Introduction

• Ukraine
• Capital - Kiev
• Official Language - Ukrainian
• Located in eastern Europe

History

• In 400s and 500s Slavs settled on the land that is now Ukraine
• Varangians(Viking invaders) mixed with Slavs and the Kievan Rus was created
• Volodymyr the Great ruled from 980 till 1015, Eastern Orthodox

• 1569 Poland invaded what is now Ukraine
• Turned Ukrainians into serfs

The USSR

• By 1700s Russia took control of almost all of Ukraine.
• By 1922 Ukraine had become a part of the USSR
• The USSR took control of Ukraine's farms
• By 1930s 5 to 7 million people died from starvation

• During WWII Ukrainians were turned into slaves and about 600 000 of people were murdered
• 1945 the Germans left Ukraine
• In 1991 The USSR split and Ukraine became an independent country.

Culture

• Elements of Eastern and Western European culture

Women clothes

Clothing

New year

• 1st of January

Christmas

• 6-7th of January

The Women's Day

• 8th of March

Easter

Easter

The Victory Day over Nazism

• 9th of May

The Constitution Day

• 28th of June

Food

Pirozhki

Borsh

Vareniki

Golubtsi

Religions

1. Greek Catholic church
2. Autocephalous Orthodox Church
3. Protestantism
4. Catholism

Economy

Natural Resources

• Iron
• steel
• fertile soil
• coal
• petroleum
• natural gases
• aluminum
• graphite
• sulfur
• rock salt
• titanium
• uranium

Manufacturing areas

• Manufacturing
• mining
• construction
• agriculture
• other public utilities

Land use

• agriculture (Farming)
• potatoes, grains (wheat), corn, barley, sugar beets, tomatoes, cabbages, squash, apples, and sour cherries

Jobs

• Beekeeping
• silkworm raising
• fishing
• cattle raising
• farming
• mining

Currency

• Hryvnia
• 1 Hryvnia = 4 cents
• 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 coins instead of dimes, cents...

Geography

Kiev

• capital

• Part of East European Plain
• Average elevation is 574 ft (175m) above sea level

Carpathian

• West

Crimean Mountains

• South

• Plains are broken up by highlands (like Dnieper Upland)

Dnieper River

• 4th longest river in Europe
• Goes by Kiev, and flows down to the Black Sea, and also intercepted by numerous gorges, ravines, and rivers

• Pripet Marshes, northern part of country (plentiful on wildlife, forests and lumber)

• Mount Hoverla, 6, 762 ft (country's highest point) in Carpathian region

• Majority of forests in Carpathian region

• Southern Ukraine is steppe

Bordered by:

• Russian Federation
• Belarus
• Poland
• Slovak Republic
• Hungary
• Romania and Moldova

• Roughly, Dnieper divides Ukraine in half

• Principal cities are Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa

Major Rivers

• Dniester
• Donets
• Southern Buh
• Dnieper
• Danube

• Peninsula Crimea surrounded by Black Sea and Sea of Azov

Climate

• Part of East European Plain

• 26 degrees fahrenheit Southwest, 18 degrees fahrenheit in northeast in winter (Jan)

• Summer (July) temps are 73 degrees fahrenheit in southwest, and 66 degrees fahrenheit in northeast

• Driest in May and October

• Temperate continental zone

• Warm mediterranean in southern shores of Crimea

In Kiev

• summer (July, Aug.), about 90mm of precipitation
• winter, about 50-60mm of precipitation
• spring, about 40-50mm of precipitation
• fall, about 30-55mm of precipitation

• Annual precipitation about 400-600mm

Interesting Facts

2nd largest country in Europe

The Tunnel of Love

• 3 kilometer railroad
• leads to the fibreboard factory

• Fourth educated nation in the World
• The education in the University can be free

• The deepest metro station in the world (105 m)

• You have to pay for plastic bags