Interesting facts about Kharkov

It will be interesting to know not only tourists but also residents of the city! Facts you might not even know!

Kharkov is the largest city of the Earth on the 50th parallel: larger than Krakow, Prague, Mainz, Ust-Kamenogorsk. In October 2010 in Shevchenko's garden a monument to the 50th parallel was opened, and the latitude itself in the form of a line is laid out on the pavement. In the center of the sign is a bronze circle with a diameter of 2 meters with a map and distances from Kharkov to various cities of the world, and the breadth is denoted by a discontinuous line of 20 copper plates.

Kharkov is the homeland of specific words and meanings of the words of the Russian language, which are mainly spread only on the Slobozhanshchina. These words are raklo (small bandit, arrogant and hamovity), trempel (shoulders), chink (razor blade), ampoule (rod of ballpoint pen), snake (zipper), brand (transport, but only urban, mostly tram), a dressing-gown (a tavern), a tu (interjection).

Almost half (45.82%) of the city's population has a higher or incomplete higher education.

The central street of Kharkov - Sumskaya leads to Moscow, Moscow avenue - to Rostov, the former Ekaterinoslavskaya (present Poltava route) - to Sumy and Kiev. By street names, the city is rotated ninety degrees clockwise.

In Kharkiv, the Saltovka area is the largest sleeping area in Ukraine, with a population of more than 400 thousand people.

The Barabashov market is Ukraine's largest industrial and clothing market, covering an area of more than 75 hectares, being the largest in Eastern Europe and the 14th largest global market.

Before the First World War, Kharkiv shared first place among all European cities in terms of the number of doctors per capita, ahead of London, Vienna, Paris and Berlin. Then 500-700 Kharkiv residents had one doctor.

In 1959, the Kharkov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (70 musicians) gave a visiting concert at the factory: at lunchtime, right in the shop of large HEMZ machines.

After 50 years, on Easter night from 19 to 20 April 2009, the same orchestra of the Philharmonic (conductor Yuri Yanko) gives a concert in the metro station Universitet, consisting of classics and melodies from films. According to the director of the Philharmonic, precedents of holding such concerts in the subway are unknown not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe. Even later, in the Night of Museums from 14 to 15 May 2011 in Moscow at the metro station Kropotkinskaya was a similar concert of the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin under the direction of conductor Mikhail Rakhlevsky. The concert was held directly on the platform and was timed to coincide with the 76th anniversary of the Moscow metro.

In 2010, Kharkiv was recognized as the best city in terms of quality of life in Ukraine, and therefore the city council hung on the posters Kharkov - the best city for life. In 2011, Kharkiv divided the first place with Kiev.

The only place in Kharkov where the metro line comes out is the covered bridge across the river, located between the Kievskaya and Akademika Barabashov stations.

The Mark-5 tank was located on the Constitution Square since the First World War.

In Kharkov, in 1932, for the first time in the USSR, the atomic nucleus was split.

The largest Kharkov sleeping area - Saltovka, where more than 420 thousand people live, almost every fourth inhabitant of the city of Kharkov is a resident of Saltovka.

The biggest depth of the Kharkov metro is 35 meters, the height of the 9-storey building, m. Pushkinskaya.

Gosprom is the first multi-storey reinforced concrete building that was built in the USSR

The first tram in Kharkov was launched in 1882, he used horsepower for traffic, and the first electric trains traveled around the city in 1906.

Kharkiv is the largest city on 50 parallels of both latitudes, in honor of this in the park Shevchenko was installed a kind of monument that reflects the intersection of the city with this parallel.