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Since the 18th century, the concept of "Ukraine" has been used in a geographical sense and is generally known along with the name "Little Russia" [33]: 183-184 As national consciousness grew, the significance of the concept "Ukraine" increased, and the word itself began to be perceived not only as a geographical term , but partly as a name for an ethnic space. This became especially noticeable towards the end of the 19th century [33]: 186. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the term "Ukraine" as the name of the entire ethnic territory became completely independent and self-sufficient, displacing other self-names that have since been used only at the regional level [33]: 186. In the course of the struggle of the Ukrainian national movement with the Little Russian identity, it began to compete with the official and church term "Little Russia", displacing it completely in the 1920s in connection with the Bolshevik policy of indigenization and Ukrainianization

26/11/2021

"Goldfish" is called Yana Klochkova, who is a four-time Olympic champion, three-time world champion, eleven-time European champion and more.
At the age of 14, Ukrainian chess player Ruslan Ponomarev became the world's youngest grandmaster, world champion among boys under 18, and 16th world chess champion (2002, according to FIDE).
World-famous Ukrainian boxers Volodymyr and Vitaliy Klychky, Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk, rhythmic gymnasts Kateryna Serebryanska and Hanna Bezsonova, fencers Serhiy Holubytsky and Olga Harlan, athletes Ivan Heshko, Inessa Kravets, Natalia Dobrynska, Bohdan Bondarenko. Shooters Mykola Milchev and Olena Kostevych return from competitions with Olympic medals.
One of the best climbers in the world is Vladislav Terziul, who climbed without oxygen on almost all 14 eight-thousanders of the planet, repeating the record of Reinhold Messner. Representatives of hand-to-hand combat, karate, taekwondo, rock climbers and sambo wrestlers constantly bring medals from international competitions.

26/11/2021

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was left with hundreds of stadiums, swimming pools, gyms and many other sports facilities. In terms of sports, Ukraine is a typical European country. The most popular sports are athletics, football (the most successful teams are Dynamo (Kyiv) and Shakhtar (Donetsk)), boxing, volleyball, wrestling (sports), handball, basketball and others. Biathlon is popular among winter sports. Ukrainians practice almost all Olympic sports and many other sports that are not included in the Olympic program. Ukraine hosted Euro 2012 together with Poland.

Striker Andriy Shevchenko has become a real symbol of Ukraine on the football field, playing for Italian "Milan". He is a five-time champion of Ukraine, champion of Italy. Winner of the Golden Ball in 2004, the best player in the Champions League of the 1998-1999 season (appointed by a special commission of UEFA in August 1999). The best scorer of the national team in history, three times won the competitions of the goal scorers of the Champions League, twice - the Italian championship (Serie A). Together with him and coach Oleh Blokhin, the Ukrainian national football team reached the quarterfinals during the 2006 World Cup.

26/11/2021

Ukrainian cuisine - a national cuisine that has a long history and is famous for its diversity, has hundreds of recipes: borscht and donuts, palyany and dumplings, dumplings and sausages, baked and fruit and honey drinks, known far beyond Ukraine. Some dishes have a long history, such as Ukrainian borscht.
Many features of Ukrainian cuisine were due to the way of life of the people, the vast majority of whom were engaged in hard farming. Hard work required hearty, high-calorie food. Therefore, Ukrainian cuisine is characterized by dishes rich in proteins, fats and carbohydrates. The whims of the national character demanded that this food be delicious. That is why most dishes are characterized by a complex set of components (yes, there are up to 20 in borscht), as well as a combination of several methods of heat treatment of products (frying, cooking, stewing, baking). This technology determines the unique taste, aroma and juiciness of Ukrainian cuisine.

26/11/2021

Folk art plays an important role in Ukrainian culture, especially in Ukrainian wedding traditions. Ukrainian embroidery, weaving are used in traditional clothing of folk and traditional holidays. Ukrainian embroidery varies depending on the region of its origin and design, which has a long history, composition, choice of colors and type of seams. The use of color is very important and has certain historical roots in Ukrainian folklore.
National Ukrainian dresses are richly decorated. Handmade weaving, despite the technologicalization of production, is still practiced, for example, in the village of Krupove, located in the Rivne region.

