"He would be more like Ivan the Terrible than Peter the Great," predicted the leader of a Ukrainian province who was recently elected as a Communist.

The Tiasmyn originates in the north central part of the Dnieper hills in the central Ukrainian province of Kirovohrad.

Melovskiy raion) is a raion (district) in the eastern Ukrainian province of Luhansk.

Founded for the 2002 parliamentary elections the alliance attracted most of its voters from Western Ukrainian (Ukrainian speaking) provinces (Oblasts) and from central Ukraine.

Ornstein was born in Kremenchuk, a large town in the Ukrainian province of Poltava, then under Imperial Russian rule.

During Tsarist times the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire were referred to as the Empire's breadbasket.

The revolution began a civil war within the Russian Empire and much of the fighting took place in the Ukrainian provinces.

The remaining central and eastern Ukrainian provinces were left to the brotherly Soviet Union.

Geographically the church currently has a stronger presence in Western Ukrainian provinces with a smaller representation elsewhere.

It features over 30 traditional structures collected from villages across Zakarpattia Oblast, the Ukrainian province of which Uzhgorod is the capital.