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About
Zaporozhye
General
info
How to get to the
Zaporozhye
Climate and weather
General
info
Zaporozhye is more 200
years old and is situated about 600 km South-East of Kiev - Ukraine's capital -
and halfway between the fields of iron ore in Krivoy Rog to the West and the
coal in the Donetsk basin to the East. The town is built on the wide plains
along both banks of the Dniepr River.
Zaporozhye
has over 1 million inhabitants and is the center of a range of industries.
There
are more than 160 big industrial enterprises in the region.
There are more than 30 parks and public gardens. The
total area of greenery covers 12,500 hectares; on average 17 square meters of
greenery per inhabitant.
How to get to Zaporozhye
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- Fly
to Dnepropetrovsk and
a)
take a taxi to Zaporozhye (most convenient)
Our stuff in Dnepropetrovsk office will meet you at the airport and requests a
taxi to Zaporozhye. Taxi costs about $60 and takes less than 1 hour to get to Zaporozhye.
b)
take a mini-van to Zaporozhye.
Mini-vans from Dnepropetrovsk for Zaporozhye goes every 30 minutes, from 7 a.m till 8 p.m. One way ticket costs about $3. It goes from the train station in Dnepropetrovsk and comes to the
center of Zaporozhye. It takes 1.5 hours to get to Zaporozhye by mini-van.
Our stuff in Dnepropetrovsk office will meet you at the airport, help you with a taxi to the bus station and requests a mini-van to Zaporozhye.
c) take a train to Zaporozhye (not recommended)
2.
Fly
to Zaporozhye
through
Kiev (Ukraine).
3. Fly to Kiev and take an over night train to Zaporozhye.
You can fly to Kiev and take an over night train to
Zaporozhye.
Climate and weather
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The
climate here is the same as in Dnepropetrovsk..
It is
quite warm in summer (average daily temperature in July is +25-27 C, 76-80 F) and average temperature in winter is -3-4 C, 24-26 F.
Best time for visiting is in the late spring - the late April, May (nice nature and fresh air), first part of June, and early in autumn: September and October (beauty of town's yellow parks). Period of rains is normal in the middle of autumn. Other times are mainly dry with a few showers or storms in the summer time.
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