).

Kiev Monuments.
Taras Shevchenko's Monument.

Location: The Taras Shevchenko park.

Unveiled:1939.

Description: Sculptor: M. Manizer.

Taras Shevchenko has a uniquely

important place in Ukrainian history.
The name and activities of Taras
Shevchenko, outstanding Ukrainian
national poet, artist and great patriot of Ukraine, is connected to
many places in Kiev named after him.

The monument is located in the Shevchenko Park, directly across

the street from the deep red building of National University (also
known as Shevchenko University). This is Kiev's most prestigious
institution of higher education. There are Shevchenko Boulevard
and Shevchenko Museum downtown Kiev.

Kiev Monuments.
Grigory Skovoroda's Monument.

Location: Kontraktova Ploscha.

Unveiled:1976.
Description: Sculptor: Ivan Kavaleridze. The monument is
dedicated to the 18th-century Ukrainian philosopher, mystic, poet
Gryhory Skovoroda, who was such an extraordinary and diversified
personality. For thirty years he walked along Ukraine roads, taught
people grammar, sang his song, talked to people about soul. None
of his books was published during his lifetime, but Ukrainian
national speech still saves his
jokes, sayings, and
aphorisms.

A legend says that he exactly

knew the date of his death,
and himself had dug his own
grave in a park. In his last
will he asked to put on his
grave the words full of deep
sense and humor.

"The world chased me, but could not catch me."

Kiev Monuments.
Afghanistan 1979-1989 War memorial.

Location: : Situated between Pechersk Lavra and The Great

Patriotic War Museum.

Unveiled:1994.

Description: Sculptor: N. Oleinik.

There are three sombre figures of the young boys. Those who
didn't come back from that war. There are painful and bitter
feelings when you look at them. There are always a lot of flowers
and a small museum of the
Afghan conflict nearby.

You can see ammo boxes, as

the miniature display,
portraits, letters, bullet-
gouged things still encrusted
with blood. When you go
through the exposition and
look at the dates of birth and death, you realize that all those boys-
soldiers were hardly 19 when they were killed.

"Not all of us came back: forgive us, Mothers."

Kiev Monuments.
The Friendship Arch.

Location: Khreschaty Park.

Unveiled:: 1982

Description: Sculptor A. Skoblikov and Architect I. Ivanov and

others. Kiev Arch (Friendship Arch) is a 50-meter diameter rainbow
and two groups of sculptures dedicated to the Ukrainian-Russian
friendship. Kievans call it "The Yoke". Perhaps, it sounds not very
respectfully, but pretty
predictable.

It happens always when

somebody tries to substitute
real sincere and kind feelings
by their silly symbolic
"equivalents". Especially
when it is very far from good
taste. But there is a
consolation prize at that
place.

From the observation platform wonderful views of the River Dniepr

and most of the flat east bank can be observed. All in all it's a quiet
place and you can enjoy nature, a small bistro, and an
amphitheater next to the arch where you can see concerts on
holidays.

to the Great Patriotic War (WWII).

Unveiled:: 1981.

Description: Sculptors: E.Vuchetich, V.Boroday, F. Sagoyan,

V.Vinaikin. Architects: V.Elizarov, G. Kisliy, N. Feshenko.
Technical Characteristics: The statue is made of stainless steel and
weighs 450 tons. The overall height is 102 meters (third the tallest
statue in the world after Ushiku Amida Buddha, near Tokyo - 120
meters and the Guanyin (Buddhist Goddess of Mercy) statue,
Sanya on Hainan — 108 meters ). In the right hand there is a
sword which weighs 9 tons and is 16 meters long.

In the base of the statue is the Museum to the Great Patriotic War.
(WWII). It has a lot of examples of classic Soviet-era memorial
statuary as well as some amazing exhibits of military hardware.
From this short review of the Kiev's monuments you can see that
the monuments have their own history and their own fate. Similar
to a human life sometimes they are not very lucky. Sometimes we
don't like them too much. But all of them went a long way through
the turbulent history of our State.

This is a good reason to respect them. They have deserved

it.

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competitors often advertise lower prices but charge you for waiting time,
parking, stopping etc. And, yes, we can issue an official receipt with a
round Russian-style seal if you are travelling on business.

Feel tired?
You can receive a professional masseur for the
cheap price! It Will helps you to weaken and
protect itself from efforts. At your service the
professional masseur will make to you the
general weakening, medical massage.

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Interpreter's service

• Our interpreters are available on hourly basis 24

hours,7 days a week. English - $10 per 1 hour
• Italian Spanish French German

Services of guides and translators Support

 At will of the Customer, we are
always glad to give professional
accompanying - the translator
knowing foreign language
necessary for the customer.
Guides-translators

For carrying out of individual and

group excursions and visiting of
museums we suggest to take
advantage of services of the
licensed guides-translators. All
our guides have a solid
operational experience and will lead any excursion at the highest
professional level.

Travel services
If you would like to travel to Odessa, Ukraine on your own business,we can
offer you support from the moment you arrived at the airport. Visa support
at the airport or sea port in Odessa. Meeting at the airport includes the
following items:
- Transportation. Excursions
- An interpreter from our agency can help you with any questions you may
have concerning money exchange, places to visit, places you may want to
find concerning your business purposes, suggest best restaurants or night
clubs and etc.
- Entertainment in Odessa

Excursions
If you like to explore new places and learn new
cultures, we are glad to propose you some
interesting excursion about Odessa and
Odessa's area. It will make your trip more
interesting and fun. Tickets in Ukraine.

Travel ticket reservations from any Ukrainian

port, airport or station to any other one. You
may entrust us all your travels across the
territory of Ukraine and be sure that you always arrive on time. Tickets
from Ukraine. Travel ticket reservations from Ukrainian cities to
destinations all over the world. Hotels and apartments.

You choose the city, the hotel and the dates, and we arrange it for you.
Sometimes it is more convenient to stay at a private apartment without
reserving a room at a hotel. We offer you private apartment rent, Western
style or Ukrainian style, according to your wish.

Dentist services
In case you need help of dentist, our
professional dentist will help you in any
emergency. Also you can use services of
dentist and make your smile perfect
without spending big money for this.
Ukraine professional detests will help you
have nice smile and health teeth and it will
be cheaper then in your country. Prices
depend from what you want to do.

Laptop rent
• - can be used anywhere in Ukraine,
but should be picked-up/dropped off
in: Odessa, Nikolaev - can be used
with wireless Internet adapters (see
rates for wireless adapters)
- laptop with at least 80 GB hard
drive, 512 MB of RAM, 1600 Mhz
CPU, modem, CD-Rom, WI-FI
adapter;
- Windows XP professional (English version) Price:
• daily rate: $12 per day (minimum 5 days)
• weekly rate: $70 per week monthly rate: $250 per
month

I hope to hear from you very soon, Wish you to have the best dreams,
Olgamy postal address. It is:

Olga Kurash,
ul. Desnyaka, d. 48, kv.5.
Chernigov, Ukraine, 14000.
Getting to the airport

Bus There are frequent bus services to/from the centre of Kiev (Central
Railway Station), journey time is approx 45-60 minutes, for a timetable
click here.

Taxi There are numerous taxi desks in the airport arrivals hall where you can
order and pay for a taxi. Prices are negotiable but expect to pay USD 35-
50 for a one-way trip between the airport and central Kiev.Kiev Borispol
Airport is the home airport of Ukraine International Airlines and is
located approx 28 kms from the city centre, see map.

Currency Exchange It is possible to exchange foreign currency at one of

the many Bureau de Change desks in the Arrivals Hall. If you have a Cirrus or
Maestro enabled debit or credit card you can get Ukrainian currency from ATM’S
in the terminal building and throughout the city. Use our online currency
converter for latest exchange rates.

Transfer Passengers If you are a transit passenger in Kiev Borispol Airport

(KBP), please be aware of the following procedures.

Connecting from International to Domestic

On arrival at Kiev-Borispol airport, you must clear Immigration, collect your baggage and then clear
Customs, before making your way to Terminal A for your onward domestic flight. This applies even if
your bags have been checked through to the final destination.

Connecting from Domestic to International

On arrival at Terminal A, you must collect your baggage and then make your way to Terminal B to clear
Customs before checking in for your international flight.

Connecting from International to International

When checking in for your flight to Kiev, please inform UIA staff about your transit flight in Kiev-Borispol
Kiev Airport
There are two airports in Kiev: "Borispil" and "Kyiv"(Zhulyany).

Kiev airport "Borispil" (KBP) is the main air gate of Ukraine. 61% of total
number of passengers in Ukraine were served by the international airport
"Borispil" in 2006. Another Kiev's international airport "Kyiv" (IEV) is located 7
km from the city center is rather small. It serves about 1-1.5% of all
international flights arriving to Kiev.There are 537 airports in Ukraine. Only
nine of them serve international flights. Besides two Kiev's airports
international flights are served at the airports:

Odessa (ODS)

• Kharkiv (HRK)
• Donetsk (DOK)
• Dnepropetrovsk (DNK)
• Simferopol (SIP)
• Lvov (LWO) Zaporizhzhya (OZH)

There are 3 Terminals in the airport "Borispil": Terminal "A" - serves domestics flights within
Ukraine. Terminal "B" (the biggest one ) - serves international flights. Terminal "C" serves
VIP passengers. Due to continues growth of passengers traffic a new modern facility is planned
to put into operation in 2009. The airport map and location of each terminals can be found at the
airport "Borispil" site
TERMINAL B FLOOR 1
TERMINAL B FLOOR 2
TERMINAL B FLOOR 2
TERMINAL A FLOOR 1
VIP TERMINAL C

AIRPORT HOTEL
DEPARTURES TRANSFER
Kiev Airport There are two airports in Kiev: "Borispil" and "Kyiv"(Zhulyany).

Kiev airport "Borispil" (KBP) is the main air gate of Ukraine. 61% of total number of
passengers in Ukraine were served by the international airport "Borispil" in 2006.
Another Kiev's international airport "Kyiv" (IEV) is located 7 km from the city center is
rather small. It serves about 1-1.5% of all international flights arriving to Kiev.There
are 537 airports in Ukraine. Only nine of them serve international flights. Besides two
Kiev's airports international flights are served at the airports:

• Odessa (ODS)
• Kharkiv (HRK)
• Donetsk (DOK)
• Dnepropetrovsk (DNK)
• Simferopol (SIP)
• Lvov (LWO)
• Zaporizhzhya (OZH)

There are 3 Terminals in the airport "Borispil": Terminal "A" - serves domestics flights
within Ukraine. Terminal "B" (the biggest one ) - serves international flights. Terminal
"C" serves VIP passengers. Due to continues growth of passengers traffic a new
modern facility is planned to put into operation in 2009. The airport map and location
of each terminals can be found at the airport "Borispil" site

Hotel Borispol Airport September 24, 2005 Rated 1 of 5 by HarryBo from Bad
Rappenau
This hotel has a very unusual rule for charging: my check-in was registered at
11:58pm, and the bill showed 350 UAH = 43.75E for the day from midnight
on and 175 UAH=21.87E as half a day for the 2 minutes until midnight!
If by chance my registration had been done 3 minutes later, I
would have paid $36 USD less!
DO YOUR CHECK IN AFTER 12.00
The hotel is clean, renovated, and about a 250-metre walk from the
international terminal. It's an easy walk, or if you have baggage, go to the
Hotel Borispol desk, which is located immediately to the left of the exit
from customs. Breakfast is included, and so are shuttle transfers to the
airport.
Korona hotel, single - room apartment
e-mail: hotelkorona.ua@gmail.com
As to us to reach: схема проезда
To write the letter from a site
ICQ: 550 — 926 — 175
Number with one room includes such accommodation as: separate
bathroom, two single or one king size bed, WiFi access, satellite TV,
a set of personal hygiene and warm floor to a bathroom. You can easily stay
in this apartment with your friend.
Price: 450 UAH (+ one person 150 UAH)

Borispol Airport in Kiev Ukraine has recently been renovated and the
experience will be much better than in most other cities of the Former
Soviet Union. Customs is not pleasant but not too bad. There is a
green and a red customs line. You will probably need to go
through the red line. Anyone bringing in more than $100.00 will
need to use the red line. The agency's office is also very close - 7
minutes' walk down Prospekt Mira This apartment is only $65.00 per
day. If you would like to reserve this apartment please e-mail your
arrival and departure dates to info@kievconnections.com
Visa may be required for citizens of several european and overseas
countries. Please contact your local Ukrainian Consulates beforehand.
Please contact the LOC for visa assistance if required. In this case you
should also send to us the next documents.

1. The copy of the first page of your passport (fax copy or file copy in
"jpg" format);
2. Dates of your arrival and departure;
3. The postal address, phone and fax of Ukrainian Embassy/Consulate
in your country to apply for visa.

Kiev has two international airports, railway terminal and 6 inter-cities bus
stations.

The detailed Kiev maps you can find on the web site of the Ukrainian
Cartographical Network or on the web site company Comfort. The scheme of
the Kiev underground railway is presented on the Kiev metropoliten web site.

The International airport "Boryspil" is located in town-satellite Boryspil

about 50 km from Kiev center. You can find all information about aircraft
timetable, passport control, visa to Ukraine, etc. on the web site of the one.
The "Atass" transport company carry out of passengers transportation
between airport "Boryspil" and Kiev railway station (near the metro station
"Vokzal'na") and between airport "Boryspil" and international airport "Kiev".
Bus schedule of "Atass" you can find on the web page of this company. The
"Autolux" transport company run from Boryspil bus station to Central bus
station in Kiev (Moskovs'ka square, close to metro station "Lybids'ka"). The
timetable of "Autolux" company buses and company contact phones you can
find on the web page of "Autolux".

The International airport "Kiev" is located 8 km from Kiev center and 1.5
km from Kiev Circle Road. Information about airport, tickets registration,
aircraft timetable, etc. is presented on the airport web pages. The trolleybus
number 9 run between airport "Kiev" and Kiev Railway Station (near the
metro station "Vokzal'na"). The minibus number 9 carry out of passengers
transportation from airport to metro station "Universitet". The minibus number
213 get of passengers from airport "Kiev" to metro station "Shuljavs'ka". The
minibus number 19+9 carry out of passengers transportation along Kiev
Circle Road from airport to trolleybus terminal "Muzei arhitektury" (1.5 km
from MAO NASU) through the Oddess'ka square.

Recomended aircompanies are: Aerosvit company, Ukrainian International

Airlines, Lviv Airlines. You also can visit the web sites of "Boryspil" and "Kiev"
airports for information about another aircompany.

Kiev railway station is located not far from Kiev center, near the metro
station "Vokzal'na". You also can visit web-site of the Ukrainian railway for
information about railways timetable and for tickets reservation. The minibus
number 507 run from Kiev railway station to Oddess'ka square pass the
metro station "Lybids'ka", Moskovs'ka square (near Kiev central bus station),
Golosiivs'ka square (near the hotel "Mir"),"VDNH" (near university student
hotel), "Pivdenna" bus station.

