Kharkiv, Ukraine

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"The Rus took Kyiv in 882 AD, and by the late 10th century the city was the centre of a unified state known as Kyivan Rus, which stretched from the Volga west to the Danube and south to the Baltic."
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"It was founded by Saint Anthony of the Caves in the mid-11th century near the village of Berestove in a cave that the future metropolitan of Kyiv, Ilarion, had excavated and lived in until 1051."
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"Located between Kharkiv and Kyiv in Ukraine, Poltava is not much of a tourist destination."
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"Kyiv is linked with most major European cities and a few in north America."
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"A subsequent Ukrainian state was able to -in the face of pressure from the ascendant Muscovy -remain autonomous for more than a century, however the Russian Empire absorbed much of Ukraine in the 18th century."
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"Kharkov itself became one of the cultural and administrative centres of the Russian Empire in the mid-18th century, and served as the capital of the Ukrainian SSR from 1919 until 1934, when the Soviet authorities moved the capital back to Kiev."
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"Outside the gates, there is a statue commemorating Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who liberated Kiev in the 17th century... then gave the city to the Russian Empire."
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"1886: The city gets a public library, the first one in the Ukraine as well as in the entire Russian empire."
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"When World War I and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia shattered the Hapsburg and Russian empires Ukrainians declared independent statehood."
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