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  1. Complete the sentence about Ukrainians with the correct year: Since ______, the country has experienced a large increase in immigration from Ukraine.
  2. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian literature with the correct year: An exception from this trend was the history of "Little Russian" literature by Ivan Pryzhov, which was translated into Ukrainian…
  3. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian literature with the correct year: In opposition to those claims, in ______ Ivan Franko presented his own work dedicated to Ukrainian literature of the 16th-18th c…
  4. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian literature with the correct year: According to Franko, the chronology of Ukrainian literary process should be started not from ______, but from the Medieval era.
  5. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian literature with the correct year: First published in ______, Serhiy Yefremov's History of Ukrainian Writing became an influential work on Ukrainian literary histo…
  6. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian literature with the correct year: In ______ Mykola Zerov published a study of works by 19th-century Ukrainian authors, making an emphasis on the figures of Gregor…
  7. Complete the sentence about Holubtsi with the correct year: When he finally returned to Sweden in ______, he was followed by his Ottoman creditors and their cooks.
  8. Complete the sentence about Holubtsi with the correct year: The earliest known Swedish recipe for "Dolma" is in the ______ edition of the famous cookbook of Cajsa Warg.
  9. Complete the sentence about Chicken Kiev with the correct year: Russian food historian William Pokhlyobkin claimed that chicken Kiev was invented in ______ as Novo-Mikhailovskaya kotleta in а St.
  10. Complete the sentence about Chicken Kiev with the correct year: Petersburg Merchants' Club located near the Mikhailovsky palace, and was renamed kotleta po-kiyevski in ______ by a Soviet restaurant.
  11. Complete the sentence about Kyiv cake with the correct year: Three accounts describe how the Kyiv cake originated in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Kyiv cake with the correct year: When the USSR received a large shipment of cashews from India in ______, confectioners were tasked with creating a dessert using them.
  13. Complete the sentence about Pysanka with the correct year: The oldest "real" pysanka was excavated in Lviv in ______ and was found in a rainwater collection system that dates to the 15th or 16th centu…
  14. Complete the sentence about Vyshyvanka with the correct year: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands wore a vyshyvanka dress when visiting the ______ Summer Olympics.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian folk music with the correct year: The first such ensemble in Ukraine was the Okhmatynsky Village Folk Choir organized by Dr Mykola Demutsky in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Carol of the Bells with the correct year: English-language lyrics were written in ______ by the American composer Peter Wilhousky.
  17. Complete the sentence about Carol of the Bells with the correct year: The song premiered in the United States on October 5, ______, to a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall and the American audience fe…
  18. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Christmas with the correct year: In ______, all religious holidays, including Christmas, were abolished by a decree of the Stalinist regime.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Christmas with the correct year: In ______, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Christmas was reinstated alongside other religious holidays.
  20. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian National Anthem with the correct year: In ______, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, a composer and Catholic priest, composed the music to accompany Chubynskyi's lyrics.
  21. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian National Anthem with the correct year: The first choral public performance of the piece was in ______ at the Ruska Besida Theatre in Lviv.
  22. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian National Anthem with the correct year: The Ukrainian national anthem can be traced back to one of the parties of the Ukrainian ethnographer Pavlo Chubynskyi that…
  23. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian National Anthem with the correct year: In ______, the head gendarme, Prince Vasily Dolgorukov, exiled Chubynskyi to Arkhangelsk Governorate for the "dangerous inf…
  24. Complete the sentence about Flag of Ukraine with the correct year: Ukraine has celebrated the Day of the National Flag on 23 August since ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Flag of Ukraine with the correct year: The flag did not appear on Ukrainian postal stamp issues until ______, when they depicted the flag with the state coat of arms.
  26. Complete the sentence about Flag of Ukraine with the correct year: The Day of the National Flag in Ukraine is celebrated on 23 August; it began in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Flag of Ukraine with the correct year: Since ______, the Independence Day of Ukraine has been celebrated on 24 August.
  28. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the correct year: Because of this, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Monaco, and Switzerland all returned to the contest, Monaco not…
  29. Complete the sentence about Ruslana with the correct year: Since 28 December ______ she has been married to Oleksandr Ksenofontov, a Ukrainian record producer.
  30. Complete the sentence about Ruslana with the correct year: Together they have run the company Luxen Studio since ______, producing radio and film trailers.
  31. Complete the sentence about Okean Elzy with the correct year: In April ______ Okean Elzy received Fuzz Magazine music awards for "Best rock act".
  32. Complete the sentence about Okean Elzy with the correct year: In ______ the band establish themselves on the festival circuit in Ukraine and beyond.
  33. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The band's big break came in ______, when they made the decision to move to Kyiv.
