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Presidential Administration of Ukraine
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The Presidential Administration or unofficially Bankova is an administrative body set up to assist the President of Ukraine. The main purpose of the Administration is to provide administrative, advisory, analytical, after Ukraine declared independence in 1991, President Leonid Kravchuk established the Administration of the President on December 13 as an advisory body to the President. The Administration is headquartered on 11 Bank Street in Kyiv, under President Yushchenko, the administration was reorganized into the Secretariat on January 24,2005 in accordance with Clause 28 of Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine. President Viktor Yanukovych restored the old name Administration of the President of Ukraine on his first day in office, archived from the original on October 17,2008
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House with Chimaeras
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House with Chimaeras or Horodecki House is an Art Nouveau building located in the historic Lypky neighborhood of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Situated across the street from the President of Ukraines office at No,10, Bankova Street, the building has been used as a presidential residence for official and diplomatic ceremonies since 2005. The street in front of the building is closed off to all automobile traffic, the Polish architect Władysław Horodecki originally constructed the House with Chimaeras for use as his own upmarket apartment building during the period of 1901–1902. When the building was vacated, its interior and exterior decor were fully reconstructed and restored according to Horodecki original plans. The building derives its name from the ornate decorations depicting exotic animals and hunting scenes. The name does not refer to the chimaera of mythology, Horodecki unique architectural style earned him praise as the Antoni Gaudí of Kyiv. A House with Chimaeras was designed by the Polish architect Władysław Horodecki in 1901–1902, Horodecki was born in 1863 into a prosperous Polish szlachta family in the Podillia region. After finishing the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1890, he moved to Kyiv, nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral to the Karaim Kenesa and what today is the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Besides architecture, Horodecki was also interested in hunting, which explains why his building features many animals. Horodecki financed the construction with borrowed money, with the intent for it to be an apartment building. Each floor formed a single apartment, connected by an elevator, Horodecki himself occupied the fourth floor of the building, measuring at about 380 m2. Horodecki bought the first lot of land on February 1,1901, Construction of the exterior walls was finished by August 21, and the roof installed and all masonry work was completed on September 13. Due to the economic hardships within the Russian Empire, the completion of the building was delayed, in May 1903, only one apartment on the lowest level and Horodeckis own apartment were occupied. The total cost of the land and construction amounted to 133,000 rubles, in total,1,550 m2 of land were used for construction of the building and cost a total of 15,640 rubles. The projected annual profit from the rentals was 7,200 rubles, a cowshed was located on the premises due to Horodeckis insistence on fresh in-house milk, though it was specifically placed in a way that the smell of the cows would not disturb the tenants. On a lot adjacent to the building, an alpine garden. Due to financial mismanagement which included his Safari hunting hobby, in July 1912, in 1916, the house belonged to the Blahodatinskoe sugar factory. In 1918, the ownership changed again, to Samuel Nemets
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National Writers' Union of Ukraine
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National Writers Union of Ukraine is a voluntary social-creative association of professional writers, poets, prosaists, playwrighters, critics, and translators. Today the NSPU has over 1,800 members, including 84 writers living abroad, the majority of NSPU members write in the Ukrainian language, while others write in Russian, Moldavian, Yiddish, Hungarian, Greek, etc. Regional organizations of the Union are situated in every oblast centre of Ukraine, the supreme body of the NSPU is the Congress of Ukrainian writers, which is gathered in five years. In the between time, the Union is managed by the Council and Presidium of the NSPU, executive functions are delegated to the Secretariat. The headquarters of the Union is located at 2 Bankova Street, in 1997 the Union split, losing some of its members who created a new organization, the Association of Ukrainian Writers. The NSPU was founded in 1934 as a part of the Writers Union of the former USSR, in post-communist time, the Writers Union of Ukraine declared its independence from any Soviet structures
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Pecherskyi District
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Pecherskyi District is an urban district of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It line within the historical neighborhood, while also including some other historical areas. The Pechersk neighborhood is located on the adjoining the right bank of the Dnieper River. The two geographic entities are often confused together, the Pecherskyi District can be considered as the very heart of Ukraine. Pechersk is one of the most important cultural areas of Kiev, the settlement near the Lavra has formed sometime in the 12th century. It was reformed out of the historical Berestiv royal estate that was adjacent to the Kiev Golden Gates, beresta is a local name of the bark of a birch tree which at that time was utilized in making of shoes as well as used as a writing medium. The settlement was renamed into the town of Pechersk sometime in the 16th-17th centuries, because of that new neighborhoods and areas were added to its direct administration. When in the 1840s, the New Kiev fortress was built Pechersk incorporated the settlement of Vasylkivska Rohatka that was founded in 1706, the Vasylkivs Fork was located in the vicinity of Citadel street