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'''Kyiv''' (Київ), also known as Kiev ([[Russia]]n: '''Киев''' (Kiev)), is the capital of [[Ukraine]].
Kyiv is a very big city, however it has a very efficient metro (underground) system, especially if you're for hitching west,east or southout of the city in all directions.
== Hitchhiking out ==
===North towards [[Belarus]], [[Moscow]] ([[Russia]])===
Take the metro to ''Chernigovskaya'' (Черниговская). Out of the station, walk down 200m to the ''Brovarski Prospekt'' (броварскии 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 until 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 [[Kharkiv]] ===
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 (having a conspicuous backpack helps). Cost to get there: 2 UAH (1 metro token, which is about 0,16 €) <!--Last verified: Nov 2009-->