  34. Complete the sentence about Verka Serduchka with the correct year: Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko was born to a working-class family in Poltava on 2 October ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Verka Serduchka with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from Poltava Secondary School No. 27, and later graduated from the Kyiv State College of Circus and Variety A…
  36. Complete the sentence about Verka Serduchka with the correct year: In ______, Danylko began to create the character of Verka Serduchka, a flamboyant middle-aged woman from a rural family, working as a…
  37. Complete the sentence about Go A with the correct year: The band represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest ______ with the song "Shum", placing fifth.
  38. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the correct year: The Eurovision Song Contest ______ was the 61st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
  39. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the correct year: The winner was Ukraine with the song "______", performed and written by Jamala.
  40. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the correct year: The contest took place in the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, following Sweden's victory at the ______ contest.
  41. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the correct year: Spain, Sweden and Serbia rounded out the top five, with Spain achieving its best result since ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Oleksandr Usyk with the correct year: In ______, Usyk defeated unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to win the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles.
  43. Complete the sentence about Vasyl Lomachenko with the correct year: According to Bob Arum in ______, Lomachenko's father did not let him train for boxing until he attended traditional Ukrainian dance…
  44. Complete the sentence about Oleg Blokhin with the correct year: In ______, he was named European Footballer of the Year, winning the Ballon d'Or, becoming the second Soviet and the first Ukrainian pla…
  45. Complete the sentence about Oleg Blokhin with the correct year: In ______, Blokhin, together with Igor Belanov and Vitaliy Starukhin, were named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory o…
  46. Complete the sentence about Oleg Blokhin with the correct year: Blokhin was born in Kyiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Serhiy Bubka with the correct year: Until the dissolution of the USSR in late ______, Bubka competed for Soviet teams.
  48. Complete the sentence about Serhiy Bubka with the correct year: Sergey Bubka started competing on the international athletics scene in ______ when he participated in the European Junior Championship f…
  49. Complete the sentence about Yana Klochkova with the correct year: In the ______ Ukrainian local elections Klochkova was elected to the Kharkiv City Council joining the faction of and became a member o…
  50. Complete the sentence about Yana Klochkova with the correct year: Following the Russian invasion and unilaterally annexation of Crimea in ______ Klochkova publicly continued to visit Crimea while livi…
  51. Complete the sentence about Yana Klochkova with the correct year: In January ______, Klochkova announced her retirement from sports.
  52. Complete the sentence about Mykhailo Mudryk with the correct year: Mudryk began his career in the academies of Metalist Kharkiv and Dnipro, before moving to Shakhtar Donetsk in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Mykhailo Mudryk with the correct year: Mudryk has been a Ukrainian senior international since ______, having previously featured in several youth levels.
  54. Complete the sentence about Mykhailo Mudryk with the correct year: Mykhailo Mudryk was born on 5 January ______ in Berestyn, Kharkiv Oblast.
  55. Complete the sentence about Andriy Yarmolenko with the correct year: After their marriage, Valentyna and Mykola Yarmolenko moved to Leningrad where Andriy was born in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Yuriy Vernydub with the correct year: Vernydub made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in ______ for FC Spartak Zhytomyr.
  57. Complete the sentence with the correct year: From June ______, he was an assistant coach with FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia.
  58. Complete the sentence about Yuriy Vernydub with the correct year: After a spell as an assistant coach with FC Zorya Luhansk he was made interim head coach in November ______ after Zorya's management d…
  59. Complete the sentence about Yuriy Vernydub with the correct year: On 9 December ______, Vernydub joined Azerbaijan Premier League side Neftçi, signing a one-and-a-half-year contract.
  60. Complete the sentence about FC Dynamo Kyiv with the correct year: The club has secured brand rights from the Ukrainian Dynamo society and has no direct relations with the sports society since ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about FC Dynamo Kyiv with the correct year: Since ______, Dynamo Kyiv has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football, having never been rel…
  62. Complete the sentence about FC Dynamo Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, the club became first-ever in the history of Soviet football that managed to overcome the total hegemony of Moscow-based cl…
  63. Complete the sentence about FC Dynamo Kyiv with the correct year: Since becoming the first Soviet football club to participate in UEFA competition in ______, Dynamo Kyiv has played in European competi…
  64. Complete the sentence about FC Shakhtar Donetsk with the correct year: The Shakhtar club was originally formed on a decision of the All-Union Council on Physical Culture and Sports of 3 April ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about FC Karpaty Lviv with the correct year: The team of Karpaty was founded on 18 January ______, and was originally called Silmash Lviv.
  66. Complete the sentence about FC Karpaty Lviv with the correct year: In ______ the team won the championship of Lviv Oblast but lost its promotional play-off against Naftovyk Drohobych to qualify for th…
  67. Complete the sentence about FC Dnipro with the correct year: With the outbreak of World War I, BRIT was disbanded until 9 May ______, when a new team was formed in Dnipropetrovsk.