where the Vasylkivs gates once stood. The rebellion gave the name to one of the streets in the neighborhood during the Soviet times to give the impression of pride for the support of the Bolshevik regime. Later many administrative, educational, research and cultural institutions were founded in the neighborhood, such as the Central Election Commission, two universities and several theaters. Since the 1930s, Pechersk is also considered the center of the city. However, this area is in fact the Lypky historical neighborhood within Pecherskyi District. Lypky is also notable by its consistent and distinctive Soviet architecture, purposely designed for a quarter of government buildings. Many other historical and architectural monuments are situated here, here is located Askolds Grave which was depicted by Taras Shevchenko on his painting of 1846. Around the burial was created the Askold Grave Park and was built a church that later was reconstructed into the brick one designed by Andriy Ivanovych Melensky. The churchs name is the Saint Nicolas the Miracle-worker Church or Rotonda, there are large residential, industrial, healthcare and military areas in the district, as well as a few picturesque parks and sports venues like the Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium. Many administrative and educational facilities are situated in the district, the famous Art nouveau House with Chimaeras and gigantic statue of Mother Motherland are also located in the Pecherskyi District. After the declaration of Ukrainian independence in 1991, the Pecherskyi District retained and developed its role also becoming a residential area
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Kiev
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Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population in July 2015 was 2,887,974, Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural centre of Eastern Europe. It is home to many industries, higher education institutions. The city has an infrastructure and highly developed system of public transport. The citys name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, during its history, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of great prominence and relative obscurity. The city probably existed as a centre as early as the 5th century. A Slavic settlement on the trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, Kiev was a tributary of the Khazars, until seized by the Varangians in the mid-9th century. Under Varangian rule, the city became a capital of the Kievan Rus, completely destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1240, the city lost most of its influence for the centuries to come. It was a capital of marginal importance in the outskirts of the territories controlled by its powerful neighbours, first the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, followed by Poland. The city prospered again during the Russian Empires Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century, in 1917, after the Ukrainian National Republic declared independence from the Russian Empire, Kiev became its capital. From 1919 Kiev was an important center of the Armed Forces of South Russia and was controlled by the White Army. From 1921 onwards Kiev was a city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was proclaimed by the Red Army, during World War II, the city again suffered significant damage, but quickly recovered in the post-war years, remaining the third largest city of the Soviet Union. During the countrys transformation to an economy and electoral democracy. Kievs armament-dependent industrial output fell after the Soviet collapse, adversely affecting science, Kiev emerged as the most pro-Western region of Ukraine where parties advocating tighter integration with the European Union dominate during elections. As a prominent city with a history, its English name was subject to gradual evolution. The early English spelling was derived from Old East Slavic form Kyjev, the name is associated with that of Kyi, the legendary eponymous founder of the city. Early English sources use various names, including Kiou, Kiow, Kiew, on one of the oldest English maps of the region, Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae published by Ortelius the name of the city is spelled Kiou. On the 1650 map by Guillaume de Beauplan, the name of the city is Kiiow, in the book Travels, by Joseph Marshall, the city is referred to as Kiovia
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Ukraine
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Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2, making it the largest country entirely within Europe and it has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC, during the Middle Ages, the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus forming the basis of Ukrainian identity. Following its fragmentation in the 13th century, the territory was contested, ruled and divided by a variety of powers, including Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, two brief periods of independence occurred during the 20th century, once near the end of World War I and another during World War II. Before its independence, Ukraine was typically referred to in English as The Ukraine, following independence, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state. Nonetheless it formed a limited partnership with the Russian Federation and other CIS countries. In the 2000s, the government began leaning towards NATO, and it was later agreed that the question of joining NATO should be answered by a national referendum at some point in the future. Former President Viktor Yanukovych considered the current level of co-operation between Ukraine and NATO sufficient, and was against Ukraine joining NATO and these events formed the background for the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, and the War in Donbass in April 2014. On 1 January 2016, Ukraine applied the economic part of the Deep, Ukraine has long been a global breadbasket because of its extensive, fertile farmlands and is one of the worlds largest grain exporters. The diversified economy of Ukraine includes a heavy industry sector, particularly in aerospace. Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate powers, legislative, executive. Its capital and largest city is Kiev, taking into account reserves and paramilitary personnel, Ukraine maintains the second-largest military in Europe after that of Russia. Ukrainian is the language and its alphabet is Cyrillic. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodoxy, which has strongly influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature, there are different hypotheses as to the etymology of the name Ukraine. According to the older and most widespread hypothesis, it means borderland, while more recently some studies claim a different meaning, homeland or region. The Ukraine now implies disregard for the sovereignty, according to U. S. ambassador William Taylor. Neanderthal settlement in Ukraine is seen in the Molodova archaeological sites include a mammoth bone dwelling
