To visit the center of Europe, it is not necessary to fly to Italy, Germany or Poland. It is enough to go to a picturesque state called Ukraine. The country has a memorial sign about the European center - a stele in the Transcarpathian village of Dilove. In addition, here you can admire the beauty of the Carpathian Mountains and many other sights of the region.
Dobrovelichkovka or Shpola?
An ordinary person who has never studied geography thoroughly can easily get confused in the coordinates of any territories. Let's take 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 Kirovohrad region.
In 2005, a decree was issued, as a result of which the point was moved to the middle of the field near the town of Shpola and the village of Maryanovka, Cherkasy region. Thus, at present, the exact geographical center of Ukraine has the coordinates 49°01'39" north latitude and 31°28'58" eastlongitude.
The point is located at a distance of three kilometers from the Cherkasy-Uman highway, next to the railway. On the memorial stele, the contours of the territory of the state flaunt with the marks of Shpola, Maryanovka and Kyiv and the phrase “Shpolyanshchina is 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 Delovoye, on the Mukachevo-Rogatin highway, a geodesic sign and a stele were placed. This memo designates the European center of Ukraine. Academician A. Tarasov wrote a phrase in Latin on the slab, titled: “Permanent, precise, eternal place.”
The definition was carried out by specialists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which in the 19th century occupied a vast territory on this mainland. The geodetic sign is of great historical value for nearby countries. The European center of Ukraine has the following coordinates: 47°56'3" north latitude and 24°11'30" east longitude.
The geometric point of the continent is located in Poland. Lines intersect here, combining Cape Matapan in Greece, Nordkin in Norway, Roca in Portugal and the central Urals located in Russia.
Material production
Currently, there are three economic regions in the country: South-Western, Southern and Donetsk-Pridneprovsky. The industrial center of Ukraine is, as a rule, a settlement containing several enterprises that are not interconnected by the produced material. Suchtools are created, fuel, raw materials and other types of products for various branches of the economy are mined. There are also institutions where the produced material is processed. In the sectoral structure of the state, heavy industry ranks first.
The following regions of Ukraine are considered industrial - these are mainly the Carpathian, Donetsk and Dnieper parts of the country, which specialize in electric power, coal, machine-building, metallurgical and chemical products.
Other regions of the state, such as Poltava, Vinnitsa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, etc., are interconnected elements of territorial organizations and as a whole represent the industrial complex of the country.
Economy
Currently, Ukraine has the following economic subdistricts:
- Pridniprovsky and Donetsk (Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk and Donetsk regions). They specialize in metallurgy, mechanical engineering, electric power and chemical industries.
- North-Eastern (Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv). Mechanical engineering, fuel, food and light industries prevail here.
- Podolsky, North-West and Central (Khmelnytsky, Vinnitsa, Ternopil, Rivne, Volyn, Kirovohrad and Cherkasy regions). They specialize in the woodworking, forestry and food industries.
- Prichernomorsky (Nikolaev, Kherson, Odessa regions). Themspecialization - mechanical engineering, food and light industry.
- Carpathian and Capital (Ivano-Frankivsk, Transcarpathian, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Chernihiv regions). The predominant production is the power industry, woodworking, forestry, chemical, food and light industries.
