I rode Ukrainian Railways to Eastern Ukraine...
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2023
- Today, I will be riding the Ukrzaliznytsia overnight train from Odesa to Kharkiv in Eastern Ukraine, showing you just what it's like to take a train ride in this beautiful country! 🇺🇦
By the way, this video was filmed in Summer 2021.
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Journey Details:
Origin: Odesa-Holovna (Одеса-Головна)
Destination: Kharkiv-Pasazhyrskyi (Харків-Пасажирський)
Company: Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railway
Train: UZ VL80 + Sleeper Carriages
Accommodation: Kupe Compartment (KP)
Distance: 758 kilometres / 471 miles
Price: ₴ 818.22 (£22.00 / €25.70 / $30.20)
Time: 13 hours 13 minutes, arrived three minutes late
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A first class record of how things were and might be once again. You really have got editing, commentary and suitable music off to a fine art so that we can fully enjoy the trip as experienced. It's good that you acknowledged the railways' part in the current situation.
Thank you so much! I love this country. 😁🇺🇦
I went from Uzhgorod to Kharkiv (25h) 6 weeks ago. Same amazing like before the war, beside the bang, boom, bang from time to time and the airport scanner at the big railway stations.
I did the same journey in 2021! 😊
damn, that's sad to think how many of things you've seen and people you've met are gone now..
thats what I thought, how many of the faces are still there now?
It's terrible, and totally unforgivable...
Spiderman into spiderverse
they are not gone spiderman
I've experienced that first hand my grandma in the Kyiv shellings and also my friend's uncle is in the frontline
I've spent a lot of time on this train during my student years in Kharkiv. So nostalgic video.
Sounds great. Hope you are safe and well. 👍
3:27 The people that were throwing flowers at each other were celebrating the couples married in Hindu tradition, you can see them exchange flower garland and chants you hear are for Lord Krishna, the eighth avatar of the Supreme Lord Vishnu.
These people are most likely a part of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. There is also a temple (ISKON) in the Kharkiv Oblast.
Edit: Just found out there is also a International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) Temple in Odessa Oblast.
Interesting, thank you!😊
@@SuperalbsTravels wanted to write the same as already written above. I'll only add that it's not something typical for Ukraine, so it looks same strange for Ukrainians as for you. :)
Thank you for your review! As a citizen of Ukraine I'm really glad you had an opportunity to film our railway) I hope in the nearest future everyone will be able to experience Ukrzaliznycia railway trip))
Gorgeous sunset! Reminded me of the Ukrainian flag...blue sky and yellow/orange horizon.
Yes, I always see the flag in various natural places! 😊
Spiderman into spiderverse
Ukrainian flag itself actually represents the sunset) But it is more common to say that ukrainian flag represents the golden wheat field and the blue sky above it.
because you emphasized it so much, I am now much more interested in why you were late :D
I know 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip can i bribe you? :D
@@Applecake771 Pretty sure he had a toilet accident lol
Noooooope 😂😂😂
@@paul_ko worse 🫣
I'm from Odesa, and seeing this video makes me happy.
A brilliant report. I hope Ukraine will prevail 🇺🇦 . The naming of the train is probably due to Odesa being a seaport. If I remember rightly, there used to be a French train called “la Mouette” running to the seaside.
Thanks, I agree! 🇺🇦
Thanks for the great video! Greetings from Ukraine! (Poltava)
You make very good videos! Hi from Odesa!)
Thank you! :)
Very interesting, thanks for doing this.
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a lovely trip.
Beautiful journey
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for your kind words - brings a lot of memories as I used to take trains all of the time, as a cheap and reliable way of traveling across Ukraine. Train from my hometown in the west (Mukachevo) to capital Kyiv usually takes the same 13-14 hrs.
Nice, and that's a really scenic route too! 😍
thank you for the review and good feedback about the railways of Ukraine
What an incredible sunrise
Sunset, but yes it was amazing!
10:17 Also you should've been crossing the point when 25kV 50Hz ~ changes to 3kV = near the Kharkiv. They should've changing the loco to VL60 or CHS2
BTW they change locos mainly because of rule in which crews can't work on the train more then certain amount of time. Some time they keep two or more crews on board that change one another in specific stations. You can actually see that on train schedule that hanging inside the wagon - such trains change the numbers out of sudden.
