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Interesting facts about Ukraine
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•In Vinnitsa, before the Second World War, a third of the population were Jews. Now the city has several synagogues, Jewish schools, a Jewish cemetery and a residential area of ​​Jerusalem, and the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is also celebrated here.
• Dnieper has one of the longest and most picturesque embankments in the world. It stretches for 23 kilometers.
• In 2012, a Guinness record was set in the center of Donetsk for the largest quadrille (folk dance). More than 30 thousand dancers took part in the event.
• Zhytomyr produces the most honey in Ukraine, as well as a quarter of all Ukrainian ice cream.
• One of the first tractors in the USSR, donated to Vladimir Lenin, was produced in Zaporozhye. The tractor had a primitive design, but it was easy to work on it. It was called "Zaporozhets", like the well-known brand of cars.
• Ivano-Frankivsk used to be called Stanislavov and was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919. It received its modern name in 1962 on the 300th anniversary of the city.
• In Kyiv there is the deepest metro station in the world - "Arsenalnaya". The descent to the station on the escalator takes more than five minutes.
• Kropyvnytsky has changed 6 names in its history. Now it is the only regional center in Ukraine, which is named after the theatrical figure - the creator of the Ukrainian theater Mark Lukich Kropyvnytsky.
• The oldest street in Lugansk used to be called English and was the only street in the city. English engineers lived on it. Now it is called Dahl Street.
• The longest residential building in Europe is located in Lutsk. Its total length is more than 2.5 km, and in total there are 120 entrances in the house.
• Lviv is the most diverse religious center in Ukraine. All denominations of Christianity are represented here, and there is also a synagogue.
• One of the oldest marine observatories in Europe is located in Nikolaev. It is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city and the highest point in Nikolaev.
• In Odessa, there are several houses built at an angle of 45 degrees. If you look at them from the side, it seems that these houses are flat.
• Poltava is considered the birthplace of the Ukrainian spoken language. It was here that Ivan Kotlyarevsky, the author of the first poem in the Ukrainian language, was born and lived.
• Amber aged 40 million years was found in Rovno, in which ancient scorpions, spiders, ants and other insects were found. This amber was formed at a time when the territory of Ukraine was an island, and there was a sea in place of Poland.
• The world's longest trolleybus route starts in Simferopol. It ends in Yalta. Its length is 86 kilometers.
• Many Austrians, Czechs, Germans, Poles and other Europeans lived in Sumy until the beginning of the 20th century. They ended up in the city as refugees after the First World War, and many of them were exiled deep into the Russian Empire after unsuccessful uprisings.
• The center of Ternopil is decorated with the largest artificial pond in Ukraine. Its area is more than 300 hectares. There is a fountain on it and motor ships run, and in winter hockey competitions are held here.
• Uzhgorod is closer to Warsaw, Chisinau and Prague than to Kyiv.
• Kharkiv is one of the most "enlightened" cities in Ukraine. About 80 universities are located here.
• Under Kherson there is a huge network of catacombs, from where clay was previously mined for the construction of the old part of the city.
• Khmelnytsky was named in honor of Hetman Bogdan Khmelnytsky and there are 4 monuments to the commander. However, the hetman himself never visited this city.
• Roden could be located in Cherkassy - one of the most mysterious cities in Ukraine, which existed in the 8th century. Its exact location is unknown, but there is an assumption that it was located on Castle Hill in Cherkasy.
• Chernihiv is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine, the historical center of the Left-Bank Ukraine and one of the most populated cities of Kievan Rus.
• In Chernivtsi, every day at 12:00 a trumpeter in national costume rises to the city hall and blows the song "Marichka".

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