Ukrainian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

245 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

All 245 questions

  1. Complete the sentence about Boryspil with the correct year: On 14 January ______ the Hetman of Little Russia Kyrylo Rozumovsky gave the town in eternal possession of his brother-in-law Kyiv Colonel Yuā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Boryspil with the correct year: On 2 June ______ during the Battle of Boryspil Polish-Ukrainian forces defeated the Red Army.
  3. Complete the sentence about Drohobych with the correct year: As an outcome of World War II, the city was incorporated into the Ukrainian part of the Soviet Union, which in ______ became the independenā€¦
  4. Complete the sentence about Truskavets with the correct year: Truskavets, then known as Truskawiec, was first mentioned in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Truskavets with the correct year: The Polish royal doctor Wojciech Oczko was the first to describe local waters in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Truskavets with the correct year: In ______, JĆ³zef Micewski, with support of Agenor Goluchowski, initiated construction of the spa complex.
  7. Complete the sentence about Truskavets with the correct year: In ______, the village was visited by Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria.
  8. Complete the sentence about Yaremche with the correct year: On 30 December ______, the city of Yaremcha became a municipality within Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
  9. Complete the sentence about Yaremche with the correct year: On 14 December ______, the Parliament of Ukraine, officially renamed the city from Yaremcha to Yaremche.
  10. Complete the sentence about Bukovel with the correct year: In ______, Bukovel was named the fastest-growing ski resort in the world.
  11. Complete the sentence about Dnieper with the correct year: The ______ Chernobyl disaster occurred on the Pripyat River, a tributary of the Dnieper, just upstream from its confluence with the Dnieper.
  12. Complete the sentence about Dniester with the correct year: From the 14th century to ______, part of the Dniester formed the eastern boundary of the Principality of Moldavia.
  13. Complete the sentence about Dniester with the correct year: In ______, on Easter Sunday, the bridge was blown up by the French Army to protect Bender from the Bolsheviks.
  14. Complete the sentence about Dniester with the correct year: Eco-TIRAS International Environmental Association of River Keepers was established in ______ in Moldova.
  15. Complete the sentence about Siverskyi Donets with the correct year: Scytho-Sarmatians inhabited the areas to the north of the Black Sea from ______ BC into the early medieval times.
  16. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The Middle Mongolian name for the Danube was transliterated as Tho-na in ______ by Jean-Pierre Abel-RĆ©musat.
  17. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Danube with the correct year: In ______, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War.
  19. Complete the sentence about Prut with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman army of Suleiman the Magnificent crossed the Prut during the campaign of Karaboğdan.
  20. Complete the sentence about Prut with the correct year: In ______, the Greek Nationalist leader Alexander Ypsilantis crossed the Prut river at Sculeni, with the intention of touching off a rebellion iā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Hoverla with the correct year: In ______ the first tourist route between the peak of Hoverla and Krasny Luh was marked by Leopold Wajgel of the Galician Tatra Society.
  22. Complete the sentence about Crimean Mountains with the correct year: Tectonic processes continue in the area to our day, most recently demonstrated by the ______ Crimean earthquakes.
  23. Complete the sentence about Crimea with the correct year: To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in ______, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia.
  24. Complete the sentence about Donbas with the correct year: At the last census in ______, the population of the Donbas region of Ukraine was about 58% ethnic Ukrainian and 38% ethnic Russian.
  25. Complete the sentence about Galicia with the correct year: The name of the region derives from the medieval city of Halych, and was first mentioned in Hungarian historical chronicles in the year _____ā€¦
  26. Complete the sentence about Galicia with the correct year: Although Ruthenians drove out the Hungarians from Halych-Volhynia by ______, Hungarian kings continued to add Galicia et Lodomeria to their oā€¦
  27. Complete the sentence about Bukovina with the correct year: In ______, at the Battle of the Cosmin Forest, Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the much-stronger but demoralized army of King John I Albertā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Bukovina with the correct year: By ______, Romanians were 34% and Ukrainians were 42% with the Romanians concentrated mainly in the south and south-east and the Ukrainiansā€¦
  29. Complete the sentence about Transcarpathia with the correct year: Transcarpathia remained part of Ukraine as the Soviet Union dissolved in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Transcarpathia with the correct year: Prior to World War II, many more Jews lived in the region, constituting over 13% of its total population in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Volhynia with the correct year: Once included among the lands of the Hungarian Crown, those titles were used by Hungarian kings up to ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Slobozhanshchyna with the correct year: In ______, it was converted into the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate.
  33. Complete the sentence about Zaporozhian Sich with the correct year: A third sich soon followed, the Bazavluk Sich, which survived until ______, when it was destroyed by a Polish expeditionary force suā€¦
  34. Complete the sentence about Khortytsia with the correct year: To the south of Khortytsia is the Great Meadow, which was flooded from 1950s until ______ by the Kakhovka Reservoir.