Kiev Central bus station is located on Moskovs'ka square close to the

metro station "Lybids'ka". You can phone 380 (44) 265-04-30 or visit web
site of the Kiev central bus station for information about buses timetable. The
"Autolux" transport company also run from Kiev Central bus station to major
ukrainian and european cities. The timetable of "Autolux" company buses
and company contact phones you can find on the web page of "Autolux". You
can get from Kiev Central bus station to metro station "Lybids'ka" on the
trolleybuses number 1, 2, 4, 11, 12 (one stage).

"Pivdenna" bus station is located on the Golosiivs'kyi av. (old name 40-
richcha Zhovtnja av.). It's near Kiev State University student hotel. You can
phone 380 (44) 263-40-04 for information about buses timetable. The
trolleybuses number 2, 4, 11, 12 connect "Pivdenna" bus station with the
metro station "Lybids'ka" (to terminal) as well as with Kiev Central bus
station. Contact phone of the another Kiev inter-cities bus stations you can
see below.
Bus Contact Bus Contact
station phone station phone
"Volodymyrska" 380 (44) 269-77-93 "Podil" 380 (44) 417-35-48
"Dachna" 380 (44) 444-15-03 "Darnitsa" 380 (44) 559-46-18

The Main Astronomical Observatory is located in the Golosiivs'kij district of

Kiev on the south of city. You can get to MAO NASU next ways.

First. The minibus number 19+9 run from international airport "Kiev" along
the Kiev Circle Road pass the Oddess'ka sqr. and "Metrologichna" stations
(not far from "Feofania" hotel) to terminal station "Muzei arhitektury". Then
you must walk near 1.5 km through the forestry road to the MAO.

Second. The minibus number 156(61) get you from metro station
"Lybids'ka" to the turn to MAO (to right near MAO emblem, you must say to
driver about it) and then walk near 1.0 km along road to our observatory. This
minibus pass next station: the "Moskovs'ka sqr." (near Kiev Central bus
station), "Golosiivs'ka ploscha" (near hotel "Mir") the Vasyl'kivs'ka Str., the
"VDNH" (near university hotel), the "Pivdenna" bus station, the "Odes'ka
sqr.", the "Metrologichna" (not far from "Feofania" hotel) and "Muzei
arhitektury".

Third. The trolleybus number 11 get you from metro station "Lybids'ka" to the
terminal station "Muzei arhitektury". Then you must walk near 1.5 km through
the forestry road to the MAO. The trolleybus also pass next station: the
"Moskovs'ka sqr." (near Kiev Central bus station), "Golosiivs'ka sqr." (near
hotel "Mir") the Vasyl'kivs'ka Str., the "VDNH" (near university hotel), the
"Pivdenna" bus station, the "Odes'ka sqr.", the "Metrologichna" (not far from
"Feofania" hotel) and "Muzei arhitektury".

Forth. The minibus number 3 run from Leningrads'ka sqr. to the terminal
station "Muzei arhitektury". Then you must walk near 1.5 km through the
forestry road to the MAO. The minibus also pass next important streets and
stations: "Druzhby narodiv" metro station, Druzhdy Narodiv av., "Lybids'ka"
metro station, Moskovs'ka av. (near Kiev Central bus station), Golosiivs'ka
sqr. (near hotel "Mir"), Vasyl'kivs'ka Str., the "VDNH" (near university hotel),
the "Pivdenna" bus station, Odes'ka av., "Metrologichna" station (not far from
"Feofania" hotel) and "Muzei arhitektury" station.

You can get more information about route of city transport on the web site
http://www.gortrans.kiev.ua/.

Kiev Airport & City Taxi Transfer (private chauffeur service)

"Borispol" airport. Aircompanies. Flights and prices.

The international airport “Borispol” is 40 km. frorm the centre of Kiev and receives
planes from all over the world. Here booking offices and representatives of airline
companies can be found. On holidays the airport is usually overcrowded, that’s why
the tickets should be booked in advance. The way to the airport. It will cost you 65-
75 UAH to get to the airport from the city (12-15 USD). From the airport a taxi will cost
you 100 UAH that’s why it is better to take a route bus (10 UAH, 2 USD) and than to
take a taxi in the city to the hotel."Kiev" (Zhulyany). The airport is within the city
and serves mostly for domestic air flights. It can be reached by trolley bus or a bus
from Victory Square or St. Volodimir Cathedral. 01030, Ukraine, Kyiv, Bussiness
center "Leonardo", Bogdana Hmelnitskogo Str. 17/52, office 523, tel./fax +38 044 206 22 00
(multi-channel) 01001, Ukraine, Kyiv, 6-a, Mihailivska str. tel/fax +38 044 206 33 22 (multi-
channel)
CUSTOMS:
Take a pen with you when you get off of the airplane in Kiev. You
will have to fill out a rather crude form on arrival and departure
dates and reason for trip. The forms are on two desks
surrounding columns. There were no pens on the desks indicated for this
purpose. The border officials wear green uniforms. They are haughty and
very little help. Do not fill the form in with pencil, and be sure to use all
UPPER CASE BLOCK LETTERS (or they may/will ask you to refill in the
form).

Trip Advisor Hot Tip: If the lines are long, the line that is between the
column and the border officials is usually the shortest. Walk around the
column and join the line. Keep the form, with the stamp on it as the
Ukrainian border police will want it when you leave the country.

The toilets are to the left, immediately after the passport check.

DOMESTIC FLIGHTS:

just before the exit, there is a flight information board showing domestic
flights status. It will switch to English, with domestic flight status. You have
arrived into the International Terminal. If you are connecting to a Domestic
Flight (such as going to Kharkov) you need to go to Terminal A. It certainly is
not clear that one should exit this terminal (International Terminal), turn right
and go to an all together different terminal to catch any domestic flight. Be
ready to dodge taxi drivers when exiting the International teminal. They also
roam around inside the terminal asking if you need a taxi.
LAYOVERS:
Many flights arriving into Kiev will leave you with a 3 to 4 hour layover until
your next flight. It is approximately 50km into the downtown of Kiev so best to
hunker down in the terminal. Now, here is the value of TripAdvisor... Do not
sit with the crowds in the noisy food court or surrounding seats nor in the
Domestic Terminal "A" which is smaller than the International Terminal.

Instead, in the International Terminal, go to the departures area, facing

the Security gate, look to your left. There is a stairway up to the 2nd
floor. Go up the stairs and turn right down the narrow corridor (yes, this
is correct). At the fork, turn left and go through the wooden doors. You
will find yourself in a very nice restaurant with Free Wifi. The Pike with
vegatables is very good and well presented. The toilets in the restaurant
are clean, and you can leave your luggage with the attendant at the front of
the restaurant. There is a non-smoking section up the stairs inside the
restaurant, and the tables along the window have (European 2-round-prong)
power outlets in the floor.

Oasis in the Kiev Airport. Hard to find, but worth the hunt...
especially for the Free Wifi and power plugs.

HOTELS NEAR KIEV

Korona Hotel — the Kiev hotel near the airport Borispil

e-mail: hotelkorona.ua@gmail.com
As to us to reach: схема проезда
To write the letter from a site ICQ: 550 — 926 — 175
STEP BY STEP MAPS BORISPOL CHERNIGOV
http://finance.ua/
 Embassy in Kiev
Address: Sophieskaya 19, Kiev 252001
Tel.: (0038044) 4620895, 2295730, 2291853, 2302640 - Fax:
2291338
Head of Mission: Panayotis Goumas
 Consulate General in Mariupol
Address: 9, Lenin Blvd, Mariupol 87500
Tel.: (00380629) 345384, 332492 - Fax: 528719
Consul General: Anastassios Petrovas
 Consulate General in Odessa
Address: Preobrazhenska 32, 65026 Odessa
Tel.: (00380482) 210570, 210503 - Fax: 210571
E-mail: grconsodessa@paco.net
Consul General: Alexis-Paul Stefanou
 Εμπορικος Ακολουθος Στέφανος Οικονομου

Greece Embassy , Ukraine

Sophiivska St., 19 Kiev, Ukraine, 01901
Phone: +380-44-2295730 +380-44-4620560
Fax: +380-44-2291338
Email: greece@kiev.relc.com

Greece Consulate , Ukraine, 9, Lenin Blvd, Mariupol, Donetsk, Ukraine,

341000
Phone: +380-629-336129 +380-629-345384 +380-629-332492
Fax: +380-629-333164
Email: consulate@mariupol.dn.ua

Greece Consulate , Ukraine, Preobrazhenska 32, Odessa

Ukraine 65026
Phone: +380-482-210570 +380-482-210503
Fax: +380-482-210571
Email: grconsodessa@paco.net
Kiev - Boryspil Airport
Kiev Borispol Airport is the home airport of Ukraine International Airlines and is located approx
28 kms from the city centre, see map.

Getting to the airport

Bus There are frequent bus services to/from the centre of

Kiev (Central Railway Station), journey time is approx
45-60 minutes, for a timetable click here.

Taxi There are numerous taxi desks in the airport arrivals

hall where you can order and pay for a taxi. Prices are
negotiable but expect to pay USD 35-50 for a one-way trip
between the airport and central Kiev.

Kiev Borispol Airport is the home airport of Ukraine International Airlines and is located approx
28 kms from the city centre, see map.
Currency Exchange It is possible to exchange foreign
currency at one of the many Bureau de Change desks in
the Arrivals Hall. If you have a Cirrus or Maestro
enabled debit or credit card you can get Ukrainian
currency from ATM’S in the terminal building and
throughout the city. Use our online currency converter
for latest exchange rates.

Flight Information for live flight arrival and departure

information at Kiev Borispol Airport use these links –
Arrivals or Departures

Transfer Passengers If you are a transit passenger in Kiev

Borispol Airport (KBP), please be aware of the following
procedures.

Connecting from International to Domestic

On arrival at Kiev-Borispol airport, you must clear Immigration, collect your baggage and
then clear Customs, before making your way to Terminal A for your onward domestic
flight. This applies even if your bags have been checked through to the final destination.

Connecting from Domestic to International

On arrival at Terminal A, you must collect your baggage and then make your way to
Terminal B to clear Customs before checking in for your international flight.

Connecting from International to International

When checking in for your flight to Kiev, please inform UIA staff about your transit flight in Kiev-
Borispol
Kiev Airport There are two airports in Kiev: "Borispil" and "Kyiv"(Zhulyany).

Kiev airport "Borispil" (KBP) is the main air gate of Ukraine. 61% of total number of
passengers in Ukraine were served by the international airport "Borispil" in 2006.
Another Kiev's international airport "Kyiv" (IEV) is located 7 km from the city center is
rather small. It serves about 1-1.5% of all international flights arriving to Kiev.There
are 537 airports in Ukraine. Only nine of them serve international flights. Besides two
Kiev's airports international flights are served at the airports:

• Odessa (ODS)
• Kharkiv (HRK)
• Donetsk (DOK)
• Dnepropetrovsk (DNK)
• Simferopol (SIP)
• Lvov (LWO)
• Zaporizhzhya (OZH)

There are 3 Terminals in the airport "Borispil": Terminal "A" - serves domestics flights
within Ukraine. Terminal "B" (the biggest one ) - serves international flights. Terminal
"C" serves VIP passengers. Due to continues growth of passengers traffic a new
modern facility is planned to put into operation in 2009. The airport map and location
of each terminals can be found at the airport "Borispil" site
CUSTOMS:
Take a pen with you when you get off of the airplane in Kiev. You will
have to fill out a rather crude form on arrival and departure dates and
reason for trip. The forms are on two desks surrounding columns.
There were no pens on the desks indicated for this purpose. The
border officials wear green uniforms. They are haughty and very little
help. Do not fill the form in with pencil, and be sure to use all UPPER
CASE BLOCK LETTERS (or they may/will ask you to refill in the
form).

Trip Advisor Hot Tip: If the lines are long, the line that is between the
column and the border officials is usually the shortest. Walk around
the column and join the line.

Keep the form, with the stamp on it as the Ukrainian border police will
want it when you leave the country.

The toilets are to the left, immediately after the passport check.
DOMESTIC FLIGHTS:
Just before the exit, there is a flight information board showing
domestic flights status. It will switch to English, with domestic
flight status. You have arrived into the International Terminal. If you
are connecting to a Domestic Flight (such as going to Kharkov) you
need to go to Terminal A. It certainly is not clear that one should exit
this terminal (International Terminal), turn right and go to an all
together different terminal to catch any domestic flight. Be ready to
dodge taxi drivers when exiting the International teminal. They also
roam around inside the terminal asking if you need a taxi.

LAYOVERS:
Many flights arriving into Kiev will leave you with a 3 to 4 hour layover
until your next flight. It is approximately 50km into the downtown of
Kiev so best to hunker down in the terminal. Now, here is the value of
TripAdvisor... Do not sit with the crowds in the noisy food court or
surrounding seats nor in the Domestic Terminal "A" which is smaller
than the International Terminal.

Instead, in the International Terminal, go to the departures area,

facing the Security gate, look to your left. There is a stairway up to the
2nd floor. Go up the stairs and turn right down the narrow corridor
(yes, this is correct). At the fork, turn left and go through the wooden
doors. You will find yourself in a very nice restaurant with Free Wifi.
The Pike with vegatables is very good and well presented. The toilets
in the restaurant are clean, and you can leave your luggage with the
attendant at the front of the restaurant. There is a non-smoking
section up the stairs inside the restaurant, and the tables along the
window have (European 2-round-prong) power outlets in the floor.

Oasis in the Kiev Airport. Hard to find, but worth the hunt...
especially for the Free Wifi and power plugs.

CHERNIGIV
Hotel “ Pridesnyansky”
invites you and suggests visiting ancient Chernigov.
Having got to know the city, you will be charmed by the
beauty and greatness of architectural monuments of the
pictorial city above Desna! We are glad to offer you a wide
choice of excursions both along the city and its origin,
and on other cities of Ukraine:

1. The sightseeing tour across Chernigov with visiting:

 The “Val” (Rampart) – the central part of ancient city

where monuments of old russian architecture are left:

• The Cathedral of the Savoir (first half of the 11-

th century) – the contemporary of the Sofia
cathedral in Kiev, the main Chernigov’s church
based by prince Mstislav Vladimirovich ( the Brave),
a tomb of the Chernigov princes and clergy. Now the
church service is held in it.
• St. Boris and Glib Cathedral (12-th century) - a tomb of the Chernigov princes.
• The Collegium (17-th – 18-th centuries) – the first secular secondary educational
institution in the Left-bank Ukraine, in which the exhibition of professional and national
icon-painting is located.
• Historical museum
• Art museum
• The museum of arts and crafts which is situated in a monument of architecture of 17
century – St. Catherine Church
• Regimental office

 The Trinity Monastery which is situated on the Boldin Hill and includes:

• St. Anthony’s caves (11-th – 18-th centuries) – one of the most ancient cave
monasteries in the East Europe with the main Church of St. Elijah (12-th century) and
stone underground churches of 17-19-th centuries.
• The Cathedral of the Trinity (17-th – early 20-th centuries) – a cathedral of the
Chernigov lords where relics of Chernigov’s saints Theodosia and Lavrentia are
placed.

