Ukrayina

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Ukrayina - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century Ukraine CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 Crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov capital of the Ukraine, Kiev, Kyyiv - capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center Donetsk, Donetske, Stalino - an industrial city in the Donets Basin Donbas, Donbass, Donets Basin - an industrial region in the Ukraine Chernobyl - a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986) Kharkiv, Kharkov - a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine Odesa, Odessa - a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area Danau, Danube, Danube River - the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube" Dnieper, Dnieper River - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles Ukranian - a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine