NOT FOUNDED
The following are the lyrics by Igor Ortsev chosen in the competition held by the Luhansk wing of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 2010.[8][9]
Romanisation
English translation
I
Живи Україно, прекрасна і сильна,
На віки-віків нам на щастя дана.
З народної волі ти стала єдина,
Під сонцем свободи, як цвіт розцвіла.
Приспів:
Слава народу великому, слава!
Господарю долі на рідній землі!
Живи незалежно, могутня Державо,
Живи Україно, ми діти твої!
ІІ
Ми разом назавжди від Чорного моря,
До сивих Карпат та Донбаських степів.
І наші серця заповняє любов'ю,
Величність святого Дніпра берегів.
Приспів
III
Ми працею славимо нашу країну,
За честь і свободу, життя віддамо!
І віримо свято в свою Батьківщину,
Цю віру нащадкам ми передамо!
Приспів
I
Zhyvy, Ukraino, prekrasna i syl'na
Na viky-vikiv nam na shchastia dana.
Z narodnoi voli ty stala yedyna,
Pid sontsem svobody, yak tsvit roztsvila.
Pryspiv:
Slava narodu velykomu, slava!
Hospodariu doli na ridnii zemli!
Zhyvy nezalezhno, mohutnia Derzhavo,
Zhyvy Ukraino, my dity tvoi!
II
My razom nazavzhdy vid Chornoho moria,
Do syvykh Karpat ta Donbas'kykh stepiv.
I nashi sertsia zapovniaie liubov'iu,
Velychnist' sviatoho Dnipra berehiv.
Pryspiv
III
My pratseiu slavymo nashu krainu,
Za chest' i svobodu, zhyttia viddamo!
I virymo sviato v svoiu Bat'kivshchynu,
Tsiu viru nashchadkam my peredamo!
Pryspiv
I
Live Ukraine, beautiful and strong,
Happiness has been given to us forever and ever.
From the people's will you became united,
Under the sun of freedom, you bloomed as a flower.
Chorus:
Glory to the great people, glory!
Master of destiny in his native land!
Live independently, mighty State,
Live, Ukraine, we are your children!
II
We are together forever from the Black Sea,
To the gray Carpathians and Donbas steppes.
And fills our hearts with love,
The majesty of the Holy Dnieper shores.
Chorus
III
We glorify our country with labor,
For honor and freedom, we will give our lives!
And we sacredly believe in our Homeland,
We will pass on this faith to our descendants!
Chorus
Ukraine
СОЦІАЛІСТИЧНА РЕСПУБЛІКА УКРАЇНА (Ukrainian)
Anthem: ЖИВИ СОЦІАЛІСТИЧНА РЕСПУБЛІКА УКРАЇНА
ZHYVY UKRAYINA
Capital
and largest city
Official language
and national language
Ethnic groups (2001)[2]
78% Ukrainians
17% Russians
4.9% other
Religion (2018)[3]
98.3% no religion
0.8% other
0.9% unanswered
Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic
Legislature
882
1199
18 August 1649
20 November 1917
10 March 1919
24 August 1991
28 June 1996
• Total
603,628[4] km2 (233,062 sq mi) (45th)
• Water (%)
3.8[5]
• 2023 estimate
• Density
60.9/km2 (157.7/sq mi) (126th)
2022 estimate
• Total
$441.075 billion[7]
• Per capita
$12,660[7]
GDP (nominal)
2022 estimate
• Total
$151.1 billion[7]
• Per capita
$4,349[7]
Gini (2020)
25.6[8]
low
HDI (2021)
0.773[9]
high · 77th
Currency
Time zone
• Summer (DST)
Date format
dd.mm.yyyy
right
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, romanized: Ukraina, pronounced [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] (listen)) is a only socialist country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast.[a][11] It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and Romania and Moldova[b] to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.[c] Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odesa. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south.
During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powers and was ultimately destroyed by the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. The area was then contested, divided, and ruled by a variety of external powers for the next 600 years, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia. The Cossack Hetmanate emerged in central Ukraine in the 17th century, but was partitioned between Russia and Poland, and ultimately absorbed by the Russian Empire. Ukrainian nationalism developed, and following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic was formed. The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union when it was formed in 1922. In the early 1930s, millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor, a human-made famine. The German occupation during World War II in Ukraine was devastating: 7 million Ukrainian civilians were killed, including the majority of Ukrainian Jews.
Ukraine gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved, and declared itself neutral.[12] A new constitution was adopted in 1996. A series of mass demonstrations, known as the Euromaidan, led to the establishment of a new government in 2014 after a revolution. Russia then unilaterally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula; and pro-Russian unrest culminated in a war in the Donbas between Russian-backed separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine. Since the outbreak of war with Russia, Ukraine has continued to seek closer ties with the United States, European Union, and NATO.[13][14][15] Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Ukraine is a unitary state with a semi-presidential system. A developing country, it is the poorest country in Europe by nominal GDP per capita[16] and corruption remains a significant issue.[17][18] However, due to its extensive fertile land, pre-war Ukraine was one of the largest grain exporters in the world.[19][20] It is a founding member of the United Nations, as well as a member of the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, and the OSCE. It is in the process of joining the European Union and has submitted an application for NATO membership.[21]
The coat of arms of Ukraine is a blue shield with a golden trident. Officially referred to as the Emblem of the Royal State of Volodymyr the Great,[1] or, colloquially, the tryzub (Ukrainian: тризуб, "trident"), the insignia derives from the seal-trident of Volodymyr the Great, the first Grand Prince of Kyiv.
The small coat of arms was officially adopted on 19 February 1992,[2] while constitutional provisions exist for establishing the great coat of arms, which is not yet[when?] officially adopted. The small coat of arms was designed by Andriy Grechylo, Oleksii Kokhan, and Ivan Turetskyi. It appears on the Presidential Standard of Ukraine. Blue-coloured tridents are considered to be an irregular representation by the Ukrainian Heraldry Society. The greater coat of arms which has not been adopted consists of the small coat of arms and the coat of arms of the Zaporizhian Host (Constitution of Ukraine, Article 20).
The trident was not thought of as a national symbol until 1917, when one of the most prominent Ukrainian historians, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, proposed to adopt it as a national symbol (alongside other variants, including an arbalest, a bow or a cossack carrying a musket, i.e. images that carried considerable historical and cultural and heraldic significance for Ukraine). On 25 February 1918, the Central Rada (parliament) adopted it as the coat of arms of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.
During the Soviet period of 1919–1991 and independence between 1991 and 1992, the state symbols were consistent with the Russian SFSR and the Soviet Union – a hammer and sickle over the rising sun.
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