This document provides an overview of Ukraine. It notes that Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe and has a population of over 46 million people. It is divided into 24 regions and its capital and largest city is Kyiv. The document discusses Ukraine's geography, climate, natural resources, transportation infrastructure, government structure, economy, and culture. It aims to give the reader a broad understanding of the country of Ukraine.

1. UKRAINE TODAY
Svitlana Volkova
Petro Mohyla Mykolayiv State University, Ukraine
Fulbright Graduate Student 2008-2010
Kansas State University, USA
svitlana.volkova@gmail.com

2. Borders with:
Ukraine is the geographical center of
Europe!  Russia
 Belarus
 Moldova
 Poland
GEOGRAPHY
 Hungary
 Romania
 Slovakia
Sea frontiers:
OF
 Turkey
 Georgia
UKRAINE
 Bulgaria
Washed by:
 The Azove
Sea
 The Black
Area: 233,000 sq. ml. (603,700km2 ) Sea
Ukraine is the largest country wholly in
Europe!

3. Vinnytsya
UKRAINE IS DIVIDED
Volynska
Dnipropetrovsk
Donetsk
Zhytomyr
Zakarpattya
Zaporizhzhya
Ivano-Frankivsk
Kyiv
Kyrovohrad
Luhansk
INTO
Lviv
Mykolayiv
24 REGIONS
Odesa
Poltava
Nationality: Rivne
 Noun--Ukrainian(s); adjective--Ukrainian. Sumy
Ternopil
Religions:
Kharkiv
 Ukrainian Orthodoxy, Ukrainian Greek Kherson
Catholicism, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Khmelnytsky
Islam, others. Cherkassy
Languages: Chernivtsi
Chernihiv
 Ukrainian (official), Russian, others. Crimea (autonomy)

4. HISTORY
Kyiv was founded in the V century
Kyiv Rus was founded in the IX century
Christianity was introduced in 988 year
Zaporizhian Sich (XVI-XVII) - military-
political organization of the free warriors –
Cossacks that introduced and enforced
Democracy, Republican rule, Unitary
system
A brief period of independence (1918 –
1919) Ukrainian Central Rada
Great Famine of 1932-33 by forcibly
collecting grain and deliberately starving to
death nearly ten million people.
Hetman Bohdan
Khmelnytsky (1595-1657)

5. INDEPENDENCE OF UKRAINE
01.12.1991 90% of Ukrainians voted for Independence.
Ukraine willingly got rid of its 3rd in the world nuclear potential.
Constitution adopted in 1996.
Elections-2004 were: First President
Leonid Kravchuk
 peaceful and democratic, though
Second President
 hard-line and uncompromising Leonid Kuchma
Prime Minister - Yulia Timoshenko, President – Viktor Ushenko

6.  The territory of Ukraine is mainly flat (95%). The chief physical-
geographical zones are mixed deciduous leaf and conifer forests,
forest-steppes and steppe.
 The Carpathian Mountains (highest point: Mt. Hoverla, 2,061m) extend
to the westernmost part of the country.
 The Crimean Mountains (highest point: Mt. Roman-Kosh, 1,545 m) rise
in the southernmost end.

7. NATURE HAS SHOWERED UKRAINE WITH UNIQUE
PLACES FOR REST AND RECREATION.
UKRAINE'S CLIMATE IS TEMPERATE AND SUBTROPICAL IN THE
EXTREME SOUTH.

8. WINTER/SUMMER TEMPERATURES & RAINFALLS
Winter temperatures
-8°-12° C (17.6° F to 3° F)
In the South: ~0° C (32° F)
Summer temperatures
18°-25° C (64,4° F to 77° F)
In the South:
up to +35° C (+95° F)

9. THE UKRAINIAN CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS
There are many rivers, thick forests, beautiful meadows and mountain lakes.
The largest resorts are located in Tysovets, Slavsko, Bukovel and Dragobrat.