26/11/2021

In 2005, the film "Travelers" by young Ukrainian director Igor Strembitsky received the Golden Palm Branch for a short film. Since 2004, several films have been made about the Orange Revolution. Her days were covered in several films, in particular: "Orange Sky" (2006, directed by Alexander Kirienko), "Let's break through!" (2006, directed by Ivan Kravchyshyn), Orange (2006, Alan Badoev). The film "Orange" won the prize for best director at the XV International Film Festival "Kinoshok" in Anapa (Russia). In 2006, the premiere of the first Ukrainian thriller "Gallery" (producer and cameraman Alexei Khoroshko, director Lubomyr Kobylchuk) took place. In 2008, the film "Illusion of Fear" by Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Kiriyenko was released. The film is based on the work of the same name by Alexander Turchinov. He was nominated by Ukraine for the Oscar. Among the films with the largest budgets are Sappho ($ 6 million), Prayer for Hetman Mazepa ($ 2.8 million), Two and the War ($ 2 million) and He Who Passed Through the Fire ($ 2 million).

26/11/2021

The oldest surviving cinemas are Bommer (Kharkiv, 1909) and Ekran (Kyiv, 1911). On the territory of Ukraine in Soviet times there were 3 large film studios: them. Dovzhenko (1927), Odessa (1919), Yalta (1917), Kyivnaukfilm, Ukrtelefilm.

During the German occupation of 1941-1943, film studios were moved to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The film "Rainbow" (1943) starring Natalia Uzhviy was shot in Uzbekistan. This film received a special award from the American Film Academy. At one time, the Ukrainian film industry released a number of masterpieces such as "Arsenal", "Ukraine on fire", "Earth", "Only old men go to war", "Ati-bati, soldiers went…", "Babylon XX", " Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors "," White bird with a black sign ". Such masters as Leonid Bykov, Ivan Mykolaychuk, Serhiy Paradzhanov, Leonid Osyka, Mykhailo Ilyenko worked at film studios of Ukraine at different times. Today the most productive is the private film studio Film.UA

23/11/2021

Ukraine is an industrial and agricultural country with a predominance of raw materials. It is one of the leading exporters of some agricultural products and food, "Europe's granary". The economic complex of the country includes such industries as mining (coal, oil and gas, iron and manganese ores), some branches of mechanical engineering, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy. Ukraine is a powerful producer of electricity. The production of launch vehicles, satellites and equipment for space exploration has been established. Ukraine is a significant producer of military equipment and weapons - tanks, military transport aircraft, anti-aircraft missile systems, optical equipment.

23/11/2021

Ukraine is a unitary state. It consists of 24 regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and two cities with a special status: Kyiv - the capital of both the largest city and Sevastopol. Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic. The highest body of state power is the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the head of state is the President of Ukraine.
Ukraine ranks eighth in Europe in terms of population. According to the last census, which took place in 2001, more than 48.4 million people live in Ukraine. 77.8% of them are Ukrainians, 17.3% - Russians. The share of urban population is 67.2%. The official language in Ukraine is Ukrainian. Due to centuries of Russification in the eastern and southern regions of the Russian language is widespread. [9] Most believers are Christians, mostly of the Orthodox faith, [10] [11] in Galicia, about half of the faithful are Greek Catholics.

23/11/2021

The formation of the modern Ukrainian nation intensified during the Khmelnytsky region of 1648-1657, which resulted in the formation of an autonomous Cossack state, the Hetmanate, or the Zaporozhian Army. The next ten years are known as the Ruin - a period of hetman strife, as a consequence - the division of the Cossack state between the Commonwealth and the Muscovy. Over the next century, the lands of the Left Bank, which came under Moscow's jurisdiction, were gradually deprived of autonomy. The right bank and west of Ukraine, after three divisions of the Commonwealth and several Russo-Turkish wars, were divided between the Russian and Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) empires.

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