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The city of Lviv is located in the western part of Ukraine, at the shores of the Poltava river, 80 kilometres away from the border of Poland. Currently, its population is about 735,000 people, most of whom are ethnic Ukrainians speaking the Ukrainian language.
The major Ukrainian rivers are of such a great importance for Ukraine that without the rivers Ukraine would not even exist. Some of the rivers enabled the fine crops on the fields throughout the ages, while others were very important trading routes for the ancients. So, here we go.
Lviv is a very poetic city steeped in legends both ancient and relatively new! Narrow medieval streets paved with stones, architectural decoration done in different styles – all preserved in its original form. In ancient times Lviv was the capital of a mighty Slavic state called the Galicia-Volyn principality. Continue reading ‘Short topic about Lviv’
Well, to be frank you’ll not find any University from World’s top 200. Though be sure to find Ukrainian graduates in best world’s scientific organizations, laboratories in major enterprises, everywhere. And here is where they come from.
The official language of the Ukraine is the Ukrainian language. The Ukrainian language is one of the East Slavic languages similar to Russian and Belorussian. All of these languages use the Cyrillic Alphabet. There was a long period where the Ukrainian language was on a decline is use but recently the beautiful language has been making a comeback. It is used widely in the Western Ukraine where it has had a large amount of influence from the Polish.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian languages are spoken in Kiev. Kiev used to be a city in which Russian was the primary language spoken but the change of also speaking Ukrainian is a notable change. This change was mainly caused by the large amount of migrants that flooded in from the western regions of the Ukraine but it also was caused by the residents of Kiev returning to using the same language they normally speak in their homes for more of their everyday matters.
Here are a few common words in English and their pronunciations in Ukrainian:
Hello—Vitayu
Good morning—–Dobrogo rankoo
Good evening—Dobryy’ vechir
Please—-Proshu, bud’ laska
Thank you—Dyakuyu
Do you speak English?—– Chy vy hovoryte po anglyis’ki?
The White Elephant, a once famous Polish observatory in the Carpathians, is as close to the stars as it only could be. Just look at the ruins and try to imagine that the complex erected on top of the Chornohora, or the Mount Black, is located more than two kilometres above the sea level! The initial construction, the Marshal Jozef Pilsudski Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory, was established back in 1938, when Western Ukraine was still a part of Poland. No one really knows why it was baptized as the “White Elephant” – could it be due to its unusual L-shape, or because of the grand amount of time, effort, and money its design and construction consumed?
Western Ukraine is the homeland of one of the most profound and intriguing altar sculptors of the 18th century – the famous artist known as Master Johann Pinzel (1751 – 1770s). Master Pinzel, whose real name remains a mystery, is most known as the founder of “Lviv Rococo” style in art and the author of beautiful altars and sculptures he made in Buchach and Horodenka. Continue reading ‘The Year of Pinzel in Ukraine’
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