10. RESORTS: CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS
Dragobrat skiing resort
 Snow from November till May
 1300 meters above sea level
Other resorts
 Rakhiv
 Mukachevo
 Svalyava
 Yaremcha
For rafting, follow the rivers of
 Prut
 Bilyi Cheremosh
 Chornyi Cheremosh

11. RESORTS: CRIMEAN BEACHES
Famous
resorts
 Yalta
 Alushta
 Gurzuf
 Foros
 Yevpatoria
Two seas
 Black Sea
 The Sea of
Azov

12. WILDLIFE
 19 million hectares of natural vegetation
 30 000 plant species
 45 000 animal species
 11 national nature parks
 4 biosphere preservation areas
 16 nature reserves
DENDROLOGICAL PARKS:
 Askania-Nova
 Oleksandria
 Sofiyivka

13. BLACK SEA → DEPTH – 1300-2211 M; SQUARE - 423,000 SQ. KM
ASOV SEA → DEPTH – 7-15 M; SQUARE - 39,000 SQ. KM
PORTS → ODESSA, ILLICHEVSK, YALTA, SEVASTOPOL,
MYKOLAYIV, KERCH, FEODOSIA

14. RIVERS AND LAKES
Ukraine has a wealth of rivers. More than a hundred of them are
longer than 100 km.
 The largest rivers: Dnieper (the third large river in the Europe),
Dnister, Southern Buh, Donets, Pruth, Danube.
 Rivers play an important role in water supply, and are used as
sources of energy.
 Navigable rivers are important for transport.
There are over 3,000 lakes.
The largest freshwater lakes: Yalpuh (220 sq. km) and Svytiazke in
Polissia (27 sq. km).

15. POPULATION OF UKRAINE
IS 46. 3 MILLION PEOPLE.
0.8, 1% 0.6, 0.5, 1% 0.4, 0% 1.9, 2%
1%
1.3, 1% Ukrainians - 72%
Russians - 22%
Jews - 1.3%
Russians -
Belarussians - 0.8%
22, 22%
Moldovians - 0.6%
Ukrainians -
72, 72% Poles - 0.5%
Bulgarians - 0.5%
Tatarians - 0.4%
Others - 1.9%
Regarding the quantity of population Ukraine takes the 5-th place in
Europe (after Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France) and 21 place in the
world.
It possesses 7.3% of population of Europe and 1% of population of the Earth.
Diaspora - strongest in the USA and Canada.
 10 ml. ethnic Ukrainians live on the territories of the former Soviet Union.
 5 ml. ethnic Ukrainians live in other foreign countries.

16. UKRAINIANS – Hospitable, Optimistic, Joyous, Purposeful, Hard-working
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Vasyl Virastyuk Serhiy Bubka Volodymyr Klitschko VitaliyKlitschko
World’s Strongest Man 2004, Triple World Sportsman of the Professional boxer Professional boxer,
World’s Strongest Man 2007, Year, 6-time world champion, WBC & WBA Intercontinental current IBF, WBO& IBO
reiterated champion in the world European Champion, Olympic Champion, European &WBO heavyweight Champion
strongman competitions Champion, the “Vaulting Czar” World Champion
Volodymur Hryshko Ruslana Lezhechko Yana Klochkova Andriy Shevchenko
Ukrainian singer, a tenor of world fame, The winner on the International Title-winner of the two The best soccer player in
the soloist of Metropolitan-Opera, NY Contest “Eurovision 2004” recent Olympic Games Europe of 2004

17. THE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE – KYIV
(POPULATION 2.8 MILLION)

18. UKRAINE’S URBAN AND COUNTRYSIDE
PANORAMAS

19. CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF OVER
1 MILLION
Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk

20. CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF OVER
1 MILLION
Odesa Kharkiv

21. Lviv is truly Europe's hidden pearl.
Poltava – Monument to Galushka

22. Uman City Sophia's Park
The Pochaiv Monastery
Ternopil Region
Svyatogorsk,
Donetsk Region

23. Zaporizhzhya
City Hall
Sumy
Mukachevo City
Hall,
Zakarpatya
Chernigiv

24. Khmelnytsky Region
Kamjanets-Podilsky Ancient Castles

25. NATIONAL SYMBOLS
Ukraine is a unitarian state with
single citizenship.
Ukraine is the republic and has:
• its own constitution
• higher and local bodies of state The National
power: emblem of Ukraine
is a golden Tryzub
• the President
on a blue shield.
• the Verkhovna Rada
• local Radas
• regional administrations
The state symbols of Ukraine are National flag, National anthem and
National emblem.
•The National Flag is a rectangular cloth with two equal horizontal
stripes, the upper colored blue and the lower golden yellow.