VL60 is almost all out of service due to their age. Trains from Odesa are pulled by VL80 / VL40u / ChS4 until Poltava (crew change happens in Pomichna or Znamyanka) and then in Poltava a bi-current loco VL82M replaces the previous locos. It can easily pass through a neutral voltage point in Ohyltsi without need of loco change. But all VL locos are supposed to be cargo ones, they're used for passenger trains due to shortage of specifically passenger ones in Odesa region.
@@user-jz6hd7yr2p i main ain't only difference between cargo and passenger locos in high voltage line for electric heating?
@@Coole000 there is no difference in voltage lines, moreover - no passenger cars have electric heating. it's coil. still. unfortunately
@@Coole000 also EPT (Electropneumatic braking) equipment, for smoother braking.
The voltage was standardised nationwide last year during the electrification of the Kovel and Sarny lines to 25kV. Most trains are now pulled by either GE or ЧС8 trains.
Great trip !
You was lucky with this refurbished car to tell the truth. And thank you for warm words!
Thanks for watching! There are lots of nice carriages in Ukraine, even brand-new ones built locally. 😃
Great video 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️ from 🇦🇺. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Great Vid man. Hope this all ends soon so i can also go back enjoy whats left of the beautiful scenery. ❤
I hope so too... ❤🇺🇦
! Very Good !
thanks as always for the info and tour of train and countryside...stay safe in your journeys. and Viva Ukraine...🔵🔵🟡🟡👍👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the trip. 🇺🇦
Nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Very nice video! I just want to ask if there will be any reviews/videos on Hungarian railways anytime soon or in the future. :)
Hopefully! I tried to film one recently, but it broke down. ☹️
very happy you liked our country 😊
thanks for supporting us!🥰
Oh those people throwing flowers were the members of the Hare Krsna cult in Hinduism promoted by the International Society for Krishna consciousness (ISKCON).
I'm surprised they still exist in Ukraine. I haven't seen them for decades in Western Europe. Jai Ram!
Interesting, thanks! 😅
As soon as the war is over, I'm on my way! Thanks for this brilliant report!
Me too, it's an incredible place! 🇺🇦
good luck, mines are everywhere.
@@german_novotiable surely not in a train carriage?
LOL I started laughing a bit when I was watching this and realized that there are two different types of travel channels I watch. One type would have joined the celebrating people, finding out what was going on and then you (the other type) is just "Out of my way, I'm documenting this journey, dammit!" ;) NO criticism, I thoroughly enjoy both styles/types of content and I haven't really reflected about the differences before now, and I only realized it because I actually got curious about why you were late and what those people were doing... ;)
😂😂😂😂
Well since you are curious what they were doing, they were Vaishnav... A (Indian) Hindu sect that follows the teachings of Lord Krishna... These people are part of the international community of an organisation called ISCON...
Interesting, thanks! @@LOKI_THE_HUSKY
Odesa ❤ I also travelled by this type of vagon, it costs about 500 hrn. Both beautiful cities Odesa and Kharkiv 🥰 Slava Ukraini 😌
Awesome, it's great value! 😊
It's so funny that the word for railway station is basically "Vauxhall", because of a misunderstanding in the past.
So the stories say, not sure if it's true, but it's funny to think about! 😂
@@SuperalbsTravels I've looked it up and it's not so much about a misunderstanding, but it does indeed come from Vauxhall.
@@SeverityOne Awesome! :)
There is nothing strange in this. The word "vauxhall" in the Russian Empire meant a place of entertainment. In the first years after the opening of the railway, each train was met with an orchestra; listening to music required a special building. And then it began to be used as a waiting hall and a place to sell tickets.
Very sobering watching this..
It is sad to look back and think about the situation nowadays...
sad to see how peaceful it used to be just 2 years ago. slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
It's a lovely place 🇺🇦
Did you have a chance to try Hyundai Intercity trains? I used to travel a lot between Kiev and Lviv and preferred it over night train.
I've used them quite a bit, but never filmed one.
They also manufacture the trains ❤🇺🇦
The windows and exteriors look clean. Is there a first class sleeper with one or two beds?
Some trains have first class, but not all of them. 😃
You were lucky to have seats in a newer carriage, much more comfortable, which usually only commuting to Kyiv, or "branded" trains like this one. There are unfortunately plenty of old awful carriages, which our UZ railways can't get rid of yet... And, there're also third-class "platzkart" carriages too (which I personally prefer more, due to open space saloon, similar to a bus or an airplane, but with beds like in 2nd class).
