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19 unusual facts about Ukraine


Bill Boytchuk

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

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).

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".

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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.

Feodosiy Tetianych

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

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.

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.

Second Winter Campaign

However, it was encircled by Hryhorii Kotovsky's cavalry regiment near the village of Bazar.

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".

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.

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.

Ukrainian Republic

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

Vydra

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


2005 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship

Ukraine and the Czech Republic were relegated to Division B.

2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

Mexico lost to Argentina, and France beat Spain, so while Spain and Mexico were eliminated earlier than the seedings would have predicted, Ukraine and Portugal went farther than the seedings predicted, Portugal going on to reach the semi-finals.

Activ Solar

According to other Ukrainian sources, Activ Solar is controlled by Ukraine's former first deputy prime minister Andriy Klyuyev and his brother Serhiy Klyuyev.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DJ Sender

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

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).

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.

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.)

International N. D. Kondratiev Foundation

2004: A.G. Granberg, B.N. Kuzyk and I. Wallerstein (USA) - gold medal; P.A. Minakir and Tessaleno Devezas (Portugal) - silver medal; L.V. Leskov, and D.K. Chistilin (Ukraine) - Bronze medal.

José Antonio Saravia

José Antonio Saravia, José Antonio Sarabia, (Villanueva del Fresno, Spain, 1785 - Resident in Russia since about 1812 - General of the Russian Army 1843 - Kamianets-Podilskyi, now in Ukraine, 2 April 1871), was General Inspector of the Russian Military Academies under the Tsars Nikolai I and Alexander II.

Julij Feldesi

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

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.

Lviv Academy of Commerce

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

Mykola Shmatko

In 2004 for his work "Sviatohorska Blessed Virgin" - statue of the Theotokos "Hegumenia" for Sviato-Uspenskyi Sviatohorskyi Monastery, he was awarded the order of Nestor Letopisets by Volodymyr Sabodan, the Kiev Metropolitan and all 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,.

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.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

He also filmed Pripyat (1999), a black-and-white look at residents who live near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.

Polessky

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

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.

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).

Scott MacRae

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

Sergio Martinez vs. Sergiy Dzinziruk

2010 Fighter of the Year and Pound for Pound contender Sergio Martinez takes on undefeated Ukrainian Sergiy Dzindziruk for the vacant WBC Daimond belt.

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.

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.

Slavsky

Slavske (Slavskoye), an urban-type settlement in Ukraine

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.

Tsar Cannon

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

Ung County

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

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 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.

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

Zvi Magen

This search was delayed because of Sharon's coma and Ehud Olmert's ascension, but was finally completed in November 2006 when ambassador to Ukraine Naomi Ben-Ami was chosen.