26. UKRAINIAN ANTHEM
ENGLISH TRANSLITERATION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE
UKRAINE'S ANTHEM: UKRAINE'S ANTHEM:
Shche ne vmerla Ukrayiny ni slava, ni volya, Ukraine has not perished, neither her glory, nor freedom,
Shche nam, brattia ukrajintsi, usmikhnet'sia dolia. Upon us, fellow--Ukrainians, fate shall smile once more.
Z-hynut' nashi vorizhen'ky, yak rosa na sontsi, Our enemies will vanish, like dew in the morning sun,
Zapanuyem i my, brattia, u svoyiy storontsi. And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own.
Dushu y tilo my polozhym za nashu svobodu We'll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom,
I pokazhem, shcho my, brattia, kozats'koho rodu. And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation.
Stanem brattia, v biy kryvavy, vid Sianu do Dony We'll stand together for freedom, from the Sian to the Don,
V ridnim kraiu panuvaty ne damo ni komy. We will not allow others to rule in our motherland.
Chorne more shche vsmikhnetsia, did Dnipro zradiie, The Black Sea will smile and grandfather Dnipro will rejoice,
Shche na nashiy Ukrayini dolen'ka naspiie. For in our own Ukraine fortune shall flourish again.
Dushu y tilo my polozhym za nashu svobodu We'll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom,
I pokazhem, shcho my, brattia, kozats'koho rodu. And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation.
A zavziatta pratsia shchyra svoho shche dokazhe, Our persistence and our sincere toils will be rewarded,
Shche sia voli v Ukrayini pisn' huchna rozliazhe. And freedom's song will resound throughout all of Ukraine.
Za Karpaty vidibiet'tsia z-homonyt' stepamy, Echoing off the Carpathians, and rumbling across the steppes,
Ukrayiny slava stane pomizh narodamy. Ukraine's fame and glory will be known among all nations.

27. CONSTITUTION - 1996
 The Verkhovna Rada adopted the Constitution on June 28, 1996.
 The Constitution establishes the country's political system, assures
rights, freedoms and duties of citizens and is the basis for its laws.
 Citizens have equal Constitutional rights and freedoms and are
equal before the law.
There are no privileges or The Ukrainian Constitution
restrictions based upon: guarantees:
 religion  The rights for life, work, rest, education
 face
 Social security, housing,
 gender
 Personal and dwelling inviolability
 color of skin
 Non-interference in private, family life
 political and other beliefs
 ethnic and social origin  Free choice of residence
 ownership  Health protection, medical care/insurance
 position
 Legal assistance
 place of residence
 The safe and healthy environment
 language

28. THREE BRANCHES OF STATE POWER
Legislative Executive Judicial
Verkhovna Rada The President Constitutional Court
Cabinet of Ministers Superior Justice Council
Courts of General
Jurisdiction

29. LEGISLATIVE POWER - VERKHOVNA RADA
Speaker
 Mixed majority-proportional elections
2 Vice-Speakers
 Total of 450 deputies
 225 from majority-based districts
 225 based on political parties lists
 4% barrier for political parties
Secretariat
 226 votes to pass the law
 300 votes to change the Constitution
 300 votes to force the vetoed law
 Elections 2006
 Proportional system only
Committees
 3% barrier for political parties

30. EXECUTIVE POWER
 Verkhovna Rada consents with 226 votes
President
 Prime Minister proposes Ministers
Prime-minister
 President approves Ministers
 Prime Minister reports to the parliament
Ministers and Ministries
 Cabinet of Ministers:
 Issues decrees and regulations
State Committees  Proposes and executes state budget

