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Chernivtsi

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Chernivtsi (chĭrnĭft`sē), Ger. Czernowitz, Romanian Cernauţi, Rus. Chernovtsy, city (1989 pop. 257,000), capital of Chernivtsi region, SW Ukraine, on the Prut River and in the Carpathian foothills. It is a rail junction and the economic, cultural, and scientific center of the region of Bukovina Bukovina , Rom. Bucovina, Ukr. Bukovyna, historic region of E Europe, in SW Ukraine and NE Romania. Traversed by the Carpathian Mts. and the upper Prut and Siretul rivers, it is heavily forested [Bukovina
..... Click the link for more information. . Industries, which include woodworking and food processing, are powered by a nearby hydroeletric station. One of Ukraine's oldest towns, Chernivtsi was part of Kievan Rus Kievan Rus , medieval state of the Eastern Slavs. It was the earliest predecessor of modern Ukraine and Russia. Flourishing from the 10th to the 13th cent., it included nearly all of present-day Ukraine and Belarus and part of NW European Russia, extending as far N
..... Click the link for more information. . It passed to Austria in 1775 and in 1849 became the capital of Bukovina. During the 19th and early 20th cent., the city was a center of a Ukrainian nationalist movement. With the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Chernivtsi was transferred to Romania, which held it until the USSR seized N Bukovina in 1940. The city has a university (est. 1875), a 13th-century fortified castle, a 17th-century wooden church, and a 19th-century Orthodox Eastern cathedral.
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00 Paperback TA1630 Six researchers in optics at Chernivtsi University and one in medical biology and genetics at Bukovinian State Medical University, detail selected applications of optical correlation approaches and techniques in diverse problems of modern optics.
Optical correlation techniques and applications by SciTech Book News
Oleksander's Church in Kyiv, which they stated were improperly privatized in the 1990s, as well as properties in Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Sevastopol, and Simferopol.
Ukraine by International Religious Freedom Report
The lack of an inter-state treaty recognising the current Romanian-Ukrainian border and support given within the nationalist parties of the Romanian government for the return of Northern Bukovina (currently Chemivtsi oblast) and Western Odesa oblast has created friction with the Romanian national minority who, together with the Moldovans, comprise 20 percent of the inhabitants of Chernivtsi oblast.
The emergence of Ukraine: part 2 by Kuzio, Taras / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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