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Article: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Area-603,700 sq.km.
Population-51.7 million, of which 74 per cent are Ukrainians, 21 per
cent
Russians, 1 per cent Jews and 1 per cent Byelorussians
Capital-Kiev (2,500,000)
Towns and cities-421
The Ukraine lies in the southwest of the country's European part,
stretching for 900 kilometres from north to south and for 1,300 kilometres
from west to east.
Nature. In the north of the Ukraine there are forest lakes. In
the south
there are the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, in the west-the Carpathian
mountains, and in the eastern and central Ukraine-black-soil steppelands.
The Ukraine's main minerals are iron, manganese, ...