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Zmiiv, a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, was named Gotvald after him during the years 1976 to 1990.
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Serpent's Wall () is an ancient system of fortifications ( valla ) that stretch across all of Ukraine, from the town of Zmiiv in the east to Podolia in the west.
city and Kharkiv
* 1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15, 000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
The international highway M03, linking Poltava with Kiev and Kharkiv, passes through the southern outskirts of the city.
In 1866 the city was linked by rail with Kiev and Kharkiv as well as with Iaşi in Romania.
From the start, the eastern city of Kharkiv served as the republic's capital.
85 percent of Kiev's city centre was destroyed, while 70 percent of the city centre of the second-largest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv, was destroyed.
Accordingly, the eastern city of Kharkiv was chosen as the republic's seat of government, colloquially named in the media as " the first capital " with implication to the era of Soviet regime.
Kharkiv was also the city where the first Soviet Ukrainian government was created in 1917 with strong support from Russian SFSR authorities.
The oblast is the third most populous region of Ukraine, with a population of 2, 857, 751 (), more than half ( 1. 5 million ) of whom live in the city of Kharkiv, the oblast's administrative center.
He was born in the city of Kharkiv in 1905 to a Russian-Ukrainian working-class family ; he graduated in the 1920s and started working in the 1930s.
Tikhonov was born in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on to a Russian-Ukrainian working-class family ; he graduated from the St. Catherine Institute of Communications in 1924.
Bogodukhov ) is a city in the Kharkiv Oblast ( province ) of eastern Ukraine.
On October 10, 2008 officers from the Security Service of Ukraine detained deputy platoon commander of the Kharkiv city division patrol and inspection service regiment of the Main Interior Affairs Ministry Directorate in Kharkiv region on suspicion of pushing narcotic drugs.
In 1920s Tychyna was a member of Kharkiv city council as an independent.
The name is rather symbolic than historic: it simply indicates that the area lies on route to the city of Kharkiv.
*: made under license, by KMDB, in the city of Kharkiv.
* Page of the city of Kharkiv on Kurbas
city and Oblast
Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnye, Bakhmut district ( uyezd ), Yekaterinoslav Governorate ( now part of Lysychansk city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine ), in the Russian Empire, into a railway worker's family of Russian ethnicity.
The administrative center of Kamchatka Oblast was the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Russian territory adjacent to Lithuania is Kaliningrad Oblast, which is the northern part of the former German East Prussia, including the city of Kaliningrad.
Sambia became part of the Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast, named after the nearby city of Kaliningrad ( historically or ), and the new authorities expelled its German inhabitants.
Volgograd (), formerly called Tsaritsyn (; 1589 – 1925 ) and Stalingrad (; 1925 – 1961 ) is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
Poltava is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast ( province ) as well as of the Poltava Raion housed within the city.
Prussia lost the territory following Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition as the resultant 1807 Treaties of Tilsit awarded the area to the Russian Empire which then organized the region into the Belostok Oblast, with the city as the regional center.
It comprised the city, as the capital, and the surrounding Podlaskie region, roughly corresponding to the territory of the earlier Belostok Oblast.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the city remained a part of the now independent Ukraine, for which it currently serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, and is designated as its own raion ( district ) within that oblast.
In 1886 the city became the capital of the newly formed Samarkand Oblast of Russian Turkestan and grew in importance still further when the Trans-Caspian railway reached the city in 1888.
The city is a major seaport located on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea and the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast.
Irkutsk () is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia.
The city subsequently became the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast after East Siberian Oblast was divided into Chita Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast.
Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians make up the majority of the population ; the city on its own has more inhabitants than the entire neighboring Chukotka Autonomous Okrug or Magadan Oblast.
Bratsk () is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir.
Omsk () is a city and the administrative center of Omsk Oblast, Russia, located in southwestern Siberia from Moscow.
Tomsk () is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Tom River.
The resulting growth of the city led the Soviet government to establish the new Tomsk Oblast, with Tomsk serving as the administrative center.
Murmansk (; ; ; ) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.
In July of that year, the historic city of Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad to honour Mikhail Kalinin and the area named the Kaliningrad Oblast.
city and Ukrainian
Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”
* 1941 – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Von Sacher-Masoch was born in the city then known as Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, at the time a province of the Austrian Empire ( now Lviv, Ukraine ), into the Roman Catholic family of an Austrian police director of Spanish descent and Charlotte von Masoch, a Ukrainian noblewoman.
* May 9 – WWII: In the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, Soviet troops completely drive out German forces, who had been ordered by Hitler to “ fight to the last man .”
The government of the Ukrainian People's Republic returns to the city.
Two professional football teams are based in the city: Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League and FC Poltava in the Second League.
After they returned, Lwów became the epicenter of the Polish – Ukrainian War, during which the city experienced a Ukrainian siege and a pogrom.
With the joint German-Soviet Invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II, the city of Lviv and Lwów Voivodeship were occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union, becoming part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1939 to 1941.
According to the agreements of the Yalta Conference, Lviv was integrated into the Ukrainian SSR, most of the Poles living in Lviv were transferred into Polish Recovered Territories and the city became the main centre of the western part of Soviet Ukraine, inhabited predominantly by Ukrainians with significant Russian minority.
On 12 June 2009 the Ukrainian magazine Focus judged Lviv the best Ukrainian city to live in.
The city, formerly the home of the Russian-then Soviet-Black Sea Fleet, is now home to a Ukrainian naval base and a Russian naval base in facilities leased by the Russian Navy.
The headquarters of both the Ukrainian Naval Forces and Russia's Black Sea Fleet are located in the city.
A few years ago, the city council, dominated by the Communist Party of Ukraine, rejected a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan to renovate Sevastopol's poor sewage system, declaring that the project was intended to increase the city's dependence on the Ukrainian government and the Western world.
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Moscow refused to recognise Ukrainian sovereignty over Sevastopol as well as over the surrounding Crimean oblast, using the argument that the city was never practically integrated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic because of its military status.
Sevastopol remains the location of the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters with the Ukrainian Naval Forces Headquarters also based in the city.
Finally, in 1920, the Red Army took control of the city and united it with the Ukrainian SSR, which later became part of the USSR.
Several ethnic churches are located in this part of the city, as a result of settlement in the area by a large number of Eastern European immigrants, with Polish, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Russian significantly represented.
Tiraspol (, ; Russian and Ukrainian: Тирасполь ) is the second largest city in Moldova and the biggest city in Transnistria.
The city was named by Ukrainian settlers after the city of Kiev in the Ukraine.
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