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  1. Complete the sentence about Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, the Ukrainian People's Republic declared independence from the Russian Republic after the October Revolution, and Kyiv became the new…
  2. Complete the sentence about Kharkiv with the correct year: Founded in ______ as a Cossack fortress, by the late 19th century Kharkiv had developed within the Russian Empire as a major commercial and i…
  3. Complete the sentence about Odesa with the correct year: In ______, a decree of the Russian empress Catherine II was issued to establish a navy harbor and trading place in Khadjibey, which was renamed…
  4. Complete the sentence about Odesa with the correct year: In ______, the Quarantine Pier at Odesa Commercial Sea Port was declared a free port and free economic zone for a period of 25 years.
  5. Complete the sentence about Dnipro with the correct year: Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Dnipro with the correct year: In December ______, the city's voters overwhelmingly approved Ukraine's declaration of independence.
  7. Complete the sentence about Dnipro with the correct year: Following the Euromaidan events of ______, they shifted their allegiance from pro-Russian parties to those favouring closer ties with the Euro…
  8. Complete the sentence about Dnipro with the correct year: As a result of the ensuing "decommunization", the city was renamed Dnipro in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Donetsk with the correct year: According to the ______ census, Donetsk was the fifth-largest city in Ukraine.
  10. Complete the sentence about Donetsk with the correct year: The original settlement was first mentioned as Aleksandrovka in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Donetsk with the correct year: Renamed Donetsk in ______, the city today remains a centre for coal mining and for the steel industry.
  12. Complete the sentence about Donetsk with the correct year: The city of Donetsk was founded in ______ by Welsh businessman John Hughes, who operated a steel plant and several coal mines at Aleksandrovk…
  13. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia with the correct year: Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until ______, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of th…
  14. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia with the correct year: In ______, the rapids were flooded to become part of the reservoir of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
  15. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia with the correct year: Following the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in ______, the southern lands of the East European Plain and the Crimean peninsula were absorbed…
  16. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia with the correct year: In ______, during World War I, the DEKA Stock Association transferred its aircraft engine manufacturing plant from Saint Petersburg to Z…
  17. Complete the sentence about Lviv with the correct year: From ______, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland.
  18. Complete the sentence about Lviv with the correct year: In ______, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg semiautonomous Polish-dominated Kingdom of Galicia a…
  19. Complete the sentence about Lviv with the correct year: After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in ______, Lwów was annexed by the Soviet Union.
  20. Complete the sentence about Lviv with the correct year: In February ______, the city became a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, having lost an estimated 80-90% of its prewar population.
  21. Complete the sentence about Kryvyi Rih with the correct year: Located at the confluence of the Saksahan and Inhulets rivers, Kryvyi Rih was founded as a military staging post in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Kryvyi Rih with the correct year: Stalin-era industrialisation built Kryvorizhstal in ______, the largest integrated metallurgical works in the Soviet Union.
  23. Complete the sentence about Kryvyi Rih with the correct year: The privatization of Kryvorizhstal in ______ was followed by increased foreign and private investment which helped finance urban regenerat…
  24. Complete the sentence about Kryvyi Rih with the correct year: Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February ______, Kryvyi Rih has been the target of frequent Russian missile stri…
  25. Complete the sentence about Kryvyi Rih with the correct year: In ______, Kryvyi Rih was again recorded as the camp of the Zaporozhian Sich.
  26. Complete the sentence about Mykolaiv with the correct year: On 15 April ______ the Plenum of the Central Administrative-Territorial Commission of the VUTSIK considered and rejected the petition of the…
  27. Complete the sentence about Luhansk with the correct year: In ______, the city was renamed Voroshilovgrad in honor of the Soviet political and military figure Kliment Voroshilov.
  28. Complete the sentence about Vinnytsia with the correct year: In ______, Vinnytsia found itself at the epicenter of the Cossack uprisings led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
  29. Complete the sentence about Sevastopol with the correct year: Since the city's founding by Catherine the Great in ______, it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
  30. Complete the sentence about Sevastopol with the correct year: In February ______, Catherine the Great ordered Grigory Potyomkin to build a fortress there and call it Sevastopol.
  31. Complete the sentence about Sevastopol with the correct year: The realisation of the initial building plans fell to Captain Fyodor Ushakov who in ______ was named commander of the port and of the Blac…
  32. Complete the sentence about Simferopol with the correct year: In ______ modern Simferopol was founded after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia.
  33. Complete the sentence about Simferopol with the correct year: In ______, Simferopol became the administrative centre of the Taurida Governorate.
  34. Complete the sentence about Poltava with the correct year: Known as Poltava since ______, in the 17th century the city became part of the Hetmanate, serving as a centre of an eponymous Cossack regimen…
  35. Complete the sentence about Poltava with the correct year: In ______ it was the site of a decisive battle of the Great Northern War.
