Ukrainian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Vorskla with the correct year: In ______, the Battle of the Vorskla River was fought in the area.
  2. Complete the sentence about Zbruch with the correct year: Following the Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of ______ it was intended as the border between Poland and Ukraine.
  3. Which place completes this sentence about Chernihiv? Originally a tribal centre of Siverians, in the 9th century Chernihiv was incorporated into the Rus' state, becoming its second most important city…
  4. Which place completes this sentence about Rivne? First mentioned in the late 13th century, Rivne developed under the rule of Lithuania and Poland due to its location on the route connecting ______ and…
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Kramatorsk? Since October 2014, Kramatorsk has been the provisional seat of ______ Oblast, following the events surrounding the war in Donbas.
  6. Which place completes this sentence about Kramatorsk? Kramatorsk came into being in the second half of the 19th century when a station on the Kursk-______-Azov Railway was built.
  7. Which place completes this sentence about Bila Tserkva? In 1550, the Voivode of ______, Fryderyk Proński, built a castle in Bila Tserkva, which at that time was the easternmost fortress on the steppe.
  8. Which place completes this sentence about Melitopol? Melitopol is the second-largest city in the oblast after ______ and serves as the administrative centre of Melitopol Raion.
  9. Which place completes this sentence about Melitopol? The city is located at the crossing of two major European highways: E58 Vienna – Uzhhorod – ______ – Rostov-on-Don and E105 Kirkenes – St.
  10. Which place completes this sentence about Yalta? Prior to the annexation of the Crimea, the Crimean Greeks were moved to ______ in 1778; one of the villages they established nearby is also called Yalt…
  11. Which place completes this sentence about Pripyat? Pripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in ______ Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.
  12. Which place completes this sentence about Crimean Mountains? The mountains span for approximately 150 km between the cities of ______ and Feodosia, reaching a width of 40-50 kilometers.
  13. Which place completes the sentence? The population is 2.4 million, and the largest city is ______.
  14. Which place completes this sentence about Dnieper Reservoir? The reservoir's water level is maintained by the dam of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, built in ______ from 1927 to 1932.
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Maidan Nezalezhnosti? City squares called Maidan Nezalezhnosti are also found in Khmelnytskyi and ______.
  16. Which place completes this sentence about Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater? The Theatre and the Potemkin Stairs are the most famous edifices in ______.
  17. Which place completes this sentence about Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater? The theatre was the first building in ______ to employ the Edison Company with electric illumination.
  18. Which place completes this sentence about Potemkin Stairs? Upton would go on to oversee the construction of the huge dry-docks constructed in ______ and completed in 1853.
  19. Which place completes this sentence about Lviv Opera? In 2000, marking its centennial the ______ Opera was renamed after Solomiya Krushelnytska, a renowned soprano of the early 20th century.
  20. Which place completes this sentence about Lviv Opera? At the end of the 19th century, the civic leaders of ______ felt the need for a large city theatre to be situated in the capital of Galicia.
  21. Which place completes this sentence about Nikolai Gogol? Gogol was born in the Ukrainian Cossack town of Sorochyntsi, in the ______ Governorate of the Russian Empire.
  22. Which place completes this sentence about Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant? The ______ Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 large…
  23. Which place completes this sentence about Kinburn Spit? During the 2nd millennium BCE, rising sea levels submerged plains in the lower ______, leaving the Dnipro-Buh estuary, including Kinburn, as woo…
  24. Which place completes this sentence about Lviv Oblast? The region is named after the city of ______ which was founded by Daniel of Galicia, the King of Galicia, in the 13th century, where it became th…
  25. Which place completes this sentence about Lviv Oblast? Several NKVD prisoner massacres were committed in the area in 1941, including at ______, Sambir and Dobromyl.
  26. Which place completes this sentence about Lviv Oblast? In 1959, Drohobych Oblast was incorporated into ______ Oblast.
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Kharkiv Oblast? The modern ______ Oblast was established on 27 February 1932.
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Kharkiv Oblast? During the 1991 referendum, 86.33% of votes in ______ Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Odesa Oblast? Milesian Greeks founded colonies along the northern coast of the Black Sea, including the towns of Tyras and Niconium in the modern ______ Oblas…
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Donetsk Oblast? At the last census in 2001, the population of ______ Oblast was 57% ethnic Ukrainian and 38% ethnic Russian.
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Donetsk Oblast? Meanwhile, 75% of people in ______ Oblast had Russian as their mother tongue and 24% had Ukrainian, although most Ukrainian citizens could spe…
  32. Which place completes this sentence about Donetsk Oblast? In 2014, parts of the oblast, including ______, were taken over by Russian-backed separatists who declared an independent Donetsk People's Rep…
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Luhansk Oblast? Russian-backed officials claimed in July 2025 that Russian forces had captured the last Ukrainian-held areas in ______ Oblast, bringing the en…
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Zaporizhzhia Oblast? In September 2022, Russia declared it had annexed the ______ oblast based on the results of a disputed referendum.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Zaporizhzhia Oblast? In antiquity, an area which roughly corresponds to the modern ______ Oblast was called the land of Gerrhos, according to Herodotus.
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Kherson Oblast? Most of ______ Oblast has been under Russian military occupation since it was captured early on in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in…
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Kherson Oblast? In September 2022, Russia claimed to have annexed ______ Oblast, after arranging a disputed referendum.
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Kherson Oblast? As the result of a counteroffensive operation, Ukrainian forces retook all the area on the right bank of the Dnieper, including ______ city, b…
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Kherson Oblast? In the 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum, 90.13% of votes in ______ Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.
  40. Which place completes this sentence about Kherson Oblast? Russian-controlled parts of the oblast were governed by the "______ military–civilian administration" from 28 April to 30 September 2022.
  41. Which place completes this sentence about Autonomous Republic of Crimea? Russia formally annexed Crimea on 18 March 2014, incorporating the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of ______ as the 84t…
  42. Which place completes this sentence about Autonomous Republic of Crimea? The capital and administrative seat of the republic's government, the city of ______, is located in the centre of the peninsula…
  43. Which place completes this sentence about Black Sea Fleet? The Black Sea Fleet has its official primary headquarters and facilities at the ______ Naval Base, Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine…
  44. Which place completes this sentence about Ros? The river's source is located in the village of Ordyntsi in ______ Oblast.
  45. Which place completes this sentence about Teteriv River? Large cities located on the river are: ______, the administrative center of the Zhytomyr Oblast, Korostyshiv, and Radomyshl.

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