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Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute
National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine (NMetAU; formerly DMetl, Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute) is a university in Dnipro dedicated to the study of metallurgy. History National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine is the oldest higher metallurgical educational institution of Ukraine. It was founded as a factory department of the Ekaternoslav Higher Mining School in October 1899. In 1912, the department was transformed into the metallurgical faculty of the Mining Institute, which later became the Dnipro Metallurgical Institute in 1930. In 1993, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine granted the Institute the status of a state university. In 1999, the Decree of the President of Ukraine granted it the status of the National Academy. Academics There are 13 schools focusing on various scientific disciplines in the academy. Some examples of subjects studied are iron and steel metallurgy, thermal engineering, metallurgical equipment, and metalworking. The Aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, after which its Ukrainian language name (Dnipro) it is named. Dnipro is the Capital (political), administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. The population of Dnipro is Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least 1524. The town, named Yekaterinoslav (''the glory of Catherine''), was established by decree of the Emperor of all the Russias, Russian Empress Catherine the Great in 1787 as the administrative center of Novorossiya Governorate, Novorossiya. From the end of the nineteenth century, the town attracted foreign capital and an international, multi-ethnic, workforce exploiting Kryvbas iron ore and Donbas coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. Kryvyi Rih is also claimed to be the longest city in Europe. The city's population is estimated at . It hosts the administration of the Kryvyi Rih District and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban community. The city is also part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropolitan Region. Located at the confluence of the Saksahan and Inhulets rivers, Kryvyi Rih was founded as a military staging post in 1775. Urban-industrial growth followed Belgian, French and British investment in the exploitation of the area's rich iron-ore deposits (generally called Kryvbas) in the 1880s. Kryvyi Rih gained city status after the October Revolution in 1919. Stalin-era industrialisation saw the development in the city from 1934 of Kryvorizhstal, the largest integrated metallur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universities In Ukraine
By region List of NMC/MCI Approved Medical Universities in Ukraine * Bogomolets National Medical University * Bukovinian State Medical University * Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University * Dnipro State Medical University * Donetsk National Medical University * Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University * Karazin Kharkiv National University * Kharkiv International Medical University * Kharkiv National Medical University * Kyiv Medical University of UAFM * Luhansk State Medical University * Odesa National Medical University * Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University * Sumy State University * Ternopil National Medical University * Ukrainian Medical and Dental Academy * Uzhhorod National Medical University, Ukraine * Vinnytsa National Medical University * Zaporizhia State Medical University Cherkasy Oblast * The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy * Cherkasy State Technological University * East European University of Economics and Management (priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freediving
Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Besides the limits of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological effects that limit the depths and duration possible in freediving. Examples of freediving activities are traditional fishing techniques, competitive and non-competitive freediving, competitive and non-competitive spearfishing and freediving photography, synchronised swimming, underwater football, underwater rugby, underwater hockey, underwater target shooting and snorkeling. There are also a range of "competitive apnea" disciplines; in which competitors attempt to attain great depths, times, or distances on a single breath. Historically, the term ''free diving'' was also used to refer to scuba diving, due to the freedom of movement compared with surfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andriy Yevhenovych Khvetkevych
Andriy Yevhenovych Khvetkevych (Ukrainian: Андрій Євгенович Хветкевич; born March 8, 1983) is a Ukrainian world-class freediver, world and Ukrainian six-time record holder in three of the four deep disciplines in freediving: CWTB, FIM, CNF. Biography Khvetkevych was born March 8, 1983, in Dnipro. In 2005, Khvetkevych graduated with a bachelor's degree in Cybernetics from the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine In 2008, Khvetkevych graduated with a master's degree in Intellectual Property from the Ukrainian State Institute of Intellectual Property. In 2017, he started his training in Apnea and Free-diving. In 2018, he set his first National Record for Ukraine in the Vertical Blue Competition with 71m in CNF (Constant Weight No-Fins) discipline, certified by AIDA Judges. He is the first Individual Champion, competing for two different countries: Ukraine by AIDA and USA by CMAS. His achievements have been recognized with AIDA ''Aida'' (or ''Aïd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Security And Defence Council Of Ukraine
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC; uk, Рада національної безпеки і оборони України, RNBO or RNBOU) is the coordinating state body of the executive power under the President of Ukraine on issues of national security and defense. It is a state agency tasked with developing and coordinating a policy of national security on domestic and international matters in advising the President of Ukraine (currently Volodymyr Zelensky). All the sessions of the council take place in the Presidential Administration Building (Kiev), Presidential Administration Building. The agency's membership is determined by the President, but it must include the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Ministry of Defence (Ukraine), Minister of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), Minister of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine), Minister of Foreign Affairs. The council is headed by secretary Oleksiy Danilov since 3 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Turchynov