I was in Ukraine during the summer for 3 weeks but had no chance to try their trains. I am going there again in April-May, and this time, loads of train journeys. I was interested in the difference between those trains, like what IC+ is, etc.
Have you tried any our day high-speed services? I talk about Intercity and Intercity+ trains
Yes, I have tried them all except Škoda double-deck.
Mu childhood experience if there was anything good in Soviet Union then it was these overnight trains (except toilets).
Here I admire how advantages as carriage and cabin layout are kept but refurbished with better materials and slightly modernized in details. It opposes with modern consumerism where things are completely replaced as soon as new model is available.
It opposes also some other video in this channel where old trains are used until collapse without any maintenance or even washing.
Слава Україні!
I agree, and thanks for watching! :)
Hi superalbs, Can we get TFW class 197 and TFW class 175 refurbished reviews? Also can we get a class 810 Emr and 805/807 Avanti reviews when they come out
Possibly, it depends on my schedule at any given time. :)
3:09 - have you visited Black Sea beach? It'll make a lot of sense when you do ;)
Fair enough! 😂😂😂
"It may or may not represent currant service status" - but that's the most interesting point here - we know there are o lot of buses going there every day, so I would be curious if the service is still available //
Many trains still run, but I don't know any details. You should be able to find timetables online.
Yes
Muito lindo trem cama
Amazing train video 🇰🇷
Thank you very much! 😊
When was this made?
All I wanna know is why you were late to the station... ;)
Secret! 😏
Hey! How could u travel by train in Ukraine in wartime?
This was in Summer 2021. But you can still go to Ukraine now. :)
Thank you for this lovely video and thank you for your support of Ukraine!💙💛
Glad you enjoyed! 🇺🇦
I know this was in 2021, but u said "today i will be riding..." and I was like "entering the Warzone" lol
😢
Красиво
Yes! 😍🇺🇦
@@SuperalbsTravels красивая страна ,если все закончится обязательно поеду в Днепропетровск,харьков и киев
@@MS_KALOVIIThree lovely cities! 😊
@@SuperalbsTravels ❤️
Thanks for good review. I'm working on Ukrzaliznytsia
Best of luck! Your work is appreciated by many. 🇺🇦
@@SuperalbsTravels thanks)
The reason why Odessa has a large yard its due to it being a grain export terminal. If you were watching BBC the grain terminal had parts destroyed with the railyard also targeted by the Russians too. Same with Kharkiv Yard from 24 February 2022-24 October 2022.
Well done video for the pre 2022 war train travel in Ukraine. These days increased frequency towards NATO countries Poland Hungary Slovakia & Romania.
Thanks for the information and kind words! 😊
A Question: How do you communicate with the people there? Do you always know their language?
he speaks english. english is a international language understood in most countries.
@@funnel_fish I thought east europeans can't speak english...
I think in Ukraine there are more people who can speak English than in Germany))@@eisenbahnerharthausen
@@artemik bs
@@german_novotiable а ты русский? Если да, то молчи, вы свой родной язык выучить не можете, что уже говорить про английский.
Sad there wasn’t any food
When did you undertake this journey?
I noticed that this and other information are not filled in in the description.
Summer 2021
Have you watched the video? It says "summer 2021".
Sorry, I had forgot. 😅
As a Ukrainian, I am very pleased that you pronounce the name places in Ukrainian and not in Russian.
no mention of food, is there a restaurant carriage?
Nope, sadly not... 😭
carriage staff supplies you with snacks and drinks, so you can buy something without entering another coach.
The name of the service, Chaika, doesn’t mean “seagull”. It’s a reference to fast boat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaika_(boat)
Ah. That would make more sense! 😂
Hi, are you re-inventing the history again?
In the USSR, many trains with routes had the names of birds (Burevestnik, Bely Aist, Vyatka).
But now this relic of the past is an occasion for Ukrainian turbo patriotic pride painted in the colors of the flag and inserted Ukrainian tridents. But for some reason, the Soviet symbol was removed from the mother's homeland, but Ukrainians still continue to use everything Soviet.
