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23 unusual facts about Ukraine


Bat-Ochirin Eldev-Ochir

Under house arrest at the Black Sea resort town of Foros, Genden was desperate to return to Mongolia and at one point reached out the Eldev-Ochir, who was vacation in nearby Yalta, for assistance.

Berehove Raion

The station Batyovo, in fact, is situated at the intersection connecting such important cities of the region as Chop, Mukacheve, and Berehove.

Bill Boytchuk

He was born near Sniatyn, Ukraine and after spending several years in Germany immigrated to Canada in 1948.

Carpatho-Ukraine

In the evening of March 13, Jozef Tiso (the Slovak leader) and Ďurčanský met German leader Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Generals Walther von Brauchitsch and Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin.

Chalga

Because of its appeal, Chalga music genre has become very popular in folk festivals in Bulgaria and neighboring countries, notably Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Albania, all countries from the Ex-Yugoslavia, and to lesser extent in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova.

Çorlulu Ali Pasha

On 15 June 1710, he was dismissed and appointed as the governor of Feodosiya (in modern Ukraine).

Dmytro Chygrynskiy

Chygrynskiy was born in Iziaslav, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.

Dubove

Dubove, Ukraine, a village in Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine

Education in Ukraine

In school year 2009-2010 potential graduates are scheduled to undergo external independent testing after the final state examination, in the following subjects: Ukrainian language and literature, history of Ukraine, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, geography, and one foreign language (of the pupil's choice) in either English, German, French, or Spanish.

Good Samaritan Children's Home

The Good Samaritan Children's Home is an orphanage in Velika Dobrony, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.

Hromada

Name "hromada" was frequently used by political and social organizations, newspapers in Ukraine.

Julian Marchlewski

In 1926, he was the namesake for the Polish National Raion in Ukraine (Marchlewszczyzna), with the capital at Marchlewsk (known before and after as Dovbysh and Shchorsk).

Julij Feldesi

After his studies, became a printer in Ungvár (today Uzhhorod, Ukraine).

Maurice Pollack

Born in Kanele, Kiev, in Ukraine, he arrived in Canada in 1902, and settled in Quebec City, where he opened a department store at the age of 20 years, in the Saint-Roch district of Québec City.

Phil Spitalny

Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890, Tetiev, Ukraine (territory of Russian Empire) – October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida) was a musician, music critic, composer and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s.

Sarkis Ordyan

Sarkis Ordyan (b. December 20, 1918–2003) was a Ukrainian-Armenian painter.

Shatsk

Shatsk, Ukraine, an urban-type settlement in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Slavyansk

In the 18th century, Slavyansk was also the name of the city now known as Nikopol, Ukraine; thus the local Orthodox diocese was known as that of "Slavyansk and Kherson".

Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics

Students compete on an individual basis, with up to ten or even more students competing from each participating region (there were 28 teams including 25 teams of Ukrainian regions, teams of Kiev, Sevastopol and team of UPML (Ukrainian Physico-Mathematical Lyceum) in 2005).

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The Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics (UOI) is an annual informatics competition for secondary school students who live in Ukraine.

Vitaliy Ponomarenko

Vitaliy Ponomarenko (1975 – February 5, 2008) was a Ukrainian powerlifting champion.

Vydra

Vydra, Ukraine, a village (selo) in Brodivskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Zolochiv Raion

Zolochiv Raion is a name of couple of subdivisions in Ukraine.


2002 in chess

Eduard Gufeld, a Ukrainian International Grandmaster and chess author - September 23

2005 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship

Ukraine and the Czech Republic were relegated to Division B.

2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions

Matthew Rojansky, on CNN, suggested several possible motivations for the attack, ranging from random acts of violence, or the work of gangs from Ukraine’s criminal underworld and endlessly feuding oligarchs, to international terrorism linked to al-Qa'eda, up to the eventual involvement of Russian secret services.

Alexander Gerschenkron

Alexander Gerschenkron (in Russian Александр Гершенкрон, * 1904 in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † 26 October 1978 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor in Harvard, trained in the Austrian School of economics.

Anatoily Buznik

More than ten years a teacher, "Licensing Center" Football Federation of Ukraine, a member of the scientific and methodical council of Football Federation of Ukraine, conducted training of trainers program Cup in Lithuania, Latvia and Kazakhstan.

Andrei Nikolishin

His father, Vasyl Nikolishin, was a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, and was exiled from Ukraine to a Gulag forced labor coal mine in Vorkuta, the largest center of the camps in European Russia, for a period of 25 years.

Beriev Be-12

Other examples exist at the Ukraine State Aviation Museum at Kiev, Ukraine and that the Taganrog Air Museum, in southern Russia.

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Boris Grinyov

In 2008 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science by Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea) for his contribution in establishing scientific and technical cooperation between Ukraine and South Korea.

Branimir Aleksić

Branimir was also included in the squad for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League campaign, in which the club reached the third qualifying round, losing 3–2 on aggregate to Ukraine’s FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

Bulawa

Historically the buława was an attribute of a Hetman, an officer of the highest military rank (after the monarch) in 15th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and of the Otaman of Ukraine or the military head of a Cossack state (Cossack Hetmanate).

DJ Sender

2005 – The Best DJ #2 of Ukraine (TOPDJ.ua Awards)

Dnepropetrovsk maniacs

Vladimir Suprunyuck, Igor Suprunyuck's father, in his interview to Segodnya stated that he had been employed at Yuzhmash as a test pilot, often flying with Leonid Kuchma, the future president of Ukraine, and continuing to serve as his personal pilot on domestic flights after Kuchma's rise to power.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

Eduard Bitterlich

Eduard Bitterlich (August 17, 1833, Stupnicka, or Dubliany, Galicia, now Ukraine - May 20, 1872, Pfalzau, now part of Pressbaum) was born in Galicia where his father had established himself.

