Thursday, December 13, 2012

UKRAINE

 
 
Region: Eastern Europe
 Coast Line: Black sea and Sea of Azov
Area: 603,628 km2
 Capital: Kiev
 
 
Monument to the Kiev's (Kyi) founders: Kyi, Shchek, Horiv and Lybid
 
 
Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev
 
 
Motherland
 
 
Patriotic War memorial, Kiev
 
 
Kiev War Museum
 
 
Druschba-Monument to the People's Friendship in Kiev
 
 
Painted battle tanks at the World War II memorial
 
 
Leonid Bykow
(December 12, 1928 in Znamenske, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, USSR - April 11, 1979 in Kiev Oblast of Ukraine, USSR) was a Soviet-Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer.
Bykov contributed to several Soviet World War II films (that all reached iconic status) and significantly delivered to the cliche image of a Soviet Ukrainian.
Bykov was killed in a car accident in 1979 on the highway from Minsk to Kiev.
 
 
Bogdan Hmelnitsky monument
(c. 1595 – 6 August 1657) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now part of Ukraine).
He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Tsardom of Russia, which led to the eventual loss of independence to the Russian Empire
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Bridge over the Dnieper
 
 
The Kupalo dance group in Khotyn castle
 
 

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