  36. Complete the sentence about Chernihiv with the correct year: During most of the 16th century Chernihiv was part of the Tsardom of Moscow, but in ______ was transferred to Poland and served as a centre…
  37. Complete the sentence about Chernihiv with the correct year: Following the Hetanate's disbandment, in ______ Chernihiv became part of an eponymous viceroyalty, which was later transformed into Chernig…
  38. Complete the sentence about Cherkasy with the correct year: Historians believe that the city was established in ______, within the territory of Kievan Rus'.
  39. Complete the sentence about Cherkasy with the correct year: Cherkasy is first documented in the ______ Hustyn Chronicle, in which it is mentioned along with other Kievan Rus' cities such as Kyiv, Kani…
  40. Complete the sentence about Cherkasy with the correct year: In ______, the city was unsuccessfully besieged by the Crimean Tatars.
  41. Complete the sentence about Sumy with the correct year: From its establishment and until the liquidation of Cossackdom in Sloboda Ukraine in ______, the Cossack officer family of Kondratyevs exercised…
  42. Complete the sentence about Zhytomyr with the correct year: The first records of the town date from ______, when it was sacked by the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan.
  43. Complete the sentence about Zhytomyr with the correct year: In ______ Zhytomyr was captured by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
  44. Complete the sentence about Zhytomyr with the correct year: In ______, following the Treaty of Andrusovo, Zhytomyr became the capital of the Kiev Voivodeship.
  45. Complete the sentence about Khmelnytskyi with the correct year: In ______, it was renamed Khmelnytskyi in honor of the Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
  46. Complete the sentence about Khmelnytskyi with the correct year: In ______, the city was renamed Proskurov, which appeared on the decree to create Podolia Governorate.
  47. Complete the sentence about Chernivtsi with the correct year: Initially a defensive fortification, it became the center of Bukovina in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Chernivtsi with the correct year: In ______, the Principality of Moldavia came under Polish suzerainty.
  49. Complete the sentence about Chernivtsi with the correct year: In ______, the northwestern part of the territory of Moldavia was annexed by the Habsburg Empire; this region became known as Bukovina.
  50. Complete the sentence about Rivne with the correct year: Annexed by the Russian Empire in ______, during the latter half of the 19th century Rivne experienced rapid development due to its role as a ra…
  51. Complete the sentence about Rivne with the correct year: In the spring of ______ it served as a provisional seat of the Ukrainian government throughout the ongoing war with Soviet Russia.
  52. Complete the sentence about Rivne with the correct year: In ______ Semen Nesvizh died and his settlement was passed to his wife Maria who started to call herself princess of Rivne.
  53. Complete the sentence about Ivano-Frankivsk with the correct year: Following the Peace of Riga in ______, Stanisławów became part of the Second Polish Republic.
  54. Complete the sentence about Ivano-Frankivsk with the correct year: With the fall of the Soviet Union in ______, the city became part of newly-independent Ukraine.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ternopil with the correct year: Ternopil, known until ______ mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River.
  56. Complete the sentence about Ternopil with the correct year: The city was founded in ______ by Polish commander and Hetman Jan Amor Tarnowski.
  57. Complete the sentence about Lutsk with the correct year: First mentioned in ______, Lutsk is a city with almost a thousand years of history.
  58. Complete the sentence about Lutsk with the correct year: Lutsk is an ancient Slavic town, mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle as Luchesk in the records of ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Lutsk with the correct year: In ______, Mongols seized and looted the nearby town but left the castle unharmed.
  60. Complete the sentence about Uzhhorod with the correct year: The city officially adopted this name some time after ______, under Czechoslovak administration.
  61. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the city was granted town privileges by King Béla IV of Hungary.
  62. Complete the sentence about Kropyvnytskyi with the correct year: Kropyvnytskyi traces its history back to ______, when the Russian government constructed the Fortress of St.
  63. Complete the sentence about Kropyvnytskyi with the correct year: After the October Revolution, it was claimed by the Soviet Union after a change of hands in ______, and the city was eventually renamed…
  64. Complete the sentence about Kropyvnytskyi with the correct year: Kirovohrad became the administrative centre of the newly created Kirovohrad Oblast in ______, but was shortly thereafter largely destro…
  65. Complete the sentence about Kropyvnytskyi with the correct year: The foundation of the modern city of Kropyvnytskyi is dated to 18 June ______ with the ceremonial laying of the first stone of the Fort…
  66. Complete the sentence about Kamianske with the correct year: On 19 May ______, it was renamed back to its historical name of Kamianske.
  67. Complete the sentence about Kamianske with the correct year: The first written evidence of settlement in the territory of Kamianske appeared in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Kamianske with the correct year: On 11 August ______, two Aeroflot passenger jets collided in mid-air near Dniprodzerzhynsk, killing all 178 people on both aircraft.
