UKRAINE
THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS GEOGRAPHY
BY
STEPHEN RUDNITSKY, Ph. D.
PRIVATDOZENT OF GEOGRAPHY
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEMBERG
NEW YORK CITY
1918
PUBLISHER’S PREFACE
The first appearance of this book, which is from the pen of Stephen
Rudnitsky, the famous geographer of the University of Lemberg, was in
the Russian Ukraine. The book was printed in Ukrainian, at Kieff, and
the date under the publisher’s imprint was 1910. The first translation
into a foreign language was into German. This translation appeared at
Vienna in 1915, with many improvements and additions.
The English translation which appears in this volume is an authorized
translation of the German edition above-mentioned.
The reader is respectfully requested to note that the few unpleasant
references to Russia are of course meant to apply to the Russia of the
Czars, as the book was written during the Czarist régime.
Ukrainian Alliance of America
New York City
1918
CONTENTS
Book I. Physical Geography
PAGE
Ukraine as a Geographic Unit 3
Location and Size 12
The Black Sea and its Coasts 15
General Survey of the Topography of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Mountain Country 23
The Ukrainian Plateau Country 37
The Ukrainian Plain Country 53
Streams and Rivers of Ukraine 63
The Ukrainian Climate 85
Flora and Fauna of Ukraine 99