Although I read here about this "Chaika" from Zaporozhye (the chaika train goes to Odessa, and Odessa itself was founded from a fortress on behalf of Catherine 2, whose monument was also demolished, I remind you) and I see that the same boats but with the name "Nasad/насадѣ" were used by ancient Russians, though not for robberies, with the first mentions from 1015.
I see an interesting repetition of the Ukrainian Cossack history: lies, excessive pride, robberies
The bird is different word in Ukrainian. During Soviet times, the Odessa-Kyiv service was called “Чорноморець” and not like any of the Russian shit birds.
Russian commentator - chill and go join your warship
@@SvyatoslavPidgorny This route appeared only after the collapse of the USSR, in 1998. When I click on the link on Wikipedia, I don’t see what it was called before, but I see that the trains were called in Russian, except for one single Dnieper, where they even specifically emphasized it, what pride!
Well, I say - you rewrite history perfectly
KhArkiv is the correct pronunciation for the city, emphasizing on the 'A' letter ) .
Oops, I am terrible at emphasising letters. Thank you!
Chayka service used to run from Kiev-Riga or Simferopol-Riga service via Vilnius back in the day. I remember taking it from Vilnius to Siauliai with my grandma multiple times. Sadly can't find much info about it now but it used to be the "good" and comfortable train back then i.e. before around 1991.
It‘s so insane that an aggressor country is laying waste to these places and we‘re seemingly powerless to stop it 😭
It's horrible, absolutely disgusting. 😭❤️🇺🇦
why would you call an entire country as 'agressor' because of politics?
@@playdaniil6872 Because 90% of population support war and putin. Country of id..ots.
@@playdaniil6872 Russia literally is the agressor country, as they are the ones who started the war, it doesn't matter if the people don't support war, Russia is still the agressor.
@@andrewchampion2728нет
Why low platforms in major cities...
They're mostly high platforms in Odesa, just not at the very end.
Harkov is a nice place
Agreed, I spent a week there. :)
slava Ukraini
3:35 to 4:13 , that's ISKON & that's India 🇮🇳
I do think that some trains in eastern parts of Ukraine did got cancelled due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which caused damage to railway tracks in this area.
when Russia annexed Crimea, all Ukrainian trains were still operating. I did a trip to Crimea in April 2014, there were delays in arrival and departure times, also a mess in timetables because Crimea switched to a Moscow time (1 hour difference). In April 2014 there was even no passport control from Ukrainian side. But everything was operating. When the war started on east of Ukraine, surprisingly trains were also still operating there, even though it was extremely dangerous. My friend told me she went from Kyiv to Mariupol and in Donetsk soldiers (not Ukrainians) with weapon entered the train and were checking everyone. At some point due to danger the trains to Donetsk and Lugansk stopped operating somewhere in the middle of 2014. The trains to Crimea were still operating till the very end of 2014. Since that time the railway infrastructure in east Ukraine in the parts that are not controlled by Ukraine are in a very sad condition. In Crimea the situation is better because Russia has organised Russian trains there. I was at East Ukraine in 2018 and at that year the situation was relatively calm, so many Ukrainian regional trains started coming right to the frontline, a few hundred meters from the trenches of the military. But that's only about regional trains, as for sleepers like in this video, they didn't go so far. I also heard that there was even a train going to Avdeevka, which is extremely close to the frontline, from the top of the houses there you can see Donetsk. So if not a full-scale invasion, I am sure that everything would have been fine. As for 2022, there was so big mess with the full-scale invasion... There's a video on the UA-cam that the Russian tank is crossing the railway just in front of the moving passenger train... People say that happened somewhere on the South of Ukraine, in the area which is now occupied. In February-March some trains were delayed for DAYS, not just hours. At the moment it's back to some schedule and Ukrainians are joking that trains in Ukraine are more punctual that in European countries even though there's a full-scale war... but of course a lot of infrastructure is ruined.
Hare Krishna!
Great trip. Ah yes, another hit of pronunciation.
Thanks! 😃
It's super sad that probably most of those places doesn't exist any more or it's badly damaged 😥
not at all mate, even Kharkiv's station is mostly unscathed
👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👏👏👏🙌👍
Да, получился исторический портрет страны "до"...
4:10 them singing lord krishna's chants
A taste of what Ukrainian culture feels and sounds like before pointlessly being destroyed by war. Beautiful countries like these are too important to be wiped out, especially having some of the most friendly citizens you'll ever meet. Normality and peace will return in the future. For now, we should look back and enjoy the oddities of this antique but fascinating Ukrainian railway system.
