Hotel 19

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This freshly minted, extravagantly fashioned boutique hotel hides away on a tranquil courtyard just off traffic-plagued vul Sumska. The 24 rooms are a soothing antidote to the remnants of the proletarian utopia outside, all done out in wistful 19th-century antique-style furniture and boasting stuccoed ceilings and libraries (books are in Russian, so just nice to look at for most).

Guests can swim for free at the 19's sister hotel Nasha Dacha, located outside the city centre. Ask the extremely professional staff how to get there.

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • Kharkiv Art Museum

    Kharkiv Art Museum

    0.28 MILES

    Kharkiv's most famous museum owns one of many versions of Ilya Repin's Zaporizhsky Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, which is found in a…

  • Ploshcha Svobody

    Ploshcha Svobody

    0.63 MILES

    Locals claim that this enormous expanse of cobbles is the second largest in the world after Beijing's Tiananmen Sq. At 750m long it's indisputably huge…

  • Kharkiv History Museum

    Kharkiv History Museum

    0.32 MILES

    The city's history museum found itself encased in a giant glassy structure as the result of an unfinished reconstruction, which hasn't touched upon the…

  • Pokrovsky Monastery

    Pokrovsky Monastery

    0.4 MILES

    Just west of pl Konstytutsiyi, the gleaming domes of the Pokrovsky Monastery (Intercession of the Virgin) are visible from miles away. The predictably…

  • Shevchenko Park

    Shevchenko Park

    0.38 MILES

    Central Shevchenko Park is one of those post-Soviet parks where you can sit for hours watching families boarding the kiddie train, listening to some…

  • Derzhprom

    Derzhprom

    0.7 MILES

    At the western end of pl Svobody, this late-1920s building is an example of early Soviet-era constructivist architecture: a geometric series of concrete…

  • Blahoveshchensky Cathedral

    Blahoveshchensky Cathedral

    0.6 MILES

    The park across the street from Uspensky Cathedral offers the best vantage point of the striking red-and-cream striped cathedral down in the valley, built…

  • Taras Shevchenko Statue

    Taras Shevchenko Statue

    0.29 MILES

    Locals are perhaps overly proud of this statue. Yes, it’s big and it does portray the heroic poet surrounded by 16 peasants, Cossacks and other Ukrainians…

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1. Kharkiv Art Museum

0.28 MILES

Kharkiv's most famous museum owns one of many versions of Ilya Repin's Zaporizhsky Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, which is found in a…

2. Taras Shevchenko Statue

0.29 MILES

Locals are perhaps overly proud of this statue. Yes, it’s big and it does portray the heroic poet surrounded by 16 peasants, Cossacks and other Ukrainians…

3. Kharkiv History Museum

0.32 MILES

The city's history museum found itself encased in a giant glassy structure as the result of an unfinished reconstruction, which hasn't touched upon the…

4. Shevchenko Park

0.38 MILES

Central Shevchenko Park is one of those post-Soviet parks where you can sit for hours watching families boarding the kiddie train, listening to some…

5. Pokrovsky Monastery

0.4 MILES

Just west of pl Konstytutsiyi, the gleaming domes of the Pokrovsky Monastery (Intercession of the Virgin) are visible from miles away. The predictably…

6. Uspensky Cathedral

0.5 MILES

This cathedral with its landmark mid-19th-century bell tower (89.5m tall) is now used only as a concert hall. The ticket office in the entrance is open in…

7. Blahoveshchensky Cathedral

0.6 MILES

The park across the street from Uspensky Cathedral offers the best vantage point of the striking red-and-cream striped cathedral down in the valley, built…

8. Ploshcha Svobody

0.63 MILES

Locals claim that this enormous expanse of cobbles is the second largest in the world after Beijing's Tiananmen Sq. At 750m long it's indisputably huge…