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Shevchenkivskyi District, Kharkiv
Shevchenkivskyi District () is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. The district was created in 1932 out of parts of Ivano-Lysohirskyi and Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi districts. It was named as Dzerzhynskyi after the communist mass murderer Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission). It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with decommunization laws.Another 48 streets and 5 districts "decommunized" in Kharkiv (3 February 2015) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raions Of Cities In Ukraine
An urban district or urban raion () is the second-level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative division in certain cities in Ukraine. There are 118 districts in 20 cities across Ukraine. The cities that contain districts are mostly Administrative centre, administrative centers in addition to the two City with special status, cities with special status (Kyiv and Sevastopol). The number of city districts per region varies between a minimum of two and a high of 21 in Donetsk Oblast. The maximum districts for a single city in the country is Kyiv, which has 10 districts. Cities which have abolished their urban districts (Chernivtsi and Sumy) are marked in ''italics'' below. Article 133 of the Constitution of Ukraine defines city districts as an element of the Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative-territorial division of the state, while Article 140 states that issues in the organization and management of city districts belongs to the competence of Municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verkin Institute For Low Temperature Physics And Engineering
The B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine () is a research institute that conducts basic research in experimental and theoretical physics, mathematics, as well as in the field of applied physics. It was founded in 1960 by Borys Verkin, Oleksandr Galkin, Borys. Eselson and Ihor Dmytrenko. The first director was Borys Verkin. Main areas of research are high-temperature superconductivity, weak superconductivity, magneto antiferromagnets, physics of low-dimensional systems, point-contact spectroscopy, quantum crystals, nonlinear phenomena in metals, physics of disordered systems, quantum phenomena in plasticity and others. The institute has published about 250 monographs, textbooks, reference books, more than 12,000 articles and reviews in ranking scientific journals, and has trained more than 850 highly qualified experts — PhDs. History On May 13, 1960 the presidium of the National Academy of Sciences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharkiv National University Of Economics
The Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics () is the largest state-sponsored economic higher educational and research university in Eastern Ukraine. The university was established in 1912 and was named after American economist Simon Kuznets, a noted alumnus, in 2013. Notable alumni * Simon Smith Kuznets, American economist, Nobel prize winner (1971). * Evsei Liberman, Soviet economist, architect of the economic reforms of 1965. * Maria Quisling, wife of Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (; ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Nazi collaborator who Quisling regime, headed the government of N .... * Mykhailo Chechetov, Ukrainian politician. * Victoria Spartz, member of the Indiana Senate, 2020 Republican candidate for Indiana's 5th congressional district Ratings External links Simon Kuznets Kharkiv Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharkiv National University Of Radioelectronics
The Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics ( NURE, ) is a technological state-sponsored university based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Founded in 1930, it is among the oldest technologically focused universities in Ukraine, with a student body of around 7,000. NURE has 7 faculties and 34 departments, with a primary focus on electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, and computer technologies. Foundation and history NURE was founded in 1930 as the Kharkiv Engineering-Building Institute (KEBI), initially combining faculty from the Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute and architectural faculty of Kharkiv Art Institute. In 1934 the Kharkiv Geodetic Institute and Scientific Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography entered the structure of the institute, which later became the largest higher education institution in Ukraine with 1734 students, 200 teachers and 4 faculties. In 2001 the university was advanced to a National University. University structure The unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharkiv National Medical University
The Kharkiv National Medical University (), formerly known as Kharkiv Medical Institute and previously Kharkiv State Medical University, is a State-sponsored medical university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In March 2022 many buildings were heavily damaged due to the Russian invasion into Ukraine. Over 700 teachers work at the departments of the university. Staff capacity is 5 corresponding members NAMN Ukraine, 17 Honoured Scientist of Ukraine, 2 Honored high school Ukraine, 13 distinguished doctors of Ukraine, 8 winners of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Engineering, 28 academicians of the public academies of Ukraine, 28 employees - Member of International Medical Associations;. Since 1951, the university has been training medical personnel for countries of the Eastern Europe, China and Mongolia, and since 1961 it has been training students from other countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. At present, there are about 3400 foreign students in the Kharkiv National Medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National University Of Kharkiv
The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second oldest university in modern-day Ukraine. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all buildings were partially or fully destroyed by attacks from Russian forces. History Russian Empire On , the Decree on the Opening of the Imperial University in Kharkov came into force. The university became the second university in the south of the Russian Empire. It was founded on the initiative of the local community with Vasily Karazin at the fore, whose idea was supported by the nobility and the local authorities. Count Seweryn Potocki was appointed the first supervisor of the university, the first rector being the philologist and philosopher . In 1811, the Philotechnical Society was founded, while the Mathematical Society of Kharkov, the Historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korrespondent
''Korrespondent'' (; ; literally: ''Correspondent'') is a weekly printed magazine published in Ukraine in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. It is part of United Media Holding group, created by Boris Lozhkin and owned by Serhiy Kurchenko."Kyiv's court rules to seize fugitive oligarch Kurchenko's UMH assets" UNIAN (28 December 2017) History and profile ''Korrespondent'' was established in 2002. The Korrespondent.net is its sister project - an influential Ukrainian and Russian-language |
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda until 2014, when she handed over the position to Sevhil Musaieva. In May 2021, the publication’s new owner became Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital. The murder of the founder Heorhii Gongadze in the fall of 2000, who had protested against increasing state censorship, drew international attention to the state of press freedom in Ukraine and sparked protests against President Leonid Kuchma in 2000–2001. In July 2016, Ukrainska Pravda journalist Pavlo Sheremet was killed in an explosion. As of 2020, the masterminds behind the murders of Gongadze and Sheremet remain unknown. History Early Years: 2000–2004 In December 1999, journalists Heorhii Gongadze, Olena Prytula, and Serhii Sholokh traveled to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decommunization In Ukraine
Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards. Following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Government of Ukraine, Ukrainian government approved Ukrainian decommunization laws, laws that Bans on communist symbols#Ukraine, banned communist symbols, as well as symbols of Nazism as both ideologies were deemed to be Totalitarianism, totalitarian. On 15 May 2015, President Petro Poroshenko signed a set of laws that started a six-month period for the removal of Soviet communist monuments (excluding World War II monuments) and renaming of public places that had been named after Soviet communists. At the time, this meant that 22 cities and 44 villages were set to get new names. Until 21 November 2015, municipal governments had the authority to implement this; if they failed to do so, the Oblasts of Ukraine, oblasts had until 21 May 2016 to change the names. If the settlement still k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə, links=yes), abbreviated as VChK ( rus, ВЧК, p=vɛ tɕe ˈka), and commonly known as the Cheka ( rus, ЧК, p=tɕɪˈka), was the first Soviet secret police organization. It was established on by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, and was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. By the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921, the Cheka had at least 200,000 personnel. Ostensibly created to protect the October Revolution from "class enemies" such as the bourgeoisie and members of the clergy, the Cheka soon became a tool of repression wielded against all political opponents of the Bolshevik regime. The organization had responsibility for counterintelligence, oversight of the loyalty of the Red Army, and protection of the country's borders, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