  68. Complete the sentence about FC Dnipro with the correct year: In ______, the team re-entered the Soviet competition after merging with another club from Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk.
  69. Complete the sentence about FC Dnipro with the correct year: In ______, Metalurh Dnipropetrovsk reached the semi-finals of the USSR Cup, where it lost to Spartak Yerevan.
  70. Complete the sentence about FC Dnipro with the correct year: The team's performance did not change much until after ______, when Dnepr obtained Andriy Biba and the new coach – Valery Lobanovsky.
  71. Complete the sentence about Ukraine national football team with the correct year: After the restoration of the Ukrainian independence, the team played their first match against Hungary on 29 April ___…
  72. Complete the sentence about Ukraine national football team with the correct year: In their debut in a major world championship, the team reached the quarter-finals in the ______ FIFA World Cup.
  73. Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 2020 with the correct year: The win came exactly on the 39th anniversary of Italy's ______ FIFA World Cup final victory over West Germany.
  74. Complete the sentence about Olympic Stadium with the correct year: Under German occupation the arena became known as the All-Ukrainian Stadium and reopened on 12 July ______, hosting matches of severa…
  75. Complete the sentence about Donbas Arena with the correct year: Shakhtar Donetsk l played their most recent game at the ground on 2 May ______ against Illichivets Mariupol.
  76. Complete the sentence about Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium with the correct year: The Dynamo Stadium was built in ______ during transferring of the Soviet capital from Kharkiv to Kyiv.
  77. Complete the sentence about Valeriy Lobanovskyi with the correct year: Lobanovskyi and his team repeated their Cup Winners' Cup success in ______, beating Atletico Madrid in the final.
  78. Complete the sentence about Valeriy Lobanovskyi with the correct year: After returning to Dynamo Kyiv in ______ for the third time, Lobanovskyi led the team to another successful run in European compe…
  79. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Football Federation with the correct year: The organization was established in ______ during the dissolution of the Soviet Union when Ukraine was still a union re…
  80. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Football Federation with the correct year: The first governing body was created in summer of ______ in Kharkiv as All-Ukrainian Football Union by its constituent…
  81. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Football Federation with the correct year: In ______ after the capital of the Ukrainian SSR was transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv, there was moved the Council of P…
  82. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Football Federation with the correct year: The Football-Hockey Section was reinstated in ______ and headed by Stepan Dmytrovych Romanenko.
  83. Complete the sentence about Ukrainian Football Federation with the correct year: In ______ there took place a huge event when the Football-Hockey Section of Goskomsport of the Soviet Union was finally…
  84. Complete the sentence about Ukraine at the Olympics with the correct year: Tatiana Gutsu became the best athlete of the Unified Team in ______ from independent Ukraine.
  85. Complete the sentence about Euro 2012 with the correct year: Poland and Ukraine's bid was chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee on 18 April ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Stefan Dreyer with the correct year: In ______, Dreyer became Chief Technical Officer of Audi Formula Racing GmbH, based in Neuburg.
  87. Complete the sentence about National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the correct year: In ______, the Philharmonic Society moved to Kharkiv when the city became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Social…
  88. Complete the sentence with the correct year: But in ______ it returned to Kyiv when the city regained its status.
  89. Complete the sentence about National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the correct year: After the ______ Nazi invasion, the Philharmonic Society stopped its work, and most of its priceless archives were d…
  90. Complete the sentence about National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the correct year: Following the liberation of Kyiv, the Philharmonic Society building resumed its operation in ______ as soon as hosti…
  91. Complete the sentence about National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the correct year: In ______, the building was renamed to Mykola Lysenko Kyiv State Philharmonic in honor of the composer's 120th birth…
  92. Complete the sentence about Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with the correct year: The university was founded in ______ by Nicholas I of Russia as the Saint Vladimir Imperial University o…
  93. Complete the sentence about Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with the correct year: Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych's "Shchedryk" was premiered at the Kiev University on December 26…
  94. Complete the sentence about Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with the correct year: In ______, Saint Vladimir University was renamed as Mykhailo Drahomanov University.
  95. Complete the sentence about Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with the correct year: The institute was founded as the Kiev Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Alexander II on 31 August ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with the correct year: The share of Jews among KPI's students in ______ stood at 23%, contravening the established quotas.
  97. Complete the sentence about Lviv University with the correct year: Since ______ the university is named after Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko.
  98. Complete the sentence about Lviv University with the correct year: The university dates back to ______ when John II Casimir, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, granted it its first royal char…
  99. Complete the sentence about Lviv University with the correct year: In ______, the Jesuits had tried to found a university earlier, but did not succeed.
  100. Complete the sentence about Lviv University with the correct year: The original royal charter was subsequently confirmed by another decree issued in Częstochowa on 5 February ______.

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