Koteinia Murkit
Ternopil
Koteinia Murkit is a small cat cafe and gift shop on Ruska Street in central Ternopil, billed as the city's first anti-stress cat cafe. It was opened in 2024 by Maryna Chernyshova, who was displaced twice by the war, from Donetsk in 2014 and from Mariupol in 2022, and started it with a state grant. Socialised street cats live in the cafe, sleep in the armchairs and wander between the tables, and they have a private space closed to guests; some of them are looking for new homes. Guests are asked to approach the cats calmly, not to wake them or hold them against their will, and not to feed them from the table. The menu has coffee, seasonal drinks and desserts such as a panna cotta called Panakotyk. The cafe also hosts art therapy sessions, workshops with psychologists, board games and a cat-themed mafia game night.