the Ukrainian nobility gradually became Russified—as the earlier Ruthenian nobility had been Polonized—though many retained a sentimental attachment to the land and its folklore. The Polish nobility in the Right Bank continued as the dominant landowning class, although its status eroded over time,...
Ukraine has numerous metal resources of iron ore, manganese, titanium, magnesium, nickel and mercury. Fuel resources include fossil fuel deposits of coal, natural gas and oil. Other natural resources include kaolin, sulfur, graphite, salt, timber and arable land. ...
municipalities. Khmelnytskyi is the regional center of the Khmelnytskyi region which is located in the western part of Ukraine in the middle of Podillia, its total area makes up 8,624 ha (21,310 acres). The interactive map of Ukraine is a JavaScript template that gives you an easy way...
Eastern Europe experienced widespread changes of agricultural land use after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, however, rates and patterns of these changes are still not well understood. Our objective was to map and analyze changes of land management regimes, including large-scale cropland...
LandScan HD for Ukraine was completed and released in January 2022 (click here to download). LandScan HD provides gridded population estimates at 3 arc-second (~100m) resolution. Values for each LandScan HD cell represent an ambient (i.e., 24 hour average) population count estimate. Note...
A Ukrainian cartographer outlines a two-stage methodology for the compilation of maps of the state of the environment and public health in that country. The first stage involves compilation of a map of specific types of land use (economic activity) in the oblasts of Ukraine, followed by ...
Some Ukrainian historians and linguists put forward the version that the name “Ukraine” comes from the words “krai”, “kraina” meaning simply “country”, “a land populated by its people”. This version, in particular, is given in some school textbooks on the history of Ukraine....
Mariupol has seen some of the worst human suffering of any city in Ukraine, and has been completely blockaded by Russian forces since the start of March. Its strategic position as a southern port city makes it a key target for Russia as it would provide a land border between Crimea, which...
I started with LunarVim (my first entry into distro-land) and now I'm with LazyVim and the Folke gang. Bottom line: you can still config Neovim from scratch if you want to, but you can get a HUGE head-start by just grabbing a distro and tweaking it to your needs....
Russia was now carrying out a full-scale attack on Ukraine using its air, land and naval forces, Stoltenberg said. “This is extremely serious,” he told the press conference. “It’s a war of a time and a scale that we actually thought was history in Europe, and it’s im...