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«The Lexicon of Intimate Cities» is one of the largest works by Yuri Andrukhovych. A tireless traveller around Ukraine, Europe, and America, the author tells us 111 stories about 111 cities with which he was lucky enough to have happy and not so happy, but always intimate - in the broadest sense of the word - adventures. Arranged in alphabetical order by place name, these multi-genre texts - from essays and short stories to prose poems - together form an autobiographical atlas of the writer's world. In addition, each "lexicon" adventure is clearly inscribed not only in spatial but also in temporal coordinates, allowing the reader to follow the author on 111 private-historical leaps from the mid-1960s to the present day. One can hardly expect from this atlas, this extremely subjective «manual on geopoetics and cosmopolitanism», objective characteristics of Kyiv and Lviv, Moscow and Warsaw, New York and Yenakiyevo. But it certainly contains more artistically important things: the atmosphere, mood, images, smells and tastes of his favourite cities and places, as they are imprinted in the author's memory. As well as momentary observations and deeper reflections, lyricism and sadness, irony and sarcasm - that is, everything that makes our communication with the world more intimate.