ukraine, human world (country presentation)
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Associations with Ukraine Carpathian Mountains
Dnipro
Beautiful women Painted Easter
eggs
Borscht Black Sea
Fancywork
Orange Revolution
History of Ukraine
1922 Ukrainian
Soviet Socialist Republic
1991 Independence
1917 – 1921 Several
attempts at independence
9th century The largest
and most powerful nation in Europe
12th century Disintegration
19th century Integration
into the Russian
Empire and Austria-Hungary
Administrative divisions
Two cities with special status: Kiev
and Sevastopol
24 oblasts (provinces)
Autonomous republic (Crimea)
603,628 km2
Economy
Main industries: coal, electric power,
ferrous and nonferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment,
chemicals, agriculture, food production
1 hryvnia = 1UAH (Ukrainian currency)
= 0,13 USD = 0,09 EUR = 0,4 PLN
Population
17,3%
0,4% 0,3% 0,3% 0,2%0,2%
0,8%
0,6%0,5%
Ukrainians Russians Belarusians
Moldovans & Romanians Bulgarians Hungarians
Polish Jews Armenians
46 million people
Famous Ukrainians
Yaroslav the Wise
Grand Prince of Kievan Rus
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko
Ukrainian poet, artist and humanist
Nikolai Gogol
Ukrainian novelist, humorist, and dramatist
Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko
Ukrainian heavyweights
Andriy Shevchenko
Ukrainian football striker
Famous places in Ukraine Swallow's
Nest
Chersonesos
Taurica
Kiev Pechersk
Lavra
Dominican Church
Old Castle
Ukrainian dances and music Kobza (Ukrainian traditional musical
instrument resembling the
guitar
Hopak (Ukrainian folk
dance)
Trembita (Guzul pipe)
Ukrainian holidays Christmas
(7 January)
Day of Women and Spring (8 March)
Day of Victory (9
May)
Easter
Day of Independence (24 August)
Constitution Day
(28 June) New Year (1 January)