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Take the metro to ''Boryspilska'' (БОРИСПIЛЬСЬКА) station (the second last on the green line). There you find a huge roundabout - walk around the roundabout until you see the turn off to [[Kharkiv]] (XAPKIB). Walk down the road, and you'll probably see a lot of people also hitching there (there were around 40 last time some anonymous hitchhiker did it 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 sign. Cost to get there: 4 UAH (1 metro token, which is about EUR 0.15) <!--Last verified: Aug 2016-->
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'''Kyiv''' (Київ), also known as '''Kiev''' (Russian: '''Киев'''), is the capital of [[Ukraine]].
== Hitching out ==
=== 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'Alternative:'(БОРИСПIЛЬСЬКА) station (the second last on the green line). There you find a huge roundabout - walk around the roundabout until you see the turn off to [[Kharkiv]] (XAPKIB). Walk down the road, and you'll probably see a lot of people also hitching there (there were around 40 last time some anonymous hitchhiker did it 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 sign. Alternative: From Kharkivska district, use marshrutka #317a to Borispil. Stay on the marshrutka until the last stop (at the end of the city). 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) ===
[[File:kievlublin.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Looking towards the hitchhiking point for the M07 northwest towards Poland.]]
=== West towards [[Lviv]], southwest towards [[Chernivtsi]] (M06) ===
If you are going southwest, then you turn at the town of [[Zhytomyr]] 100 km west from Kyiv.
=== South towards [[Odessa|Odesa]] (M05) ===
Get the metro ''Teremky'' (ТЕРЕМКИ) station (last one on blue line). Walk 700 m southwest and you'll find a police post, you can just hitchhike behind this post as there is a large area for cars to stop. There is traffic light before it so make sure drivers can see you while waiting for green light. But take care, drivers tend to use the parking lane to overtake slow traffic along the road! Also sometimes truck drivers park there for few hours.
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