 Burial mound complex and the Memorial of Glory are located on the Boldin Hill
 Barrow “A black grave”
 The Yeletsky Monastery

2. Chernigov - Novgorod-Siverskiy
Novgorod-Siverskiy is a pictorial city, in which the first
ingenious epos of Old Russ “The word about Igor’s regiment”
was written. Here you can visit:
  The Monastery of the Transfiguration
(11-th. – 18-th. centuries), which contains
the Cathedral of the Savoir (18century) is the
central construction of its complex,
constructed on the project of known Italian
architect Dzhakomo Kvarengi;
 The Yspensky Cathedral (18 century);
 The Church of St. Nicholas (18 century) is
a wooden church built without nail;
 Mountain Zamkovaja;
 The museum “The word about Igor’s
regiment”.

3. Chernigov – Nezhin
The ancient city was first mentioned in “Chronicle” in 1078 and is famous for its
architectural buildings, 70-th from which have a historical value:

• The monument to Gogol’

• St. Nicholas Cathedral
• The Blagoveshchensk Сathedral (men monastery)
• Vsehsviatska Church
• St. Mihaylovska Church
• Trinity Church
• The museum “Post station”
• Gogol’s museum, picture gallery which is situated in the building of University
• The museum of the rare book
• Vedenskiy women monastery

4. Chernigov – Kozelets
The history of its city is closely connected with the Razumovsky's family and first was
mentioned in the beginning of the 17-th century. Here you can visit:

• The Museum of weaving

• Cathedral of Our Lady birth (18-th century)

Also we offer interesting trips in reserved places of the Chernigov origion:

• Trostyanets’ dendro-park
• Trostyanets -Kachanovka – palace-park ensemble
• Sosnitsa – A.Dovzhzhenko's museum
• Sednev – Shevchenko’s places, Lizogubov’s country- estates
• Mena – a zoo
According to your desire we can organize excursion trips to Kiev, Kamenets-
Podolsk, Pereyaslov-Khmelnitskiy, Lvov and other cities of Ukraine.
Come alone, with your family or group – you are waited for a hospitable
reception, good mood and unforgettable impressions.

You can order excursion, services of the translator by a phone / fax:

+38046295-48-28, +38046295-49-58, e-mail: tourcentr@chernigivhotel.com.ua
Ukraine Bus Schedule 2009

KIEV-ODESSA by BUS
 ARV. Odessa
DPT Odessa 05:30 ARV. Kiev 13:10 Evey day DPT. Kiev 07:00
15:00
ARV. Odessa
DPT Odessa 13:50 ARV. Kiev 21:00 Every day DPT. Kiev 16:00
22:50
ARV. Odessa
DPT Odessa 21:15 ARV. Kiev 05:20 Every day DPT. Kiev 21:50
05:50
ARV. Odessa
DPT Odessa 00:35 ARV. Kiev 08:40 Every day DPT. Kiev 07:15
14:45
ARV. Odessa
DPT Odessa 13:50 ARV. Kiev 21:10 Every day DPT. Kiev 09:40
17:50
ARV. Odessa
DPT Odessa 22:00 ARV. Kiev 05:45 Every day DPT. Kiev 12:30
19:50
I spent three weeks in the Ukraine in September, and the train is by far the nicest and
least expensive way to travel. I and my fiancee traveled from Kiev to Dnepropetrovsk,
and then a taxi to Novomoskovsk. We traveled first class which is 2 beds to a cabin. It
was very nice and cheap. I only came to about $60.00 each ticket in U.S. currency.
The train station in Kiev is very nice.

Posted by fiona on November 06, 2001 at 13:50:39:

In Reply to: Train Kiev to Odessa posted by Daniel Talcott on November 05, 2001 at
01:23:16:

we just took a train from Dnipro to Kyiv - it was fine, but from a female point of view,
the toliets left a lot to be desired!!! But, in comparison with trains in the UK, Thailand
and USA, the toilets are pretty average! The beds are nice, the carriages are indeed
'cosy'!!! If you are on your own, I would reccommend a first class - just gives you a bit
more room.... The lady brought us tea at night and in the morning, for 1 hr a cup, and
she was very friendly...n The train station in Kyiv is pretty impressive, too.
enjoy the trip!

Hi, : What is the best way for travel from Kiew to Odesse.

It's there a plane?

Hi Wolfgang,
I just got back from Odessa early this week. I took a train from Odessa to Kiev to
catch the plane home. I was picked up at the Kiev airport when I first arrived and the
ride to Odessa from Kiev was very scary as the road conditions are very poor. The
train is a modest $25USD and is quite a nice ride, although it takes about 12 hours to
make the trip. A plane flight will cost you about $100.00USD and a nice coach bus
(which I saw at the airport upon arrival in Kiev on the way home) was about
$10.00USD. The bus ride is quicker than the train ride and should be a smoother ride
than by car. All prices were one way (either to or from each city). I had a two person
berth on the train ride as I was travelling with my companion so regular seats would
be cheaper. Either way, for train or bus, you will have to get a taxi from the Kiev
airport when you arrive. It will cost you about $20.00USD to take the taxi from
Borispol to the main Train/Bus Terminal in downtown Kiev. If you intend on
staying overnight in Kiev, I recommend staying at the Borispol Airport Hotel. It is
only about $25.00USD for the night and is simple but has very adequate rooms. If
you intend to stay downtown overnight, then expect to pay quite a bit for a Western
style hotel... upwards of around $100.00 plus USD, per night. Well, good luck on
your trip. I am sure that you will have a delightful time once you arrive in Odessa.
Mike.

Trains

Travelling by train is convenient in Ukraine given the long distances between major
cities and the bad road infrustructre. It is also cheap unlike air tickets. The trains are
by far not as modern as for example in Germany or in Scandinavia but if you buy first
or second class you will be comfortable.

Firstly, remember to bring your passport to buy train tickets and that they do not speak
English at the ticket offices and at the train station. On overnight routes there is
usually a restaurant car open until 11 pm (which is a buffet more than a restaurant),
you can get tea or coffee to your coupe and you will be offered a set of bedsheets and
a towel for a low fee of about 30 Hryvnas. It is more comfy to bring a sleeping bag
though. It is also advisable to bring your own refreshments such as sandwiches and
water and toilet paper.

You can buy tickets at the Railway Ticket Office or through an agency with delivery.
There are often queues and unpleasant staff at the Railway Ticket Office so spending
a couple more Hryvnas on the agency is worth it. During summer season, train tickets
are sold out for long time ahead so plan and buy well in advance. Train schedule and
prices in Russian and Ukrainian language can be found on www.uz.gov.ua . Tickets
can also be ordered online on Aquavita travelagency, poezda.net or hafas.de .

Central Rail Station Central Ticket Office

Vokzalna, Kiev T. Shevchenka 38/40, Kiev
Informations phone: 005 Bookings phone: 050

In Reply to: Train Kiev to Odessa posted by Daniel Talcott on November 05, 2001 at
01:23:16:

: I'm flying into Kiev and need to get to Odessa. Have checked the carriage co, but
would like to know about taking a train.

The train is definitely the best way to travel from Kiev to Odessa (and all other places
in the former Soviet Union) - it's comfortable and very cheap.

Buses are very uncomfortable and not even chaper than the train, and planes are
extremely expensive compared to the trains.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Types of
accommodation in the train:
*Spalny vagon* - ("sleeping car") is a compartment with 2 comfortable beds.
*Kupe (kupeyny)* - is a sleeping compartment with 4 comfortable beds.
*Platskart (platskartny)* - is a train car with 54 beds in one room - not comfortable.
*Obschy* - a normal seat. Good on day trains, but awful on night trains.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Train timetable Kiev-Odessa:

All trains leave from Kiev Passazhirsky, and arrive at Odessa-Glavnaya.

Train 005K is the best and fastest (but also most expensive) train.
-
Day trains:

Train 023K, "Odessa" (has restaurant car), goes daily from Kiev 09:21 to Odessa
19:56.
-
Night trains:

Train 661K, "Arkadia", goes daily from Kiev 17:22, to Odessa 06:22 next day.
Train 005K, "Chernomorets" goes daily from Kiev 21:40, to Odessa 08:02 next day.
Train 014K goes daily from Kiev 22:17, to Odessa 09:39 next day.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One-
way train fares Kiev-Odessa:
These fares are only valid for tickets bought at a Ukrainian railway station - it will cost
*much* more if you buy the ticket at a (Ukrainian or foreign) travel agency.
-
Kiev-Odessa by train 014K, 023K or 661K:

In obshchy: 18.53 hryvnia or US$3.50!!

In platskart: 30 hryvnia or US$5.60
In kupe: 47 hryvnia or US$9
In spalny vagon: 126 hryvnia or US$24
-
By train 005K:

In kupe: 59 hryvnia or US$11

In spalny vagon: 158 hryvnia or US$30

Documents needed for purchasing real

estate in Ukraine
Any foreigner may purchase real estate in Ukraine regardless of residential status or
visa type. Foreigners may buy any real estate other than non-privatized property
and agricultural lands, however, almost all foreign investors are interested in
residential real estate. Just a few documents are needed to transfer residential
property in Ukraine:

• passport
• Ukraine taxpayer identification code certificate; this can be obtained in
Kiev (find out how to do this here), or a representative (for example,
uaproperty.com) can do this for you with your passport and a power of
attorney
• if buyer is married and comes to Ukraine without his or her spouse: copy
of marriage certificate, copy of spouse's passport, and notarized copy
of spouse's consent to buy property in Ukraine

Ukrainian property can be bought through some real estate agencies without the
buyer's physical presence. However, for obvious reasons almost all buyers of
expensive property prefer to make the deal in person.

Getting money into Ukraine to buy

property.
Opening a bank account

Up to $15,000 USD may be brought into Ukraine without special documents

(until recently it was $10,000). Most foreign property buyers open a bank account in
Ukraine and transfer money from abroad. Then money can either be transferred to the
seller's bank account or taken out in cash.

Opening a bank account in Ukraine is easy and requires these documents:

• passport
• taxpayer code certificate
• proof of foreign origin of money (if foreigner puts cash in account after
opening); a custom's declaration from entering Ukraine, a bank receipt
 from exchanging cash or travelers checks, or a bank receipt from
receiving cash with a credit or debit card

A good bank to open an account in is PrivatBank. In addition to an easy account

opening procedure they have and hundreds of branches across Ukraine and have a
convenient Internet transfer system that allows you to transfer money to your
account online. Other banks are starting to catch up with PrivatBank in online
banking, too.

Costs incurred while acquiring Ukrainian real estate

When buying real estate a 1% tax is paid on the sales amount and another 1% is paid
to the Ukraine Pension Fund. Buyers and sellers settle on who is to pay these fees
and state this in the sales agreement. Real estate agencies typically charge 3-5%
of the property price for their services. Finally, buyers may buy an insurance policy
on the property for 1% from their real estate agency.

Real estate investors are closely watching politics and the upcoming 2006
parliamentary election in Ukraine. There has been talk of implementing a property
appreciation tax of 13% for residents and 26% for nonresidents, effective at time of
sale, which could significantly affect the market. This tax would be paid on the
difference between the price the property was originally acquired for and the price it
was sold for.

Real estate improvement and maintenance costs

In most cases foreign buyers immediately renovate their newly acquired residential
property, typically spending $10-15 thousand USD on repairs and construction.
Some real estate agencies offer construction overseeing services.
uaproperty.com, for example, charges 6% of construction costs for their
services.

In order to build new structures on property acquired, all real estate owners must
obtain a building permit. Many locals and foreigners opt to pay building firms
(usually around $500 or more) to do the whole process for them — from drawing up
architectural plans to standing in line in all the government offices that put their
stamps of approval on the plans.

Property maintenance costs in Ukraine are generally very

low. Utilities usually amount to $15-30 per month for an average apartment, and
there are no property taxes (other than the tax paid when selling real estate).

Foreign owners of real estate in Ukraine often install security systems, especially if
they are not renting out their property. Property that is consistently rented out usually
requires periodic repair, which may add up to 5-20% of rent.

Renting out property in Ukraine

Typical rental prices in Ukrainian cities are usually 5-10% of the property value per
year, or 0.8% per month. In other words, an apartment that would currently sell for
$40,000 USD would probably cost $160-320 per month to rent (closer to the
middle of this range would be most typical).

Many real estate agencies offer rental and property care services, allowing
foreigners owners to not have to worry about their property at all. Owners can agree
to pick up rent from the agency periodically or have the money deposited to their
Ukrainian bank account.

Taxes on property rent

Money earned from renting out real estate is taxable in Ukraine. If owners are
not Ukrainian tax residents, they must pay 26% on earnings from real estate
rental — twice the rate of 13% (flat tax on income) for residents.

Owners of higher-end apartments or multiple properties may find it worthwhile to

register as private entrepreneurs and pay a fixed monthly tax instead of
percentage-based income taxes on money earned from rent. This standard tax of
around $40 USD does not change for any level of income related to entrepreneurial
activities that amounts to less than 500 thousand UAH (nearly $100,000) per year.
Foreigners can also create a Ukrainian firm that will be a tax resident of Ukraine.
This firm will pay different kinds of taxes on earnings and, in addition, will be able to
legally acquire non-privatized and agricultural land which non-residents are not able to
acquire by law. After land has been privatized and developed, ownership may be
transferred to the foreign owner through legal means.

Money that can be proved to having been legally earned in Ukraine may be
transported or transferred out of the country with the necessary
documentation. However, most foreigners prefer to leave their earnings in a
Ukrainian bank and use it inside Ukraine.

Apartment prices continue to skyrocket on high

demand
Prices continue to surge on Ukraine's residential real estate market, with no rollback
in sight in Kyiv or the country's other big cities, despite increasing available space.

On the commercial real estate market, growing competition among developers in the
capital, coupled with a background of general economic expansion into the regions, is
creating a centrifugal shift in investment opportunities.

The rise in residential real estate prices is largely due to demand exceeding supply,
as Ukrainians continue to move from rural areas into big cities.

Currently, the average price for residential real estate in Kyiv is about $1,500 per
square meter, with the price expected to continue rising over the next two to three
years, according to market research conducted by Global Solutions and GfK Ukraine,
a marketing research firm.

But according to Serhiy Tulmasov, the general director of Global Solutions, a Kyiv-
based real estate investment and development company, increasing costs for fuel and
construction materials, as well as complicated land allocation procedures, will
continue to drive up real estate prices in the country.