Felix Dzerzhinsky

In Russia there is a city of Dzerzhinsk, a village of Dzerzhinsk and three other cities called Dzerzhinskiy; in former Soviet republics, there are cities named Dzerzhinski (Armenia), Dzyarzhynsk (Belarus), and Dzerzhinsk (Ukraine).

G. V. Belyi

His family moved from there to Ukraine, and he began his studies at the Kiev Physics and Mathematics School but moved from there to Moscow State University.

History of Christianity in Ukraine

One of the most prominent Protestants in modern Ukraine is a practicing Baptist pastor Oleksandr Turchynov, former head of the SBU, Ukraine's successor to the KGB, and a former acting Prime Minister.

Johnny Bucyk

Bucyk was born in Edmonton to Sam and Perl Bucyk, Ukrainian immigrants from the village of Butsiv, in what is now Mostyska Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

Kosov

: 9901, a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine.

Krasyliv Raion

One of the main rivers that runs through the raion is the Sluch River, a tributary of the Pripyat.

Laws regarding child pornography

Nina Karpachova, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said in June 2011 that a significant amount of child pornography available on the Internet originates in Ukraine.

Lukyanivska Prison

Ukrainian Ombudsman Nina Karpachova stated in September 2011 that while the facility was designed for 2,850 inmates, 3,800 were held there at the time; she also pointed out that 47 inmates with active tuberculosis threatened the health of other inmates and personnel.

Martti Välikangas

After qualifying Välikangas worked in Yuzovka in Russia (present-day Donetsk in the Ukraine), but had to leave in a hurry with the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Massacre of Broniki

The Massacre of Broniki referred to the killing of members of the Wehrmacht by soldiers of the Red Army, on 1 July 1941 near the place Broniki in western Ukraine.

Nariné Simonian

She has also given concerts in Russia, Belgium, Switzerland (in Bulle, at Saint-Pierre des des Liens) where she has a recorded a CD, in Finland, at Kiev (Ukraine in 2003 with Dominique de Williencourt and in November 2008 at the Organ Hall), in North America (New York on 1 November 1998, at the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York, in Montreal and in South America in 1997, along with Olivier Latry (Argentina, Uruguay at the Festival Internacional del Uruguay Órgano,.

Nelly Akopian-Tamarina

As a student Akopian-Tamarina won the Gold Medal at the 1963 Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers in Zwickau, and in 1974, succeeding Richter, Nikolayeva and Gilels, was awarded the Robert Schumann Prize.

Nikolai Bartossik

Nikolai Bartossik was born on April 5, 1951, in the Polkivnyche (Ivanky) Mankiwskyi Raion (District) in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.

Oleksandr Lebedynets

Oleksandr Lebedynets (Ukrainian: Олександр Лебединець (born on 8 August 1984 in Zolochiv, Kharkiv Oblast) is a professional Ukrainian football player for FC Helios Kharkiv.

Opalenica

The Portuguese National Football Team was based here during the European Championships of 2012 held in Poland and Ukraine.

Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc

During the election campaign some Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc members suspected Our Ukraine to be responsible for leaflets aimed against Yulia Tymoshenko, like fake invitations to celebrate her birthday at McDonald's.

Polessky

Poliske (Polesskoye), an abandoned town in Kiev Oblast, Ukraine

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories

In practice, however, Rosenberg's authority was substantially undermined by the appointment of Erich Koch to administer Ukraine with orders from Hitler to be hard and brutal.

Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium

Rivne Ukrainian gymnasium (RUG) is a new type school in Rivne, Ukraine.

Rumcherod

Later the Soviet republic was forced to comply with the conditions of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and withdraw due to the advance German-Austrian military first to Nikolayev, then to Rostov-on-Don and Yeysk.

Russian World Studios

In addition, Russian and international channels have acquired rights to air some of their programs, including Channel One (Russia), CTC (Russian Federation), 1+1 (Ukraine), Fox Life and Channel 9 (Israel).

Settlements of the Cucuteni–Trypillian culture

In terms of overall size, some of Cucuteni-Trypillian sites, such as Talianki (with a population of 15,000 and covering an area of some 450 hectares – 1100 acres) in the Uman district of Ukraine, are as large as (or perhaps even larger than) the more famous city-states of Sumer in the Fertile Crescent, and these Eastern European settlements predate the Sumerian cities by more than half of a millennium.

Shevchenko National Prize

The works that seek the National Prize are presented by the Ministry of culture and tourism of Ukraine, the Ukrainian National Academy of Science, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, the Ukrainian artistic unions, and the Ukrainian literally and artistically critical associations.

Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's skeet

Mykola Milchev of Ukraine became the first shooter to hit all 150 targets at an Olympic competition in skeet.

Suicide in Ukraine

Suicide in Ukraine is a common cause of unnatural death and a serious social issue.

Taurida Governorate

However neither Ukraine nor the Crimea managed to hold on to their territories and were overrun by Bolshevik Red Guards in winter of 1917-18.

Ushytsia

Stara Ushytsia, an urban-type settlement in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

Viktoria Grigoreva

During her teaching career she was a visiting professor at both Specialist Music School of Sweden and Ukraine and also held posts at London College of Music and Rikkyo School.

VIM-Berkut

VIM-Berkut is an ice hockey team in Lviv, Ukraine.

WebMoney

In 2013, the Ukrainian government had seized testing computer equipment from the Ukrainian guarantor and blocked 60 million UAH residing on guarantors’ accounts in Ukraine.

Zborov

Zboriv (Зборів, Zborów, Zborov), a city in Ternopil Oblast (Galicia), Ukraine