Ukraine must be a good place, because few people leave. According to a recent study, approximately 77% of Ukrainians have never been outside of the Ukraine, and a further 36% have never left their home region.
Even if you are not a fan of the opera, you have most likely heard or know of the song “O Sole Mio” (My Sunshine in Italian). While the well-known Neapolitan song was written in 1898 by Giovanni Capurro, the music, composed by Eduardo di Capua, was written during and inspired by touring the Crimea.
Given a map of Europe, most people would look for the centre of Europe as somewhere in Austria or Slovakia, but the actual geographic centre of Europe is in the Ukraine, lying close to Rakhiv, in South Western Ukraine. Located and marked by Austro-Hungarian experts, there is a sign near the locality that reads: “Permanent, exact, and eternal place. Very precisely, using special apparatus made in Austria and Hungary, with scale of meridians and parallels, set the Center of Europe. 1887.”
Written codes define governments, and, in the modern world, few documents have had as much or as widespread of an impact as the U.S. Constitution of 1789 and the French Constitution of 1791. Yet, they were far from the first. The first known constitution, titled the Pacts and Constitutions of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporizhian Host and authored by Ukrainian Cossack Pylyp Orlyk, was written in 1710, pre-dating the aforementioned documents by 70 years and Montesquieu’s influential The Spirit of the Laws by nearly 40 years.
The deepest metro station in the world is to be found in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The country designed the heaviest aircraft An-255 Mriya. Ukraine has the longest musical instrument in the world, the trembita and the breath taking railway surrounded by green arches, known as the “Tunnel of Love”.
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