11 interesting facts about Ukraine, which you might not know.

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It's decided to sum up the beautiful dates: beautiful and not very. You can think for a long time about how well or badly our country has changed over the years of independence. We offer to look at Ukraine from a different angle. It was great always, but not all of its achievements are shown in the best light. We offer you a top-list of facts — known and not very much!

Rather known fact, but I really want to mention it. The biggest airplane in the world made in Ukraine! Transport An-225 & la; Mriya & raquo; can carry up to 200 tons of cargo, the length of the giant — 84 meters, & laquo; growth & raquo; — 18.1 meters, wingspan — 88.4 meters. Not surprisingly, & laquo; Mriya & raquo; has got into the Guinness Book of Records!

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And you know how many laurels in the world? Such as the Kiev-Pecherskaya, for example. And what does the Greek word mean? We tell: it is a large populous monastery, a privileged place. Not every monastery can receive this status. In the world, only six monasteries have the right to be called a laurel. Three of them — Ukrainian: Kiev-Pecherskaya, Svyatogorskaya and Pochaev Lavra.

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& Arquenna & raquo; — the deepest metro station in the world. Its depth — 105 meters away. The descent is very long and languid, along two escalators. Opened the 'Arsenal & raquo; back in 1960. In second place — the station of the Chinese subway "Puhung", which is five meters below the Ukrainian one. The third step is taken by & laquo; Admiralty & raquo ;. The metro station in St. Petersburg (Russia) goes down by 86 meters.

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Ukraine has presented the world with the longest folk musical instrument — trembitu! Outwardly it is a three-meter tube. You still need to learn how to play it! But if the trembita sings, her voice will go to 5? 10 km! In the Carpathians!

The Christmas symbol around the world — Ukrainian song & la Candrick & raquo ;. The music was written by Nikolay Leontovich. The text had several revisions, the latter being the — 1919 year. In English, & la carte; Schedrick & raquo; were transferred in 1936, calling Carol of the Bells. Photo: Shutterstock

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Ukraine has its own Sahara! Of course, inferior to the Sahara African in size: the area of the original — more than 9 million km2, and the domestic scale of the — about 2000 km². Sand Miracle — Oleshkovskie sands — is located in the village of Radensk, Kherson region. They appeared relatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when large herds of livestock were damaged, and in some places the vegetation cover was destroyed. Now it is the second largest sand massif in Europe.

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& laquo; If there was a woman in France like Katerina Bilokur, we would make the whole world talk about her & raquo ;, — said the great Spaniard Pablo Picasso about the Ukrainian artist. Her paintings with fabulous flowers conquered the whole world! And Picasso saw the paintings of Bilokur in 1954 at an exhibition in Paris.

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Where is the most of the black soil? In Ukraine! There's nothing to be doubted about: the fourth part of all the world's reserves of fertile black soils is here. Hence the yield, the title of the barn of Europe ... They say that during World War II the Germans even took the Ukrainian chernozem back to their homeland.

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World-renowned Ukrainian — writer Taras Shevchenko. Now there are 1384 monuments in the world, 1256 of them — in Ukraine. For comparison: the poet Alexander Pushkin in the world erected no more than 300 monuments.

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Not a festive fact: despite 25 years of independence, Europeans still associate Ukraine with Russia. According to the British research company TNS, 18% of Europeans consider the country to be a part of the Russian Federation, 46% associate the word "Ukraine"; with war, and 9% — with poverty.

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Ukraine is one of the world's three leading producers of honey. But now it's not about that. In the distant 1814, it was the Ukrainian Pyotr Prokopovich who invented a frame hive and, in fact, made it. And then went-go: comfortable houses for bees settled down on the whole planet!

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Interesting facts about Ukraine — weight! What is worth at least here's the local nature! It's unlikely that you have time to travel the whole country and get acquainted with all its amazing corners. Do not postpone traveling for later!