"The process of approving a project's documentation and receiving all of the

necessary permits is long and complicated. These time-consuming procedures
increase a real estate project's risks and prices," Tulmasov said.

Tulmasov said at a price of around $2,400 per square meter, demand for residential
real estate in the capital will start to drop, but this won't trigger a price decrease, as
developers will simply build less space.

"A decrease in demand will lead to a decrease in supply," Tulmasov said. "We're
expecting a decrease in construction volumes in Kyiv within the next several years."
He said that with prices for new apartments constantly on the rise, people will
increasingly prefer renting apartments to buying them.

"Even today, housing prices in Kyiv are too high, and are almost unaffordable for the
middle class," Tulmasov said.

Kyiv saw nearly 897,000 square meters of apartment space completed in the first nine
months of 2006, an increase of 5.5 percent compared with the same period the year
before, according to the Kyiv City Administration.

As for the entire country, the Ministry of Construction, Architecture, Housing and
Communal Services plans to complete 9.4 million square meters of housing by the
end of this year, about 15 percent more than the 8 million square meters completed in
2005.

However, real estate experts say this pace of construction is unlikely to alleviate
expected price rises on the market, as other factors will continue to have an upward
effect on residential real estate prices.

Ihor Odnopozov, the vice president of the Union of Real Estate Specialists of Ukraine,
said that demand for residential real estate in Ukraine is at least 10 times greater than
the supply of apartments available on the market, which will leave prices for new
apartments in a state of constant growth.

According to Odnopozov, the anticipation of greater political stability in Ukraine could

lead to a drop in interest rates on mortgages offered by banks, which could help make
the purchase of real estate more affordable to the population, but it could also lead to
a renewed increase in demand, and thus, new price increases on the market.

Odnopozov said that the continuous upward movement in apartment prices has made
the residential real estate sector among the most profitable and reliable areas for
people to invest in. He believes that around 70 percent of all people purchasing
apartments in Ukraine do so as an alternative to saving money in a bank, or with the
aim of reselling the apartments later at a higher price.

According to Kyiv Zhytlo-Invest, a Kyiv-based developer, investor and constructor,

during September-October, residential real estate prices for lower-class apartments in
Kyiv have risen by 8.6 percent on average compared to August. Meanwhile, prices for
middle-class apartments rose by 9.5 percent during the same period.

Commercial space also tight

As new businesses are launched, older businesses expand their operations, and an
increasing number of foreign investors enter Ukraine, demand for commercial real
estate has also been on the rise.
Kyiv is still short on new retail real estate projects, but leading Ukrainian and global
retail trade networks are already seeking expansion opportunities in the country's
regions.

According to Halyna Maliborska, the retail property department director at the Ukraine
office of Colliers International, an international real estate services firm, there is
demand both for retail trade centers as well as independent stores in the regions.
Moreover, she said, the quality of some new regional retail trade and entertainment
centers is higher than in Kyiv, while demands on lessees are not as tough as in the
capital.

"We can say that this is the first time that the regions are ahead of Kyiv in terms of
[retail property] market growth rates," Maliborska said.

Colliers International's specialists estimate that the supply of new

retail property on Ukraine's regional markets will reach 150,000 -
200,000 square meters by the end of this year, while in Kyiv, new
retail space will total around 70,000 square meters.According to Paul
Niland, the director of Primeros Funds Group, a real estate consulting
and investment firm, due to the Ukrainian real estate market's growth
and major companies expanding in the regions, all kinds of
commercial real estate has good potential for development outside
Kyiv, while increasing competition on the market is forcing market
players to look to regional projects for business."I believe that as the
capital, Kyiv will always have the strongest potential," Niland said.
"However, the more mature the market is, the lower the returns you
can get. For example, in Kharkiv or Odessa, implementing projects is
more difficult, but there are higher returns, because the market is not
as mature [as in Kyiv] and the competition is not so hard," he
said.Kyiv-based real estate developer and property manager XXI
Century Investments is expanding to Ukraine's regions following its
public placement on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative
Investments Market (AIM) in December 2005. The 35.7 percent share
of its stock that 21st place on the AIM raised $139 million, a part of
which the company plans to spend on developing commercial projects
in the regions."The regional market is starting to grow, and it is turning
out to be more interesting for developers," said Dmytro Vasylyev, the
head of XXI Century Investment's information department.According
to Vasylyev, the company is primarily interested in developing its
activity in cities with populations of over 1 million people.

BOAT Schedules
Caledonia Ferry
ODESSA – ISTANBUL

ARRIVAL
DEPARTURE FROM ODESSA
TO ISTANBUL
Every
Every Saturday at 20.00 Monday at
09.00
ISTANBUL – ODESSA

ARRIVAL
DEPARTURE FROM ISTANBUL TO
ODESSA
Every
Every Tuesday at 24.00 Thursday
at 12.00
Cabins And Rates
CABIN ONE ROUND
CABIN DESCRIPTION Accommodation type
TYPE WAY TRIP

2-room suite cabin with a double A1: on single basis 1004 1349
bed in the bedroom and double A2: on double basis 569 921
A sofa in the cabinet, lavatory,
shower and A3: on triple
window. Can basis 395 673
accommodate up to 4 persons. A4: on quad basis 352 567
Twin 1st class cabin with a B: on twin basis 364 679
shower, lavatory and window.
B Can accommodate up to 3
persons if additional bed is B1: for additional bed 271 517
requested
Twin 2nd class cabin with a
C C 271 517
window, w/o shower or lavatory
Quad 2nd class cabin, shower,
C1 C1 271 517
lavatory, w/o window
Quad 2nd class cabin, window,
D D 252 486
w/o shower or lavatory
Quad 2nd class cabin, w/o
E E 246 467
window, shower or lavatory

Istanbul Sea Port tax included.

City transfers in Odessa
Car (capacity: 3 passengers)
Route Price, per vehicle, USD Booking

Airport - Passenger Sea Terminal 44

Airport - City central area 44

Passenger Sea Terminal - City central area 44

Railway station - City central area 31

22:30 7:15
2:55 AM 6:35 AM AM
(10:30 pm)
23:55 8:00
3:50 AM 7:20 AM AM
(11:55 pm)

Bus schedule from Kiev to Odessa

Bus schedule for state owned (non-Avtoluks) buses:

www.ukraine-today.com/travel/bus/bus-uman.shtml

There are four other minor bus stations in Odessa:

Kuibesheva 26 (Куйбышева) One street North of Privoz bazaar No

Novobazarnaya 3 (Новобазарная) At novy Reigh-nok (bazaar) No

Kosmonavtov 22a (Космонавтов) At Cheremushky bazaar

No
(Черемушки), Southern Odessa

Panteleimonovskaya 61 (Пантелеймоновская) At Privoz bazaar No

AvtoLuks Russian: Автолюкс
AvtoLuks / Avto Luks / Auto Luks began in 1998, it is a high-end bus
company, serving many of the major cities in Ukraine. A nicely attired
stewardess serves drinks and refreshments to passengers and two televisions
show video movies throughout the trip. A bathroom and air conditioner is
available onboard. Travelers may also take advantage of mobile phone
service. Telephone: Kiev (central office)
(центр. офис) (044) 443-84-39 Kiev (office at central bus station)
(офис на центр. автобусный вокзал) (044) 265-05-23

Odessa (central office)

(центр. офис) 37-73-92

Odessa (office at central bus station)

(офис на центр. автобусный вокзал) 732-57-91

Email: info@autolux.ua www.autolux.ua

Kiev-Odessa on Avtolux
KIEV-ODESSA on AvtoLux (Киев - Одесса) 57 Hryvnia (2002 prices)

Borispol Airport (Kiev)-Odessa Airport(Аэропорт (А/П) Борисполь

-Одесса) 85 Hryvnia (2002 prices)

Odessa
Central
From Borispol Airport Kiev Central Uman
Bus
(Аэропорт (А/П) Bus station* (Киев) (Уман)
station*
Борисполь)
(Одесса)
15:20
6:40 AM 7:30 AM 10:35 AM
(3:20 pm)
11:55 AM 12:45 PM 15:55 20:35

(3:55 pm) (10:35

 pm)
00:15
16:30 19:50
15:45 (3:45 pm)
(12:15
(4:30 pm) (7:50 pm)
am)
22:00 pm
21:10 (9:10 pm) 1:15 AM 5:50 AM
(10:00 pm)

Odessa-Kiev on Avtolux
ODESSA-KIEV on Avtolux(Одесса- Киев) 57 Hryvnia Odessa- Borispol
Airport (Одесса- Аэропорт (А/П) Борисполь) 85 Hryvnia

Borispol Airport
Kiev
Odessa
Central
Uman (Аэропорт (А/П) Борисполь)
Central
Bus
Bus (Уман)
station*
Station*
(Киев)
(Одесса)
15:10 16:15
11:50
7:30 AM
AM (3:10 (4:15 pm)
pm)
17:05 20:40 21:25
12:30
PM (5:05 (10:40 (9:25 pm)
pm) pm)
22:30 7:15 AM
2:55 6:35
(10:30 AM AM
pm)
23:55 3:50 7:20 8:00 AM
AM AM
(11:55
 pm)

Marshutka
Marshutkas (маршрутные такси) are route taxis /minivans / microbuses that
cost one Hryvnia to go to all of the city destinations. (Slightly more for far
north and south destinations) Look for these two signs inside the marshutka:

Оплата при Входе Pay when entering, Оплата при Выходе Pay
when leaving
It is okay to flag a marshutka and ask if it is going to a particular
location. Marshutkas will stop at any time a passenger asks. Yell
"zdes" (here). From Grecheskaya Ploshat (Square) (Греческая
Площадь) :

• Marshutka number 195, which travels along

Preobrazhenskaya (Преображенская) travels to Arcadia Beach.

• Marshutka number 175, 185, 148, and 150 travel to the train
station. Marshutka number 9, the busiest marshutka in Odessa,
travels to one street east of the Train station. These five
marshutkas are usually available with no wait time.

• Marshutka number 133,149 travels to Privoz bazaar.

The full schedule of the marshutka are listed in Russian

odessatrolley.com/BusMaps/BusMT.htm ODESA
PRIVOZ
Trip number and Data
From To Regularity Bus type
name base
Odesa Odesa Privoz
465 As Odesa
Privoz Odesa Daily (510700)
Privoz - As ETALON-29 состоянием
* - 06:55 - 07:10 [100%] на:2008-11-
Voznesens'k 12 08:44:00
06:30
Odesa Privoz
Odesa Odesa 750 As Odesa Daily Sn- MERSEDES- (510700)
Privoz 10:20 - 10:35 Privoz - Ost no [100%] 16 состоянием
на:2008-11-
* - Yasenove1# 04 07:41:00
09:50
Odesa Odesa Privoz
782 As Odesa
Privoz Odesa Daily (510700)
Privoz - As ETALON состоянием
* - 10:35 - 10:55 [100%] на:2008-10-
Dnipropetrovs'k 29 08:41:00
10:15
Odesa Odesa Privoz
1062 As Odesa
Privoz Odesa Daily MERSEDES- (510700)
Privoz - Ost состоянием
* - 11:50 - 12:00 [100%] 18 на:2008-11-
Krichunove# 04 07:41:00
11:40
Odesa Odesa Privoz
54 As Odesa
Privoz Odesa Daily FOL'TSVAG- (510700)
Privoz - Ost состоянием
* - 12:50 - 13:00 [100%] LT28 на:2008-11-
Poznanka1# 04 07:41:00
12:20
Odesa Odesa Privoz
674 As Odesa
Privoz Odesa Daily (510700)
Privoz - As IVEKO-16 состоянием
* - 13:50 - 14:10 [100%] на:2008-10-
Pervomais'k 30 08:41:00
13:30
Odesa Odesa Privoz
1072 As Odesa
Privoz Odesa Daily Sn- MERSEDES- (510700)
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Chernihiv is situated close to the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv (Kiev), so the
most convenient way to get to Chernihiv for the most foreigners is first to
travel to Kyiv. If you chose to travel by air, then you will arrive to the
Boryspil State International Airport (http://www.airport-borispol.kiev.ua). It
takes only 1.5 hours to get to Chernihiv from Boryspil by car.
There exist possibilities of getting to our city by bus and by railway.
These possibilities are more convenient for the residents and persons who
travel to Chernihiv from other places in Ukraine, from Russia and Belarus.
The information about the specific lines is available at the local bus and
railway stations. Chernihiv has a passenger and a cargo railway station,
three bus stations and a river port.

Road distances to Chernihiv

From Km Miles Hours
Minsk 408.2 253.6 05:16
Moscow 729.2 453.1 09:36
Warsaw 806 500.8 10:07
Bucharest 1039.8 646.1 12:45
Budapest 1174.3 729.7 14:07
Vienna 1419.1 881.8 16:35
Berlin 1383 859.4 16:50
Prague 1412.1 877.4 17:24

How travel to Chernihiv by car:

www.local.live.com
Chernihiv (Ukr. Чернігів, Rus. Чернигов - Chernigov) is situated in Eastern
Europe, in Northern Ukraine. It is the center of the Chernihiv Region
(Oblast) – the second largest region in Ukraine. This is a border territory, so
Chernihiv has traditionally friendly relations with the cities of neighbor
countries Russia and Belarus. This cooperation is facilitated by the existence
of the cross-border association – Euroregion “Dnipro” (“Dnepr”). The city
maintains partnership also with cities of Germany, Poland, the Czech
Republic, Bulgaria, and the USA.
The city is situated on the picturesque Desna River. The local climate is
temperate continental, the average temperatures of January and July, the
coldest and the warmest months of the year, are respectively 19.2° F (-
7.1°C) and 66.7° F (+18.7°С).
As the center of the Chernihiv Region, the city is an important
transportation crossing of roads and railways of both international and
national importance. Being situated on the navigable Desna River, Chernihiv
has good opportunities to develop waterway transportation.

Some facts (2006)

Population of Chernihiv 293.8 thousand
Population of the Chernihiv Region 1 168.4 thousand
Population of Ukraine 46 625.7 thousand
Area of Chernihiv 79 km2
Area of the Chernihiv Region 31.9 thousand km2
Area of Ukraine 603.7 thousand km2

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

The city has considerable industrial potential. More than 70 large and
middle industrial enterprises work in Chernihiv. Chemical and light
industry, machinery and electronic technologies are important branches of
the city’s economy.
Equipment production occupies an important place in Chernihiv’s
industrial potential. The building sector is developing rapidly, especially
house-building. Many Chernihiv companies traditionally belong to the food
industry. The financial sector is also developed, which consists of more than
20 banks and insurance companies. A number of realtor and consulting
companies are successfully doing their business.

