1. Ukraine - is a major producer of grain (it is the third largest producer of barley). Along with France, Germany and the United States - one of the largest producers of sugar beets, ahead of

Ukraine

1. Ukraine - is a major producer of grain (it is the third largest producer of barley). Along with France, Germany and the United States - one of the largest producers of sugar beets, ahead of neighbors like Poland and Turkey. Include Ukraine and the seven biggest producers of sugar, vegetable oil, pork and potatoes. Among the top five global producers of honey.

2. Ukraine - the only country in the world that voluntarily renounced nuclear weapons. While Hollywood producers love to show the films that terrorists steal nuclear weapons from Ukraine, it is not true.

3. Ukraine ranks 4th in the world in the number of citizens with higher education. Ukraine's population is among the most educated and the number of college graduates per capita than the average level.

4. The majority of Ukraine's population, about 70%, said in Ukrainian. It differs significantly from the Russian. Our speech is one of the most beautiful and melodic. The World Conference of linguists in Rome (in the mid 20-ies of the last century), the Ukrainian language on melody recognized second to Italian. Ukrainian language belongs to the most popular languages ​​of the world and takes the number of its bearers 26th. He is also the second most common among Slavic languages ​​after Russian. In Ukraine, about 31 million people owned Ukrainian. About 4.1 million Ukrainians in the Russian Federation also know Ukrainian.

5. The person, marked the largest number of monuments in the world, - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet of genius, philosopher and artist.

6. The first frame hive was invented in 1814 by P. Prokopovich.

7. The first kerosene lamp was invented in Lviv pharmacist "Under the gold star" Ignatius and Jan Lukasiewicz Zehom in 1853. In the same year in Lviv hospital hosted the first surgery when lighted kerosene lamp. Subsequently, a kerosene lamp was presented at the international exhibition in Munich, the invention was noted there a special diploma.

8. In 50 years, we constructed the first in continental Europe electronic computer Meow (Lebedev), developed the theory of digital machines (Glushkov), which was created on the basis of electronic computers of the new generation ("Ukraine", MIR).

9. In the 20 - 40's were built Europe's largest particle accelerators, created and implemented the theory of submerged arc welding (Paton).

10. Trembita, Ukrainian national instrument - the longest wind musical instrument in the world.

11. In Ukraine, 5 branch of the state academies: Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, the Academy of Legal Sciences, the Academy of Arts.

(Evening on the banks of the Dnieper in Dnepropetrovsk)

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