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Vyshhorod

Vyshhorod is a city in Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine, situated immediately north of the capital Kyiv, and part of the Kyiv metropolitan area.

Vyshhorod
Vyshhorod · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Vyshhorod is a city in Kyiv Oblast, central Ukraine, situated immediately north of the capital Kyiv, and part of the Kyiv metropolitan area. It is on the right (western) bank of the Dnieper river and, as the location of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, the northern part of the city is beside the Kyiv Reservoir. It is the administrative center of Vyshhorod Raion and hosts the administration of Vyshhorod urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vyshhorod

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Mezhyhirya

    The Mezhyhirya Residence is an estate in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych lived when he was Prime Minister and then President of Ukraine and is now a museum displaying Yanukovych's luxurious lifestyle. Yanukovych lived in the estate from 2002, when he first became Prime Minister, to 21 February 2014, when he fled the country during the Revolution of Dignity.

    4 km · museum in Ukraine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant

    Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. The 288 m long dam creates the Kyiv Reservoir with the purpose of hydroelectric power generation and navigability with the dam's associated lock.

    1 km · dam in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mezhyhirya Monastery

    The Mezhyhirya Savior-Transfiguration Monastery was an Eastern Orthodox female monastery that was located in the neighborhood of Mezhyhiria outside of the Vyshhorod city limits. The monastery was located just 10 kilometres to the north of Vyshhorod.

    4.6 km · ruined monastery in Ukraine · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian military achievements

    The National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Military Achievements, is a museum reserve dedicated to Ukrainian military achievements. The museum is located on the outskirts of the village of Novi Petrivtsi, Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

    7.3 km · history museum in Ukraine · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Obolon Arena

    Obolon Arena is a football stadium in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. It is the home ground of football club Obolon Kyiv.

    6.3 km · association football stadium in Ukraine · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Savka House

    Savka House is a museum of Ukrainian rural life, located 10 km from Kyiv at Novi Petrivtsi village. The museum features an old Ukrainian house made of clay covered with straw.

    6.7 km · Museum in Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine · Wikipedia

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Getting to Vyshhorod

Stations
Heroiv Dnipra, 6.8 km · Minska, 7.9 km · Obolon, 9.1 km · Myloslavska, 9.7 km
  • Brest → Vyshhorod
    500 km · quickest by road, 12h 33m · $50–70
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  • Minsk → Vyshhorod
    419 km · quickest by road, 17h 34m · $80–110
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  • Chişinău → Vyshhorod
    415 km · quickest by road, 11h 29m · $43–60
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vyshhorod

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vyshhorod. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAll 4 are supported across the municipal transport network, including the funicular.
  • Get aroundYou can also travel on so-called route taxis or minivans called marshrutky (маршрутки).
  • Get aroundMarshrutka routes can be hard to figure out, but they have a list of stops on the window and a Metro logo for the metro stops.
  • Get aroundYou can hail a marshrutka at the assigned bus stops.
  • Get aroundKyiv Tsyfrovyi card / QR code cannot be used in marshrutkas.

From Wikivoyage: Kyiv, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Around it

Next door to Vyshhorod

Vyshhorod is 14 km from Kyiv, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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