Mukacheve travel guide

Mukachevo (Мукачеве; Мукачевo; Rusyn: Мукачів, translit. Mukachiv; Munkács; Muncaci; מונקאטש (Minkatsh, Munkatch), is a city located in the valley of the Liatorytsia river in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province), in western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Mukachivskyi Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast. It has a castle from the IX to XVI centuries on top of the Lamkova hill.
The population in 1989 was 85,000 and is now 77,300 (2004).
Earlier it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary (1000 - 1918 and 1938-1944) and of Czechoslovakia (1918-1938 and 1944-1945).
The city is now a rail terminus and highway junction, and has beer, wine, tobacco, food, textile, timber and furniture industries. During the Cold War it was home to Mukachevo air base.
Today Mukachevo has a Ukrainian majority (77,1%) with a significant minority of Russians (9,0%), Hungarians (8,5%), Germans (1,9%) and Roma (1,4%) http://ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/general/nationality/zakarpatia/. (...) more....