Our Motherland - Ukraine

Some interesting facts about our native land

Maryna Nosarchuk

Do you knowwho created the world's first

constitution?• The world's first constitution was

created by a Ukrainian politician Pylyp Orlyk. On April 5th, 1710 he was elected the Hetman of Zaporizhia troops. On the same day Pylyp Orlyk has announced "the Constitution of the rights and freedoms of Zaporizhia army." For example, U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787 and French and Polish in 1791.

Do you knowwhat the heaviest silver coin

in the world is?• The heaviest silver coin in the

world is a Ukrainian anniversary coin "10 years of hryvnia revival". Its weight is 1000 grams. It was issued in Ukraine in 2006.

Do you know about whom Pablo Picasso

said: "If we had an artist of such a level, we would make the world talk about her"?

• Pablo Picasso was delighted with the works of the Ukrainian artist Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961). When he saw her at the exhibition in 1954, he said, her works were brilliant and compared her with the famous painter Seraphine Louis.

Do you knowwhere you could see a

famous shod flea? • You could see a famous

shod flea in Ukraine at the Kyiv Museum of Miniatures. Its author is a well-known Ukrainian master of miniatures, Mykola Syadrystiy.

Do you knowwhich language takes the second

place in the world on melodic criteria?

Ukrainian language took the second place on melodic criteria after Italian and it was ranked as the third most beautiful language in the world on such criteria as phonetics, vocabulary, phraseology and sentence structure after French and Persian at a linguistic contest held in Paris in 1934.

Do you know where the deepest subway

station in the world is? • The deepest subway (metro)

station in the world is located in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv! It is Arsenalna metro station (red line) and its depth is 105 meters!

Do you knowwhere the center of Europe

is? • The center of Europe is in

Ukraine! Geographic center of Europe is considered to be in a small Western Ukrainian town Rahiv, surrounded by picturesque Carpathian Mountains.

Do you knowwhich city has the shortest

main street? The shortest city main street,

but at the same time one of the widest and the most spectacular is Khreshchatyk Street in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Its total length is 1,225 meters.

We must be proud that

we're Ukrainians!