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov ( uk, Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. In 2005, Turchynov served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. Turchynov is a former acting President of Ukraine from the removal from power of President Viktor Yanukovych on 21 February 2014, until Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukrainian President on 7 June 2014. He then became Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament until 27 November 2014. Turchynov also served as acting Prime Minister in 2010 (when he was the First Vice Prime Minister in the absence of a prime minister after Yulia Tymoshenko's government was dismissed on 3 March 2010) until the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) appointed Mykola Azarov as Prime Minister on 11 March 2010. Turchynov was the first deputy chairman of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhiy Tihipko
Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko ( uk, Сергій Леонідович Тiгiпко; born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subsequently served as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2002 to 2004. He ran unsuccessfully for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election and participated in the 2014 presidential election, in which he placed fifth with 5.23 percent of the vote. Tihipko is also former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Social Policy. Early life Tihipko was born on 13 February 1960 in the village of Drăgănești, Sîngerei, in the Lazovskiy district of the Moldovian SSR in Ukrainian family who moved there from Podolia in 1902.Tigipko.com/ ''CV'' and ''Sergey Tihipko biograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Pinchuk
Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk ( uk, Віктор Михайлович Пінчук, ''Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk''; born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. As of January 2016, ''Forbes'' ranked him as 1,250th on the list of wealthiest people in the world, with a fortune of US$1.44 billion. Pinchuk is the founder of EastOne Group LLC, an international investing, project funding and financial advisory company based in London, and of Interpipe Group, one of Ukraine's leading pipe, wheel and steel producers. Pinchuk is the owner of four TV channels and a popular tabloid, ''Fakty i Kommentarii''. He has been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006. He is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Early life and career Pinchuk was born in 1960 in Kyiv to Jewish parents who moved to the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk. He graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Mukhin (activist)
Yury Mukhin (russian: Юрий Игнатьевич Мухин, born March 22, 1949, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) — Soviet engineer, inventor and the top manager of the metallurgical industry; Russian public activist, researcher and writer. One of the most criminally prosecuted by the Russian authorities – since the beginning of the century he was the defendant in several dozens of lawsuits, accused and defendant in three criminal cases. In July 2015, Yury Mukhin and three other IGPR ZOV members were arrested and jailed in Moscow. In the resolution on initiation of criminal case of July 22, 2015 (on the basis of which Barabash, Mukhin, Parfenov and Sokolov were arrested) it was specified that case against organizers of IGPR ZOV is brought for creation of initiative groups for carrying out a referendum; holding of the referendum to update the Constitution of the Russian Federation with the articles on responsibility of the Supreme authorities to the people; propaganda of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privat Group
The Privat Group, or PrivatBank Group ( uk, Група «Приват», Romanization of Ukrainian, romanized: ''Hrupa "Pryvat"'') is a Multinational corporation, global business group, based in Ukraine. Privat Group controls thousands of companies of virtually every industry in Ukraine, the European Union, Georgia (country), Georgia, Ghana, Russia, the United States and other countries. steel industry, Steel, Petroleum industry, oil & Natural gas, gas, chemical industry, chemical and energy industry, energy are sectors of the group's prime influence and expertise. None of the group's capital is publicly traded on any stock exchange. The business group was grouped around PrivatBank. On 18 December 2016 this bank was nationalized by the government of Ukraine, taking 100% ownership. The group is controlled by the billionaire businessmen Henadiy Boholyubov, Hennadiy Boholyubov, Oleksiy Martynov, and Ihor Kolomoyskyi (the latter is the richest and leading partner that is best known to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business Oligarch
A business oligarch is generally a business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics. A business leader can be considered an oligarch if the following conditions are satisfied: # uses monopolistic tactics to dominate an industry; # possesses sufficient political power to promote their own interests; # controls multiple businesses, which intensively coordinate their activities. More generally, an oligarch () is a "member of an oligarchy; a person who is part of a small group holding power in a state". See also * Russian oligarchs * Ukrainian oligarchs * Oligarchy * Tai-pan A tai-pan (,Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English", ''American Speech'', Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 414-415. literally "top class"汉英词典 — ''A Chinese-English Dictionary' ... * Chaebol References Social groups Wealth concentration Oligarchy Post-Soviet states {{Business-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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