To visit the center of Europe, it is not necessary to fly to this Italy, Germany or Poland. It is enough to go to a picturesque state with the name Ukraine. The country has a memorial sign about the European center - a stele in the Transcarpathian village of Delovoy. In addition, here you can admire the beauty of the Carpathian Mountains and many other attractions of the region.
Dobrovelichkovka or Shpola?
An ordinary person who has never studied geography thoroughly can easily get lost in the coordinates of any territories. We will analyze this topic in order. From 1989 to 2005, according to official data, it was believed that the center of Ukraine was located near the village of Dobrovelichkovka in the Kirovograd region.
In 2005, a decree was issued, as a result of which the point was moved to the middle of the field near the city of Shpola and the village of Maryanovka, Cherkasy region. Thus, at present, the exact geographical center of Ukraine has coordinates 49 ° 01'39 "north latitude and 31 ° 28'58" east longitude.
The point is located at a distance of three kilometers from the highway Cherkasy - Uman, next to the railway. On the memorial stele, the contours of the territory of the state flaunt with marks of Shpola, Maryanovka and Kiev and the phrase "Shpolyanschina - the geographical center of Ukraine."
Europe
Ukraine is a country located in the eastern part of Europe. In 1887, on the right bank of the Tisza River, near the Transcarpathian city of Rakhiv, in the village of Delovoy, on the Mukachevo-Rogatin highway, a geodetic sign and stele were placed. This memo denotes the European center of Ukraine. On the plate, Academician A. Tarasov wrote a phrase in Latin, entitled "Permanent, accurate, eternal place."
The determination was carried out by specialists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which in the 19th century occupied a vast territory on this continent. A geodetic sign is of great historical value to nearby countries. The European center of Ukraine has the following coordinates: 47 ° 56'3 "north latitude and 24 ° 11'30" east longitude.
The geometrical point of the continent is located in Poland. Here lines intersect, combining Cape Matapan in Greece, Nordkin in Norway, Roca in Portugal and the central Urals, located in Russia.
Material production
Currently, the country distinguishes between three economic regions: South-West, South and Donetsk-Dnieper. The industrial center of Ukraine is, as a rule, a settlement containing several enterprises that are not interconnected by the produced material. In such places tools are created, fuel, raw materials and other types of products are extracted for various branches of the economy. There are also institutions where the produced material is processed. In the industrial structure of the state, heavy industry is in the first place .
The following regions of Ukraine are considered industrial - these are mainly the Carpathian, Donetsk and Dnieper regions of the country, which specialize in electric power, coal, machine-building, metallurgical and chemical products.
Other areas of the state, such as Poltava, Vinnitsa, Nikolaev, Kherson, etc., are interconnected elements of territorial organizations and generally represent the country's industrial complex.
Economy
Currently, Ukraine has the following economic subareas:
- Dnieper and Donetsk (Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Lugansk and Donetsk regions). They specialize in metallurgy, mechanical engineering, electric power and chemical industries.
- Northeast (Sumy, Poltava and Kharkov). Engineering, fuel, food and light industries predominate here.
- Podolsky, North-Western and Central (Khmelnitsky, Vinnitsa, Ternopol, Rivne, Volyn, Kirovograd and Cherkasy regions). They specialize in the woodworking, forestry and food industries.
- Black Sea (Nikolaev, Kherson, Odessa regions). Their specialization is engineering, food and light industries.
- Carpathian and Capital (Ivano-Frankivsk, Transcarpathian, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr, Kiev and Chernihiv regions). The predominant production is electricity, woodworking, timber, chemical, food and light industries.