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20 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.

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).

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.

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).

Kosov

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

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.

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".

Suicide in Ukraine

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

Ukrainian Republic

Ukrainian Republic is one of the name of the independent Ukrainian state today known as 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.


1+1

In October 2006 Alexander Rodnyansky, the General Producer of Studio "1+1", won a hard appeal process in The Supreme Court of Ukraine, after the court gave ownership of 70% of the company's shares to Mr. O.Kolomyyskyy, as the last has claimed, that in June 2005 there has been an agreement signed between him and Alexander Rodnyansky, that 70% of the company's shares were sold to Mr. Kolomyyskyy (for ~70 mln USD).

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.

Agonum muelleri

In Europe, it is found in Albania, the Azores, Baltic states, Belarus, Benelux, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, mainland Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily (doubtful), mainland Spain, Ukraine, Scandinavia, Yugoslavian states, and Central Europe.

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.

Archdiocese of Lviv

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin rite of the Catholic Church in western 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.

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.

Chicken Kiev speech

As his motorcade passed through Kiev, it was greeted by large numbers of people waving Ukrainian and American flags but also protesters bearing slogans such as "Mr. Bush: billions for the USSR is slavery for Ukraine" and "The White House deals with Communists but snubs Rukh," the principal pro-independence party in Ukraine.

Church of St. Onuphrius, Lviv

The Basilian monastery and Greek Catholic church of St. Onuphrius in Lviv, Ukraine is located north of the Old Town, at the base of the Castle Hill.

Costoboci

A bronze hand dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus by a soldier from a cohort stationed in Dacia was found at Myszków in Western Ukraine.

Economy of Kazakhstan

In 2006, North Dakotan Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple led an 18-member delegation of the North Dakota Trade Office representing seven North Dakota companies and Dickinson State University on a trip to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.

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).

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.

House of Tyszkiewicz

Places named Tyszkiewicz Palace, "former Tyszkiewicz Palace", Tiškevičiai Palace, and other historical properties of the family are located in Warsaw, Kraków and Vilnius, as well as in numerous towns of modern Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine (in Palanga, Kretinga, Lahojsk, Raudondvaris, Berdychiv, Biržai, Kavarskas, Deltuva, Trakai, Lentvaris, Seredžius, etc.)

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.

Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres, better known as Chaco Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is an Argentine football midfielder who plays in Ukraine for Metalist Kharkiv.

Louis Ritman

Ritman was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia (now Ukraine), and moved with his family to Chicago around 1900.

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.

Lviv Academy of Commerce

The Lviv academy of commerce is a university in Lviv, Ukraine.

Mikhail Stakhurskii

After the war, from 1945 to 1961, he served as the First Secretary of four regional party committees, including three in Ukraine (Vinnytsia Oblast from 1945–1951, Poltava Oblast from 1951–1955, and Zhytomyr Oblast from 1957–1961) and one in Russia (Khabarovsk Krai from 1955–1957).

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.

New Darnytskyi Bridge

The New Darnytskyi Bridge, also known informally as the Kirpa Bridge, is a combined automobile and railroad bridge in Kiev, the capital of 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.

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.

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.

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.

Post-communism

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

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).

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.

Slavyansk-na-Kubani

In 1958, it was incorporated as the town of Slavyansk-na-Kubani (so called in order to distinguish it from the eponymous city in Ukraine).

Stolin

Stolin grew up at the heart of the Polesia region on the river Haryn, at the crossroads of two important routes, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Haradok and Turaŭ, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kiev, that are now in Ukraine.

Tsar Cannon

It was given to the Ukrainian city of Donetsk and now is installed near the Donetsk city administration building.

Vasyl Lazarovych

But on 15 March 2010 National Television Company of Ukraine, which appointed Vasyl to represent Ukraine, decided not to send him to Oslo, because the song was not good enough.

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 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.

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.

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.

Yevgeny Matveyev

Yevgeny Matveyev was born in the village of Novoukrainka in the Mykolaiv Governorate of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) to father Semyon Kalinovich Matveyev, a Red Army serviceman was stationed in the region at the end of the Russian Civil War, and mother Nadezhda Fyodorovna Kovalenko, a local peasant woman.

Zborov

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

Zizi Lambrino

Some say their union was opposed by his parents, but Carol "smuggled" her across the Ukrainian (former Russian) frontier and they were married in the Orthodox Cathedral of Odessa, Ukraine, on 31 August 1918, in the presence of witnesses.