Chernihiv Himvolokno OJSC

One of the leading chemical enterprises of Ukraine with half-century
history. Products polyamide tire fabrics and yarns, polyamides, mono-yarns,
polyamide fibers – in general about 70 issues of main production and 100
issues of consumer goods.www.him.com.ua

Cheksil Worsted and Carded Company CJSC

One of the largest manufacturers of woolen and half-woolen clothes in
Europe. The company was founded in 1954 and produces wide range of
worsted and carded clothes.www.ksk.com.ua

Chernihivavtodetal OJSC

A manufacturer of spare parts and units for cars, buses, agricultural

machines, trams and railway transport. www.chad.cn.ua

Chernihiv Radio-Equipment Plant OJSC

Company with 40-year long experience of producing control systems,
electronic computing systems, satellite equipment and other electrical
technical issues.www.chezara.com

MAGR Company Group Research-and-Production Association

Design and production of equipment for wood, wood-chemical complex and
metal processing.
www.magr.com.ua

TAN Ltd.
The company belongs to the top Ukrainian manufacturers of oil industry
equipment.
www.tan.com.ua

Chernihiv Branch of Sun Interbrew Ukraine OJSC

The company produces a wide range of beers, one of the most popular
among which is the famous Chernigivske Beer.www.suninterbrew.ua
www.chernigivske.com.ua

Yasen Food OJSC

The regional leader in the field of confectionary, grocery, mineral waters
and non-alcoholic drinks manufacturing.
www.yasen.com.ua

Chernihiv Distillery “Chernihivska Horilka”

One of the region’s oldest industrial enterprises with about 150-year long
history.
www.chernigivska.com.ua
Chernihiv Regional Chamber of Industry and Commerce
7 Primakova St. 14000 Chernihiv Ukrainewww.chamber.cn.ua
palata@mail.cn.ua

Expert-Group Ltd. Consulting services.

3 Voykova St. 14005 Chernihiv Ukraine www.expert-group.com.ua
info@expert-group.com.ua

Chernihiv is a cultural center with long traditions. For those willing to

tastefully spend their free time a few theaters and cinemas offer their
repertoires. For the city’s guests
it will be interesting to get
acquainted with the past and
present of Chernihiv – and the
city museums will help them to
do it.

Tschernihiwer Regionales
Akademisches Ukrainisches
Schewtschenko Musik- und Dramatheater

23 Prospekt Myru, Tschernihiw+38 (0462) 7-30-30

Chernihiv Regional Philharmonic

Center

15 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv

+38 (04622) 7-35-10

Chernihiv Youth Theater

www.mtch.com.ua
(+38 04622) 7-36-17
4 Rodimtseva St., Chernihiv

Chernihiv Regional Historical

Tarnovsky Museum

4 Gorkogo St., Chernihiv

+38 (04622) 7-31-67

Chernihiv State Regional Universal

Scientific Korolenko Library

41 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv

libkor.cg.ukrtel.net
+38 (04622) 7-45-63

Chernihiv Regional Children’s

Dovzhenko Theater
135 Peremogy Avenue, Chernihiv +38 (04622) 3-34-31

Chernihiv Regional Art Museum

6 Gorkogo St., Chernihiv www.artmuseum.iatp.org.ua +38 (0462) 676-715

Chernihiv Regional Literal-Memorial Kotsyubinsky Museum

3 Kotsyubinskogo St., Chernihiv +38 (04622) 4-04-59

Druzhba Cinema
51 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv www.druzhba.com.ua +38 (0462) 675-801
Shchors Cinema
3 Magistratska St., Chernihiv +38 (0462) 676-924

SMART APPROACH

The city of Chernihiv has always

been an important educational center.
One of the first secondary educational
institutions in Ukraine, the Chernihiv
Collegium, was established here in
1700. Nowadays the city remains its
status of the regional center of
education and science. It has 4
universities and institutes (about 11
thousand students), 7 colleges and
technical schools (about 4 thousand students), 8 vocational schools (about 5
thousand students), 45 secondary and 56 pre-school educational institutions.
Besides it, a number of Ukrainian and foreign universities and colleges have
their branches in the city of Chernihiv. The city also has 10 research
institutions.

Chernihiv State Pedagogical Shevchenko University

8 departments, including:
- Physics and Mathematics
- History
- Philology
- Industrial Pedagogics etc.

Chernihiv State Institute of

Economics and Management
7 departments, including:
- Accounting and Economics
- Finance and Economics
- Law
- Geographic Information Systems
etc.

Chernihiv State Technological

University
6 departments, including:
- Economics
- Management and Business
- Mechanics and Technologies
- Electronic and Informational Technologies etc.

www.stu.cn.ua

Chernihiv State Institute of Law,

Social Technologies and Labor
Main specialties:
- Law
- Social Activities
- Finance
- Human Resource Management
and Labor Economic

HOSPITABLE CITY

If you come to visit Chernihiv in business or as tourist, you may stay in

one of the comfortable and not expensive hotels. Their staff will do their
best to make your stay here as pleasant as possible.

PRIDESNYANSKY HOTEL-
TOURIST COMPLEX
- 60 rooms - standard single
and double rooms - suite mini
and twin rooms
- junior suite rooms - junior
suite rooms designed in vanguard,
Oriental, Roman and Japanese
styles - luxury suites -
apartments

99 Shevchenka St. 14027 Chernihiv Ukraine www.chernigivhotel.com.ua

reception@chernigivhotel.com.ua Tel. +38 (0462) 95-48-02 Tel./fax +38
(0462) 95-49-58
HOTEL OF THE CHERNIHIV REGIONAL TRADE-UNION
EDUCATIONAL-METHODICAL CENTER
- 70 rooms - luxury suites - single, double, triple standard rooms

105-A Shevchenka St. 14027 Chernihiv Ukraine www.nmc.cn.ua

Tel. +38 (0462) 95-23-69 Tel./fax. +38 (04622) 3-34-52

SLOVYANSKY HOTEL-
BUSINESS CENTER
- 60 rooms - standard single
rooms - suite mini rooms -
junior suite rooms - luxury suites
- apartments 33 Myru Avenue
14000 Chernihiv Ukraine Tel. +38
(04655) 7-46-04 Tel./fax +38
(04622) 7-46-27

BRYANSK HOTEL 103 Shevchenka St. 14027 Chernihiv Ukraine Tel.

+38 (0462) 3-07-18

HRADETSKY HOTEL
68 Myru Avenue 14005 Chernihiv Ukraine
Tel. +38 (04622) 4-50-25

After an exhausting working day or a

long sightseeing tour around the city
you will be able to relax in cozy
restaurants, hospitable cafes, and
joyful clubs. You will be pleasantly
surprised by the wide range of tasty
dishes and various entertainments.
Hospitability and joyfulness are the
traditional features of the Ukrainian
people. The guests of Chernihiv have an excellent opportunity to make sure
of it.

Mamma Mia! Mini-Restaurant

Delicious cuisine will satisfy the taste of the most demanding gourmets. In
the menu you will always find both well-known hits and new dishes.
Open: 11:00 – 01:00 47 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv +38 (0462) 675-776
 Kolyba Restaurant
A wide range of Ukrainian national
dishes. Barbecue, open-air terrace, 3
banquet rooms. The restaurant is
situated in the picturesque nook of
Chernihiv, on the river bank, aside
from the city hustle and bustle.
Open: 11:00 – 23:00
1 Voyiniv-Internatsionalistiv St.,
Chernihiv +38 (0462) 666-219

Svetofor Bowling-Club
An excellent place for those who
enjoy active recreation. Bowling,
billiards, roulette, an exquisite
restaurant, a conference-hall, a jazz-
nook.
Open: 11:00 – 05:00
50 Pyatnitska St., Chernihiv
www.bowling.cn.ua
+38 (0462) 665-752\

Lemonade Restaurant/Dancing
Club
Wide-range of dishes, excellent
cuisine, polite service and interesting
evening entertainment programs.
Open: 11:00 – 06:00 32 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv
+38 (0462) 653-333

Old Mill (Stariy Mlyn) Café

A genuine piece of Ukrainian village in the
city center. The home-made Ukrainian
dishes and excellent service will make a
good impression on you.
Open: 11:00-23:00 45a Myru Avenue, Chernihiv +38 (0462) 675-196

Predslava Café-Shop
An excellent place for those who
appreciate good European cookery.
The cozy atmosphere and friendly
staff will certainly impress you.
Open: 09:00-23:00 15 Pyatnitska St.,
Chernihiv
+38 (0462) 676-781

Etoile Café Club, Courage Dancing

A coffee-room with good choice of
coffee sorts. A mirror-room. A
banquet- and playing-room. A night
dancing.
Open: 11:00-05:00 (café-club)
23:00-05:00 (dancing)
50 Pyatnitska St., Chernihiv +38
(0462) 676-781

Nirvana Café 10:00-05:00 26 Kyrponosa St., Chernihiv +38 (0462) 651

225
Brussels Beerhouse 20:00-04:00 (22:00-04:00 – dancing) 71 Peremogy
Avenue, Chernihiv +38 (0462) 625-399
Abat-jour Café-Exhibition 10:00-22:00 2 Preobrazhenska St., Chernihiv
+38 (0462) 60-37-38
Sun City Café 10:00-23:00 1 Dotsenka St., Chernihiv +38 (0462) 607-788
Coffeemania Coffee-House 09:00-21:00 22 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv +38
(04622) 4-23-80
Dytynets Café-Bar 11:00-24:00 18 Preobrazhenska St., Chernihiv +38
(04622) 7-35-39
Sincom Bar 12:00-24:00 53 Myru Avenue, Chernihiv +38 (04622) 2-21-95
Paradise Entertainment Complex 00:00-24:00 30a Myru Avenue,
Chernihiv +38 (0462) 625-508
Chernihiv has all conditions for active recreation and going in for sports.
The city has 5 stadiums, the largest of which is the Gagarin Stadium (15
thousand places). The most popular
and developed kindі of sport are
football (soccer), including women’s
football, volleyball, basketball, heavy
athletics, boxing, biathlon, bullet
shooting etc.
Chernihiv can be without
exaggeration named the city of
champions – its inhabitants have more
than once won international
competitions, not excluding the
Olympic Games. The most famous sport clubs of the city are the women’s
Legenda football club, the Desna football club, the Burevisnyk volleyball
club. Besides the professional sport, the amateur one is also developing –
there are more than 60 gyms in the city.

Asher Swimming and Fitness Complex

06:30-22:30 34 Peremogy Avenue, Chernihiv +38 (0462) 60-35-93

Oxygen (Kislorod) Fitness Club

08:00-23:00 (working days) 09:00-22:00 (week-ends) 32 Myru Avenue,
Chernihiv
+38 (0462) 676-033

Health Planet Fitness Club

08:00-22:00 50 Pyatnitska St., Chernihiv +38 (0462) 665-113

WHY INVEST IN CHERNIGOV

There exist seven major reasons that determine the possibilities of
profitable investment in our city.

1. Favorable geographical location

The city is situated on the
important ways between East and
West. It is situated close to Russia – an
immense market – and is the center of
the second largest region in Ukraine –
the market of 46 million consumers.
2. Developed transportation network
Chernihiv is a traditional logistic junction. This is facilitated by the
developed transportation network – roads of international, national and
regional importance, waterways. These opportunities allow making full use
of the potential created by the favorable location.

3. Long industrial tradition

 The majority of the existing Chernihiv enterprises have been created in
the middle of the 20th century, some of them even earlier. This determines
the vast possibilities of renovating and developing the industrial potential.

4. FDI success stories

A number of companies with
foreign direct investments are
successfully doing their business
in Chernihiv and the Chernihiv
Region (e.g. British American
Tobacco, Sun Interbrew, Fornetti).

5. Abundant and inexpensive

human resource
The citizens of Chernihiv are
traditionally good in industrial
professions. The availability of
universities, colleges and technical
schools gives the opportunity of
training and retraining skilled labor force according to the needs of
employers. The comparatively low
salaries are another competitive
advantage of the city.

6. Availability of idle land sites

Chernihiv has several free plots
of land (greenfields) and a number
of idle manufacturing areas
(brownfields). These sites have the
basic kinds of transport and technical infrastructure and are suitable for
location of high-technological production.
 7. Considerable tourist-recreational
resources
Availability of many historical and
cultural tourist attractions determines the
possibilities of profitable investments into the
tourist branch of Chernihiv.

OUR CONTACTS

CHERNIHIV CITY COUNCIL 7 Magistratska St. 14000 Chernihiv

Ukraine Web: www.chernigiv-rada.gov.ua

INVESTMENT AND TOURISM DEPARTMENT Tel. +38 (0462) 675-

645
+38 (04622) 7-40-57 Fax +38 (0462) 675-340 E-mail: invest@online.ua

SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGICAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

CENTER

70 Kotsyubinskogo St. 14000 Chernihiv Ukraine Tel./fax +38 (0462) 610-

785
E-mail: tourcenter@ok.net.ua Web: www.ch-turizm.com.ua

PRIDESNYANSKY HOTEL-TOURIST COMPLEX 99a Shevchenka

St.
14027 Chernihiv Ukraine Tel. +38 (0462) 95-48-28 Fax +38 (0462) 95-
49-58
E-mail: tourcentr@chernigivhotel.com.ua Web:
www.chernigivhotel.com.ua

CHERNIHIV IN INTERNET www.chernihiv-oblast.gov.ua

www.chamber.cn.ua www.chernihivnew.cn.ua
THE CITY OF
CHERNIHIV
an overview
Last updated: August 18, 2006
LOCATION AND
CLIMATE ..........................................................................................................................1
CITY’S DISTRICTS......................................................................................2
POPULATION................................................................................................2
EDUCATION ................................................................................................2
ECONOMY ....................................................................................................3
TRANSPORTATION.....................................................................................4
CIVIL NETWORKS......................................................................................5
AVAILABLE LAND SITES..........................................................................6
CULTURE.......................................................................................................6
SPORTS AND RECREATION......................................................................6
HOTELS AND RESTARAUNTS...................................................................7
HEALTH CARE .............................................................................................7
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND ORGANISATIONS ..................................7
EMERGENCY SERVICES............................................................................8
INFORMATION SERVICES .......................................................................8
OUR CONTACTS...........................................................................................8
Chernihiv (Ukr. Чернігів, Rus. Чернигов) is situated in Central-Eastern Europe, in
Northern Ukraine. It is the center of the Chernihiv region.
The first written mention of this ancient city on the Desna river dates back from the
beginning of the 10th century.
Chernihiv was one of the political centers in the mighty medieval Slavic state – Kyiv Rus.
The city used to be the center
of the Chernihiv-Siverske principality. Chernihiv also played an important role in the
following historical periods. The rich history of the city is immortalized in a great number
of historical and architectural landmarks.

