On August, 28 and 29 the «Kyivan Rus Park» invites to the horse-trick show «The Princely druzhina». The guests will see the knightly tournaments, the Princely hunt, horse-trick performances, will take part in the ancient Slavic amusements, rites, fiery round dances and master-classes. Also the guests will be awaited by the walks on horseback, tasty dishes prepared on open fire, master classes and many more from the life of the medieval city.
Ancient Kyiv opens at 10:00. The program starts at 13:30.
The ticket price: a full adult ticket – 200 UAH, for pensioners and students – 150 UAH, for schoolchildren – 80 UAH, for preschool children – for free.
Ancient Kyiv in the «Kyivan Rus Park» is located in Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, the vill. Kopachiv.
Details on the website www.parkkyivrus.com
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Ukrainian transport companies transported almost 1.5 billion passengers in January-July 2021, which is 4% more than in the same period in 2020, the State Statistics Service reported.
The passenger turnover of transport enterprises in January-July 2021 amounted to 34.8 billion passenger-kilometers, which is 26.8% more than last year.
According to the State Statistics Service, 47.5 million passengers used rail transport (including city commuter train services) in January-July, which is 22% more than in January-July 2020, and 622.8 million passengers used road transport (more by 0.8%).
Air transport increased passenger traffic by 99.6%, to 4.7 million people.
In addition, according to the State Statistics Service, over the seven months of 2021, some 222.6 million passengers used trams (less by 6.4% versus January-July 2020), 261.7 million people used subway (more by 22%), and 340.1 million people were carried by trolleybuses (more by 2.9%).
During the specified period, water transport carried 200,000 passengers (more by 182%).
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Ukrainian swimmer Yelyzaveta Mereshko won the gold medal in the 50 meter-freestyle at the Tokyo Paralympics.
“Yelyzaveta Mereshko, Ukraine, won gold in parasailing, women, 50 meter-freestyle, S6 at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo,” the press service of the organizing committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo said on Twitter.
Hungary is interested in the continuation of natural gas transit across Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.
“I don’t understand why not ship gas via the southeastern route [after the launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline]. Hungary views this matter from a strategic standpoint, because the absence of transit across Ukraine would cause damage to our country,” Szijjarto said at a press conference following negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Each country should make decisions on sources and routes of energy supply primarily based on its own national interests,” he said.
Transport enterprises of Ukraine (excluding the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as part of the JFO zone) in January-July 2021 increased transportation of goods by 4.7% compared to the same period in 2020, up to 342.3 million tonnes, the State Statistics Service reported.
According to its data, the freight turnover of carriers for the specified period increased by 1.6%, to 161.9 billion tonne-kilometers.
According to statistics, in January-July 2021, some 173.4 million tonnes of goods were transported by rail in domestic traffic and for export, which is 3% more than in January-July 2020. Some 120.8 million tonnes (more by 17.6%) were transported by road, 2.6 million tonnes (down by 4.8%) by water, 45.4 million tonnes (less by 14.5%) by pipeline, 100,000 tonnes (more by 4.5%) by air.
