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Exploring Ukraine: Kharkiv

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  • What is the name of a famous market in Kharkiv, which is the biggest market in Eastern Europe?
    Barabashovo
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  • What year was Kharkiv's underground system opened?
    1975
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  • Who among all these prominent people WASN'T born in Kharkiv or Kharkiv region?
    Ilya Mechnikov, a zoologist and immunologist
    Hryhorii Skovoroda, a philosopher
    Ilya Repin, a painter
    Otto Struve, an astronomer
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  • Which of these inventions WASN'T created in Kharkiv?
    tank T-34
    splitting the atom
    first project of the nuclear bomb
    first aeroplane
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  • What are the four rivers in Kharkiv? (Name at least 1)
    Lopan, Kharkiv, Udy, and Nemyshlia
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  • True or false? Sumska street was always the centre of Kharkiv.
    False. In the 19th century it was the outskirts of the city with gardens.
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  • Freedom Square in Kharkiv is one of the largest in Europe. What is the size of it?
    12 hectares
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  • What is the oldest stone building in Kharkiv?
    Pokrovskyi Cathedral
    Governor's Palace
    Pokrov Monastery complex
    V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
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  • According to the legent, what are you supposed to notice on Schevchenko monument in order to stay in Kharkiv?
    a wheel
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  • True or false? Kharkiv's zoo is the oldest in Ukraine.
    True, it was founded in 1895.
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  • What famous theatre existed in Kharkiv from 1926 to 1933?
    Berezil founded by Les Kurbas
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  • How many underground stations are there in Kharkiv?
    30
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  • What is the most popular place to meet in Kharkiv?
    the giant thermometer on Sumska, 1
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  • True or false? 85% of Ukrainian books were printed in Kharkiv before the full scale war.
    True. The city is famous for its publishing houses, e.g. "КСД", "Ранок", "Фоліо", "Vivat", etc.
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  • Can you name this house and say what it was famous for?
    The Slovo Building is a famous residential apartment house shaped like the letter "C" for "Slovo" (Word), built in the late 1920s in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to house
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  • True or false? The aerial cableway in Kharkiv was named one of the best in the world by National Geographic.
    True!
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