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Ukraine is №1 by territory in Europe – 603 700 square km (5,7% territory of Europe) 82 600 000

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Ukraine is №7 by population in Europe – 46 480 000 people 78%

Russians 17%

Crimean Tatars 0,5% Other 4,50%

Ukraine is home to people of more than 130 nationalities. We were one of 50 founding members of United Nations in 1945. Ukrainian 68%

Russian 30%

Crimean Tatars Other 0,5% 2%

The official language is Ukrainian. It has 60% of the common words with Belarusian and Russian. Ukrainian people are very gentle and industrious. Ukrainian women are one of the most beautiful women They never attacked their neighbors and never made in the world war

Chicken Kiev is a popular dish of boneless chicken breast Borsch is a soup of Ukrainian origin that is popular in pounded and rolled around cold garlic butter with herbs, then many countries. It’s traditionally made from meat, coated with eggs and breadcrumbs, and either fried or baked sautéed vegetables and beet 44% of Ukrainian territory are 15% - forests black-earth soils – it’s 1/3 of world’s stock

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Visa-free travel between EU and Ukraine from 2017

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From 882-1240 Kyiv was the capital of Kievan Rus’. The modern peoples of , Ukraine and all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors. Today it’s territories of Belarus, Moldova, Dnipro - is the longest river of Ukraine and the fourth longest river in Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Europe (2200 km) 1973 1957

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Kyiv is one of the oldest capitals in Europe On Ukrainian coasts of and Sea of Azov are located 18 Commercial Seaports. Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) - is the largest Kyiv Boryspil International Airport airline of Ukraine There are 16 international airports in Ukraine - Kyiv (Boryspil) - Uzhhorod - Kyiv (Zhulyany) - Zaporizhia - Chernivtsi - Luhansk (closed due to the War - Ivano-Frankivsk in Donbass) - Donetsk (closed due to the War - Kharkiv in Donbass) - Dnipropetrovsk - Simferopol (the territory is - Lviv temporary occupied by Russia) - Mariupol - Mykolaiv Lviv International Airport - Odessa - Rivne The 2012 UEFA European Championship was the 14th European Championship for men's national football teams organized by UEFA. The Antonov An-225 «Mriya» is the biggest cargo airplane in the world. An-124 «Ruslan» - the long-range heavy transport aircraft. The world's largest ever serial commercial cargo aircraft.

An-225 unloading the train An-178 – the short-range military transport aircraft with carrying capacity of 18 tons. Ukraine is one of few countries that have complete cycle (macro-technologies) creation of aircraft. Made in Ukraine on “Pivdenmash”.

Yuriy Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. This spacecraft was created by Ukrainian developer Sergiy Korolev. Ukraine is one of the few countries in which the aerospace industry has a very high level of development. It belongs to the top five countries in the market of space services and technologies. Quantity: Soldiers – 280 000 (second place in Europe after France). Tanks – 2128. Armored combat vehicles – 7918. Helicopters – 164. Artillery systems (caliber>100 mm) – 2539. Combat aircrafts – 160. Transport aircraft – 27. Ukraine is a key country of European security.

