Ukraine used to attract more than 20 million foreign citizens every year. But since 2014 this has lowered to about 10 million. Visitors primarily come from Eastern Europe, but also from Western Europe, as well as Turkey and Israel.
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna (Івано-Франківщина) or simply Frankivshchyna, is an oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a population of 1,351,822.
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1880–1883), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885); and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891). He is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading Russian literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov, and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship.
An oblast in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country. Ukraine's territory is divided into 24 oblasts, as well as one autonomous republic and two cities with special status. Ukraine is a unitary state, thus the oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution and devolved by law. Articles 140–146 of Chapter XI of the constitution deal directly with local authorities and their competence.
Chuhuiv or Chuguev is a city in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Chuhuiv Raion (district). It hosts the administration of Chuhuiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 31,018.
The Ukrainian Military Law-Enforcement Service (VSP) is the military police of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It was formed on May 19, 2002.
The flags of the subdivisions of Ukraine exhibit a wide variety of regional influences and local histories, reflecting different styles and design principles. Most local flags were designed and adopted after Ukrainian independence in 1991.
The Territorial Defence Forces are the military reserve component of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The 1959 Football Championship of UkrSSR were part of the 1959 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine. This was the last time such competitions were conducted at this level. The next season competitions were merged with Class B competitions.
2018 FFU Regions' Cup is the second season of the Football Federation of Ukraine renewed competition at regional level. The competition is conducted among football teams of Oblasts (regions) composed of players who compete at oblast championships.
Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who is the current Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2020. Before his appointment as prime minister, Shmyhal was the governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and an acting vice prime minister in the Honcharuk Government.
Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, also known as Mystetskyi Arsenal — is Ukraine's flagship public cultural institution, a museum and art exhibition complex located at 10–12 Lavrska Street, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Russia began an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. It is the largest military attack in Europe since World War II. During the fighting, many pieces of Ukrainian cultural heritage were either destroyed, damaged, or put at risk due to the widespread destruction across the country. This deliberate destruction and looting of over 500 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites is considered a war crime and has been described by Ukraine's Minister of Culture as cultural genocide.
Bohdan Bohdanovych Kuziv is a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, and member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2012).