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Lypky
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Lypky is a historic neighborhood of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv located in the administrative Pecherskyi District. The name has derived from a lime tree, Lypky became known only recently since the 19th century. During that time it became known as an elite district. Geographically Lypky is considered to be part of Pechersk, yet it is located between the Old Kyiv neighborhood and the Pechersk neighborhood across the Klov descent and Mechnikov Street, streets of Lypky were the scenes of the most bloody episodes of the Euromaidan revolution
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Subdivisions of Kiev
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Subdivisions of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, include the formal administrative subdivision into raions and the more detailed informal subdivision into historical neighborhoods. The first known formal subdivision of Kyiv dates to 1810 when the city was subdivided into 4 parts, Pechersk, Starokyiv, and the first, in 1833-1834 according to Tsar Nicholas Is decree, Kyiv was subdivided into 6 police raions, later being increased to 10. As of 1917, there were 8 Raion Councils, which were reorganized by Pavlo Skoropadskyi into 17 raions, in 1924 bolsheviks reorganized them into the bigger six party-administrated Raions with various sub-raions under Hryhoriy Hrynko administration. Over the Soviet time, as city was expanding, the number of raions was gradually increasing, the raions has been also commonly named after Soviet party leaders, and as political situation was changing and some leaders were overturned by the other, so raion names were also changing. The last raion reform took place in 2001 when the number of raions has been decreased from 14 to 10. Under Oleksandr Omelchenko, there were plans for the merger of some raions and revision of their boundaries. With the election of the new mayor-elect in 2006, these plans were conducted, administratively, the city is divided into raions, which have their own units of central and local government with jurisdiction over a limited scope of affairs. The Right Bank, located on the side of the river, contains the older portions of the city, as well as the majority of Kievs business. The eastern Left Bank, incorporated into the city only in the century, is predominantly residential. There are large industrial and green areas in both the Right Bank and the Left Bank, the terms Right Bank and, especially, Left Bank are recognized in the names of Kievs infrastructure, e. g. Livoberezhna Metro station. Residents widely recognize a system of the historical neighborhoods. Such neighborhoods count in dozens, however, constituting a kind of hierarchy, the names of the oldest neighborhoods go back to the Middle Ages, and sometimes pose a great linguistic interest. The newest whole-built developments bear numeric designations or residential marketing names, most notable informal historical neighborhoods of Kyiv include, Lypky and Zvirynets of the Pecherskyi Raion are the most expensive areas to live. Koncha-Zaspa is arguably the most interesting neighborhood name dating back to the times of Kievan Rus, a local legend explaining the name of a locality states the Rus warriors who felt asleep during their watch at the outpost were killed by Golden Horde invaders. Koncha-Zaspa is now a prestigious area too, another useful pattern of city division is the Kiev Metro system. However, metro lines do not cover significant parts of Kiev, sometimes, the system of elektrychka train stops are used for the same purpose. Names of well-known shopping malls, restaurants, night clubs are used for purposes as well
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Pedestrian zone
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Pedestrian zones are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all automobile traffic may be prohibited. Converting a street or an area to use is called pedestrianisation. However, pedestrianisation can sometimes lead to reductions in business activity, property devaluation, in some cases traffic in surrounding areas may increase, due to displacement rather than substitution of car traffic. Pedestrian zones have a variety of approaches to human-powered vehicles such as bicycles, inline skates, skateboards. Some have a ban on anything with wheels, others ban certain categories, others segregate the human-powered wheels from foot traffic. Many Middle Eastern kasbahs have no wheeled traffic, but use donkey-driven or hand-driven carts for freight transport, the idea of separating pedestrians from wheeled traffic is an old one, dating back at least to the Renaissance. However, the earliest modern implementation of the idea in cities seems to date from about 1800, separated shopping arcades were constructed throughout Europe in the 19th century, precursors of modern shopping malls. The first pedestrianisation of an existing street seems to have taken place around 1929 in Essen and this was in a very narrow shopping street that could not accommodate both vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Two other German cities followed this model in the early 1930s, by 1955 twenty-one German cities had closed at least one street to traffic, although only four were true pedestrian streets, designed for the purpose. At this time pedestrianisation was not seen as a traffic restraint policy, pedestrianisation was also common in the United States during the 1950s and 60s as downtown businesses attempted to compete with new suburban shopping malls. However, most of these initiatives were