The long history of Kyiv is inseparable from the history of the Jewish community, which dates back to the emergence of pre-Christian Russia. The Jewish community of Kyiv can be traced in all areas of the city. There were many synagogues, Jewish schools and institutions of higher education in Kyiv. Fruitfully prominent Jewish industrialists and businessmen, engineers, scientists, doctors and lawyers, writers, artists worked here. Future political leaders of Israel Golda Meir and Ephraim Katzir were born in Kyiv. Sholom Aleichem lived and worked, Isaac Babel studied, Ilya Ehrenburg was born, Osip Mandelstam lived in Kyiv. Thanks to Jewish patrons the Bessarabsky market, the housing of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, building which is the Main regional hospital appeared on the map. Join us for the unforgettable Jewish Heritage tour in Kyiv.
Intl. Airport Boryspil (KBP) (Google Map) | Intl. Airport Kyiv (IEV) (Google Map) | Kyiv Railway Station (Google Map)
Every Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
Arrival to Kyiv (Intl. Kyiv Boryspil Airport – KBP or Intl. Airport Kiev – IEV), accommodation at hotel, free time, overnight in Kyiv
Breakfast at the hotel;
Walking Kyiv City tour (3 h): Khreschatyk, Volodymyrska str., Golden Gate, St. Sophia Catheral, St. Mykhaylo Cathedral, Andrew’s Descent, Parliament, Mariinsky Park;
Lunch in the city, free time, overnight in Kyiv
Breakfast at hotel. Visit to Podil, the oldest Jewish district of Kyiv, Synagogue of the Kyiv Judaic Religous Community, former houses of worship and Talmud-Torah (2 h). Lunch. Visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Babyn Yar (2 h). Free time, overnight in Kyiv
Breakfast at hotel. Check-out. Visit to the Karaite kenassa (now the House of Actors), Sholom Alikhem’s Museum, Monument to Sholom Aleikhem, Brodsky Synagogue (3 h). Lunch. Visit to the aristocratic district Lypky to see Jewish houses of sugar king Liberman, patrons Poliakov and Brodsky, builder Ginzburg (1 h). Transfer to KBP or IEV