Unique animals will be shown near Kyiv
On July, 13 and 14 the «Kyivan Rus Park» invites to make an exciting time travel into the epoch of Kyivan Rus and see the show with the participation of horses of rare historical breeds. Slavic amusements, museums, horse riding, tasty dishes prepared on bonfire, master-classes and a lot of interesting things from the life of a real medieval city will be waiting for the guests.
Ancient Kyiv opens at 10:00. The program starts at 13:30.
The ticket price: a full adult ticket – 170 UAH, for pensioners and students – 150 UAH, for schoolchildren – 60 UAH, for preschool children – for free.
Ancient Kyiv in the «Kyivan Rus Park» is located in Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, the vill. Kopachiv.
Route taxis leave from Kyiv from the «Vydybitchi» metro station.
Details on the website www.parkkyivrus.com
The Interfax subscribers can save money with the “openbusiness-20” promo code for a 20%-discount for a full price adult ticket to the Principality of Kyivan Rus:
– by previous order by tel.: +38 044 461-99-37, +38 050 385-20-35
– or at the cash desk at the entrance to the «Kyivan Rus Park».
The Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport in January-June 2019 serviced 1.332 million passengers, which is 16% more than a year ago. The airport said that the number of passengers serviced on international flights totaled 1.298 million, and on domestic flights – 33,900.
At the same time, the number of serviced flights amounted to 14,271 (arrivals and departures), which is 5.6% more than in January-June 2018, including 11,966 international flights, and 2,305 domestic flights.
The most popular international destinations at the airport in January-June 2019 were Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Warsaw (Poland), Minsk (Belarus), Ankara (Turkey), Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany); domestic – Odesa, Zaporizhia and Lviv.
At the same time, in June 2019, the airport serviced 248,500 passengers, which is 14.8% less than in June 2018. The number of passengers serviced on international flights amounted to 241,800, on domestic flights – 6,700 passengers.
The number of serviced flights in June 2019 amounted to 2,691 (arrivals and departures), which is 9.9% less than the same period of 2018.
The press service of the airport told Interfax-Ukraine, the decline in passenger traffic was mainly due to the relocation of SkyUp Airlines.
Average vacancy of shopping centers in Lviv by the middle of 2019 was 2.9%, and by late 2021 it is planned that total supply of retail space would expand by 34,600 square meters thanks to the launch of four new shopping centers, UTG consulting company (Kyiv) has reported. “As of the end of the first half of 2019, there is a shortage of commercial premises in the amount of about 24,700 square meters. In the case of the implementation and commissioning of the announced promising projects in the market, there may be a surplus that will inevitably entail overflow of tenants from obsolete facilities that are losing popularity, as well as will have an impact on the growth of vacancy and the correction of rental rates downwards,” UTG analyst Oksana Havrylevych told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to her, in 2019-2021, shopping centers with a total leasable area of 35,600 square meters are declared to open, in particular: on July 25, 2019, the opening of Vernissage shopping center (1, Shevska Street, GLA is 1,000 sq. m), the Arsen shopping and entertainment center (60, Chervonoi Kalyny Avenue, GLA is 24,800 sq. m.), the Kinescope shopping center (Heroyiv UPA Street, GLA is 8,600 sq. m.), as well as a shopping and office center 11, Hospitalna Street (GLA is 1,300 sq. m.).
According to UTG estimates, by the end of the first half of 2019, two regional, six district, 16 microdistrict, 11 specialized shopping centers and 11 detached supermarkets and hypermarkets were operating in Lviv.
According to the ICSC classification, the total area of the city’s retail facilities is 390,200 square meters., which corresponds to 528,400 square meters per 1,000 inhabitants or 2,200 0 square meters per square kilometer of the total area of the city (excluding small shops, street retail, city markets, detached super- and hypermarkets).
Ukraine in January-June 2019 increased exports of poultry by 38.4% compared to the same period of 2018, to 211,200 tonnes, the State Fiscal Service has reported.
At the same time, according to its data, in monetary terms exports of these products increased by 27.5%, to $307.15 million.
Imports of poultry in January-June 2019 slightly fell, to 60,500 tonnes, in monetary terms decreased 4.7%, to $24.4 million.
According to the service, in January-June 2019 pork exports decreased 7.6%, to 1,000 tonnes. This product was delivered for $2.4 million, a fall of 4.7% year-over-year.
During this period, import of pork to Ukraine grew by 32.7%, to 11,100 tonnes, in monetary terms it amounted to $20.7 million, which is 34.6% more than in January-June 2018.
Ukrainian airlines in June 2019 serviced 73.9% of flights of the total number of flights serviced at Ukrainian airports within the 15 minute deviation from the timetable, which is 10.5 percentage points (p.p.) worse than the figure for May 2019 (84.4%), according to a posting on the website of the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine.
According to the ministry, in June, Ukrainian airlines serviced 5,335 flights.
The punctuality of foreign airlines in June compared with May decreased to 77.4% from 82.8%, while the number of flights totaled 3,122.
Of the Ukrainian airlines that made more than 50 flights a month in June, Motor Sich remains the most punctual, with 93.7% and the number of flights 270.
Windrose is second with 88.6% and with the number of 642.
Punctuality of Ukraine’s largest airline in the market – Ukraine International Airlines – was 78%, while the number of flights serviced was 3,148.
The indicators in May for Bukovyna and Azur Air Ukraine were 57.8% and 50.7% with 206 and 420 flights respectively.
Alitalia, Aigle Azur, Aegean Airlines, Iraqi Airways, Bulgaria Air and Tarom were ranked the top of the June punctuality rating among foreign airlines with the 100% punctuality, the number of their flights was from three to 30 per month.
Wizz Air Hungary had the best performance among low cost airlines – 82.4% with 557 flights. Pegasus Airlines is second with 82.2% and 118 flights. The figure of Irish Ryanair was 76.5% with 272 flights.
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