World Region Information --- Ukraine Information
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On the eastern edge of Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania, Moldova and the Black Sea to the south. (South of the Black Sea is Turkey)
603,700 km2 (about 1.6 times that of Japan)
Odesa(1.01 million), Rivne(250,000), Lviv(730,000), Kharkiv(1.46 million), Dnipro(One million), Cherkasy(290,000), Zhytomyr(280,000), Khmelnytskyi(270,000), Ternopil(200 000), etc.
Approximately 42 million people
Ukraine 77.8%, Russian 17.8%, Belarus 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, others
Ukraine, Russian, Other
Ukraine Orthodox and Ukraine Eastern Catholicism, etc.
- St. Sophia Cathedral
- St. Andrew's Church
- Kyiv Holy Dormition Caves Lavra
- St Volodymyr's Cathedral
- Annunciation Cathedral
- Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra
Ukraine embroidery, Ukraine cuisine, Ukraine style architecture, etc.
- Kamenet's Podolsky Castle
- Mezhyhirya Residence
- Fort Tarakanivskyy
- Tunnel of Love
- Odessa Catacombs
- National Art Museum of Ukraine
- Mariyinsky palace
- Chernobyl
- Independence Square
- National Opera of Ukraine
- National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
- Golden Gate
- Feofaniya Park
- The Motherland Monument
- M.M.Gryshko National Botanical Garden
- Khortytsia
- Potemkin Stairs
- Pysanka Museum
- Lubart Castle
- Shatsky National Natural Park
- Askania Nova
- Drahobrat
- Probiy Waterfall
- Pidhirtsi Castle
- Buzk's Gard National Nature Park
- High Castle Hill in Lviv
- Oleksandria Arboretum
From 2018, 11 years of secondary education will be replaced by 12 years of secondary education. In 2000/2001 70% studied at Ukrainian language school and 29% at Russian language school. In 2017, the Law on Education was enacted and the language of instruction was defined as Ukrainian. In 2020, the 'Whole Ukraine Online School' project was launched, where classes can be taken on TV and the Internet for grades 5 to 11 of the school.
- National Technical University of Ukraine“Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
- Lviv Polytechnic National University
- West Ukrainian National University
- Sumy State University
- National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia National University
- National Aviation University
- V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Ternopil State Medical University
- Uzhhorod National University
- National TU Dnipro Polytechnic
- The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
- Yaroslav the Wise National Library of Ukraine
- State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine
1853 Crimean War
1914-18 World War I (Ukraine Civil War)
1919 Ukraine Socialist Soviet Republic established
1922 Establishment of the Soviet Union
1930s- Stalin's Great Purge, Forced Ethnic Emigration
1932-33 Holodomor (Great Famine)
1939-45 World War II (Ukraine was said to be the fiercest battlefield)
1954 Incorporation of Crimea into Ukraine
1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident
1991 Independence from Soviet Union, "Soviet Socialist" deleted from country name, Soviet Union collapsed
2004 Orange Revolution
2005 Russia-Ukraine gas conflict begins
2014 EuroMaidan turmoil (Maidan revolution), Crimean crisis (Russia's annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol), start of eastern Ukraine conflict (Donetsk, Luhansk province), downing of Malaysia Airlines, Minsk agreement
2015 Minsk Agreement 2
2022 Russia recognizes the independence of pro-Russian anti-government groups in eastern Donetsk and Luhansk provinces of Ukraine (self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic). Russia invades Ukraine, occupies the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, etc., and attacks the capital Kyiv.
With the adoption of the constitution in 1996, it became a semi-presidential republic.
- Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
- Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- Office of the President of Ukraine
- Supreme Court of Ukraine
$3,095 (2018)
Since the Soviet era, agriculture and industry have been the main industries for many years. As of 2017, it is the second poorest country in Europe after Moldova. The IT industry has developed since around 2015.
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