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Russification of Ukraine

Index Russification of Ukraine

The Russification of Ukraine was a body of laws, decrees, and other actions undertaken by the Imperial Russian and later Soviet authorities to strengthen Russian national, political and linguistic positions in Ukraine. [1]

64 relations: Administrative divisions of Ukraine, Alexander II of Russia, Arbuzynka, Axis powers, Bakhmut, Catherine the Great, Chervonohrad, Chronology of Ukrainian language suppression, Dnipro, Donetsk, Ems Ukaz, Finland, Great Purge, History of Ukraine, Horodenka, Horodok, Horodyshche, Kamianske, Kiev, Korenizatsiya, Krasnohrad, Kropyvnytskyi, Leonid Brezhnev, Livonia, Mariupol, Mykola Skrypnyk, Myrhorod, Nikita Khrushchev, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Novomoskovsk, Ukraine, Partitions of Poland, Pavlohrad, Pervomaisk, Ukraine, Pervomaiskyi, Peter the Great, Podilsk, Prymorsk, Pyotr Valuyev, Russian Empire, Russian language, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Sevastopol, Sharhorod, Sievierodonetsk, Simferopol, Soviet Union, Surzhyk, Synelnykove, Toretsk, Tsar, ..., Ukraine, Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian language, Ukrainization, Valuev Circular, Varash, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Vernadsky, World War I, World War II, Yuzhne, Yuzhnoukrainsk, Zaporizhia, Zvenyhorod. Expand index (14 more) »

Administrative divisions of Ukraine

Ukraine is divided into several levels of territorial entities.

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Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (p; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was the Emperor of Russia from the 2nd March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881.

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Arbuzynka

Arbuzynka (until 1946 as Harbuzynka; Арбузинка, Арбузинка) is an urban-type settlement in the north of Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

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Bakhmut

Bakhmut (Ба́хмут, Бахмут) formerly Artemivsk/Artyomovsk (Артемівськ, Артёмовск), is a city of regional significance in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; –), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader.

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Chervonohrad

Chervonohrad (Червоноград, former Polish name: Krystynopol, 'Krystynopil', Krisnipolye) is a mining city located in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine.

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Chronology of Ukrainian language suppression

The chronology of Ukrainian language suppression.

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Dnipro

Dnipro (Дніпро), until May 2016 Dnipropetrovsk (Дніпропетро́вськ) also known as Dnepropetrovsk (Днепропетро́вск), is Ukraine's fourth largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Доне́цк; former names: Aleksandrovka, Hughesovka, Yuzovka, Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names)) is an industrial city in Ukraine on the Kalmius River.

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Ems Ukaz

The Ems Ukaz, or Ems Ukase (Эмский указ, Emskiy ukaz; Емський указ, Ems’kyy ukaz), was a secret decree (ukaz) of Tsar Alexander II of Russia issued in 1876, banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print, with the exception of reprinting of old documents.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

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History of Ukraine

Prehistoric Ukraine, as part of the Pontic steppe, has played an important role in Eurasian cultural contacts, including the spread of the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, Indo-European expansion and the domestication of the horse.

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Horodenka

Horodenka (Городе́нка, Horodenka, האראדענקע Horodenke) is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in Western Ukraine.

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Horodok

Horodok (Cyrillic: Городок) is a Ukrainian name for small city.

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Horodyshche

Horodyshche (Городище,; Horedishtsh) is a city located in Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine.

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Kamianske

Kamianske (Кам'янське,; Каменское), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper.

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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

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Korenizatsiya

Korenizatsiya (p, "putting down roots") was an early policy of the Soviet Union for the integration of the non–Russian nationalities into the governments of their specific soviet republic.

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Krasnohrad

Krasnohrad or Krasnograd (Красноград) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

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Kropyvnytskyi

Kropyvnytskyi (Kropyvnyc'kyj) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river, and is the administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (a; Леоні́д Іллі́ч Бре́жнєв, 19 December 1906 (O.S. 6 December) – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 as the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), presiding over the country until his death and funeral in 1982.

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Livonia

Livonia (Līvõmō, Liivimaa, German and Scandinavian languages: Livland, Latvian and Livonija, Inflanty, archaic English Livland, Liwlandia; Liflyandiya) is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

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Mariupol

Mariupol (Маріу́поль, also Mariiupil; Мариу́поль; Marioupoli) is a city of regional significance in south eastern Ukraine, situated on the north coast of the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kalmius river, in the Pryazovia region.