Postal index 14000

Telephone code +381 04622/046223
Telephone information service 990-91-11, 09
LOCATION AND CLIMATE
Geographic coordinates:
51° 29' northern latitude
31° 19' eastern longitude
Area: 79 square kilometers.
Distance to4:
Kyiv – 130 km
Minsk – 360 km
Moscow – 620 km
Warsaw – 710 km
Budapest – 980 km
Vienna – 1130 km
Berlin – 1230 km
The climate of Chernihiv is temperate continental, the average temperatures of January
and July, the coldest and the
warmest months of the year, are respectively 19.2° F (-7.1°C) and 66.7° F (+18.7°С).
1 International code of Ukraine
2 For six-digit numbers
3 For five-digit numbers
4 Crow-fly distance

Welcome to Chernihiv!
2
CITY’S DISTRICTS
City Center a lot of architectural and historical landmarks,
museums, cafes, restaurants; administrative and business center
Leskovitsa another historical area, the main attraction of which are
an ancient underground church and an orthodox monastery
Sherstyanka industrial district
Podusovka another industrial and residential district, former
village, assimilated by the city
Masany new residential district, the territory of potential
widening of the city
ZAZ (from “Zavod Avtomobilnyh Zapchastyn” – Auto Spare
Parts Plant)- industrial and residential district
Rokossovskogo new residential district
Bobrovitsa industrial and residential district
POPULATION
293.8 thousand inhabitants (01.01.2006)
Age structure:
pre-productive age 13.8%
productive age (men 16-59 years, women 16-54 years) 66.1%
post-productive age 20.1%
Gender structure:
female 53.6%
male 46.4%
Workforce structure (May 2006):
Sectors Number of in-house employees5 Average month’s salary, UAH/USD
Total 96317 803.4/159.1
Industry 31261 800.1/158.4
Trade 9927 611.8/121.1
Services 3567 701.9/139.0
Agriculture 374 475.4/94.1
Average salary by sector (as of April 2006):
public UAH 1054.8/USD 208.9
private UAH 752.0/USD 148.9
municipal UAH 639.6/USD 126.7
Unemployment rate (June 1, 2006): 1.6% (3.1 thousand registered unemployed)
EDUCATION
Universities and institutes (accreditation level III-IV)
Total student number: 10654 (October 2005)
Chernihiv State Pedagogical Shevchenko University
(Чернігівський державний педагогічний університет ім.. Т.Г. Шевченка) 3801
students
Chernihiv State Institute of Economics and Management
(Чернігівський державний інститут економіки і управління) 3266 students
5 Without small enterprises and private employers
Welcome to Chernihiv!
3
Chernihiv State Technological University
(Чернігівський державний технологічний університет) 2655 students
Chernihiv State Institute of Law, Social Technologies and Labor
(Чернігівський державний інститут права, соціальних технологій і праці) 932
students
Colleges and technical schools (accreditation level I-II)
Number of institutions: 7
Number of students: 4083
Vocational schools
Number of institutions: 8
Number of students: 4511
Secondary educational establishments: 45
Pre-school educational establishments: 56
Besides it, a number of Ukrainian and foreign universities and colleges have their
branches in the city of Chernihiv. The
city also has 10 research institutions (some of them on the university basis).
ECONOMY
Industry
Branch of industry Number of
enterprises
Part in
the GDP
(2005)
Food 15 42.9%
Chemical 2 20.2%
Light 9 13.2%
Machinery, equipment repair
and adjusting 16 11.9%
Production and distribution
of water and electricity 2 5.9%
Other 21 5.9%
Largest employers by branch
Branch of industry Company Number of
employees
OJSC Food company “Yasen” (ВАТ «Продовольча компанія
«Ясен») 650
OJSC Chernihiv bread-baking plant (ВАТ «Чернігівський
хлібокомбінат») Food 541
Sun Interbrew Ukraine, Chernihiv branch (Чернігівське відділення
«Сан Інтербрю Україна») 441
Chemical OJSC “Chernihivske Himvolokno” (“Chernihiv Chemical Fiber” –
ВАТ «Чернігівське Хімволокно») 4600
Light CJSC “Chekseal” (ЗАТ «Камвольно-суконна компанія «Чексіл») 2700
OJSC “Elegant” (ВАТ «Фабрика «Елегант») 747
Production
and
distribution
of water and
electricity
5,9%
Food
42,9%
Other
5,9%
Chemical
20,2%
Light
13,2%
Machinery,
repair and
adjusting of
equipment
11,9%
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CJSC “Siveryanka” (ЗАТ «Сіверянка») 670
Assembling plant “Chernihivavtodetal’”, Ltd. (ТОВ «Складальний
завод «Чернігівавтодеталь») 773
Chernihiv Radio Plant – “CheZaRa” (ВАТ «ЧеЗаРа») 465
Machinery, equipment repair
and adjusting
OJSC “Chernihivavtodetal” (ВАТ «Чернігівавтодеталь») 300
Production and distribution
of water and electricity
Municipal operational enterprise “Chernihivska
Teploenergotsentral” (“Chernihiv Heat Energy Center” ) of the
“TechNova” company (КЕП «Чернігівська ТЕЦ» фірми
«Теxнова»)
1102
Foreign direct investments by country (March, 2006):
Total USD 43.0 million
United Kingdom USD 22.2 million
Belgium USD 14.1 million
British Virgin Islands USD 1.9 million
Italy USD 1.4 million
USA USD 1.1 million
Poland USD 0.9 million
Finance
Number of banking institutions: 22
TRANSPORTATION
Chernihiv is an important junction of roads and railroads. Being the regional center, it is
the basis for the region’s mass
transportation.
Road
International road E-95 passes through the territory of the region connecting St.
Petersburg (Russia) and Odessa
(Ukraine). Besides it, a number of roads of national and regional importance cross the
city.
Chernihiv has one central bus terminal and two bus stations with regional and interstate
lines in the following directions:
Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Novgorod-Siverskyi, Sumy, Homel, Minsk, Pryluky, Poltava,
Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Slavutych.
Railway
The following international lines run through the region:
Odessa-Minsk, Minsk-Theodosia, Chernihiv-Homel, Minsk-Kyiv, Chernihiv-Moscow,
Kyiv-St. Petersburg, Minsk-
Yevpatoria.
There are two railway stations in Chernihiv: a passenger station and a cargo one.
Waterway
Being situated on the navigable Desna river, Chernihiv has a possibility of transporting
freights by waterway. Chernihiv
river port provides the opportunity for freight and passenger transportation.
City mass transportation
Means of transport Number of lines Fare (UAH)
Trolleybus 11 0.40
Bus 37 0.70-1.0
USA
2,6%
Italy
3,3%
Poland
2,1%
Belgium
32,8%
British
Virgin
Islands
4,4%
Other
3,3%
United
Kingdom
51,6%

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Line taxi 4 0.70
Taxi - 7.0 (to 4 km) +1.5 UAH/km
CIVIL NETWORKS
Network Provider Notes
Water supply and
sewerage
Municipal enterprise “Chernihivvodokanal”
(Комунальне підприємство «Чернігівводоканал»)
Source – underground water (2 levels);
operational capacity – 132.3 thousand
m3 a day; total sewerage system
length – 293.6 km, flow capacity – 126
thousand m3 a day
Electricity
OJSC “Elektropostachalna kompaniya
“Chernihivoblenergo”
(Electricity supplying company
“Chernihivoblenergo” – ВАТ «Енергопостачальна
компанія «Чернігівобленерго»)
Supply lines 0.4-10 kW; air lines total
length – 332.8 km, cable lines total
length – 924.2 km; 10/0.4 kW
transforming substations – 460,
110/35/10 kW substation – 1, 35/10
kW substations – 2, 110/10 kW
substations – 3; 108 thousand
customers
OJSC “Oblteplokomunenergo”
(ВАТ «Облтеплокомуненерго»)
Municipal operational enterprise “Chernihivska
Teploenergotsentral” (“Chernihiv Heat Energy
Center” ) of the “TechNova” company (КЕП
«Чернігівська ТЕЦ» фірми «Теxнова»)
OJSC “Chernihivavtodetal’”
(ВАТ «Чернігівавтодеталь»)
OJSC “CheZaRa”
(ВАТ «ЧеЗаРа»)
CJSC “Mlybor”
(ЗАТ «Млибор»)
Chernihiv State Technological University
(Чернігівський державний технологічний
університет)
CJSC “Siveryanka”
(ЗАТ «Сіверянка»)
Chernihiv locomotive depot (Локомотивне депо
Чернігів)
Heat
Public enterprise “Chernihiv mechanized column
#59” of the OJSC “Chernihivvodbud”
(ДП «Чернігівська механізована колона № 59
ВАТ «Чернігівводбуд»)
Centralized heating system – 65% of
residential and socio-cultural buildings
Gas supply
OJSC “Chernihivgaz”
(ВАТ «Чернігівгаз»)
–
Telecommunications: Registered number of subscribers:
Chernihiv branch of the OJSC “Ukrtelekom”
(Чернігівська філія ВАТ «Укртелеком») 902• Public telephone 00
network
Tasko, Ltd. (ТОВ «Таско») 4730
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CJSC “Tsentr ekspluatatsiyi – zvyazok” (“Operation
center – communication” – ЗАТ «Центр
експлуатації – зв'язок)
4780
Chernihiv branch of the joint Ukrainian-American
enterprise “International Telecommunication
company, Ltd.” (Чернігівська філія спільного
українсько-американського підприємства у формі
ТОВ «Інтернешенел Телеком’юнікешен
компані»)
2105
Chernihiv branch of the CJSC “Kyivstar GSM”
(Структурний підрозділ у м. Чернігові ЗАТ
Київстар GSM)
Chernihiv branch of the joint enterprise “Ukrainian
mobile communication” (Чернігівська філія СП
«Український мобільний зв’язок»)
• Mobile
communication
Astelit, Ltd. (ТОВ «Астеліт»)
–
Chernihiv branch of the OJSC “Ukrtelekom”
(Чернігівська філія ВАТ «Укртелеком»)
CJSC “Sinet” (ЗАТ «• Internet Сінет»)
Alfa-Oil, Ltd. (ТОВ «Альфа-Оіл»)
–
AVAILABLE LAND SITES
There are a number of free land sites appropriate for
development. The city’s policy of attracting investors is
only being shaped, but in the nearest future a complete
inventory of available sites will be created. For the time
being, the strategic site is the former civil airport of
Chernihiv.
Site information:
Total area 160,2 ha
Available area about 100 ha
Transport network 1.5 km to the highway, 20 minutes by car to the city, 1.5 hours to an
international airport (Kyiv/Boryspil)
Available infrastructure gas, electricity, water supply, sewerage, telecommunication
Built-up area 2.25 ha
Number of holders/owners: 4
Land tax for m2 UAH 75.27
CULTURE
Chernihiv has always been an important cultural center. The following establishments
situated on the territory of the city
provide opportunities for citizens’ cultural development and entertainment: 3 museums, 3
theaters, the Chernihiv
Regional Philharmonic Center, 7 palaces and houses of culture, 24 public libraries, and 2
cinemas. Chernihiv also has
154 historical, architectural and archeological landmarks, and the National Architectural
Historical Reserve “Chernihiv
the Ancient” is situated here.
SPORTS AND RECREATION
Chernihiv is an acknowledged sporting center. It has training facilities for different kinds
of sports, and its citizens have
more than once won golden medals at international competitions, including the Olympic
Games. The city has 6
stadiums, 26 football grounds, 123 playing grounds and grounds with training equipment,
5 tennis courts, 66 gyms and a
swimming pool. The mentioned facilities provide good opportunities for recreation and
active relaxation.
Welcome to Chernihiv!
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HOTELS AND RESTARAUNTS
A number of hotels are ready to accommodate the guests of the city. The most popular
among them are listed below.
Hotel “Ukraina” (готель «Україна»)
14000, Chernihiv, Prospekt Myru, 33 (14000 м. Чернігів, проспект Миру, 33)
Tel. +38 04622 746-27
Hotel “Prydesnyanskiy” (готель «Придеснянський»)
14027, Chernihiv, Shevchenko St. 99a (14027 м. Чернігів, вул. Шевченка, 99а)
Tel. +38 0462 95-49-01
Hotel “Bryansk” (готель «Брянськ»)
14027, Chernihiv, Shevchenko St. 103 (14027 м. Чернігів, вул. Шевченка, 103)
Tel. +38 0462 307-25
6 restaurants, 8 night clubs and more than 100 cafes and bars are also at the disposal of
the citizens and guests of
Chernihiv.
HEALTH CARE
City hospital # 1 (Міська лікарня № 1)
14005, Chernihiv, Prospekt Myru, 44 (14005, м. Чернігів, пр-т Миру, 44)
Tel.: +38 0462 65-14-69, +38 0462 66-09-62
City hospital # 2 (Міська лікарня № 2)
14034, Chernihiv, Pershogo Travnya St., 168 (14034, м.Чернігів, вул. 1 Травня, 168)
Tel.: +38 0462 95-62-11, +38 0462 66-04-66
City hospital # 3 (Міська лікарня № 3)
14034, Chernihiv, Pershogo Travnya St., 170 (14034, м.Чернігів, вул. 1 Травня, 170)
Tel.: +38 0462 95-18-10, +38 0462 95-19-94
City hospital # 4 (Міська лікарня № 4)
14001, Chernihiv, Textylnykiv St., 36 (14001, м.Чернігів, вул. Текстильників, 36)
Tel.: +38 0462 66-72-60
Besides it, a number of other medical care establishments both for adults and children
providing medical services for the
city, the Chernihiv region and the Chernihiv district are situated on the city’s territory.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND ORGANISATIONS
Chernihiv city council (Чернігівська міська рада)
14000, Chernihiv, Magistratska St., 7 (14000, м. Чернігів, вул. Магістратська, 7)
Tel./fax: +38 0462 65-12-13
e-mail: gorsovet@cg.ukrtel.net
Chernihiv Regional State Administration (Чернігівська обласна державна
адміністрація)
14000, Chernihiv, Shevchenka St., 7 (14000, м. Чернігів, вул. Шевченка, 7)
Tel./fax: +38 0462 67-50-71, +38 0462 67-46-56
e-mail: post@regadm.cn.ua, uzez@cg.ukrtel.net
web-pages: www.regadm.cn.ua , www.chernihiv-oblast.gov.ua
Chernigiv District State Administration (Чернігівська районна державна
адміністрація)
14027, Chernihiv, Shevchenka St., 48 (14000, м. Чернігів, вул. Шевченка, 7)
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Tel.: +38 0462 7-89-44
Fax: +38 0462 67-66-02
e-mail: cnadm@cg.ukrtel.net
Chernihiv Regional Council (Чернігівська обласна рада)
14000, Chernihiv, Prospekt Myru, 43 (14000, м. Чернігів, проспект Миру, 43)
Tel./fax: +38 0462 67-66-52
State revenue office in Chernihiv city (Державна податкова інспекція у м. Чернігові)
14000, Chernihiv, Kyrponosa St., 28 (14000, м. Чернігів, вул. Кирпоноса, 28)
Tel./fax: +38 0462 65-28-25
Chernihiv city militia department (Чернігівський міський відділ УМВС України в
Чернігівській області)
14000, Chernihiv, Shevchenka St., 13 (14000, м. Чернігів, вул. Шевченка, 13)
Tel.: +38 04622 4-52-71
Chernihiv regional chamber of industry and commerce (Чернігівська регіональна
торгово-промислова палата)
14000, Chernihiv, Primakova St. 7
Tel. +38 04622 4-22-42
e-mail: palata@mail.cn.ua
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Fire fighters (Пожежна охорона) 01
Militia (Міліція) 02
Ambulance (Швидка допомога) 03
Gas service (Служба газу) 04
Operational service of the City Council
(Оперативна служба виконкому міської ради) 053
INFORMATION SERVICES
Telephone information service 09
Bus transportation 004
Railway transportation 005
Revenue office advisory service 007
Exact local time 060
City telephone codes inquiry 8-18
OUR CONTACTS
Chernihiv city council (Чернігівська міська рада)
14000, Chernihiv, Magistratska St., 7 (14000, м. Чернігів, вул. Магістратська, 7)
Contact person: Denys Domin (Денис Дьомін) Head of External Relations Section
Tel. +38 0462 67-56-45, +38 095 333-09-75
e-mail: invest@online.ua
Chernihiv City Council invites for cooperation! www.chernigiv.osp-ua.info

