facts about Ukraine

TOP-5 interesting facts about Ukraine

1.     Kiev. "Arsenalnaya" is the deepest metro station in the world. Its depth is 105 meters. The descent is very long and languid, along two escalators. Opened "Arsenalnaya" back in 1960. On the second place is the station of the Chinese subway "Puhung", which is five meters below the Ukrainian one. The third step is taken by the Admiralty. The metro station in St. Petersburg (Russia) descends deeper into 86 meters.

2.     Ukraine gave the world the longest folk musical instrument - trembitu! Outwardly it is a three-meter tube. You still need to learn how to play it! But if she sings a trembit, her voice will disperse for 5-10 km! In the Carpathians!

3.     In Ukraine there is a Sahara! Of course, inferior to the Sahara African in size: the original area - more than 9 million km², and the domestic scope - about 2000 km². Sand wonder - Oleshkovskie sands - is located in the village of Radensk, Kherson region. They appeared relatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when large herds of livestock were decapitated, and in some places the vegetation cover was destroyed. Now it is the second largest sand massif in Europe.

4.     Ukrainian "Yuzhmash" (Dnepropetrovsk) produces the most environmentally friendly missile carriers in the world. With their help, commercial cargoes are sent to space within the framework of the international project "Sea Launch".

5.     The oldest known map of the scientist, as well as the most ancient settlement of Homo Sapiens, are found in Ukraine, in the village Mezhirechye (not Mezhyhirya) of the Rivne region. They are 14.5 - 15 thousand years old. The map is engraved on the bones of a mammoth, with the same material and village.