UkraineLove Ukraine as you would love the sun,

The wind, the grass and the steams together…Love her in happy hours, when joys are won,

And love her in time of stormy weather.(By Volodymyr Sosyura)

The Map of Ukraine

• State: Sovereign state• Language: Ukrainian• Territory:604,000 square

kilometers. • Population: 45 million 539

thousands• National emblem: state flag and anthem• It borders: on Poland,

Slovakia and Hungary in the west and on Romania and Moldova in the southwest

• Rivers: the Dnipro, the Dnister, the Buh and Donets…

• National recourse: iron ore, coal, gas

The Geographical Position of Ukraine

National Emblem

Ukraine is not yet dead, nor it's glory and freedom,Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,And we, too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land.We'll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedomAnd we'll prove that we brothers are of Kozak kin.We'll rise up, brothers, all of us, from the Sain to the Don,We won't let anyone govern in out motherland.The Black Sea will smile yet, grandfather Dnipro will rejoice,Yet in our Ukraine luck will be high.Our persistence, our sincere toil will prove it's rightness,Still our freedom's loud song will spread throughout Ukraine.It'll reflect upon the Carpathians, will sound through the steppes,And Ukraine's glory will arise among the people.

Kyiv- the capital of Ukraine

Kyiv city is the capital of Ukraine located in Kiev oblast. Kiev is advantageously situated in the heart of Europe. The city is located along the Dnieper River just below its confluence with the Desna River and 591 miles (952 km) from its mouth in the Black Sea.The average temperature in January are -6.1 degrees, and +19.2 degrees in July. Kiev has a wealth of greenery.

Big Cities

KyivDonetsk

OdesaKharkiv

Lviv

Christmas

Independence Day

Victory Day

New Year

Ukraine Traditions

Seven wondersof Ukraine

An ancient fortress, first constructions of which date back to 11th-12th century, and the main bastions date back to 16th-17th century.Kamenets Podolskiy defences are a vivid example of the best Eastern European fortifications. 

Kamenets Podolskiy fortress

Kiev Pechersk LavraOne of the first monasteries to appear on Kiev Rus territory. The foundation dates back to 1051, the time of Yaroslav the Wise governing. Location: Kiev city.

National landscape park “Sofiyivska”

This is a park and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine scientific-research institute, located on the bank of Kamyanka river, in the north of Uman city, Cherkassy oblast.Today it is a resort place. Annually it is visited by 500 thousand people. The land is 179,2 ha wide. “Sofiyivska” is the landscape monument of garden art of 18th - beginning of 19th century

Saint Sophia CathedralThe cathedral was erected in 11th century in the center of Kiev city under order of Yaroslav the Wise. It was built in the style of Ukrainian baroque at the turn of 17th-18th century. The Cathedral interior has preserved a great quantity of ancient frescoes and mosaics. St.Sophia’s Cathedral became the first Ukrainian architectural monument listed in the UNESCO World Heritage.

The city founded by ancient Greeks on the Heracleus peninsula on the South-West of Crimea. Today it is Khersoness site of the Gagarin region of Sevastopol city. For two thousand years it was a large political, economic and cultural center of Northern Black Sea region.

Chersonesos of Taurica

Great Khortytsia IslandIt is the largest island on Dnepr river located in Zaporozhye city area down the Dnepr Hydro Electric Station. It is also unique natural and historical complex. The island stretches from North-West to South-East, 12.5 km long and about 2.5 wide.

The fortress dates back to 10th-13th centuries. It is located in Khotyn town.Also there were three objects which picked up additional awards.

Khotyn Fortress

Ukrainian culture

Ukrainian culture – hopak folk dance

Pysanky

(Ukrainian features or how to recognize the Ukrainian)

is a popular and energetic folk dance involving a

competition among the dancers. The name is

coming from the Ukrainian “hop” - exclamation

uttered during the dance. People are dancing hopak

in Ukrainian folk costumes. The basic movements

include the running, wide and high jumps with

flapping feet.

are intricately designed ornamental Easter eggs, bearing Christian or pre-

Christian symbols. Colorful wood-carvings are

produced by the artisans of Carpathian Mountain area.

a lutelike instrument with

50 or more strings, is

Ukraine’s people national musical

instrument.

Bandum

Ukrainian literatureLiterature of Ukraine, the body of writings in Ukrainian language. The earliest writings of Ukrainians, works produced in Kievan Rus from the 11th to the 13th century, were composed in Church Slavonic and are thus the common literary heritage of Russians and Belorussians as well.

Nineteenth-century Ukrainian literature reflected the rapid development of Ukrainian national consciousness under Russian rule..

Ivan KotlyarevskyLesya UkrainkaTaras Shevchenko

Ukraine national food, meals and cookery

Ukrainian national food got a merited renown almost in all places of the world. Different floury dishes (pampushki, galushki, vareniki, korzhi and others), meat dishes (Ukrainian sausages, cold collations, game, birds etc.), vegetable and milk dishes (ryazhenka and sirniki), various drinks of fruit and honey are very popular in Ukraine.

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