Lviv

<map lat='49.861005318023004' lng='24.0325927734375' zoom='9' view='0' float='right' /> Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів, Polish: Lwów, Russian: L'vov Львов) is a city in Western Ukraine, about 70km away from the Polish border.

Hitching out

Northwest towards Rava-Ruska, Zamość (PL), Lublin (PL) E 372 M9

Take bus 45 from near the Shevchenko monument in the city center. Ask the driver to let you out at the stop for Avtostantsiya Nomyer Dva (АС-2 - Автостанція №2), a bus station in the northern suburbs of Lviv. The driver will drop you off on a busy, wide road, where you just continue walking in the same direction for about 1km until the beginning of road M-09 (E372) going to Rava-Ruska (Рава-Руська) and the border with Poland. This road is clearly signposted and once you turn off onto it, it's easy to find room to stop a car.

This direction leads to the Hrebenne-Rava Ruska border crossing.

Northeast toward Rivne, Kiev E 40 M6

Lviv towards Kiev hitch-hiking spot

Take marshrutka (mini bus) 8, 14, 36A or 39 from near the Shevchenko monument in the city center. Go till the last stop Halytske perehrestya (Галицьке перехрестя) (except for the 14 bus which goes a bit further, so ask the driver to stop at Halytske perehrestya). All the buses stop in the middle of kinda market square. Look around, there must be a bus stop and a gas station hundred meters leftward and a bridge. Go under the bridge and walk 100m ahead. The hitch-hiking spot is in front of the gas station.

East towards Ternopil, Vinnitsa H-02

Take marshrutka (mini bus) 36, 68, 75 to Vynnyky (Винники). You can hitch in the town or walk east along the main road for about 1km and start hitching behind the bypass.

South towards Mukacheve, Uzhgorod, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania E 50 M9

Take marshrutka (mini bus) 18 from the train station to the Uzhgorod (Ужгород) bus station. Right after the turn towards the bus station you can stand on the side of the road, or walk a few hundred meters down to a bridge and hitch from there. If already on the Lviv ring road, there is a petrol station located right where the M-06 (E50) branches off to the south, and you can ask drivers there. If you can get a lift as far as Stryi (Стрий) or Mukacheve (Мукачеве), it is easy to get further rides south or southwest. Mukacheve is where to turn for those going towards the border with northwestern Romania.

Mini bus to Polish border

Not exactly hitching, but you can get a marshrutka (mini bus) from the train station going to the closest Polish border point, the Shegyni-Medyka crossing, which is not far from Przemyśl in Poland and on the E40/M11 road. It costs 14 UAH (March 2008). Look or ask for one that says Lviv - Shegyni (Львів-Шегині). It is allowed to cross the border on foot. There might be a long queue, as cigarette smuggling is a big problem so they have to do random checks. If you are not Polish or Ukrainian let the border guards know and they will move you to the front of the queue.