not successful in the long term, a car-free zone is different from a typical pedestrian zone, in that it implies a development largely predicated on modes of transport other than the car. A pedestrian zone may be more limited in scope, for example a single square or street being for pedestrians. A number of towns and cities in Europe have never allowed motor vehicles, archetypal examples are, Venice, which occupies many islands in a lagoon, divided by and accessed from canals. The city has been car-free for more than three decades, motor traffic stops at the car park at the head of the viaduct from the mainland, and water transport or walking takes over from there. However, motor vehicles are allowed on the nearby Lido, mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state under the sovereignty of Greece, does not permit automobiles on its territory. Trucks and work-related vehicles only are in use there, the medieval city of Mdina in Malta does not allow automobiles past the city walls. It is known as the Silent City because of the absence of traffic in the city. Sark, an island in the English Channel, is a zone where only bicycles, carriages
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Governor-general
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Governor-General or governor general, in modern usage, is the title of an office-holder appointed to represent the monarch of a sovereign state in the governing of an independent realm. Governors-General have also previously been appointed in respect of major colonial states or other territories held by either a monarchy or republic, in modern usage, the term governor-general originated in those British colonies which became self-governing within the British Empire. In these cases, the Crowns representative in the federated Dominion was given the title of governor general. Another non-federal state, Newfoundland, was a Dominion for 16 years with the Kings representative retaining the title of governor throughout this time, since 2016, the title governor-general has been given to all representatives of the sovereign in independent Commonwealth realms. In these countries the governor-general acts as the representative, performing the ceremonial and constitutional functions of a head of state. The only other nation which uses the designation is Iran. In Iran, the authority is headed by a governor general. As such they held the prerogative powers of the monarch. The monarch or imperial government could overrule any governor-general, though this could often be cumbersome, the governors-general are entitled to wear a unique uniform, which are not generally worn today. If of the rank of general, equivalent or above. The report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference stated, in other words, the political reality of a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire with a governor-general answerable to the sovereign became clear. British interference in the Dominion was not acceptable and independent country status was clearly displayed, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were clearly not controlled by the United Kingdom. The governor-general, however, is appointed by the monarch. Executive authority is vested in the monarch, though much of it can be exercisable only by the governor-general on behalf of the sovereign of the independent realm. Except in rare cases, the only acts in accordance with constitutional convention and upon the advice of the national prime minister. The governor-general is still the representative of the sovereign and performs the same duties as they carried out historically. In some realms, the monarch could in principle overrule a governor-general, in Australia the present Queen is generally assumed to be head of state, since the governor-general and the state governors are defined as her representatives. However, since the governor-general performs almost all national regal functions, to a lesser extent, uncertainty has been expressed in Canada as to which officeholder—the monarch, the governor general, or both—can be considered the head of state
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Lyuteranska Street
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Vulytsya Lyuteranska or Lutheran Street is a street located in the Lypky neighborhood of the Pechersk District in central Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. One of the most distinguished features are the House of the Weeping Widow, the street stretches for about half of a mile between Khreshchatyk and Vulytsya Shovkovychna. Among other streets connect to vulytysa Lyuteranska are Vulytsya Bankova, Vulytsya Zankovetska. The street is believed to be originated sometime in the beginning of 19th century under the name of Grafskaya, in 1812 the street changed its name to Lyuteranskaya as the German Lutheran congregation built its new Church here in 1857. In 1865 the street changed its name to Annenkovskaya after Nicholas Annenkov. Nonetheless the name of Lyuteranska was still used by the residents of the street, with the installation of the Soviet power in the city the street was renamed after Friedrich Engels. During the World War II the street was called Luther Strasse, once Ukraine finally acquired its independence to the street was returned its original name, even though most of the German population was deported from the area right after the World War II. Nos 6-8, designed by architect Martin Klug, the building has an intriguing design, while being decorated with numerous columns and painted in red. The interesting also is the fact that in 1914 here resided such personalities as an actress of theater Maria Andreyeva, no.15 was designed and build by Oleksandr Verbytsky who continued to live here until the Great Patriotic War. During those times the building was destroyed, but later restored in 1948, no.22, the Lutheran Church of Saint Catherine. It was returned to the Lutheran Church only in 1998, no.23, better known as the House of the Weeping Widow, the building was the mansion of Sergei Arshavskiy who was the member of the First Guild in Kiev. The building is a secondary Presidential residence and is located in proximity to Bankova Street. Kudrytskyi, A. V. Kyiv, A historical overview, galina Savchuk, The Streets of Kiev. Virtual traveling Lyuteranska street at wek. kiev. ua
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