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26 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.

Bill Boytchuk

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

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

East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University

Besides branches in Luhansk the university has branches in other Ukrainian cities (Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Krasnodon, Antratsyt, Livadiya, Feodosiya, Yevpatoriya, Skadovsk).

Education in Ukraine

According to Frances Cairncross (in April 2010) "Ukrainian education is too inward-looking, too corrupt and too poor to do a good job".

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.

In 2013 the education system received the third highest percentage among Ukrainians of having given a bribe too with 33%.

Feodosiy Tetianych

Among his forefathers are registered Christians (peasants) and registered Cossacks in the Russian Empire, descendants of Cossacks of Ukrainian Rus.

Georgy Shakhnazarov

Shakhnazarov was staying at a sanatorium close to the presidential dacha at Foros in the Crimea that fateful August 1991, when he helped Gorbachev in his plans for a new Union Treaty to define relations between the republics.

Good Samaritan Children's Home

In the mid 1980s the Dutch relief organisation Stichting Hulp Oost-Europa delivered a large amount of humanitarian relief to many Ukrainian state orphanages.

Hromada

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

The Constitution of Ukraine and some other laws, including the "Law on local self-governance", delegate certain rights and obligations for "hromada".

In history of Ukraine and Belarus such associations appeared first as peasant communes, which gathered their meetings for discussing and resolving current issues.

Jacob Millman

Jacob Millman (1911 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine – May 22, 1991 in Longboat Key, Florida) was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.

Julij Feldesi

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

Kosov

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

Olimpiya Kalush

Olimpiya Kalush is an ice hockey team in Kalush, Ukraine.

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.

Sergey Lunov

Sergey Lunov was born November, 4 1909 in a small village Kekino of Sumy Region in Ukraine in a family of a teacher.

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".

Southern Front of the Russian Civil War

It faced the Reds to the north-east, Whites (who were against Ukrainian separation) to the south-east marching northwards against Moscow and the Anarchist Black Army of Nestor Makhno springing up all over Ukraine.

Suicide in Ukraine

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

Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics

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.

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.

Antonov An-70

After the Orange Revolution in late 2004, and with Ukraine openly aiming for NATO membership, political will for the project evaporated.

Artur Taymazov

His older brother Timur Taymazov was a 1996 Olympic Games champion in weightlifting, competing for Ukraine.

Autoeponym

Pirogov embalming technique: Nikolay Pirogov himself was preserved by methods he developed and his body is still on display in a room temperature glass-lid coffin in the Ukraine.

Beriev Be-12

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

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.

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)

Drzonów

Most of the local inhabitants have been resettled to within post-war Germany, while the village itself was repopulated with Poles, mostly people expelled by the Soviet Union from the village of Rychcice near Lwów (modern Lvov, Ukraine).

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).

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).

Fighting for Freedom

Fighting for Freedom: The Ukrainian volunteer Division of the Waffen-SS is a book by Richard Landwehr on the 14th Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS (the first Ukrainian division).

Firin' Squad

Recent international gigs have included Dubai, New York, Russia, Ukraine, MTV Block Parties in Lithuania, and through Summer 2008 they hit the holiday hotspots of Ibiza and Ayia Napa.

For Ukraine!

In the 2010 local elections For Ukraine! won representatives in municipalities and 1 seat in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council and Volyn Oblast Council and 2 seats in the Sumy Oblast Council (regional parliaments of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Volyn Oblast and Sumy Oblast).

Grigoriopol transmitter

The Grigoriopol transmitter (Russian designation: Mayak Radio Centre) is a very large broadcasting facility situated near Maiac in Transnistria (Moldova), at the border with Ukraine.

Hero of Ukraine

A district administrative court in Donetsk, Ukraine cancelled the presidential decree on 2 April 2010, that had granted the Hero of Ukraine title to Bandera.

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.

Kiev Oblast

Slavutych – Ukraine's youngest city, houses personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Live Reports

Starting from 2003 Nexsound is not only a CD and netlabel but also an organizing structure for making live performances for its artists around the world, and inviting artists from other countries to play in Ukraine.

Locomondo

The video clip of the song featured Greek national player Dimitris Salpingidis who scored the qualifying goal against Ukraine.

Mirax Plaza

Mirax-Plaza Ukraine, a 46-storey building under construction in Kiev, Ukraine

Mircea Lucescu

On 29 May 2009 Lucescu was granted the title "Honorary citizen of Donetsk" by the city council of Donetsk for "earning the UEFA Cup, development and popularization of the Ukrainian football, improvement of the Donetsk, Donetsk region and Ukraine authority in the world".

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.

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.

Pavlo Lebedyev

He is participant of liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster consequences and the Merited Economist of Ukraine (2011).

Pinus cembra

Pinus cembra, also known as Swiss pine, Swiss stone pine or Arolla pine, is a species of pine tree that grows in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland (Tatra Mountains), Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia (Tatra Mountains), Ukraine and Romania.

Post-communism

Some populations are still poorer today than they were in 1989 (e.g., Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia).

Scott MacRae

He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zalischyky, Ukraine for over two years teaching elementary students.

Sergiy Kirichenko

On June 6, 2005 by Decree # 961/2005 of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, he was assigned to be the Chief of the General Staff – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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.

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.

Sinta Ozoliņa-Kovala

In the year of 2007 she participated in European Junior Championships where she won the silver medal and was beaten only by Ukrainian javelin thrower Vira Rebryk.

Sophie Irene Loeb

Sophie Irene Loeb (July 4, 1876, Rivne, Volhynia, Russia (now Ukraine) – January 18, 1929) was a US journalist and social-welfare advocate.

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

The current head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is Colonel-General Mykola Mykhailovych Lytvyn (brother of Volodymyr Lytvyn).

The Same Star

Ruslana performed "The Same Star", as well as "Heart on Fire", at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, thanks to her success at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest.

Ukrainophilia

There are also invidual cases among non-Ukrainians, such as that of the famous French actor Gérard Depardieu, who has said that he had fallen in love with Ukrainian culture and has spent a considerable amount of time in Ukraine.

Ung County

The towns of Veľké Kapušany and Sobrance are now in Slovakia; the other towns mentioned are in Ukraine.

Victor Jackovich

As a career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, he held assignments in Kiev (1979–1980), where he helped to start the first U.S. government office in Ukraine; Bucharest (1980–1983); Nairobi (1983–1986); Moscow (1988–1990); and Sofia, Bulgaria (1991).

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 Petryk

In 2010, at age 13, she was a contestant on the TV show Ukraine’s Got Talent 2 (Ukrayina maye talant) where she made it to the semi-final stage singing with her eight year old sister, Anastasiya Petryk.

Volodymyr Horbulin

Until November 1999, he headed the State Interagency Commission for Cooperation with NATO and co-headed the Consulting Committee under presidents of Ukraine and Poland, co-headed the Secretariat of Kuchma-Gore Commission.

Zamir Gotta

He is best known as the traveling companion of American chef Anthony Bourdain in his Travel Channel TV show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, when they traveled to Uzbekistan, Russia and Romania and later in the U.S. Rust Belt, Ukraine, and Kansas City.