The marshrutka (taxi bus) ride from the capital’s Central Bus Station (Avtovokzal) is a sleepy
float through a storybook Ukraine of haystacks, fields and peasants messing around with goats

Hotel “Pridesnyanskiy” ul. Shevchenko 99a +380462-954802, +380462-

954905 150 meters from the Desna river. One can get there from the railway
and bus station on trolley #1 (stop “Raibolnitsa”), from center – trolley #9 or
mini-bus #27 (stop “Kinoteatr “Pobeda”). It is 100 meters from the bus stops
 HOTEL UKRAINA KIEV-CHERNIGOV
Where: School # 1, Prospekt Myru 40, Chernigiv
Directions:Â If you are arriving to the train station (”vokzal”) or the bus
station (”avtovokzal”) in Chernigiv (they are located very close to each other),
you need to take the trolleybus # 1 to the stop “Dytyachy Svit.” After you
get off at “Dytyachy Svit,” just ask how to get to the school . If you are
arriving by “marshrutka” from Kyiv, its final stop will be “Hotel
Ukraina,” which is very close to the School # 1. After you get off at “Hotel
Ukraina” just ask how to get to the school. If you have any problems getting to
the school please call Oleg Kozachenko (066)535-2662.

Bukovyna Hotel Complex, Chernihiv

Main specs Rooms: 150 Type: Hotel Address: Golovna str., 141,
Chernihiv, 58022 City: Chernihiv Country: Ukraine
. We had a bottle of locally made red wine - bringing the total for two starters, two
mains and a dessert to about £15.00. Not bad for a hotel restaurant. At only
£13.00 a night for two people with a private bathroom and
breakfast, this can't be beaten in Chernivtsi. It's a city with a
distinct lack of decent hotels and the smarter hotels tend to be fairly
expensive. Furthermore the hotel is in a good location close to the
main bus station and having enough space for its own car-park. The
central hotels do not have this luxury. The tram into town stops in front
of the hotel and there are a small number of useful shops close by. So
a memorable hotel (for the right reasons), a good nights sleep and a
basket of freebies for £13.00 - I thoroughly approve!

Hotel “Pridesnyanskiy” ul. Shevchenko 99a +380462-954802, +380462-

954905 The hotel is located in a quiet place, 150 meters from the Desna river. One
can get there from the railway and bus station on trolley #1 (stop “Raibolnitsa”),
from center – trolley #9 or mini-bus #27 (stop “Kinoteatr “Pobeda”). It is 100
meters from the bus stops. And naturally, taxiTesting for the applicants
from/currently in Rivne and Volyn oblasts
When: June 29th, 2008 (Sunday) at 11:00 am Where: School # 15, Pushkina 17,
Rivne
Directions:Â Coming from the railway station or the bus station take trolley-bus #3
or any other public transportation that will take you to the downtown (”tsentr.”) Get
off at “ploshcha” or “EKO” (depending where you are coming from). Ask around
how to get to hotel “Mir.” Facing the hotel, pass it on the left into a tiny street that
will lead you to the school. Do not hesitate to ask people
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CHERNIGOV  KIEV by TRAIN
# Departure Arrive Arr. Stop Dep. Type Schedule
time time

094 Chernigov Kiev Pas 20:52 firm.

fast
054 Chernigov Kiev Pas 11:41 firm.
fast
058 Chernigov Harkov Pas 21:53 fast
250 Chernigov Simferopol Pass 12:05 fast
658 Chernigov Nejin 14:47 pass.
844 Chernigov Fastov 1 06:18 pass.
853 Chernigov Gomel 17:50 pass.
094 Odessa Gl Minsk Pas 03:50 00:25 04:15 fast
054 Kiev Pas Chernigov 13:04 fast
846 Kiev Pas Chernigov 20:50 pass.

KIEV  CHERNIGOV by TRAIN

# Departure Arrive Arr. Stop Dep. Type Schedule
time time

054 Kiev Pas Chernigov 10:30 fast

257 Kiev Pas Odessa Gl 22:48 fast
009 Kiev Pas Odessa Gl 22:59 fast
123 Kiev Pas Odessa Gl 18:21 firm.
fast
094 Chernigov Kiev Pas 00:03 firm.
fast
106 Odessa Gl Kiev Pas 07:38 firm.
fast
010 Odessa Gl Kiev Pas 08:32 fast
258 Odessa Gl Kiev Pas 11:15 fast
054 Chernigov Kiev Pas 14:40 firm.
fast

“Kiyavia” Prospekt Mira, 65, +3804622-53141, +3804622-53484

Unfortunately staff at the local office does not speak English.
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 Hotels in Chernigov (Chernigiv), Ukraine
The information on Chernigov, Ukraine

Hotel Ukraine Prospekt Mira 33, Chernigov, Ukraine

Hotel Reservation:
Tel./Fax: +38(0462) 698367

Pridesnyansky Shevchenko 99-A, Chernigov, Ukraine

Hotel Reservation:
Tel.: +38(0462) 954802
Fax: +38(0462) 954905

Hotel Gradetskiy Prospekt Mira 68, Chernigov, Ukraine

Hotel Reservation:
Tel.: +38(04622) 45025, 44526

Hotel Slavyansky Prospekt Mira 33, Chernigov, Ukraine

Hotel Reservation:
Tel.: +38(04622) 74604

Hotel Bryansk Shevchenko 103, Chernigov, Ukraine

Hotel Reservation:
Tel.: +38(04622) 35157, 30718

WHERE IS THAT VECHICLE FROM??

Starting with April 1, 2004 new Ukrainian cars should only receive new license plates
representing a stripe with Ukrainian colors and inscription UA on the left, two letters
that stand for the region, four digits and two more letters showing the ordinal series.
The initial two letters were taken one by one from the alphabet and represent the
following regions: II 1234 AB: the initial II means state number, it does not refer to any
region and is only given to different state bodies (and to V.I.P. guys as an exception),
whereas such license plates as BB 0707 MI clearly indicate that the vehicle is from
the militia, although of late the militia has given up that habit and now anybody can
get the MI license plate; such license plates as BB 0211 XX indicate by the final XX
that the vehicle is a cargo trailer (by the way, XX is pronounced in Russian and
Ukrainian as "ha-ha"): BH 7090 XX means: a cargo truck from Odessa region. Some
V.I.P.s who wish to have a state body plate II, can have it too. If they want to stress
they are VIP squared, they can get the last letters XX, which means, "Don't you dare
to stop me!" or something like that... So, a car with a license plate II 0124 XX only
shows you belong to the elite... And, of course, if one has a license plate II 2222 XX, it
means a lot...:-) Ukrainian regions and their letters now:
AA Kiev;
AI Kiev region;
AK Crimean Republic;
CH Sebastopol;
AB Vinnytsya region;
AC Volyn region;
AE Dnipropetrovsk region;
AH Donetsk region;
AM Zhytomyr region;
AP Transcarpathian region;
AO Zaporizhya region;
AT Ivano-Frankivsk region;
BA Kirovohrad region;
BB Luhansk region;
BC Lviv region;
BE Mykolayiv region;
BH Odessa region;
BI Poltava region;
BK Rovny region;
BM Sumy region;
BO Ternopil region;
AX Kharkiv region;
BT Kherson region;
BX Khmelnitsky region;
CA Cherkassy region;
CB Chernihiv region;
CE Chernovtsy region.
The letters standing after the four digits indicate each series and are issued in turn:
AA, AB, AC, AE, AH, AI, AK, AM, AO, AP, AT, AX, which is followed by BA, BB, BC,
etc.

Most International flights operate to and from Boryspil

International Airport in Kiev. It is located about 40km
(25mi) South-East of the city centre. Most Domesticl flights
operate to and from Zulyany Airport in Kiev. It is located
about 40km (25mi) South-East of the city centre. Air Tickets
Assistance: +38 (044) 490-49-01 / 056 / 085

http://www.autolux.ua/english/schedule
KIEV-ODESSA офис:
03062, г. Киев, ул.Чистяковская, 30 Тел.: +38 044 536 00 55 +38 044
536 00 53
Email: info@autolux.ua

: Hello! some days ago I met my mother from Athens in Borispol airport.
And I want to advice to use hotel "Borispol" because if you come at
night time taxi driver will ask more money. It better to stay in Borispol
hotel per night then by bus (price 10 grivna=$2, every 30 min go to Kiev)
getting to kiev train station or to Zhulyani airport.
: You can see more info here:
: http://club.cris.net/crimea/img/Kiev/borispol.jpg
Boryspil airport is the main international airport for Kiev. It is
situated 30km south east of the city centre. It is a very small
airport and is similar to a an American municipal airport or a
British regional airport. On arriving to the airport, passengers
leave the plane and ride on a bus to the terminal, where
passports are checked. If the queues are long, then it can
take about 20 minutes to pass through, after which luggage
is reclaimed from the carousel. Sometimes luggage can take
time to get to the carousels, so there may be a bit of a wait
here. If there is nothing to declare, then simply proceed
through the green channel, which is situated on the right
hand side of the red channels. There are declaration forms
situated near to the carousels if needed. On leaving Ukraine
there are certain things to be aware of. Certain items
purchased in the country such as art and media content,
tapes, compact discs, videos, dvd's, etc, are not allowed to
be taken out of Ukraine. Also a limited amount of Ukrainian
currency is allowed to be taken out of the country. So a good
idea is to change spare currency at the 'Obmin Valut', foreign
exchange, which is situated in the airport terminal.

Taxis are plentiful in Kiev. They are the

most expensive form of public transport to
go from Boryspil to to the city centre. It can
cost as much as 500 uah, if a tourist is
unaware. You will be hassled by many taxi
drivers at the airport!
Normally to catch a taxi from one side of the city to the
other, the price will be around 60 uah. It is an interesting fact
that everyone who drives a car in Kiev, is a potential taxi
driver and will stop when hailed by a pedestrian, they tend to
charge less than an official taxi.

The minibuses have their destinations and price of fayre

written on little boards in the front window. The cost of using
minibuses range from 50 kopecks to around 2 uah. They are
generally more expensive than trolley buses and trams
because they are privately owned. The driver takes a
definitive route and will stop when asked to do. There is a
fantastic minibus service that runs every 15 minutes either
way from The Main Railway Station to Boryspil Airport. It
costs 20uah. 2/12/05.

Left picture: A minibus driving along Comintern Street, after

leaving Vokzal, the main railway station\.
 Trolley bus number 1 and 42 at Libidska

e easy to use. They only cost 50 kopecks to ride.

Tickets are purchased from the conductor of the
bus or if late at night, it may be the driver that
sells them, then they are stamped in the
machines provided onboard the buses, by the
passengers. Alternatively you can use a 2 week
or 1 month pass card which can be purchased at
Metro stations. Trams cost 50 kopecks and a
conductor walks from carriage to carriage
collectiing the ticket money. After purchasing a
ticket, they are stamped by the passengers
using the machines provided inside the tram,
the same way as trolleybuses. Alternatively you
can use a 2 week or 1 month pass card which
can be purchased at Metro stations. 6. The
Metro There is a special page dedicated to the
Metro - here. Aftovokzal (Main bus station)
Notes: The main bus station of Kiev.Situated 10
minutes walk from Libidska Metro Station. The
price of bus journeys are slightly more expensive
than using trains. A typical journey to Ternopil
(West Ukraine) from Kiev would be 50uah by
bus, but by train would cost around 32uah.
Location: Comintern Street.
Notes: The central railway station is a very busy place and
deals with more passengers than Boryspil Airport. Trains are
the main from of transport across Ukraine.. Vokzalna metro
station
Trolleybuses ar (red line) is situated next to the central
railway station.

Kiev Airport There are two airports in Kiev: "Borispil" and "Kyiv"(Zhulyany).

Kiev airport "Borispil" (KBP) is the main air gate of Ukraine. 61% of total number of
passengers in Ukraine were served by the international airport "Borispil" in 2006.
Another Kiev's international airport "Kyiv" (IEV) is located 7 km from the city center is
rather small. It serves about 1-1.5% of all international flights arriving to Kiev.There
are 537 airports in Ukraine. Only nine of them serve international flights. Besides two
Kiev's airports international flights are served at the airports:

• Odessa (ODS)
• Kharkiv (HRK)
• Donetsk (DOK)
• Dnepropetrovsk (DNK)
• Simferopol (SIP)
• Lvov (LWO)
• Zaporizhzhya (OZH)

There are 3 Terminals in the airport "Borispil": Terminal "A" - serves domestics flights
within Ukraine. Terminal "B" (the biggest one ) - serves international flights. Terminal
"C" serves VIP passengers. Due to continues growth of passengers traffic a new
modern facility is planned to put into operation in 2009. The airport map and location
of each terminals can be found at the airport "Borispil" site

Hotel Borispol Airport September 24, 2005 Rated 1 of 5 by HarryBo from Bad
Rappenau
This hotel has a very unusual rule for charging: my check-in was registered at
11:58pm, and the bill showed 350 UAH = 43.75E for the day from midnight
on and 175 UAH=21.87E as half a day for the 2 minutes until midnight!
If by chance my registration had been done 3 minutes later, I
would have paid $36 USD less!
DO YOUR CHECK IN AFTER 12.00
The hotel is clean, renovated, and about a 250-metre walk from the
international terminal. It's an easy walk, or if you have baggage, go to the
Hotel Borispol desk, which is located immediately to the left of the exit
from customs. Breakfast is included, and so are shuttle transfers to the
airport.

