"Europe's Breadbasket" - Overview of Ukraine

Ukraine is located in central Europe, bordering the Sea of ??Azov and the Black Sea to the south. It covers an area of ??600,000 square kilometers and has a population of 50 million. Its area and population are equivalent to France.

Its industry is developed and it was the center of heavy industry and military industry of the former Soviet Union. Ukraine is known as the "Granary of Europe" and has the largest black soil in the world.

The capital, Kiev, is located on both sides of the Dnieper River in central Ukraine. It is the birthplace of Russian culture and the "mother of Russian cities", with a population of 2.626 million.

It was named "Hero City" after the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Kiev has beautiful scenery and numerous monuments, making it a world-famous garden city.

Kiev has 1,339 libraries, 12 theaters, 23 museums, as well as numerous national scientific research institutions and world-renowned universities.

The famous Dnieper River flows through the entire territory of Ukraine, from north to south, from the black land to the Black Sea.

It also has some of the most famous scenic spots in Europe.

Yalta, located in Crimea, is world-famous for the Big Three meeting during World War II. It is also the fascinating "cradle of the United Nations".

In the west of Ukraine, Lviv is known as "Little Paris" and is a famous European tourist destination and a gathering place of humanities.

It has a long history, numerous universities and beautiful scenery. It is the filming location for Jackie Chan's "Platinum Dragon" and Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers". It has also been designated as the "Ancient European Capital" by the United Nations as a world cultural heritage.

Ukraine has rich cultural origins, numerous talents, and bright stars.

Ukraine has a long cultural history and great influence.

Gogol, the father of Russian literature, and Tchaikovsky, the world's great composer, were both Ukrainians.

The author of the famous book "How Steel Was Tempered", which has influenced generations of Chinese people, Ostrovsky is also Ukrainian.

Ukrainian music, painting, gymnastics and dance are world-famous.

Three of the top ten pianists in the world are from Ukraine; three of the top ten violinists in the world are from Ukraine.

Ukraine is a country that loves art and has made great contributions to the development of human art. It competes with Austria and Vienna to shine in the world.

In addition, military strategists Voroshilov, Budyonny, and Zhukov, writers Tolstoy, Chekov, Dostoyevsky, and Lermontov, world poet Pushkin, and world-famous painters Repin and Sche

Vchenko, chemist Mendeleev, educator Suhomlinsky, musician Rubinstein, and dancer Ulanova all lived and worked in Ukraine and left their eternal footprints.

Today, there are Bubka who has broken the world record in pole vault dozens of times, Dynamo Kiev in the football world and genius star Shevchenko... Ukraine is the center of science and technology, culture and education of the former Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union's scientific and technological talents accounted for one-quarter of the world's scientific and technological talents, and Ukraine's scientific and technological talents accounted for another quarter of the Soviet Union's.

Ukraine's aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding and new material sciences are outstanding in the world, and its practical inventions and patents also account for 40% of the Soviet Union's.

Historically, the Kiev Academy of Sciences was established 100 years earlier than the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ukraine’s education is world-famous. It has a large number of universities and famous brands. There are more than 100 world-famous universities, and many of them have a history of more than 100 years.

For example, Kyiv University ranks among the top ten prestigious universities in Europe and among the top 20 universities in the world; there is the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (now Ukraine National University of Science and Technology); Ukrainian University of Architecture and Technology, which has one of the top ten architecture departments in Europe; Vinnitsa Medical University and Kyiv Medical University, known as the cradle of international doctors; ranked among the top three aviation universities in the world, receiving Kiev International Civil Aviation University, home to international students from more than 100 countries in the world; Kharkiv University, founded in 1805, is not only the second oldest university in the former Soviet Union (the first was Moscow State University), but to this day, Almost all the professors of the Physics Department of Moscow State University in Russia are from this school; there are also Odessa University, which trained Zhu Lilan, my country’s Minister of Science and Technology; Ukraine’s Kiev Academy of Fine Arts and Lviv Fine Arts, which led the trend in oil painting art and art design in the former Soviet Union Academy; the world-famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music, Kiev Conservatory of Music, etc.

There are some other things you need to know: Many people often think that Ukraine is very cold. In fact, due to the influence of warm and humid air currents in the Atlantic, most parts of Ukraine have a temperate continental climate, and the southern part of the Crimean Peninsula has a subtropical climate.

The temperature in the capital Kiev is similar to that in Dalian, my country.

?There are 116 rivers over 100 kilometers in Ukraine, including the Dnieper River, the Dniester River, the Danube River (estuary part), etc., and there are more than 3,000 natural lakes in the territory.

?The time difference between Kiev and Beijing is 6 hours. If you wear the watch on another hand, it looks just right.

From China to Ukraine, there are special flights from Beijing to Kiev, Shanghai to Kiev, and Hong Kong to Kiev.

?Ukraine likes bread, potatoes and beef, and the market is also rich in rice, pork and fresh fish.

Dairy products of all kinds are plentiful and cheap.

Now there are Chinese people making tofu and growing Chinese vegetables in Ukraine.

?Almost every household in Ukraine has a car, a house in the city, and a villa in the countryside.

They once claimed to have "preliminarily built a communist society", but now they are paying the price for economic transformation.

?The Ukrainian nation is a branch of the ancient Rus' ethnic group, which first established Kievan Rus in Kiev.