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Ukraine is a country located in Eastern Europe. Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa, Dnipro and Donetsk are the largest cities in Ukraine in terms of area. At the same time, the first 3 settlements from the list - Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa - are the largest cities in Ukraine in terms of population.

The number of inhabitants in each of them, even without taking into account agglomerations, exceeds 1 million people. Odessa and Kharkov are the most densely populated settlements of the republic. The population density in them is on average 2 times higher than in other large cities of the country.

Kyiv was founded by the Polyana elder Kiy, at the end of the 6th - beginning of the 7th century from the birth of Christ. During its one and a half thousand-year history, it managed to visit the capital of Kievan Rus, the Hetmanate, the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Republic of Ukraine. In addition, at different times Kyiv was the provincial center of the Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Commonwealth, the Russian State. From 1934 to 1991 Kyiv was the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

The largest city of Ukraine is spread on the right and left banks of the Dnieper, on an area of 848 km². There are 7 historical districts of the city on the west bank of the river:

Golosievsky;
Obolonsky;
Pechersky;
Podolsky;
Svyatoshinsky;
Solomyansky;
Shevchenkovskiy.

There are 3 new districts on the east coast:

Darnitsky;
Desnyansky;
Dneprovskiy.

Kyiv is the largest financial and transport center of the country. There are 3 international airports in its vicinity:

Antonov;
Boryspil;
Zhuliany.

In addition, the metro is developed in the capital, tram, trolleybus and bus lines operate, a funicular operates, and there is a river port.

In 2016, the population of Kyiv was almost 2.9 million people. Of these, 2/3 live in the historical, western part of the city and 1 third - on the left bank of the Dnieper. The population of the capital is constantly increasing due to natural growth and migration from other regions of the country.

Kharkiv is the second capital of Ukraine

Kharkov fortress was spontaneously founded on the banks of the river of the same name in 1630 by Ukrainian settlers who fled from Volhynia and Podolia from the oppression of the Polish gentry. In 1669, the fortress was given the status of a regimental city, then no more than 2,000 people lived in it. From 1919 to 1934 Kharkov was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The city is located in the very south of the Central Russian Plain. It lies on five hills, covering an area of 350 km². 9 small rivers flow through Kharkiv, flowing into one another and carrying their waters to the Seversky Donets. The territory of Kharkov is administratively divided into 9 districts located around:

Industrial;
Kyiv;
Moscow;
Nemyshlyansky;
Novobavarsky;
Osnovyansky;
Sloboda;
Kholodnogorsky;
Shevchenkovskiy.

Kharkiv is the largest scientific and educational center of Ukraine. There are many research institutes in the city.

Over 15% of the population, or about 250 thousand people, are students or teachers of higher educational institutions.

The city has a developed machine-building and food industries, an international airport, a subway, a cable car, tram, trolleybus and bus lines. Kharkiv is a key railway junction in Southeast Europe.

The population of Kharkiv in 2016 amounted to 1450 thousand people.

Odessa - a pearl by the sea

The small Tatar port of Khadzhibey appeared on the northern coast of the Black Sea in the last century of the Golden Horde, at the beginning of the 15th century. For more than 350 years, it alternately belonged to the Tatars, Lithuanians, Turks, but in 1791 it was conquered by the Russian Empire and in 1794 received the status of a port city. Exactly one year later, in 1795, Khadzhibey was renamed Odessa and has retained this name to this day.

Odessa is located on an arid plain stretching along the coast of the Gulf of Odessa, covering an area of 237 km².

From two sides, the Odessa urban agglomeration is limited by the Dniester estuary in the southwest and the Tiligulsky estuary in the northeast.

In addition to them, in the suburbs of Odessa there are 5 more estuaries:

Big Adzhalyksky;
Grigorievsky;
Kuyalnitsky;
Dry;
Khadzhibey.

Thanks to its favorable location, Odessa is the largest center of beach tourism and spa treatment in Ukraine. Within the city and in the suburbs there are sandy beaches stretching for tens of kilometers. The most famous of them are:

Arcadia;
Dolphin;
Langeron;
Luzanovka;
Joy.

In addition, Odessa has the country's largest commercial sea port, through which tens of millions of tons of cargo are transshipped every year.

Odessa is the most densely populated area in Ukraine, the population density exceeds 4,200 people per 1 km². As of 2016, just over 1 million people live in Odessa.

Dnipro - a city of bridges

This settlement was often renamed during its existence. In 1784, on the site of the settlements of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, by order of Empress Catherine the Great, the city of Yekaterinoslav was founded.

After the death of the founder, in 1796 the settlement was renamed Novorossiysk. However, after 6 years, its former name was returned to it.

For the next 124 years, Yekaterinoslav proudly bore the name of the Empress. After the formation of the USSR, in 1926 the city was given a new name - Dnepropetrovsk. Under this name, it existed for 90 years, but in 2016 it was once again renamed for political reasons.

The Dnieper stretches on both banks of the northern part of the Dnieper reservoir, on an area of 405 km². The right-bank part of the city is located on 4 hills of the Dnieper Upland, cut by gullies and ravines. Left-bank - on a plain, cut up by elongated lakes. The rivers Orel and Samara flow through the eastern part of the city.

Dnipro is divided into 8 districts:

Amur-Nizhnedneprovsky;
Industrial;
Novokodaksky;
Samara;
Cathedral;
Central;
Chechelovsky;
Shevchenkovskiy.

Due to the large number of water barriers separating residential areas, one of the main attractions of the city are bridges, the most famous of them are:

Amur;
Merefa-Kherson (railway);
Igrensky;
Ust-Samarsky;
Central;
Kaydaksky;
Hunchbacked.

There are more than 50 bridges in the city.

Dnipro is a large industrial center of Ukraine. There are many metallurgical, metal-working and machine-building enterprises concentrated in it. There are all types of public transport.

In the past, the population of the city exceeded one million, but over the past decade, due to natural decline, the number of inhabitants has decreased to 985 thousand.

Donetsk is the capital of Donbass

The emergence of this city is associated with the commercial activities of the British businessman John James Hughes. In 1869, he built a metallurgical plant in the Donetsk coal basin and founded a settlement for workers, officially called Yuzovo, or Yuzovka in the common people.

In 1917, the settlement received the status of a city. After the revolution, in 1924, the settlement was renamed Stalino and existed under this name until the personality cult of the leader of the peoples was debunked.

In 1961, Stalino was renamed Donetsk in honor of the nearest major river.
Donetsk is located in the steppe part of the Donetsk coal basin, south of the ridge of the same name, on an area of 385 km². In the suburbs of Donetsk, Makeevka, the Kalmius River originates, flowing through the entire city and flowing into the Taganrog Bay of the Sea of Azov.

The settlement is administratively divided into 9 districts, most of them named after prominent communists:

Budenovsky;
Voroshilovsky;
Kalininsky;
Kyiv;
Kirovsky;
Kuibyshevsky;
Leninist;
Petrovsky;
Proletarian.

Donetsk, together with the surrounding towns, is the largest center of the coal, chemical, food and metallurgical industries in Ukraine. About 200 large enterprises operate in the city, employing more than 120 thousand people.

According to 2015 data, about 940 thousand inhabitants lived in the city.