Cultural presentation_Ukraine

•• Continent:Continent: EuropeEurope

•• Capital:Capital: KyivKyiv

•• Area:Area: 603,700 km603,700 km²²

•• Population:Population: 47 million47 million

Blue andyellow, the colors of the sky,

mountains, streams, andgolden wheat fields

The trident is the Coat ofArms of Ukraine - the

union of the three naturalelements: the air, thewater and the earth.

Andy WarholAndy Warhol

Ukrainian artist (Lemko)origin,the founder of art

school pop art, cult figure of modern art of the twentieth century.

Andy Warhol (true: Andrew Warhol). Born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburg (USA), died February 22, 1987 in New York.

IgorIgor I.I. SikorskySikorskyBorn May 25, 1889 in Kiev, died October 26, 1972 in Easton (USA). Aircraft designer and entrepreneur.

His achievements - the invention of the helicopter,

and many entirely new types of aircraft.

U GenerationU Generation

Viktor Pinchuk, was the first in the history of Ukrainian public figure,who joined the list of the magazine Time - the 100 most influential people in the world, taking 7th place in the category of "thinkers". A British magazineArtReview put him on the 37th place in rating of 100 prominent figures ofthe art world.

Vitaliy and Vladimir Klitschko.Vitaliy twice defended a world title Heavyweight WBC in 2010. His brother did the same feat, but according to IBF .

Andrey Kurkov.His novel “Night milkman”in June 2010 has been declared Book of the month in France and became the most widely read in Europe.

Andriy ShevchenkoForward "Dinamo", Milan, Chelsea and the Ukrainian team went into compiled by British magazine World Soccer Top 50 people who had the greatest influence on the development of football in the last 50 years.

Milla Jovovich was born in Kyiv. In 1980, when Milla was five years old, her family left the Soviet Union. Now she is famous supermodel, actress, musician, and fashion designer.

French actress and model of Ukrainian descent. Olga Kurylenko played girls of the main characters in two film adaptations based on the game “Hitman”, “Max Payne”and the continuation of the popular series of James Bond “Quantum of Solace”.

The world's first constitution was created by a Ukrainian politician Pylyp Orlyk in 1710 . U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787 and French

and Polish in 1791.

Ukrainian language took the second place onmelodic criteria after Italian and it was ranked asthe third most beautiful language in the world on

such criteria as phonetics, vocabulary, phraseology and sentence structure after Frenchand Persian at a linguistic contest held in Paris in

1934.

The center of Europe is in Ukraine! Geographiccenter of Europe is considered to be in a

small Western Ukrainian town Rahiv, surrounded by picturesque Carpathian

Mountains.

TheThe deepestdeepest inin thethe worldworld subwaysubway ((metrometro) ) stationstation isis locatedlocated inin thethe UkrainianUkrainian capitalcapital, ,

KyivKyiv! ! ItIt isis ArsenalArsenal’’nana metrometro stationstation ((redred lineline) ) andand itsits depthdepth isis 105 105 metersmeters! !

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