Ukraine, the Land and its People, an Introduction to its Geography

By Stephen Rudnitsky
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Excerpt: "There are few lands upon the whole globe so imperfectly known to geographic science as the one which we shall try to describe in this little work. The geographic concept of the Ukraine does not exist in the geography of today. Even the name has been almost forgotten in Europe in the course of the last century and a half. Only occasionally on some maps of Eastern Europe the name "Ukraine" shows timidly along the middle of the Dnieper. And yet it is an old name of the country, originating in the 11th Century, generally known throughout Europe from the 16th to the end of the 18th century, and then, after the abrogation of the autonomy of the second Ukrainian state, gradually fallen into oblivion. The Russian Government has determined to erase the old name of the land and the nation from the map of Europe. Little Russia, West Russia, South Russia, New Russia, were officially introduced in place of the old name Ukraine, the Austrian part of the Ukraine receiving the name of East Galicia. The people were named Little Russians, South Russians, Ruthenians, and all remembrance of the old name seemed to have been blotted out. But, in the speech of the people and in the magnificent unwritten popular literature of the nation, the name of the land could not be destroyed, and, with the unexpected rise of Ukrainian literature, culture, and a feeling of national political independence in the 19th Century, the name Ukraine came into its own again. Today there is not an intelligent patriotic Ukrainian who would use another name for his country and nation than Ukraine and Ukrainian, and, slowly, these designations are penetrating foreign lands as well."

Audiobook details

GenreTravel
Length12 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Ukraine,
2Book I.
3Location and Size
4The Black Sea and its Coasts
5General Survey of the Physical Geography of Ukraine
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6The Ukrainian Mountain Country
7The Ukrainian Plateau Country
8The Ukrainian Plain Country
9Streams and Rivers of the Ukraine
10The Ukrainian Climate
11Flora and Fauna of Ukraine
12Book II: Number and Geographical Distribution of Ukrainians
13The Ukrainian Nation as an Anthropogeographic Unit
14General Survey
15Anthropological Characteristics of the Ukrainians
16The Ukrainian Language
17Historico-Political Traditions and Aspirations of the Ukrainians
18Ukrainian Culture
19Relations Between the Soil and the People of Ukraine
20Economic-Geographical Survey of Ukraine
21Hunting and Fishing
22Forestry
23Agriculture
24Fruit and Vegetable Raising
25Cattle Raising
26Mineral Production
27Industry
28Trade and Commerce
29The Districts and Settlements of Ukraine

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