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  Vinnytsia at AllExperts
It is the administrative center of the Vinnytsia Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Vinnytsky Raion (district) within the oblast.
Vinnytsia is located about 260 km from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev (Kyiv), 429 km from the port city - Odessa (Odesa), and 369 km from Lviv.
Vinnytsia was an important trade and political center of note since as early as the 16th century.
en.allexperts.com /e/v/vi/vinnytsia.htm   (345 words)

  
 Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, The
Chernihiv Oblast (Чернігівська область, Chernihivs’ka oblast’ or Чернігівщина, Chernihivshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine.
The oblast is bordered by the Kyivs'ke reservoir of Dnipro and the Kyivs'ka oblast' to the west, by the Sums'ka oblast' to the east, and the Poltavs'ka oblast' to the south.
The population of the Chernihivs'ka oblast' is overwhelmingly Ukrainian, with some minority Belarusian and Russian population, concentrated in the northern districts.
creekin.net /c7123-n191-chernihiv-oblast-ukraine-the.html   (438 words)

  
 Ukraine Info | Travel | Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Vinnytsia is also known as the location of deposits of secondary kaolin.
Vinnytsia oblast is noted for deposits of limestone for sugar industry (Studenyanske deposit resources amount to 31,400,000 tons, "Vyla" deposit resources to 26,972,000 tons, and Nemiyske deposit resources to 13,752,000 tons), for lime calcination (explored resources exceed 40 million tons), and for soil oxidation (explored resources exceed 10 million tons).
The biggest deposit of sawn stone in Ukraine is situated in Vinnytsia oblast 10 km from Tomashpil.
www.ukraineinfo.us /travel/vinnytsya   (1969 words)

  
 Ukraine Info | Travel | Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The oblast stretches for 220 km from the north to the south and for 120 km from the east to the west (calculated by the longitude and latitude of the oblast center).
Khmelnytsky oblast borders on the Vinnytsia oblast in the east, on the Ternopil oblast in the west, on the Rivne oblast in the north-east, on the Zhytomyr oblast in the north, and on the Chernivtsi oblast in the south.
In May 1941 the oblast center was transferred to the town of Proskuriv, and in January 1954 the oblast as well as its center were given a new name of Khmelnytsky.
www.ukraineinfo.us /travel/khmelnytsky   (3270 words)

  
 Khmelnytskyi Oblast at AllExperts
The oblast borders the Rivne Oblast to the northwest, the Zhytomyr Oblast to the northeast, the Vinnytsia Oblast to the east, the Chernivtsi Oblast to the south, and the Ternopil Oblast to the west.
In 1954, it was renamed the Khmelnytskyi Oblast when its administrative center was moved from the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi to the city of Kmelnytskyi.
The oblast is situated at a historical crossroad of the railway and highway routes connecting Central Europe to Black Sea coast and Russia (with city of Shepetivka being the most important railway junction).
en.allexperts.com /e/k/kh/khmelnytskyi_oblast.htm   (647 words)

  
 ACA Worldwide
In 1954 it was renamed the Khmel’nyts’ka oblast’ as the capital was moved from Kamianets-Podilskyi to Kmelnytskyi.
The area of the oblast is 20,600 km² (3.4% of total area of Ukraine), its population (as of 2004) is 1,401,140 inhabitants.
The oblast is a historical crossroad of the railway and highway routes connecting Central Europe to Black Sea coast and Russia (with city of Shepetivka being the most important railway junction).
www.acaworldwide.com /en/page/text/name=khmelnytsk   (431 words)

  
 Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, The
Lviv Oblast (Львівська область, L’vivs’ka oblast’ or Львівщина, L’vivshchyna in Ukrainian, Lwów in Polish, Lemberg in German) is an oblast of western Ukraine, created on December 4, 1939.
The oblast's strategic position at the heart of central Europe and as the gateway to the Carpathians has caused it to change hands many times over the centuries.
The terrain of L'viv Oblast is highly varied, ranging from open steppes to dense forests, with intensively cultivated river basins and forested mountains.
creekin.net /c7161-n191-lviv-oblast-ukraine-the.html   (482 words)