_Slava Ukraini!_ 🇺🇦
If you want antique and fascinating - you should look at the Polish railway system.
@@user-pn2ni1sv3iклоун, большая часть постсоветских стран использует совдеповский ПС. Единственные, кто от него избавляются/избавились-Россия Литва, Латвия и Эстония
@@user-pn2ni1sv3iмы вам там дорогу ненадолго через Армянск оставили, так что бегите с Херсонщины и Запорожья пока не поздно
A beautiful way to remind us all of what a peaceful country Ukraine is and what they deserve to have back very nicely done
Agreed... ☹️🇺🇦
Indeed the Victory of Ukraine 🇺🇦. Glory to Ukraine.
Советское наследие в стране демонизирующей Союз прекрасно)
Were the blue cars built in Russia? I always see them on Russian trains.
Compartment cars (4 bunks in a room, like the one in the video) and SV (2 bunks in a room) were built in the GDR by Amendorf plant. Flat-cart wagons (without compartmentalization) were built in Russia in Kalinin. Although in recent years, Ukraine has also built its own wagons, although not many at all, compared to the number of wagons of the Soviet period.
@@Andy_Novosad Thank you. What is GDR?
@@samtrak1204 I guess you are a young person? 😉 GDR stands for German Democratic Republic. East Germany, to keep it simple.
@@Andy_Novosad Thanks. I’m 78 and know about the German divide and reunification. I visited InnoTrans in Berlin last year and rode through parts of East Germany. Berlin Hauptbahnhof is the 8th Wonder of the World.👊🏾👴🏾✌🏾
@@samtrak1204 😄😁My apologies, then✌️☮️
subset: 5FTS
I would rather refer the Ukrainian Railways as Y3. I hope they endure this now.
It's not Y3, it is УЗ (or UZ).
I hope you survive that trip again
Thanks!
Great vlog of what this traveling in this beautiful country was like . At 3:35 I think that a Hindu Hare Krishna monk and they are blessing his and thus your journey, wow did not realise they had presence/following there. Viva Ukraine 🇺🇦
Yes, it's Krishnaits, its a big commune especially in Odessa city.
Thanks for the information! 😁
Yep... Long Live Ukraine... !! 🔵🟡
Agree! 🇺🇦
2:54-3:00 I wish that was same case in Serbia, but it isn't
Sadly not, I see a lot of abandoned trains in Serbia... :(
If you'd travelled in the winter you'd have smelt coal burning in the carriages - since that's what they use for heating 😛
Ah yes, I love the atmosphere of stations in winter. :)
Thank you for believing in us! Ukraine will prevail 🇺🇦
Absolutely! ❤️🇺🇦
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Based
X2000 when?
Not sure, I have a lot of videos to make. :)
@@SuperalbsTravels ok, thanks for the answer, wasnt expeting it tbh, but im glad i was wrong:)
Poland also keeps their trains dating as far as the early 60's in very good condition and even sometimes upgrading them to modern standards
Ah yes, gotta love Polish railways! :)
Its too risky to travel in Ukraine these days but... Who knows
Есть такое, но не настолько
when was this
August 2021
3:38 as far i can get, this is some kind of religious stuff going on here. Krishnaids or something like that
Thanks!
Slava Ukrainii! 🇺🇦
Героям слава! 🇺🇦
Mostly it's soviet infrastructure relics reused. Finding such wagons in Russia is hard now, even sadly because new wagons weirdly made with shorter beds (like 170cm for upper bunks) and soviet was more comfortable and people oriented. I still believe that new wagons in Russia are made maybe for chinese or by them. Absurdly but Ukraine was main supplier of wheel pairs for most trains in Russia before because of lower price than russian metalworking.
Thankyou for uploading this journey by train across Ukraine before the brutal invasion by the Russians last year. It is a crying shame what is happening to the Ukraine at the moment and I hope that they will prevail and win back their country.
Me too! ❤️🇺🇦
Lol I’m pretty sure you ran into some Hare Krishna people. The ones throwing flowers and clapping. A bit of an odd sight in Ukraine
Aha, thank you! 😊
Iam also for Ukraine Kiev yes in Ukraine dont many peaple speak English.