WordNet
n. capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center [syn: Kyyiv, Kiev]
Usage examples of "capital of the ukraine".
She is Ukrainian, and the Ukrainians will insist that the goat-beards (their word for great Russians) are interlopers, that Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, is the true center of Slavic culture, that the Muscovites are upstarts, parvenus, johnny-come-latelies, tyrants, imperialists, thieves, carpet-baggers, and almost anything else of the kind you care to think of.
She is Ukrainian, and the Ukrainians will insist that the 'goat-beards' (their word for great Russians) are interlopers, that Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, is the true center of Slavic culture, that the Muscovites are upstarts, parvenus, johnny-come-latelies, tyrants, imperialists, thieves, carpet-baggers, and almost anything else of the kind you care to think of.
Was it so very long ago, 1918, that Valeri's uncle had been shot in the streets of Kiev-the capital of the Ukraine-for daring to speak Ukrainian?