  35. Complete the sentence about Sea of Azov with the correct year: A Russian pseudo-etymology, however, instead derives it from an eponymous Cuman prince named "Azum" or "Asuf", said to have been killed dā€¦
  36. Complete the sentence about Sea of Azov with the correct year: In ______, William Ryan and Walter Pitman of Columbia University published a theory that a massive flood through the Bosporus occurred inā€¦
  37. Complete the sentence about Askania-Nova with the correct year: In March ______, Askania-Nova was confiscated from the Falz-Fein family by the Red Army as part of the state nationalization programme.
  38. Complete the sentence about Askania-Nova with the correct year: After the fall of the Soviet Union, in ______, Ukraine confirmed the status of the biosphere reserve Askania-Nova.
  39. Complete the sentence about Kyiv Pechersk Lavra with the correct year: In ______ it was once again plundered by forces of prince Rurik Rostislavich and his allies.
  40. Complete the sentence about Kyiv Pechersk Lavra with the correct year: In ______, the Orthodox established their control after receiving support of the princely Ostrogski family.
  41. Complete the sentence about Golden Gate, Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, it was rebuilt completely by the Soviet authorities, though no images of the original gates have survived.
  42. Complete the sentence about Golden Gate, Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, the gate was partially destroyed by Batu Khan's Golden Horde.
  43. Complete the sentence about Golden Gate, Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, Metropolitan Eugenius had the ruins excavated and an initial survey for their conservation was undertaken.
  44. Complete the sentence about Golden Gate, Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, the gate was completely reconstructed for the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv, though this was challenged.
  45. Complete the sentence about Maidan Nezalezhnosti with the correct year: The square received its current name on 26 August ______, two days after the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, during theā€¦
  46. Complete the sentence about Maidan Nezalezhnosti with the correct year: The Lyadski Gates were destroyed during the storm of city by the Mongol army of Batu Khan in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Khreshchatyk with the correct year: The first houses, built in ______, were wooden, with the earliest recorded building being the late 18th-century mansion of a landowner cā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Andriyivskyy Descent with the correct year: Saint Andrew's Descent was renamed in ______ in honor of young revolutionary Georgiy Liver.
  49. Complete the sentence about Motherland Monument with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet heraldry was removed from the monument's shield and replaced with Ukraine's coat of arms, the tryzub, in reā€¦
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On the night of 2 January ______, the building was gutted by fire.
  51. Complete the sentence about Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater with the correct year: Finally, the project was drafted along the lines of Dresden Semperoper built in ______, with its nontraditional foyerā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater with the correct year: Two Viennese architects, Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer began to construct the larger replacement in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Potemkin Stairs with the correct year: Upton would go on to oversee the construction of the huge dry-docks constructed in Sevastopol and completed in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Potemkin Stairs with the correct year: The steps were made famous in Sergei Eisenstein's ______ silent film Battleship Potemkin.
  55. Complete the sentence about Potemkin Stairs with the correct year: As erosion destroyed the stairs, in ______ the sandstone was replaced by rose-grey granite from the Boh area, and the landings were cā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Potemkin Stairs with the correct year: In ______, during the Soviet era, the Primorsky Stairs were renamed as Potemkin Stairs to honor the 50th anniversary of the mutiny onā€¦
  57. Complete the sentence about Lviv Opera with the correct year: In ______, marking its centennial the Lviv Opera was renamed after Solomiya Krushelnytska, a renowned soprano of the early 20th century.
  58. Complete the sentence about Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle with the correct year: A written document by Prince Yuriy Koriatovych in ______, for example, mentions that the Magdeburg rights would be presentā€¦
  59. Complete the sentence about Swallow's Nest with the correct year: The first building on the Aurora Cliff was constructed for a Russian general circa ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Swallow's Nest with the correct year: For a short time after the ______ Russian Revolution, the building was used only as a tourist attraction.
  61. Complete the sentence about Swallow's Nest with the correct year: In ______, the Swallow's Nest survived a serious earthquake rated at 6 to 7 on the Richter scale.
  62. Complete the sentence about Livadia Palace with the correct year: After 17 months of construction, the new palace was inaugurated on 11 September ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Livadia Palace with the correct year: After the February Revolution in ______, Nicholas's mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, fled to Livadia with some other membersā€¦
  64. Complete the sentence about Massandra Palace with the correct year: After the fall of the Soviet Union, Massandra Palace was used as one of the Ukrainian official residences where the Massandra Accordā€¦
  65. Complete the sentence about Massandra Palace with the correct year: In ______ after the Russian annexation of Crimea, the residence was taken over by the Russian Presidential Affairs Administration.
  66. Complete the sentence with the correct year: A bust of Alexander III was unveiled in front of the villa in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Nikolai Gogol with the correct year: On leaving school in ______, Gogol went to Saint Petersburg, full of vague but ambitious hopes.
