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Day 1

Arrival in Kyiv. Transfer to the hotel. Program information meeting and dinner at the hotel.

Day 2

After breakfast  Lecture: The history of Jews in Ukraine: Khazars, The Pale of settlements, the life of the Jews in the tsarist Russia, pogroms.

Lecture: Shtetls in Ukraine. The way of life, customs and traditions.

Lunch at the downtown restaurant.

City tour “Kyiv through the Jewish eyes” including visits to Babyn Yar and Brodsky Synagogue.

Dinner at the hotel.

Day 3

After early breakfast  half-day side trip to Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky ( 90 km, the birth place of Sholom Aleichem, 1859-1916) to visit his museum.

Late lunch  in Kyiv.

PM boat ride along the Dnieper river.

Concert of Jewish amateur ensemble of folk music orchestra.

Dinner at the hotel.

Day 4

After  breakfast  coach transfer to Odesa (490 km). Lunch en route in Uman.  Late afternoon arrival in Odessa, check-in the hotel, dinner at  downtown restaurant.

Day 5:

After breakfast  Lecture: The famous Jews who were born and lived in Odesa. The lecture takes place at the Odesa Literature  museum where one
can learn about the life and works of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Joseph Trumpelder. Chaim Nachman Bialik, Saul Tchernichowsky,
Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Simon Frug, Osip Rabinovich, Mendele Mokher Seforim and others.

Lunch at the downtown restaurant.

PM visit to the Synagogue and City tour round the Jewish sites of Odessa.

Performance at the famous Odessa Opera House

Dinner at the hotel

Day 6

After breakfast, lecture : The history of anti-Semitism.  It takes place at the Museum of Jewish History. Visit of the “Migdal Jewish Community”

Lunch at the downtown restaurant.

PM concert of children amateur group  of  the  “Migdal”   centre.

Dinner at the hotel

Day 7 

After breakfast  continuation  of the tour of the the city that was often referred to as Little Paris” or “Little Vienna”. Due to its beautiful location the city
also got  a name of “The Pearl of the Black sea”. Lunch at the downtown restaurant.

PM visit of the Fine Arts Museum that boasts to have one of the best collections of Russian and Ukrainian paintings.

Dinner at the hotel.

Day 8 

After early breakfast departure for Uman (250 km):  lunch and visit to the gravesite of Tzaddik Nachman from Bratslav (1772-1810)  - one of the most
popular place for the pilgrimage of Chassidim.  One can also visit Sofiyvka Arboretum  - one of the most beautiful  Ukrainian parks.

Drive to Vinnytsia  (160 km) via old shtetls Haisyn and Nemyriv . Late evening arrival in Vinnytsia, check in the hotel, dinner

Day 9

After breakfast  Lecture: The World War II and the Holocaust in Vinnytsia Area as an example of the fate of the Jews in WWII in Ukraine.

City tour with visits to the Synagogue and the former Jewish quarter “old Yerusalimivka” (Jerusalimivka).

After lunch  - drive to Khmelnyk (70 km, one of the best spa resorts)  to visit one of the largest in Ukraine WW II Holocaust Memorials.
Meet the members of the local Jewish community. Upon return to Vinnytsia dinner at the hotel and small concert  of amateur Jewish  choir.
Tea party with the participants  of the concert

Day 10 

After breakfast departure for Kyiv with stops in Berdychiv  (85 km. The Jews settled here at the end of 16^th c., and for a long time the town belonged to the
Polish magnates princes Radziwills; it became the centre of Volhynian Chassidism in the last quarter of the 18^th c. Here you’ll visit the grave-site of Rabbi Levi
Isaac of Berdychiv. The town  is also connected with the life of French writer Honore de Balzac).

Next stop in Zhitomyr ( 50 km). Lunch at a local restaurant.

PM tour round the town - in old times it was one of the biggest Jewish settlements,  you’ll drive along the old Jewish quarters and see the house
where in his childhood lived Chaim Bialik; you’ll visit the local Synagogue and Charity Service centre “Hesed Shlomo”.

About 7 PM arrival in Kyiv, check in the hotel, dinner.

Day 11
After breakfast -  Lecture: Political and economic situation in Ukraine today.

Visit to the “Hesed Avot” Centre.

Lunch  at a local restaurant.

PM field trip to the Museum of Historical treasures of Ukraine featuring collection of the Judaic ritual silver objects (on the territory of Lavra Monastery).

Farwell dinner.

Day 12 

Morning visit to the Chernobyl Museum.

Check out and lunch at the hotel..

PM tour round Andriyvsky Uzviz (descent), shopping.

Late PM departure for Moscow by overnight train or homebound flight.