  69. Complete the sentence about Kramatorsk with the correct year: In ______ the German firm "W.Fizner and K.Hamper" opened a machine factory manufacturing its products for local mining and rail industries…
  70. Complete the sentence about Bila Tserkva with the correct year: In ______, the Voivode of Kyiv, Fryderyk Proński, built a castle in Bila Tserkva, which at that time was the easternmost fortress on the…
  71. Complete the sentence about Melitopol with the correct year: In July ______, Russian military commanders built a redoubt there, and Zaporizhia Cossacks carried out their duty service there.
  72. Complete the sentence about Melitopol with the correct year: On 2 February ______, Catherine II issued the decree to create the Taurida Oblast on the lands that had been won.
  73. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the settlement got the name sloboda of Novoalexandrovka.
  74. Complete the sentence about Berdiansk with the correct year: Since 27 February ______, Berdiansk has been under Russian occupation.
  75. Complete the sentence about Berdiansk with the correct year: In ______, Count Mikhail Vorontsov, Governor-General of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, sent an expedition to the Azov Sea.
  76. Complete the sentence about Berdiansk with the correct year: The settlement that would become Berdiansk itself was founded in ______ on the site of a Nogai settlement named "Kutur-Ohla".
  77. Complete the sentence about Berdiansk with the correct year: On 1 July ______ merchant Nikolay Kobozev's private wooden quay was opened with a ceremony.
  78. Complete the sentence about Berdiansk with the correct year: In ______, Kobozev set up a wooden post to function as a navigation beacon.
  79. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As it turned out, the name Mukacheve came into use in ______ due to a mistake.
  80. Complete the sentence about Kamianets-Podilskyi with the correct year: Originally known as Kamianets, its name was changed to the current following the partitions of Poland and occupation by the Russi…
  81. Complete the sentence about Kamianets-Podilskyi with the correct year: Around ______, the Galician prince Lev Danilovich invited Armenians to join his army to defend the eastern border of his state.
  82. Complete the sentence about Kamianets-Podilskyi with the correct year: In ______ the city was granted Magdeburg Law by prince George Koriatovich.
  83. Complete the sentence about Kamianets-Podilskyi with the correct year: In ______, the Dominican monastic order began to function in Kamianets, a monastery was founded, and soon the Franciscans founded…
  84. Complete the sentence about Yalta with the correct year: The area became famous in ______ when the city held the Yalta Conference as part of the Allied World War II conferences of major wartime nation…
  85. Complete the sentence about Feodosia with the correct year: In early ______, Pope John XXII established a Latin Church diocese of Kaffa, as a suffragan of Genoa.
  86. Complete the sentence about Feodosia with the correct year: The diocese ended as a residential bishopric with the capture of the city by the Ottomans in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Kerch with the correct year: As with the rest of Crimea, it has been occupied by Russian forces since the Russian annexation of Crimea in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Bakhmut with the correct year: During the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine which commenced in February ______, Bakhmut was the site of a major battle between Russian…
  89. Complete the sentence about Bakhmut with the correct year: In ______, the city was renamed Artemivsk in honour of Fyodor Sergeyev, who was pseudonymously known as "Comrade Artyom".
  90. Complete the sentence about Pripyat with the correct year: Named after the nearby river Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Pripyat with the correct year: In ______, the city of Slavutych was constructed to replace Pripyat.
  92. Complete the sentence about Chernobyl with the correct year: First mentioned as a ducal hunting lodge in Kievan Rus' in ______, the city has changed hands multiple times over the course of its history…
  93. Complete the sentence about Slavutych with the correct year: The city was built in ______ shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, to provide homes for those who had worked at the Chernobyl nucle…
  94. Complete the sentence about Slavutych with the correct year: Construction of the town started shortly thereafter, and the first inhabitants settled in October ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Bucha, Ukraine with the correct year: The battle lasted from 27 February to 31 March ______, when Russian forces withdrew and mayor Anatolii Fedoruk reported that the city…
  96. Complete the sentence about Bucha, Ukraine with the correct year: Much of the building was destroyed by Russian shelling in March ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Irpin with the correct year: In February ______ Irpin was the site of battles between the Sich Riflemen and Bolshevik troops.
  98. Complete the sentence about Irpin with the correct year: In ______, the community of Irpin built the Irpin Central House of Culture.
  99. Complete the sentence about Boryspil with the correct year: The site of the settlement belonged to the King's translator Soltan Albiyevich who in ______ sold it to the Kyiv Saint Nicholas Hermitage.
  100. Complete the sentence about Boryspil with the correct year: In ______ the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa transformed the town into a royal estate and there was formed the Boryspol starostwo.

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