  68. Complete the sentence about Nikolai Gogol with the correct year: At first he tried to shorten it to the Russian-sounding "Ianov", but in the second half of ______ he abandoned the Polish part of his sā€¦
  69. Complete the sentence about Sofiyivka Park with the correct year: Since ______, it is listed on the Tentative List of World Heritage Sites in Ukraine.
  70. Complete the sentence about Sofiyivka Park with the correct year: Since ______, the director of the park is the member-correspondent of the Academy of Sciences, doctor of biological sciences Ivan Koseā€¦
  71. Complete the sentence about Sofiyivka Park with the correct year: In ______, small planet #2259 was named "Sofiyivka" after this park.
  72. Complete the sentence about Sofiyivka Park with the correct year: The English landscape garden was founded in ______ by Count Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, a Polish noble who rebuilt Uman after a peasanā€¦
  73. Complete the sentence about Sofiyivka Park with the correct year: The park was confiscated from private possession after the Polish November Uprising in ______ and transferred to the Kyiv Official Chaā€¦
  74. Complete the sentence about Mezhyhirya Residence with the correct year: The estate was founded as a monastery that functioned off-and-on until closed in ______ by the Bolsheviks following the establisā€¦
  75. Complete the sentence about Mezhyhirya Residence with the correct year: At the end of the 19th century the monastery was restored as a female monastery called "Intercession of the Saints", but in ____ā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant with the correct year: In ______, plans to construct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were first conceived, during the development of nuclear proā€¦
  77. Complete the sentence about Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant with the correct year: Construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Chernobyl disaster with the correct year: On 26 April ______, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Unionā€¦
  79. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant with the correct year: On 4 March ______, days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces seized both the nuclear and thermal powā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Carpathian National Nature Park with the correct year: The park was established on 3 June ______ to protect landscapes of the Carpathian Mountains.
  81. Complete the sentence about Carpathian National Nature Park with the correct year: In ______, it was merged into the newly created Carpathian State Reserve.
  82. Complete the sentence about Sivash with the correct year: During the Russian Civil War, the Syvash became famous for a surprise crossing by the Red Army during the Perekop-Chongar Operation in Novembeā€¦
  83. Complete the sentence about Kinburn Spit with the correct year: The Battle of Kinburn was fought on 17 October ______ as part of the Crimean War.
  84. Complete the sentence about Kerch Strait with the correct year: In ______, Hermann von Paucker built an examplary land battery on the strait.
  85. Complete the sentence about Kerch Strait with the correct year: The bridge was never completed, and the Wehrmacht finished evacuating the Kuban bridgehead in September ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Crimean Bridge with the correct year: The rail bridge was inaugurated on 23 December ______ and the first scheduled passenger train crossed the bridge two days later.
  87. Complete the sentence about Lviv Oblast with the correct year: Several NKVD prisoner massacres were committed in the area in ______, including at Lviv, Sambir and Dobromyl.
  88. Complete the sentence about Lviv Oblast with the correct year: In ______, Drohobych Oblast was incorporated into Lviv Oblast.
  89. Complete the sentence about Kharkiv Oblast with the correct year: The modern Kharkiv Oblast was established on 27 February ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Kharkiv Oblast with the correct year: During the ______ referendum, 86.33% of votes in Kharkiv Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
  91. Complete the sentence about Kyiv Oblast with the correct year: Kyiv Oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on 27 February ______ among the first five original oblasts inā€¦
  92. Complete the sentence about Kyiv Oblast with the correct year: The current borders of the oblast were set following the Chernobyl disaster in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Donetsk Oblast with the correct year: In ______, parts of the oblast, including Donetsk, were taken over by Russian-backed separatists who declared an independent Donetsk Pā€¦
  94. Complete the sentence about Donetsk Oblast with the correct year: Until ______, the Donetsk Oblast included the territories of the modern Luhansk Oblast.
  95. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia Oblast with the correct year: The modern Zaporizhzhia Oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on 10 January ______ out of the Dniā€¦
  96. Complete the sentence about Zaporizhzhia Oblast with the correct year: During the ______ Ukrainian independence referendum, 90.66% of votes in the oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independenā€¦
  97. Complete the sentence about Kherson Oblast with the correct year: In the ______ Ukrainian independence referendum, 90.13% of votes in Kherson Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence ofā€¦
  98. Complete the sentence about Black Sea Fleet with the correct year: The fleet traces its history to its founding by Prince Potemkin on 13 May ______ as part of the Imperial Russian Navy.
  99. Complete the sentence about Horyn River with the correct year: A clean-up effort in September ______ was a step towards the river's restoration.
  100. Complete the sentence about Oskil with the correct year: An artificial lake, the Oskil Reservoir, was created in ______ to help with flood protection and as a source of electricity.

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