  
 The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Kiev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The oblast is located on the main highways and railways, moreover a new straight 140 km highway from Vinnytsia to Kyiv will halve the distance between the cities in the nearest future.
Oblast administration strongly supports the idea of big farms, and as the first deputy of Vinnytsia oblast administration in charge of agriculture said, “the future of the Ukrainian agriculture is in the large production and big farms.
Vinnytsia oblast has 4 research stations which formerly were test farms for the research institutes and now turned into regular farms with ability to adjust to the new technologies and introduce new products.
www.holland.com.ua /agriculture/vinnytsia.asp   (3161 words)

  
 Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine Information
It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine.
The town was notable for a series of pogroms carried out in the region, the last of which claimed an estimated 1,500 lives on February 15, 1919.
Khmelnytskyi should not be confused with Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, a city in Ukraine's Kiev Oblast.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Khmelnytskyi,_Ukraine   (172 words)

  
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It is situated in the central part o f the Right-bank part of Ukraine and it borders on 7 oblasts.
\par \par Vinnytsia oblast is noted for deposits of limestone for sugar industry (Studenyanske deposit resources amount to 31,400,000 tons, \'93Vyla\'94 deposit resources to 26,972,000 tons, and Nemiyske deposit resources to 13,752,000 tons), for lime calcination (explored resources exceed 40 million tons), and for soil oxidation (explored resources exceed 10 million tons).
In 1999 Vinnytsia joint-stock company \'93Podillya\'94, OJSC \'93Khmelnitska clothes factory \'93 Lileya\'94, Vinnytsia OJSC \'93Volodarka\'94, OJSC \'93Tulchinska clothes factory\'94 and others produced the goods from raw materials taken on commission.
web.ttnet.net.tr /ukremb/Regions/Vinnytsya.rtf   (2153 words)

  
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In 18 oblasts this rate is higher than the average and comes to between 25 to 91 persons per vacancy.
Yavtushenko, a resident the village of Petrivka, Komintern raion, Odessa oblast wrote to the Commissioner: "In June 1997 I was unlawfully dismissed.
Some categories of employees of state budget-funded institutions in the oblast did not receive their salary from six to ten months, the arrears having piled up to UAH 54.6 million (or 30 % of the total amount of debts).
www.ombudsman.kiev.ua /de_06_1_1.htm   (3620 words)

  
 JSPPB Aval [ Bank News < Press-centre ]
October 8. — On October 6 this year, the Vinnytsia Oblast Directorate of Aval Bank celebrated the 10th anniversary of its foundation, the Bank’s Press center reports with reference to the Marketing and VIP-Clients Service Department of the Vinnytsia OD of the JSPPB Aval.
As was noted at the Directorate, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Directorate’s foundation, the Oblast State Administration and the City Council of Vinnytsia awarded best employees of the Vinnytsia OD of Aval Bank with certificates of honor and diplomas.
In particular, certificates of honor from the Vinnytsia OSA were handed to Chief of the Mohyliov-Podilsky Branch of Aval Bank Halyna Vnukova, Chief of the Haisyn Branch Halyna Tsymbal, Chief of the Zmerynka Branch Tayisia Sorokina.
www.aval.kiev.ua /eng/press/news/?id=21841   (258 words)

  
 Vinnytsia Links
- Mark Twain Vinnytsia Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Vinnytsia There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Dalloway Vinnytsia "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
www.welcome-2-europe.com /Ukraine_Provinces_Vinnytsia_Oblast_Vinnytsia.html   (1827 words)

  
 Brama - Gateway Ukraine, UkraiNEWStand and Community Press
Viktor Slauta; FUU Zhytomyr Oblast District # 64.
Vasyl Kalinchuk; FUU Poltava Oblast District # 145.
Hryhoriy Dashutin; FUU Ternopil Oblast District # 164.
www.brama.com /rcc   (1900 words)