Korona hotel, single - room apartment

e-mail: hotelkorona.ua@gmail.com
As to us to reach: схема проезда
To write the letter from a site
ICQ: 550 — 926 — 175

Number with one room includes such accommodation as: separate

bathroom, two single or one king size bed, WiFi access, satellite TV,
a set of personal hygiene and warm floor to a bathroom. You can easily stay
in this apartment with your friend.
Price: 450 UAH (+ one person 150 UAH)

Borispol Airport in Kiev Ukraine has recently been renovated and the
experience will be much better than in most other cities of the Former
Soviet Union. Customs is not pleasant but not too bad. There is a
green and a red customs line. You will probably need to go
through the red line. Anyone bringing in more than $100.00 will
need to use the red line. The agency's office is also very close - 7
minutes' walk down Prospekt Mira This apartment is only $65.00 per
day. If you would like to reserve this apartment please e-mail your
arrival and departure dates to info@kievconnections.com
The detailed Kiev maps you can find on the web site of the Ukrainian
Cartographical Network or on the web site company Comfort. The scheme of
the Kiev underground railway is presented on the Kiev metropoliten web site

International airport "Boryspil" is located in town-satellite Boryspil about

50 km from Kiev center. You can find all information about aircraft timetable,
passport control, visa to Ukraine, etc. on the web site of the one. The "Atass"
transport company carry out of passengers transportation between airport
"Boryspil" and Kiev railway station (near the metro station "Vokzal'na") and
between airport "Boryspil" and international airport "Kiev". Bus schedule of
"Atass" you can find on the web page of this company. The "Autolux"
transport company run from Boryspil bus station to Central bus station in Kiev
(Moskovs'ka square, close to metro station "Lybids'ka"). The timetable of
"Autolux" company buses and company contact phones you can find on the
web page of "Autolux".

The International airport "Kiev" is located 8 km from Kiev center and 1.5
km from Kiev Circle Road. Information about airport, tickets registration,
aircraft timetable, etc. is presented on the airport web pages. The trolleybus
number 9 run between airport "Kiev" and Kiev Railway Station (near the
metro station "Vokzal'na"). The minibus number 9 carry out of passengers
transportation from airport to metro station "Universitet". The minibus number
213 get of passengers from airport "Kiev" to metro station "Shuljavs'ka". The
minibus number 19+9 carry out of passengers transportation along Kiev
 Circle Road from airport to trolleybus terminal "Muzei arhitektury" (1.5 km
from MAO NASU) through the Oddess'ka square.

Recomended aircompanies are: Aerosvit company, Ukrainian International

Airlines, Lviv Airlines. You also can visit the web sites of "Boryspil" and "Kiev"
airports for information about another aircompany.

Kiev railway station is located not far from Kiev center, near the metro
station "Vokzal'na". You also can visit web-site of the Ukrainian railway for
information about railways timetable and for tickets reservation. The minibus
number 507 run from Kiev railway station to Oddess'ka square pass the
metro station "Lybids'ka", Moskovs'ka square (near Kiev central bus station),
Golosiivs'ka square (near the hotel "Mir"),"VDNH" (near university student
hotel), "Pivdenna" bus station.

Kiev Central bus station is located on Moskovs'ka square close to the

metro station "Lybids'ka". You can phone 380 (44) 265-04-30 or visit web
site of the Kiev central bus station for information about buses timetable. The
"Autolux" transport company also run from Kiev Central bus station to major
ukrainian and european cities. The timetable of "Autolux" company buses
and company contact phones you can find on the web page of "Autolux". You
can get from Kiev Central bus station to metro station "Lybids'ka" on the
trolleybuses number 1, 2, 4, 11, 12 (one stage).

"Pivdenna" bus station is located on the Golosiivs'kyi av. (old name 40-
richcha Zhovtnja av.). It's near Kiev State University student hotel. You can
phone 380 (44) 263-40-04 for information about buses timetable. The
trolleybuses number 2, 4, 11, 12 connect "Pivdenna" bus station with the
metro station "Lybids'ka" (to terminal) as well as with Kiev Central bus
station. Contact phone of the another Kiev inter-cities bus stations you can
see below.

The

Bus Contact Bus Contact

station phone station phone
"Volodymyrska" 380 (44) 269-77-93 "Podil" 380 (44) 417-35-48
"Dachna" 380 (44) 444-15-03 "Darnitsa" 380 (44) 559-46-18

The Main Astronomical Observatory is located in the Golosiivs'kij district of

Kiev on the south of city. You can get to MAO NASU next ways.
First. The minibus number 19+9 run from international airport "Kiev" along the
Kiev Circle Road pass the Oddess'ka sqr. and "Metrologichna" stations (not far
from "Feofania" hotel) to terminal station "Muzei arhitektury". Then you must
walk near 1.5 km through the forestry road to the MAO.

Second. The minibus number 156(61) get you from metro station
"Lybids'ka" to the turn to MAO (to right near MAO emblem, you must say to
driver about it) and then walk near 1.0 km along road to our observatory. This
minibus pass next station: the "Moskovs'ka sqr." (near Kiev Central bus
station), "Golosiivs'ka ploscha" (near hotel "Mir") the Vasyl'kivs'ka Str., the
"VDNH" (near university hotel), the "Pivdenna" bus station, the "Odes'ka sqr.",
the "Metrologichna" (not far from "Feofania" hotel) and "Muzei arhitektury".

Third. The trolleybus number 11 get you from metro station "Lybids'ka" to the
terminal station "Muzei arhitektury". Then you must walk near 1.5 km through
the forestry road to the MAO. The trolleybus also pass next station: the
"Moskovs'ka sqr." (near Kiev Central bus station), "Golosiivs'ka sqr." (near
hotel "Mir") the Vasyl'kivs'ka Str., the "VDNH" (near university hotel), the
"Pivdenna" bus station, the "Odes'ka sqr.", the "Metrologichna" (not far from
"Feofania" hotel) and "Muzei arhitektury".

Forth. The minibus number 3 run from Leningrads'ka sqr. to the terminal
station "Muzei arhitektury". Then you must walk near 1.5 km through the
forestry road to the MAO. The minibus also pass next important streets and
stations: "Druzhby narodiv" metro station, Druzhdy Narodiv av., "Lybids'ka"
metro station, Moskovs'ka av. (near Kiev Central bus station), Golosiivs'ka sqr.
(near hotel "Mir"), Vasyl'kivs'ka Str., the "VDNH" (near university hotel), the
"Pivdenna" bus station, Odes'ka av., "Metrologichna" station (not far from
"Feofania" hotel) and "Muzei arhitektury" station. You can get more information
about route of city transport on the web site http://www.gortrans.kiev.ua/.

Kiev Airport & City Taxi Transfer (private chauffeur service)

"Borispol" airport. Aircompanies. Flights and prices.

The international airport “Borispol” is 40 km. frorm the centre

of Kiev and receives planes from all over the world. Here booking
offices and representatives of airline companies can be found. On
holidays the airport is usually overcrowded, that’s why the tickets
should be booked in advance. The way to the airport. It will cost you
65-75 UAH to get to the airport from the city (12-15 USD). From
the airport a taxi will cost you 100 UAH that’s why it is better to
take a route bus (10 UAH, 2 USD) and than to take a taxi in the
city to the hotel."Kiev" (Zhulyany). The airport is within the city and
serves mostly for domestic air flights. It can be reached by
trolley bus or a bus from Victory Square or St. Volodimir
Cathedral. 01030, Ukraine, Kyiv, Bussiness center "Leonardo", Bogdana
Hmelnitskogo Str. 17/52, office 523, tel./fax +38 044 206 22 00 (multi-channel)
01001, Ukraine, Kyiv, 6-a, Mihailivska str. tel/fax +38 044 206 33 22 (multi-channel)
Take a pen with you when you get off of the airplane in
Kiev. You will have to fill out a rather crude form on arrival
and departure dates and reason for trip. The forms are
on two desks surrounding columns. There were no pens on
the desks indicated for this purpose. The border officials wear green
uniforms. They are haughty and very little help. Do not fill the form
in with pencil, and be sure to use all UPPER CASE BLOCK
LETTERS (or they may/will ask you to refill in the form). Trip
Advisor Hot Tip: If the lines are long, the line that is between the
column and the border officials is usually the shortest. Walk around
the column and join the line.

Keep the form, with the stamp on it as the Ukrainian border police
will want it when you leave the country. The toilets are to the
left, immediately after the passport check. DOMESTIC FLIGHTS:
ust before the exit, there is a flight information board showing domestic flights
status. It will switch to English, with domestic flight status. You have arrived
into the International Terminal. If you are connecting to a mestic Flight (such
as going to Kharkov) you need to go to Terminal A. It certainly is not clear that
one should exit this terminal (International Terminal), turn right and go to an all
together different terminal to catch any domestic flight. Be ready to dodge taxi
drivers when exiting the International teminal. They also roam around inside
the terminal asking if you need a taxi. LAYOVERS:
Many flights arriving into Kiev will leave you with a 3 to 4 hour layover until
your next flight. It is approximately 50km into the downtown of Kiev so best to
hunker down in the terminal. Now, here is the value of TripAdvisor... Do not sit
with the crowds in the noisy food court or surrounding seats nor in the
Domestic Terminal "A" which is smaller than the International Terminal.
Instead, in the International Terminal, go to the departures area, facing
the Security gate, look to your left. There is a stairway up to the 2nd floor.
Go up the stairs and turn right down the narrow corridor (yes, this is
correct). At the fork, turn left and go through the wooden doors. You will
find yourself in a very nice restaurant with Free Wifi. The Pike with
vegatables is very good and well presented. The toilets in the restaurant
are clean, and you can leave your luggage with the attendant at the front of the
restaurant. There is a non-smoking section up the stairs inside the restaurant,
and the tables along the window have (European 2-round-prong) power outlets
in the floor. Oasis in the Kiev Airport. Hard to find, but worth the hunt...
especially for the Free Wifi and power

plugs.
CUSTOMS:
ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΑΓΟΡΑΣ
Οικιακος Εξοπλισμος
Καφετιερα 199
Μιξερ 138
Τεφαλ 350
Φριτεζα 1199
Ζυγαρια μπανιου 65
Θερμος καφε 89
Ηλεκτρικες κουζινες 2280-3000
Πλυντηρια
Indesit 800-2799
Samsug 1000-3099
Hexagon 1000-3059
LG 100-3099
Zanusi 1000-3529
Σομπες Αεριου
Indesit 2499
Candy 3499
ASKO 3299
Whilpool 3199
Ψυγεία
Samsug 8199
Whilpool 6699
Indeit 2799
LG 3399
Indesit me metalikes sxares 3039
Nord me metalikes sxares 2199
ΗΛΕΚΤΡΙΚΕΣ ΚΟΥΖΙΝΕΣ
Indesit 2939
Hansa 3099
Gorenge 2999
Whilpool 2559
Candy ceramic 2699
Hansa ceramic 5299
ΚΡΕΒΑΤΙ 5000
ΝΤΟΥΛΑΠΑ 4000
ΤΡΑΠΕΖΙ 2000
ΚΑΝΑΠΕΣ 4000 ΚΑΝΑΠΕΣ ΑΝΑΚΛΙΝΤΡΟ 2100
Minimum cost 19887UAH= 2000E
ΜΙΣΘΩΜΑ 150 ευρω/μηνα 450/τριμηνο
Λουκουμαδες 150
Πίτσα 7 Ατομικες (2) 5,31
Μπύρα 5
Τσαι 5 Kρουασαν 2,5 Εκλερ 1,5 Διαφορα 1,5
Εφημεριδα 5 Νερο 3,5 Φαγητο Mega Center 6-8
Red Square Μπύρα 5 Καφες από αυτοματο μηχανημα 3
Μαρσουτκα / ημερα 30
Wireless internet3,1mb = 6uah/mb
Nescafe με γαλα 3
Λεωφορειο 50 καπικια
Μαρσουτκα 2UAH
Aircondition Hansa 1999
Indesit Πλυντηριο 2800
Indesit Ψυγειο 2800
Indesit Κουζινα 2900
ΚΡΕΒΑΤΙ 5000
ΝΤΟΥΛΑΠΑ 4000
ΤΡΑΠΕΖΙ 2000
ΚΑΡΕΚΛΕΣ 2000 ΣΥΝΟΛΟ 21500UAH H 2150EURO
TAΞΙΔΕΥΟΝΤΑΣ… TRAVELING…
СHERNIGOV KIEV by TAXI 350UAH max 400UAH
CHERNIGOV-KIEV by BUS
CHERNIGOV(MEGACENTER) – KIEV(LIBOSKA METRO STATION
RED LINE) 30 UAH
LIBOSKA – VOKZALNA METRO STATION 10UAH
VOKZALNA-BORISPOL 20UAH
CHERNIGOV-BORISPOL 60-70UAH
Kαθε 15-20 λεπτα περνα από το BORYSPOL BUS “BORYSPIL”
“ATASS” “POLIT” που μεταφερει στο ΚΙΕΒΟ, κάθε 50 λεπτα τη
νύχτα.
Κοστιζει 20UAH μεχρι σταθμο τρενου Κιεβου
AUTOLUX CENTRAL STATION CHistyakovskaya 30 KIEV
+3804453600
http://www.autolux.ua/english/
Οdessa Kiev Autolux bus 109 VIP dep.KIEV 23.45 arr.ODESSA
05.45 Cost 160UAH= 16E
KIEV-ODESSA TRAIN 054 dep.23.00 arr 10.30
Chernigov-Kiev DAILY AUTOLUX 07.15-09.30, 07.15-10.45, 14.45-
18.40 FROM KIEV 4 STATION
AIRPLANE KIEV-ODESSA daily 10.25-11.35
Kiev-Odessa by train 014 023 661, kupe 47=9$, Spalny Vagon
126=24$
Train 005cupe 59uah=11$ Spalny Vagon 158Uah=30$

ΑUTOLUX  RAILWAY STATION

0400-12.00 12.00-18.00 18.00-03.00
04.00 12.00 18.15
04.45 12.15 18.50
05.15 12.45 19.30
05.30 13.00 20.00
05.50 13.20 20.30
06.20 13.35 21.20
07.10 14.00 21.55
07.30 14.25 22.45
07.55 14.40 23.35
08.15 15.00 00.10
08.35 15.20 00.40
08.55 15.40 01.40
09.25 16.00 02.35
09.45 16.20

RAILWAY
http://www.bestofukraine.com/railway.php
Train Kiev-Moscow 70-80$
EMBASY GR
Panfilovtsiv 10
2545471 2545472 2545473
fax 2543998
email gremd.kie@mfa.gr
embassy@greece.kiev.ua
Greece@kiev.relc.com
Εργασιμες ημερες Δευτ-Παρ 09.00-16.00
Πρεσβης Χαραλαμπο Δημητριου
Συμβουλος Α Αλαμανος Γεωργιος
Συμβουλος Β Μιχαλοπουλος Δημητριος
Προισταμενος Γραφειου Λεωνιδας Παπακωσταντινιδης
Ακολουθος Αμυνας ΑΓΟΡΟΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΣ
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