kiev

     

Coorinates: 50°27′00, N°30′31

Trivia about kiev

  • Largely because of high crime, no one will call you chicken if you avoid this Ukranian capital
  • The capital of Ukraine, it's the 3rd largest city in the Soviet Union
  • St. Andrew's Church in this Ukranian city stands on a site where St. Andrew reputedly erected a cross
  • The ancestral mother city of the Russian people is this capital of neighboring Ukraine
  • In a treaty with the Turks in the 1680s, Fyodor III wasn't too chicken to hang onto this present Ukrainian capital
  • Slavic to the grind / here comes the Ukraine again / please, try the chicken!
  • The Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise can be seen in this largest city in the Ukraine
  • Called "Mother of Cities", this Ukrainian capital was heavily damaged in WWII & not fully rebuilt until around 1960
  • In 1240 Batu & his horde pillaged this "mother of Russian cities" now in the Ukraine
  • Legend says this capital is named for Kii, one of the 3 brothers who founded it
  • In 1941 over 500,000 Soviet troops were captured along with this capital of the Ukraine

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