  
 Vinnytsia information - Search.com
Europe > Ukraine > Provinces > Vinnytsia Oblast > Vinnytsia">Regional >...
Vinnytsia, or Vinnytsya (Ukrainian: Вінниця, Russian: Винница, Vinnitsa) is a city in central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Buh River, approximately 270 km west of Ukraine's capital, Kiev.
Administratively, Vinnytsia is the capital of Vinnytsia Oblast and historically a part of the Podillia region.
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 1937-1938   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
One of the most appalling symbols of the “Yezhovshchina” period in Ukraine is the tragedy of Vinnytsia, where in 1937-1938 thousands of prisoners were destroyed by the Vinnytsia oblast directorate of the NKVD.
In 1940 the investigative organs of the Ukrainian NKVD launched a case concerning the mass repressions in Vinnytsia oblast, which were carried out by a captain of state security named I. Korablev.
At a secret trial conducted by the Military Tribunal of NKVD armies of the Kyiv military district, which took place in Vinnytsia from 26 April to 6 May 1941, I. Korablev and one of his subordinates were given the death sentence.
www.represii.org /eng/1938.html   (644 words)

  
 JSPPB Aval [ Bank News < Press-centre ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
October 18. — The National Bank of Ukraine has awarded Director of the Vinnytsia Oblast Directorate of Bank Aval Fedir Slobodyaniuk with a "Bronze Order" in honor of the 10th anniversary of foundation of the Vinnytsia OD of the Bank.
At the ceremony there were present: First Deputy Head of the Vinnytsia Oblast State Administration Mykhailo Matviyenko, Chief of the Oblast NBU Administartion Anatoly Pedorenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Bank Aval Ivan Voloshko, the leadership of the Vinnytsia OD of the JSPPB Aval, partners and clients of the Bank.
In May, 2004, he was awarded with an honorary deed of the Vinnytsia Oblast State Administration and the Oblast Council for work in the bank system and personal input into its development.
www.aval.kiev.ua /eng/press/news/?id=22032   (321 words)

  
 Raiffeisen Bank Aval [ Bank News < Press-centre ]
21 September. — Vinnytsia Oblast Directorate of Bank Aval has been recognized the best banking institution in Vinnytsia oblast in the nomination "Financial Supermarket" within the frames of the project "The Names to be Trusted".
According to the oblast directorate, Vinnytsia OD of Bank Aval has also been marked in two nominations more and awarded with the respective diplomas.
The contest was held under the sponsorship and support of Vinnytsia Oblast State Administration and Vinnytsia City Council.
www.aval.ua /eng/press/news/?id=39343   (235 words)

  
 Vasyl Stus, 1938-1985 (12/18/05)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Vasyl Stus was born on Christmas Eve, January 6, 1938, in the village of Rakhnivtsi, Vinnytsia Oblast.
After graduation, he worked as a teacher in the Kirovohrad Oblast, served in the army and taught Ukrainian language and literature in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast.
The circumstances of his second incarceration in the strict-regime camp in the Perm Oblast were unbearable.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2005/510528.shtml   (500 words)

  
 The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
This came to pass back in 1933 in the village of Sosenka in Vinnytsia oblast.
They moved to another house and she told them to keep clear of the house, in which her husband and mother-in-law had eaten their first child.
Vinnytsia historians have used these and other archival materials to organize a mournful exhibition dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the manmade famine.
www.artukraine.com /famineart/chroniclers.htm   (601 words)

