Chernivtsi travel guide

Chernivtsi (Чернівці; Czernowitz; Cernăuţi; Черновцы́, translit. Chernovtsy; טשערנאוויץ, translit. Tshernovits; see also: Cities' alternative names) is a city located in the administrative Chernivtsi Oblast (province) and historic Northern Bukovyna region of western Ukraine.
Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast, and is also designated as a "city of oblast subordinance", thus being directly subordinate to the oblast authorities rather than the city administration housed within itself.
With the city of Lviv, Chernivtsi is considered to be a cultural centre of western Ukraine. Many famous Ukrainians were born or lived in the city including the poet Ivan Franko, the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, and Speaker of the Parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Chernivtsi is also considered as one of Romania's greatest cultural and educational centres in history. As a cultural and architectural center, Chernivtsi was dubbed as Little Vienna, Jerusalem upon the Prut and the European Alexandria.
Chernivtsi is currently twinned with eight other cities around the world. Chernivtsi is also a major point of railway and highway crossings in the region, and houses an international airport. (...) more....

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