Luhansk Travel Guide Lugansk

The Hotel Lugansk is the biggest hotel in the city. The hotel is situated in the downtown on the crossroad of Oboronnaya and Sovetskaya streets. The «Lugansk» hotel building is the highest building in our region. The hotel rooms have a beautiful view down the city. Banks, offices, institutions, supermarkets, the sights of the city are located nearby the hotel «Lugansk». Developed transport infrastructure gives you an opportunity promptly and comfortably reach any place of the city. Simultaneously the hotel can accommodate up to 350 guests. Businessmen and politicians, artists and cultural workers, conferees and members of congresses, competitors and guests of Lugansk city generally stay at our hotel. Comfortable, cosy rooms, qualified personnel, friendly climate wait for you in the hotel complex «Lugansk».
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“Druzhba-Plus” hotel is one of the hotels in Lugansk. The hotel is located on the second floor of the eight-storied hotel complex right in the city center. The hotel has 18 rooms (single rooms, double rooms, suites) and is able to accept 38 guests at a time.
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Luhansk’s airport is called Luhansk International Airport.
There is a flight to Istanbul (Turkey) by DC-9 on Sundays.
Departure: 11 a.m. and arrival at 1.45 p.m.
The flights are serviced by UM Air Airlines.
Call 53 01 03, 57 52 62, 53 72 69 in Luhansk.
You can also order a VIP service at the airport. There are two nice VIP halls there (the entrance fee is $15), one of them is called Governor’s Hall:
53 01 03, 57 52 62.
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St.Nickolas Transfiguration Cathedral is located at 111 International Street.
It was built in 1950-1951 and dedicated on February 15, 1951. It is one of the very few Orthodox cathedrals built in the Soviet Union in Stalin times.
They say it was built “in exchange” of St.Nickolas Cathedral blown up by the Bolsheviks in the thirties during their militant atheist campaign. The Orthodox Church contributed to the victory in the Great Patriotuic War of 1941-1945 both materially and morally. The Bolsheviks (later Communists) could not conceal that fact and after the war they softened their militant attidude towards the church.
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You can see several exhibitions on the floors of the museum, among them is the region’s nature exhibition, city history exhibition and others.

You can see traveling exhibitions such as “The Romanovs” from the Wax Figures museum in from St.Petersburg;
Everyday exhibitions:
- Nature of Luhansk region;
- Our region in ancient times;
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Luhansk Zoo is located in May Day Park opposite the Ferris wheel and is open from 9.30 a.m. till 8 p.m. (in summer) and till 3 or 4 p.m. in winter time. The entrance fee is 10 UAH for adults.
You can see different animals and birds there: brown bears, a Canadian wolf, ordinary steppe wolves, raccoons, raccoon dogs, polar foxes, steppe marmots, moufflons, Cameroon goats, squirrels, Scottish ponies, monkeys; pheasants (golden, silver and ordinary ones), mountain geese, falcons, black ravens, parrots and singing birds.

Its a monument to Mikhail Matussovsky, a famous Soviet poet, the author of many well-known Soviet songs, who was born in Luhansk in 1915. It stands in Red Square at the building of the Institute of Culture.
In 2008 a new monument was dedicated in Luhansk.
This monument is officially called Caster Monument – and it is dedicated to the iron foundry workers who cast cannons and other products at Luhansk iron foundry at the beginning of the 19th century.
The monument was created by a local sculptor Vladimir Mozhayev.
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The May Day Park is located in Stone Ford District on the right bank of the Luhanka river at the northern entrance to the city has long been a favorite attraction in Luhansk, especially for kids.
There are several merry-go-rounds, a 25-meter-high Ferris wheel, several cafes and a small zoo here.
The attractions are rather expensive, at least by our local standards.
The park opens on May Day, May 1, and attracts a lot of people every year.
There is a disco zone, a favorite meeting point of lots of young people from Stone Ford in summer.