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Mykola Skrypnyk

Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk (Микола Олексійович Скрипник, also known as Nikolai Alekseevich Skrypnik, 25 January [O.S. 13 January, 1872 – 7 July 1933) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine.

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Myrhorod

Myrhorod (Ми́ргород) is a city in the Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.

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Novohrad-Volynskyi

Novohrad-Volynskyi (translit. Zvil; Zwiahel) is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine.

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Novomoskovsk, Ukraine

Novomoskovsk (Новомосковськ, Novomoskóvs’k,; Новомосковск) is a city in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

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Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.

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Pavlohrad

Pavlograd is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine, located within the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

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Pervomaisk, Ukraine

Pervomaisk (Первома́йск) is a popular toponym in Ukraine.

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Pervomaiskyi

Pervomaiskyi (Первомайський) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine, formerly known as Likhachove.

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great (ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj), Peter I (ˈpʲɵtr ˈpʲɛrvɨj) or Peter Alexeyevich (p; –)Dates indicated by the letters "O.S." are in the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January.

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Podilsk

Podilsk (Подільськ, Bârzula), until May 2016 Kotovsk (Котовськ, is a city in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. Administratively, Podilsk is incorporated as a town of oblast significance. It also serves as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion, one of twenty-six districts of Odessa Oblast, though it is not a part of the district. Population: In 2001, population was 40,718 (2001).

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Prymorsk

Prymorsk (Приморськ; Приморск) is a city in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.

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Pyotr Valuyev

Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev (p; 22 September 1815, Tsaritsyno, Moscow Governorate – 27 January 1890) was a Russian statesman and writer.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Ru-Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика.ogg), also unofficially known as the Russian Federation, Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I or Russia (rɐˈsʲijə; from the Ρωσία Rōsía — Rus'), was an independent state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991.

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Sevastopol

Sevastopol (Севастополь; Севасто́поль; Акъяр, Aqyar), traditionally Sebastopol, is the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula and a major Black Sea port.

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Sharhorod

Sharhorod, also known as Shargorod, is a town in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

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Sievierodonetsk

Sievierodonetsk (Sjevjerodonec'k) or Sieverodonetsk (Sjeverodonec'k) or Severodonetsk (Severodoneck) is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine.

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Simferopol

Simferopol (p; Сімферополь,; Aqmescit, Акъмесджит) is a city on the Crimean peninsula which, de facto, is the capital city of the Republic of Crimea within the Russian Federation but, de jure, is the capital city of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Surzhyk

Surzhyk refers to a range of mixed (macaronic) sociolects of Ukrainian and Russian languages used in certain regions of Ukraine and adjacent lands.

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Synelnykove

Synelnykove is a small city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

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Toretsk

Toretsk (Торецьк; Торецк), formerly Dzerzhynsk (Дзержинськ; Дзержинск), is a city of oblast significance in Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

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Tsar

Tsar (Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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Ukrainian culture

Ukrainian culture and customs of Ukraine and ethnic Ukrainians.

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Ukrainian language

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Ukrainization

Ukrainization (also spelled Ukrainisation or Ukrainianization) is a policy of increasing the usage and facilitating the development of the Ukrainian language and promoting other elements of Ukrainian culture, in various spheres of public life such as education, publishing, government and religion.

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Valuev Circular

The Valuev Circular (Валуевский циркуляр, Valuyevskiy tsirkulyar; Валуєвський циркуляр, Valuievs'kyi tsyrkuliar) of 18 July 1863 was a secret decree (ukaz) of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire Pyotr Valuev (Valuyev) by which a large portion of the publications (religious, and literature used for school training) in the Ukrainian language was forbidden.

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Varash

Varash (Вараш), formerly Kuznetsovsk (Кузнецо́вськ), is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.

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Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (Ві́ктор Фе́дорович Януко́вич,; born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who was elected as the fourth President of Ukraine on 7 February 2010.

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Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский; Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology, and was a founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yuzhne

Yuzhne (Ю́жне, formerly: Южний, Yuzhny, translated as "southern" n. adj.) is a port city in Odessa Oblast (province) of south-western Ukraine.

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Yuzhnoukrainsk

Yuzhnoukrainsk is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Zaporizhia

− Zaporizhia (Запорі́жжя) or Zaporozhye (Запоро́жье), formerly Alexandrovsk (Алекса́ндровск), (Олександрівськ), is a city in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River.

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Zvenyhorod

Zvenyhorod (Звенигород) is a village in Pustomyty Raion, Lviv Oblast, in the western part of Ukraine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine

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