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The devastation of country estates put a halt to large scale economic activity which had depended on agriculture, forestry, brewing and small scale industries. Paradoxically, the Southern Kresy (present-day Ukraine) was famous for its fertile soil and was known as the "bread basket of Europe".
Oleshky Sands overview — Seven Wonders of Ukraine. (in Ukrainian) Video footage of the desert, a video footage of the desert is provided by a blog-site of the local adventurers to familiarize the world with Ukraine. Desert, an excellent blog-site of Anna Stepankova with plenty of pictures and explanations. The problem might be with a language ...
The Pale of Settlement [a] was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (de facto until 1915) in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, [1] was mostly forbidden. Most Jews were still excluded from residency in a number of cities ...
The Donbas (UK: / d ɒ n ˈ b ɑː s /, [3] US: / ˈ d ɒ n b ɑː s, d ʌ n ˈ b æ s /; [4] [5] Ukrainian: Донбас; [6]) or Donbass (Russian: Донбасс [7]) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine.
Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, [a] is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the East European Plain, including the Belarus–Ukraine border region and part of eastern Poland. [2] This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie". [3]
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
In 1986, the region became world-famous because of the Chernobyl disaster; however, the Pripet Marshes should not be confused with the ghost city of Pripyat; the area within which the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is located. It is approximately 356 km (221 mi) east-southeast of the geographic centre of the Pinsk Marshes area.
The Polesian Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the East European Plain in the drainage basins of several rivers including the Dnieper, Pripyat and Desna. It stretches along the Belarus–Ukraine border. It basically defines the historical region of Polesia.