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Kharkiv Metro
The Kharkiv Metro () is the rapid transit system that serves the city of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine (after Kyiv Metro, Kyiv) and the sixth in the Soviet Union, USSR when it opened on 22–23 August,The official opening ceremony was held on 22 August, with the Metro system being opened to the general public on 23 August. 1975.Official Web Site (24 June 2019) The metro consists of three lines that operate on of the route and serve 30 stations. The system transported 223 million passengers in 2018 (up from 212.85 million in 2017). History Initial plans for a rapid transit system in Kharkiv were made when the city was the capital of the Ukrainian Sovie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23 Serpnia (Kharkiv Metro)
23 Serpnia (, ) is a station on the Kharkiv Metro'sOleksiivska Line.Oleksiivska Line The station is one of two new stations added to the metro system on 21 August 2004, the other being Botanichnyi Sad (Kharkiv Metro), Botanichnyi Sad. References Kharkiv Metro stations Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 2004 {{Ukraine-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face Masks During The COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks or coverings, including N95 respirator, N95, FFP standards#FFP2 mask, FFP2, surgical mask, surgical, and Cloth face mask, cloth masks, have been employed as public and personal health control measures against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In community and healthcare settings, the use of face masks is intended as Source control (respiratory disease), source control to limit Transmission of COVID-19, transmission of the virus and for personal protection to prevent infection. Properly worn masks both limit the respiratory droplets and Airborne transmission, aerosols spread by infected individuals and help protect healthy individuals from infection. Reviews of various kinds of scientific studies have concluded that masking is effective in protecting the individual against COVID-19. Various case–control study, case-control and population-based studies have also shown that increased levels of masking in a communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zavodska (Kharkiv Metro)
Zavodska () is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line. It was opened on 23 August 1975. The station is located close to the Malyshev Factory. On 26 July 2024, the station's name was changed from Zavod imeni Malysheva to Zavodska as part of efforts towards decommunization and derussification Derussification (or derussianization) is a process or public policy in different states of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union or certain parts of them, aimed at restoring national identity of indigenous peoples: their language, culture .... References Kharkiv Metro stations Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 1975 {{Ukraine-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltivska (Kharkiv Metro)
Saltivska () is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. The station was opened on 24 October 1986. Originally known as Heroiv Pratsi (), the station was renamed to Saltivska on 26 July 2024, as part of efforts towards decommunization and derussification Derussification (or derussianization) is a process or public policy in different states of the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union or certain parts of them, aimed at restoring national identity of indigenous peoples: their language, culture .... References Kharkiv Metro stations Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 1986 {{Ukraine-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrinform
The National News Agency of Ukraine (), or Ukrinform (), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of IndependenceУкраїнському національному інформаційному агентству «Укрінформ» — 90 років. Вітаємо! Телекритика (March 17, 2008) as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov, when the agency name was ''The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency''. Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vokzalna (Kharkiv Metro)
Vokzalna () is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnohirsko–Zavodska Line. History The station was opened on 23 August 1975. Until April 2024 it was named ''Pivdennyi Vokzal'' () (the Russian language translation was ''Yuzhny Vokzal''). It is located beneath a square near Kharkiv's main railway station (''Vokzalna'' means ''railway station''). From the station hall, two pedestrian tunnels lead directly to the control building of the railway station and to the post office and out-of-town ticket counters within the train station. The station is lain deeply underground and is a pylon trivault, which is separated by arcades of tracks. The station itself was designed by V.A. Spivachuk, and engineered by Y.E. Kruk and Y.A. Korovkin. The floor has been finished off with grey and black flags of polished granite. The lighting comes from hidden niches under the curved ceilings. In spite of its depth, the Vokzal'na station was moored by the open construction method. The local hydro- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslava Mudroho (Kharkiv Metro)
Yaroslava Mudroho () is a station on the Kharkiv Metro's Saltivska Line. Construction on the station began on 16 April 1977, and it opened on 10 August 1984 as ''Pushkinska'', making it the eighth station of the Saltivska Line. It is located in Kharkiv's city center, beneath Yaroslava Mudroho Square at the intersection of the Yaroslava Mudroho and Hryhorii Skovoroda streets. From its opening until 29 April 2024, the station was named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Station The metro station lies more than underground which makes it the deepest station of the Kharkiv Metro system. The station was opened on 10 August 1984 as "Pushkinska" under a street named after Russian poet Alexander Pushkin since 1899 (present-day Hryhoriia Skorovody street). Renaming "Pushkinska" to "Yaroslava Mudroho" On 12 January 2024 a bas-relief of Alexander Pushkin was removed from the metro station and other artwork in the station that had incorporated poetry by Aleksandr Pushkin was also re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian-language
Russian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' official language of the former Soviet Union. Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most spoken Slavic language, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the world's ninth-most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombing Of Kharkiv (2022–present)
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechanical stress, the impact and penetration of pressure-driven projectiles, pressure damage, and explosion-generated effects. Bombs have been utilized since the 11th century starting in East Asia. The term ''bomb'' is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as a "bomb". The military use of the term "bomb", or more specifically aerial bomb action, typically refers to airdropped, unpowered explosive weapons most commonly used by air forces and naval aviation. Other military explosive weapons not classified as "bombs" include shells, depth charges (used in water), or land mines. In unconventional warfare, other names can refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihor Terekhov
Ihor Oleksandrovych Terekhov (; born 14 January 1967) is a Ukrainian politician who is serving as the mayor of Kharkiv since 11 November 2021. He ascended to the mayoralty on 24 December 2020 following Hennadiy Kernes' death due to COVID-19 complications. The Kharkiv early mayoral election was held on 31 October 2021, and Terekhov was declared the winner of the election with 50.66% of the votes. Biography Terekhov was born on 14 January 1967 in Kharkiv. In 1990, Terekhov graduated from the . After which he remained at the university as a research intern. Terekhov refereed 22 Ukrainian Premier League games from the 1992–93 season up until the 1994–95 season. Terekhov worked in the private sector from 1994 to 1997. From 1999 to 2006, Terekhov worked as a civil servant of the economic department of the Kharkiv City Council. In 2006, Terekhov graduated from the National Academy for Public Administration. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Terekhov was a candi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
