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{{Infobox Location|country = Ukraine|state = Kiev City Municipality|map = <map lat='50.45750402042058' lng='30.5859375' zoom='9' view='3' float='right' />|pop = 2,819,566|plate = AA (before 2004: КА,КВ,КЕ,КН,КІ,KT)|motorways = M01, M03, M04, M05, M06}}'''Kyiv'''(Київ), or also known as '''Kiev''' in (Russian: '''Киев'''), is the capital of [[Ukraine]]. __NOTOC__Kyiv is a very big city, however it has a very efficient metro (underground) system for hitching out of the city in all directions. 

Kyiv === Northeast towards [[Chernihiv]], [[Belarus]], [[Moscow]] ([[Russia]]) ===Take the metro to ''Chernihivska'' (Чернігівська). Out of the station, walk down 200m to the ''Brovarskyi Prospekt'' (Броварський проспект). You'll most likely see locals hitchhiking there already, just walk a bit further up the road to find a convenient spot. The first car should bring you to the next ГАИ (GAI) police post. Do not accept any rides to the city of Бровари (Brovari), as there will be no useful spots to hitchhike along the road. Best is to catch rides only towards Семполки (Sempolki) or Калита (Kalita), there you'll find a GAI post as well. If hitchhiking towards Russia, get off at the eastward junction after 100km. There, it's easy to hitch further rides towards Russia. === East towards [[Poltava]], [[Kharkiv]], [[Sumy]] ===Take the metro to ''Boryspilska'' (БОРИСПIЛЬСЬКА) station (the second last on the green line). There you find a very big cityhuge roundabout - walk around the roundabout until you see the turn off to [[Kharkiv]] (XAPKIB). Walk down the road, however and you'll probably see a lot of people also hitching there (there were around 40 last time some anonymous hitchhiker did it has in the middle of winter); walk to the end of the queue and try to look like you're going a long distance - most people will only be going 30 or 40 km. Try to look different. You can stand a little bit further (close to the motorway sign), put your backpack in front of you and use the thumb gesture or a very efficient sign. Cost to get there: 4 UAH (1 metro token, which is about EUR 0.15) <!--Last verified: Aug 2016--> '''Alternative:''' From Kharkivska district, use marshrutka #317a to Borispil. Stay on the marshrutka until the last stop (undergroundat the end of the city) system. From there, you can walk 2km more to the crossroad where road P08 (transit road around Kyiv, especially for trucks) crosses. Behind it, you should find a nice spot to Poltava or Kharkiv. '''Towards [[Sumy]]:'''From the metro LISOVA take marshrutka #327 towards DYMYTROVE (driving through BROVARY). (Better check with the driver if he's driving to DYMYTROVE directly.) Get off at the last stop. Walk eastwards across the bridge over the E95 highway. Stand here [http://goo.gl/maps/0KyL4 at point B]. === South-East towards [[Dnipropetrovsk]] (M04) ===Take the metro to ''Vydubychi'' (ВИДУБИЧІ) station (green line) and walk to the car market. Try hitchhiking there. Cost to get there: 2 UAH <!--Last verified: Nov 2009--> === Northwest towards [[Lublin]] (Poland) (M07) === Take the metro to the station ''Akademmistechko''. From near the metro station, take a minibus (''marshrutka'') to Irpen (Ирпе́нь), which as of June 2012 costs 5 UAH. When you're hitching west see the large stele ИРПЕНЬ and the bus takes a left turn, get out. The M07 road goes straight ahead from the intersection that the bus turned at. Cross under the bridge and hitch just after the next intersection. It is worth accepting one or easttwo lifts from locals, in order to get further out of the Kyiv metropolitan area. After that, there are very few towns for most of the length of the M07, so if you stop a truck it is likely to take you all the way to [[Kovel]]. The road enters Poland at the [[Dorohusk-Jahodin border crossing]]. [[File:kievlublin.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Looking towards the hitchhiking point for the M07 northwest towards Poland.]]

===North (West towards [[Lviv]], southwest towards [[KharkivChernivtsi]](M06)===Get the metro to Boryspol`s`ka station (the last one on the green line). From here there is a huge roundabout - walk around the outside of the roundabout until you see the turn off to Kharkiv (XAPKIB in Ukrainian). Walk down the road, and you'll probably see a lot of people also hitching there (there was around 40 last time I did it in the middle of winter), walk to the back of the queue and try to look like you're going a long distance - most people will only be going 30 or 40 kilometres (having a conspicuous backpack helps).

* Take the metro to the station ''Zhytomyrska''Cost (Житомирська, the second to get last stop on the red line). From therewalk west along the street ''Peremogi prospekt'': 50 kopecks (1 metro tokenПеремоги проспект)* '''Last verified'''until you cross the bridge over the ring road. You can hitch from the bus stop right after the bridge. Attention: January 2006Girls be careful, in the evening there are prostitutes working, so tell to the driver that you are hitchhiking immediately! This spot is really busy with local buses and people who can pick you up for money. You can as well, walk 5 more minutes, until the road is uphill, and hitch from here. Here, all the traffic is heading west as well.

===East (If you are going southwest, then you turn at the town of [[DnepropetrovskZhytomyr]], M04)===100 km west from Kyiv.

Get the metro to ""Vydubychi"=== South towards [[Odessa|Odesa]] (ВИДУБИЧІM05)station , after need walk until car market.* '''Cost to get there''':1 metro token (50 kopecks = 0,10$)* '''Last verified''': April 2006==

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