Maiden Ukraine

This year I was happy to see Stephen Ives, ex-CEO of well-known company Trigenix for the first time. That happened at 3GSM in hot Barcelona in February and the description of that legendary meeting you can see here.

I say ‘legendary’ because since February Steve has been visiting Ukraine every month and became the most frequent foreign guest in QArea office. He is also very much beloved guest, because his trips to Ukraine always become legendary events for the whole development team of QArea, due to Steve’s natural attention to people and positive mood.

On his turn Steve also is excited when he comes to our country. First of all he is very much interested in progress of his business on our side, second, Steve says that each trip to Ukraine is very cognitive for him. For example due to the first challenge – lesson of Russian language I gave Steve in the plane on our way from Kiev to Kharkiv, Steve has started learning our language.

 (Extreme lesson of Russian in the plane was very efficient!) 

Also Steve visited the most important historical attractions in Kiev like Sofia Kyivska, St. Michael’s Golden Domed Cathedral (see picture on the top of the page), ancient Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, museums; best restaurants and… I will not tell you more, you should definitely see Kiev yourself!

As for Steve’s main travel destination – Kharkiv, where QArea headquaters are located, this city doesn’t have many magnificent churches and ‘hot’ places to attract tourists… However Steve was impressed with prices in Kharkiv which are 2 or 3 times lower than in Kiev! After 3 more days in our place Steve concluded that it’s very wise to base QArea in a place with quite reasonable prices, developed IT industry and 5 universities which prepare hundreds of software developers every year.

Other impressions and perfect introduction to Ukraine by Stephen Ives in the next posting!