31. JUDICIAL POWER
Constitutional Court  Interprets the Constitution of Ukraine
 Validates the laws against the Constitution
 the Supreme Court of Ukraine
Courts of General
Jurisdiction  highest specialized courts
 the Cassation Court of Ukraine
 the Appellate Court of Ukraine
 local courts
 Proposes judges for appointment/dismissal
Superior Justice Council  Controls the formation of corps of judges
 Examines cases involving unjust judging

32. TRANSPORTATION FOR BUSINESS
4 of 10 European transport
corridors run through
Ukraine
Dense network of:
 273 700 km of highways
 22 510 km of railways
 4 500 km of water ways
 42 900 km of pipelines
 250 000 km of air routes

33. NATURAL RESOURCES
 25% of the world black topsoil
 5% of the world mineral resources
 largest in the world mineral wax & brimstone
 greatest in Europe graphite deposits
ECONOMICS STRUCTURE
The monetary unit
Industry Agriculture Construction Services
of the present-day
Ukraine is
31%
HRYIVNYA
53%
13%
3% % of GDP

34. ECONOMICS AND PRODUCTION
Ukraine used to be
 the first in Europe in iron ore extraction,
 the second - in coal mining and
 the third - in producing electric energy.
 The country has great capacities to
produce its own rockets, planes and sea
vessels (ships)

35. AGRICULTURE
The Ukrainian chernozems are
famous for their productivity and they
are the biggest treasure of the
Ukrainian land.
25% of the world’s black rich soils are in Ukraine.
Ukraine has about 30 thousand hectars of land after cultivation.
Grain production used to be almost 1 ton per person.
Ukraine used to produce 100 kg of sugar per person
(France - 65, Germany - 60, USA - 25).
Annual meat production used to amount to 70 kg per person
(USA - 120, Hungary - 160, Germany - 95, Poland - 75).

36. MULTI-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Doctor of Science Scientific levels
Candidate of Science (Ph.D.)
Master of Science Basic Higher
Education
Specialist
Bachelor
First Higher
Education Level
Junior Specialist
Obligatory Education
Level
Secondary School
(Elementary, Middle, High)

37. National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv

38. National University of “Kyiv Mohyla Academy”

39. Petro Mohyla Mykolayiv State University
in consortium with “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”

40. PROMINENT UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS
Associated with the Academy are the names of many outstanding
scientists, among them:
 physicist and mathematician M.Boholiubov,
 biologist M.Kashchenko,
 archaeologist and ethnographer M.Biliashivsky.
World-reputed schools appeared headed by:
 D.Hrave (algebra),
 M.Krylov (mathematical physics),
 Y.Paton (electric welding and bridge construction),
 L.Pysarzhevsky (chemistry),
 O.Dynnyk (mechanics) and many others.
Hlushkov Vernadsky Amosov
(1923 – 1982) (1863 - 1945) (1913 - 2002)

41. Yuriy Kondratyuk G. Charpak, Physicist
Inventor, space-scientist Nobel Prize Laureate
Mykhailo Ostrogradsky Igor Sikorsky, Aircraft Designer
Mathematician Helicopter’s Inventor

42. KYIV, THE CAPITAL
Also known as
 Center of Slavic culture
 Mother of all Rus cities
 Majestic
 City of Gardens
Founded over 1.5 ml. years ago
Looks both ancient & young
Come to see
 UNESCO World Heritage sites
 Millennia-old monasteries
 Medieval fortifications

43. LEGEND ABOUT KYIV
 There is an old legend which tells
of three brothers who found Kyiv
(also known as Kiev) at the end of
the fifth century.
 The brothers Kiy, Khoriv, and
Shchek, along with their sister,
Lybid, decided to name this
newly founded land "Kyiv," after
their elder brother.

44. SIGHTS OF KYIV
There are a lot of historical and cultural places, public libraries and state
museums:
 Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
 St. Sophia’s Cathedral
 The Golden Gate
 The monuments to T. Shevchenko, the great poet of Ukraine, to
Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Prince Volodymyr
Ukrainian books are exported to 100 countries.

