Andriy Sadovyi visited Uzhgorod (PHOTOS)

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi already shared his impressions of Uzhgorod at the Facebook page: "Uzhgorod, thank you for the meeting! Our cities need to collaborate more and share experiences. And let’s argue only about who has the best coffee!"

Andriy Sadovyi arrived to the regional center of Transcarpathia with a team of specialists within the framework of the project "UrbanTalks Lviv & Uzhgorod".

"We are looking forward for productive and closer cooperation with our colleagues from Lviv," – the acting mayor of Uzhgorod, deputy mayor Igor Fartushok said today, welcoming the mayor of Lviv.

Andriy Sadovyi said that many state-level executives for decades have only formally been interested in the development of cities, so in Lviv they initiated a discussion among officials, activists, deputies directly on the ground, who are willing to share success stories and even failures from their experience in Lviv, compare with other cities around the world, establish a dialogue and look for partnerships. For this purpose, they visited Uzhgorod.

Andriy Sadovyi complimented the regional center of Transcarpathia for the "Uzhgorod" cake and coffee, noting that Lviv and Uzhgorod coffee are like BMW and Mercedes – worthy of each other. In his view, Uzhgorod has a huge potential, but it is important to have an airport the city and high-speed trains to and from Kyiv.

From the experience of Lviv, Sadovyi told about the importance of seeing the city’s development strategy and its implementation, the success of attracting tourists, developing the IT sphere, engaging leading experts of Europe in the development of projects, in particular architectural ones, cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the development of urban infrastructure, etc.

The people present at the meeting today in the Uzhgorod "Owl’s Nest" asked questions to speakers, discussed the trends of the urban development in view of the rapid development of technologies, dynamic changes in the climate, the importance of replacing the traditional industry with intellectual property, services, etc.