Must-see in Ukraine

The aim of the festival is to familiarize spectators with contemporary ecological problems and suggest variants of their solution in an understandable visual form. Demonstrations of the festival films will be held in 6 cities of Ukraine: Kharkov, Donetsk, Sevastopol, Odessa, Uzhgorod and Kiev.

A Ferris wheel will be placed in the center of the capital on the territory of “Kreschatiy Park”. It was declared in the order of Kiev City State administration, dated April 29, laid to the public on the official site of the metropolitan authorities.

Location: “Ukraine” Palace (103, B. Vasilkovskaya (Krasnoarmeyskaya str., Kiev) The winner of 10 “Grammy” Prizes Carlos Santana will give his only concert in Ukraine on June 19.

Residents and guests of Kiev will get the renewed Dnieper embankment and 10 - kilometer - long walking touristic route with bicycle tracks by Euro 2012.

A couple of elephants from Laos will be brought to Kiev zoo in July. The Director of the zoo Aleksey Tolstukhov has informed about it. According to him, contest for the best names for the elephants will be announced in summer.

Date: May 27-29 Location: Mystetskiy Arsenal (12, Lavrskaya Str., Kiev) The international festival-fair “Book Arsenal” will be held at Mystetskiy Arsenal on Kiev Day for the first time. 

The number of Ukrainian objects in the UNESCO list of protected cultural heritage may be increased.

Date: April 15 – June 15 Location: Contemporary Art Center “M17” (102-104, Gorkogo (Antonovicha str.) Kiev Working hours: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. The exhibition “Italian Transavangard” was opened at the Contemporary Art Center. Pictorial works by Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Nikola de Maria, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino will be represented here for two months. New history of European art started with works of these painters at the end of the 1970th.