45. HRESCHATIK - KYIV MAIN STREET

46. ST. SOPHIA’S CATHEDRAL
MICHAILOVSKIY
GOLD-DOMED
MONASTERY

47. ANDRIIVSKA CHURCH
THE GOLDEN GATE

48. THE USPENSKYI
CATHEDRAL
ST. PANTELEIMON’S
CATHEDRAL

49. PUPPET
THEATRE
IN
MARIINSKIY
PARK
DOMES OF THE
11TH-CENTURY
MONASTERY OF
MIHAYLOVSKIY
CATHEDRAL
CAVES,
KYIV, UKRAINE

50. The Kyiv
Philharmonic
concert hall, a
THE KYIV PHILHARMONIC
19th century
church with a
fine organ,
and the opera
have a
scheduled
program of
concerts,
including
concerts by
the Odessa
Philharmonic
Orchestra.
CONCERT HALL
THE PRINCESS (KNJAGYNJA) OLGA MONUMENT

51. THE RAILWAY STATION AND THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE IN KYIV

52. CONCERT
HALL
UKRAINE
THE BANKOVA STREET

53. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL
HOLIDAYS
 January 1  New Year
 January 7  Orthodox Christmas
 March 8  Women's Day
 April – May  Easter Sunday
 May 1-2  A day off for the workers
 May 9  Victory Day
 May – June  Trinity
 June 28  Constitution Day
 August 24  Independence Day

54. UKRAINIAN
COSTUMES UKRAINIAN
AND TRADITIONS
EMBROIDERED
RUSHNYK
PISANKA –
ATTRIBUTE
OF THE
EASTER
THE MONUMENT
TO PISANKA
KOLOMYJA

55. MAGNIFICENT
UKRAINIAN
CUSTOMS
Andrij’s Holiday - Cossacks Amusements
Ask Marriage Tradition
if yes  embroidered rushnyk
Ivana Kupala - fortune(-)telling, jumping If no  pumpkin
through the fire
Seeking the fern’s flower – for fortune!!!

56. UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS
 Kolyadki – Traditional Songs
 Vertep – Dress-up People
 12 traditional dishes on the table

57. SOME OF THE MOST COMMON WORDS AND
PHRASES IN UKRAINIAN
Hello - (Вітаю) - (vi-TA-yu) Days of the week
Goodbye - До побачення - (do po-BA-chennia) Monday - Понеділок - (pone-DI-lok)
Please - Будь ласкa - (bud' LAS-ka) Tuesday - Вівторок - (viv-TO-rok)
You're -welcome -Прошу (PRO-shu) Wednesday - Cepeдa - (sere-DA)
Thank you - Дякую - (DIA-kuyu) Thursday - Четвер - (chet-VER)
Excuse me - Вибачте - (VY-bachte) Friday - П'ятниця -(PYAT-nytsia)
Yes - TaK - (tak) Saturday – Cyбoтa - (su-BO-ta)
No - Hi - (ni) Sunday -Неділя -(ne-DI-lia)
Enjoy your meal - Смачного - (Smach-NO-ho) Numbers
Cheers! - Будьмо - (BUD'-mo) 1- один (o-DYN)
One beer, please! - Одне пиво, будь ласка - 2- двa (dva)
(od-NE PY-vo bud' LAS-ka) 3- три (try)
4- чотири (cho-TY-ry)
5- п'ять (pyat')
6- шість (shist')
7- cім (sim)
8- вісім (VI-sim)
9- дев'ять (DE-vyat)
10- десять (DE-syat)
100- CTO (Sto)
1000- тисяча (TY-sya-cha)
Famous Ukrainian meal - Borsch

58. MYKOLAYIV
 The Museum of Regional Studies
 The Art Museum,
 The Museum of Shipbuilding,
 The Theatre of Russian Drama,
 The Ukrainian Music Theatre,
 The Puppet Theatre
and many historical monuments.

59. THE MAIN PROSPECT IN
MYKOLAYIV
THE BRIDGE THROUGH
PIVDENNYI BUG RIVER
THE RIVER PIVDENNYI
BUG LANDSCAPES
THE ONE OF THE CHURCH IN
MYKOLAYIV
MYKOLAYIV LANDSCAPES

60. UKRAINE
AWAITS
FOR YOU!
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