  
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In particular, 55 militia employees were held criminally liable in Odessa oblast, 23 in Luhansk and Kherson oblast each, 22 in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Kyiv each, 19 in Khmelnytsky oblast, 17 in Sumy oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk oblast each, and 13 in Zhytomyr oblast and Zaporizhia oblast each.
The Commissioner’s examination of the militia’s practices in Luhansk oblast revealed that cases of cruel treatment and torture were far from being rare.
The MIA Directorate in Luhansk oblast is effecting additional measures to improve the sanitary and hygienic conditions of the temporary detention wards, to have public catering establishments pay off UAH 198,000 in debts, and to organize for the detainees meals three times a day.
www.ombudsman.kiev.ua /de_04_4.htm   (4345 words)

  
 Молодіжний центр "Форум" - Youth Center "Forum" - Молодежный ...
We have organised oblast contest of young economists; arranged meetings with successful businessmen in Vinnytsia oblast.
we develop proposals for Vinnytsia City Council as well as for Vinnytsia oblast State Administration with regards to youth policy in the city and oblast.
The project aims to unite international programmes alumni residing in the city of Vinnytsia.
www.mcforum.vinnitsa.com /eng/activity_eng.html   (969 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Ukraine
The number of foreign religious workers admitted by religious affairs departments of oblast administrations were not available at the end of the period covered by this report.
In the Lviv oblast town of Staryi Sambir, the Jewish community opened a memorial park for a restored Jewish cemetery.
Apartment building construction on a Jewish cemetery in Volodymyr-Volinsky, Volyn oblast, continued despite a court ruling that the building lies within cemetery boundaries and a letter from the Ministry of Culture and Arts asking for a halt in construction until the court case is resolved.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13988.htm   (5400 words)

  
 Vinnytsia Oblast Links
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances.
If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Vinnytsia Oblast Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
-- Oscar Wilde Vinnytsia Oblast "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
www.welcome-2-europe.com /Ukraine_Provinces_Vinnytsia_Oblast.html   (1774 words)

  
 Vynnytsia County (Ukraine)
There is a rectangular blue canvas with a ratio of the sides 3:2 on which a or sun and an argent cross, in the center of the cross there is azure shield with argent half-moon.
"Emblem of Vinnytsia region was approved in July 1997.
In the first and fourth part there is the or sun in an azure field, in the second and the third part there is an argent cross in red field, in the center of the cross there is azure shield with argent half-moon, with horns turn to the left.
www.fotw.net /flags/ua-vi.html   (201 words)

  
 Raiffeisen Bank Aval [ Bank News < Press-centre ]
March 24. — The Vinnytsia Oblast Directorate of Aval Bank has opened new departments: in Vinnytsia Oblast Custom-House (7 Lebedynsky St.) and Dnistrianske department in Mohyliv-Podilsky (273 b Nezalezhnosti Avenue).
This was reported by the Bank Press-Centre with reference to the Vinnytsia OD.
For today, the total number of Aval Bank departments in Vinnytsia oblast makes up 38, 9 of which are in the oblast center.
www.aval.ua /eng/press/news/?id=16004   (136 words)

  
 Community Home - Counterpart Communities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
After several visits to Vinnytsia by a doctor from Birmingham, the communities elected to scale up their partnership by incorporating the Counterpart Communities program into their activities.
The shipment’s arrival was met in Vinnytsia by a delegation from Birmingham, who participated in distribution ceremonies with the US Ambassador to the Ukraine, and local officials and organizations.
Vinnytsia Oblast Charitable Foundation for Protection and Assistance to Psychical Patients and Drug Addicts
stage.counterpart.org /communities/(1ulid5fori02lmusghf13o55)/ScopeManager.aspx?cPairID=8   (306 words)

  
 MAIN UKRAINIAN ARCHIVES' ADDRESSES
The Lviv address would be for records in Galicia and Transcarpathia/ Subcarpathia, in the Oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil and Transcarpathia, and the Kiev address for the remainder of the Oblasts.
The following are the addresses of the Archives of the 25 Oblasts in Ukraine, and the Archive of the City of Kiev.
The 5th archive address is for the Transcarpathian Oblast in south-west Ukraine.
www.lemko.org /genealogy/oblasts.html   (889 words)

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