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unusual facts about Ukrainian SSR



193rd Tank Division

The original 193rd Rifle Division was established at Korosten in the Ukrainian SSR in May 1941.

Aleksander Serov

Alexander Nikolayevich Serov (Александр Николаевич Серов; born 24 March 1951 in Kovalivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian-born Russian popular singer who is best known for early success in the Russian language with the songs of Igor Krutoy.

Alexander Yagubkin

Alexander G. Yagubkin (25 March 1961 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR – 7 August 2013) was an amateur boxer, who won a gold medal at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships and was honoured as a Master of Sports of the USSR.

Beryozka

For example, hard currency stores were named Kashtan (Chestnut) in the Ukrainian SSR and Chinara (Oriental plane) in the Azerbaijan SSR, etc.

Carpathian Military District

The District's territory included 10 regions of the Ukrainian SSR - Vinnytsya, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Transcarpathian, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivensku, Khmel'nytskiy, Ternopil, and Chernivetskyy.

Dumitru Cernicica

He was instrumental in re-establishing the new Romanian administration after a short-lived attempt to incorporate the Romanian-held southern areas of Maramureş together with the northern areas into the Soviet Union as part of the Ukrainian SSR.

Efim Alexandrov

Efim Alexandrov (born Efimian Ziсerman; 13 May 1960, Pidvolochysk Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) — Russian artist of "spoken word” genre (stand-up comedian) and well known performer of Jewish music paying special attention to Yiddish folk songs as a part of the program of saving the culture of Yiddish which is considered an endangered language in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Klement Gottwald

Zmiiv, a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, was named Gotvald after him during the years 1976 to 1990.

Omsk State Technical University

It was the evacuated version of the machine-building institute from Luhansk, Ukrainian SSR (now East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University).

Poland–Ukraine relations

While this left the Polish-Ukrainian relations in the mid-20th century in a relatively poor state, there was little meaningful and independent diplomacy and contact between the People's Republic of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR.

Serghei Lașcencov

Serghei Lașcencov (born 24 March 1980 in Zdolbuniv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Moldovan footballer and the former captain of the Moldovan national team.

Taisia Afonina

In autumn 1943 with a group of artists Taisia Afonina rides into city Krasnodon draw club before awarding medals to parents died young heroes - members of the underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization named ″Young Guard″, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR), the feat which he finds the whole country.

Viktor Medvedchuk

In April 1974, Medvedchuk and two of his comrades were convicted by the court of Lenin Raion (today the court of Pechersk Raion) in Kiev under article 102 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR (beating up a minor).

Vladimiro Tarnawsky

Born in the Ukrainian SSR, Tarnawski began his professional playing career in Argentina with Club El Porvenir in 1951.


see also

Nikolai Podgorny

In the post-war years Podgorny regained his old office of Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR, but was later appointed in 1946 as a Permanent Representative to the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.