Armed Forces of Ukraine KrAZ Cougar BTR-4

Tank Oplot Tank T64

Military technique of the Armed Forces of Ukraine KrAZ Spartan

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AN-26 BTR-3 Military technique of the Armed Forces of Ukraine From 600 BC - the ancient founded colonies in Crimea. water, electricity etc.). In the 1st century BC the Romans conquered parts of Crimea. In 2014 Crimea was occupied by Russia (as a result of a lot military retirees In the 13th century the Mongols or Tatars conquered Crimea and it became from the and the Russian military base in Crimea). part of a huge empire. United Nations General Assembly Resolution №68/262 was adopted on In 1475 Crimean Tatars came under Turkish rule. March 27, 2014 in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea and In 1783 the captured Crimea from the Turks. entitled "Territorial integrity of Ukraine". The non-binding resolution, which Following the Communist Revolution of 1917 Crimea was made an was supported by 100 United Nations member states (against – 11, autonomous part of the Soviet Union in 1921. abstained – 58) affirmed the General Assembly's commitment to the During World War II Crimea was occupied by Germany (1941-1944). territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders In 1954 the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet and underscored the invalidity of the 2014 Crimean referendum. Federation of Socialist Republics to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and rebuilding after the World War II started. It became the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within newly independent Ukraine in 1991. Geographically and economically Crimea is integrated in Ukraine (transport, Crimea – is Ukraine Sergiy Prokofiev Sergiy Korolev Igor Sikorsky Yuriy Voroniy outstanding composer academician in the field pioneering aeronautic surgeon, MD, professor. of rocket production and engineer, who built the In 1933 he made the cosmonautics, the world's first working world's first kidney famous designer of the helicopter transplantation first spacecrafts and man-made satellites

Famous Ukrainians Nikita Khrushchev Ivan Puluj Mykola Pirogov Volodymyr Havkin served as First Secretary physicist and inventor, founder of field surgery, developed an anti- of the Communist Party who has been and was one of the first cholera vaccine that of the Soviet Union championed as an early surgeons in Europe to use he tried out from 1953 to 1964, and developer of the use of ether as an anaesthetic successfully in India as Chairman of the X-rays for medical Council of Ministers imaging from 1958 to 1964

Famous Ukrainians Anna Yaroslavna Mykola Gogol’ the consort of Henry I of France from 1051 to 1060, and regent for dramatist, novelist and short story writer of her son, Philip I of France. Her parents were Yaroslav the Wise, Ukrainian ethnicity and Novgorod, and Ingegerd Olofsdotter of , his second wife. Anne founded St. Vincent Abbey in Senlis Famous Ukrainians Milla Jovovich Olga Kurylenko Klitschko Brothers actress, model, actress and model WBC, IBF, WBO & IBO musician, and fashion World designer Champions

Famous Ukrainians Andriy Shevchenko Oleh Blokhin Sergiy Bubka Vasyl Virastyuk is the third-highest goalscorer holds the all-time top goalscorer is six times world champion is a strongman competitor from in Champions League history record for both Dynamo Kyiv (266 (between 1983 and 1997), Ukraine. He competed in the and ranked as the third top goals) and the Soviet Union European champion in 1986 and finals of the World's Strongest goalscorer in all European national team (42 goals), as well as Olympic champion in 1988. He Man contest in 2003 (3rd place) competitions. The most being the overall top goalscorer in broke the world record for men's and 2004 (1st place). As well he prestigious of Andriy’s award the history of the Soviet Top pole vaulting 35 times. He was the won the 2007 IFSA Strongman was the Ballon d'Or in 2004 League (211 goals) first to clear 6.0m and the first and World Championship. only to clear 6.10m

Famous Ukrainians

Sergiy Grygorovych Ruslan Ponomariov is a Ukrainian game-developer, at the age of fourteen he was awarded businessman, founder and CEO of GSC the Grandmaster title. In 2002 Ruslan Game World. One of authors of world's became FIDE world champion at the age game bestsellers - games Cossaks of 18 – the youngest person to ever and Stalker become FIDE world champion

Famous Ukrainians Elina Svitolina Vasyl Lomachenko is a Ukrainian tennis player, became the third racket of the is a Ukrainian professional boxer, WBO junior lightweight champion. world in the Ladies Singles category in the international As of January 2018, Lomachenko is ranked as the world's second ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in 2017 best active boxer, pound for pound, by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and ESPN, and third by The Ring magazine and BoxRec. The Boxing Writers Association of America and The America and the Ring named him Fighter of the Year in 2017

Famous Ukrainians RUSLANA is the winner of EUROVISION 2004 JAMALA is the winner of EUROVISION 2016

The official rate of the National Bank amounts to 28,9 UAH/USD. According to the Big Mac index, the Ukrainian currency is undervalued and should cost 8,4 UAH/USD. Low rate promotes exports. Prices: electricity - $0,06/1 kWh; fuel A95 - $1,1/1 liter UKRAINE: This is our time!