Ukraine Transportation Tips by hunterV

'Mode': TO
Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: The best way to travel to and from Ukraine is to arrive to Boryspil International Airport in Kiev.
If your place of destination is in other regions of Ukraine, you can take a direct flight there from Terminal A at "Boryspil" International Airport.
If you choose to travel by car (using the car rentals - $100 a day, by the way!),
you will have to be very careful about the traffic regulations,
you will hardly find any road signs in English
and you will have to study Ukrainian to get around
and, what's more, you will have to overcome all the charms of our Spartan roads containing lots of decent portholes.
You may hire a taxi from ranks at any bus stop throughout the city or a town in Ukraine.
The taxi fare about the city is $5 (around the city) depending on the city and distance.
If you wish to make a longer journey, say, out of the city area, it's a good idea to arrange fare calculations with the driver before starting.

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'Mode': TO
Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: By Ukraine International Airlines
I flew these airlines only once: from Vienna to Odessa and was not too happy about the service.
I would say "Austrian Airlines" was much more friendly...

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Phone: (044) 234 74 55, 461 50 50
Website: www.ukraine-international.com

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: I think the best way to get around Ukraine is by train.
Each regional center of Ukraine has special modern trains to the capital. They all have sleeping cars and will take you there in 10 or 20 hours.
Besides, there are fast trains to Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk that are our variant of the famous Inter City Express trains.

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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Bus
Getting TO/AROUND: You can see these old license plates everywhere in the country.
Although there are new license plates now (see below), the old and the new ones coexist together.
13 means a region of Ukraine.
The biggest number of the region was 28,
Luhansk region being 13,
Crimea being 01,
Kiev being 10 and 11,
Odessa - 16, etc.
This is the table of old Ukrainian license plates just in case:

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01 KP,KO, KT = Republic of Crimea
02 BI, BT, BX = Vinnitsa region
03 BO, BK, BM = Volyn region
04 AA,AB,AE,AK,AH = Dnipropetrovsk region
05 EA, EB, EE, EK, EH, EO, EC = Donetsk region
06 BA, BB = Zhytomyr region
07 PE = Transcarpathian region
08 HA, HE, HO, HP, HC = Zaporizhia region
09 IB, IC = Ivano-Frankivsk region
10 KK, KX, KM = Kiev region
11 KA, KI, KB, KH, KE = City of Kiev
12 OM, OH, OC = Kirovohrad region
13 AM, AO, AP, AT, AX = Luhansk region
14 TA, TB, TH, TC = Lviv region
15 HI, HK, HT = Mykolayiv region
16 OA, OB, OE, OK = Odessa region
17 CK, CH, CC = Poltava region
18 PB, PA, PO = Rovny region
19 CA, CB, CE = Sumy region
20 TE, TI, TK = Ternopil region
21 XA, XE, XI, XK = Kharkiv region
22 XO, XH = Kherson region
23 XM, XT = Khmelnitsk region
24 MA, MB, ME = Cherkassy region
25 MK, MM, MH = Chernihiv region
26 MO, MP, MC = Chernovtsy region
27 KC = City of Sevastopil

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Don't be surprised to see such different colors.
White means : cars;
Blue means militia (police) vehicles;
Yellow means shuttle mini-buses and city buses (city transport);
Green stands for vehicles taken off the register. This color os rather rare for such license plates are temporary and are issued as a makeshift to deliver a vehicle from one part of the country to another. I personally have not seen any green plates yet.

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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: Beginning 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 liike 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.

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