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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 21
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the iron, and all the mercury ot RUMU. Ukraine potto tant salt deposits particularly in three dittrictt—the C PontUn-Caipi JU hills region. Scattered through the country are pottery clayt, kao! chalk Rvpsum, ami many other non-metallic minerals. i So m Jl « ft I /• per are also found, but the output of these omparatively sma most important cities of Ukraine are Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Kkaterinoslav, Nicolayev, and Kherson. Kiev is situated almost in the N\\ gathered its upper confluents carries the concentrated traffic of all its i tributary territory to the Black Sea. The University of Kiev ranks third among those oi Russia. Odessa is the leading seaport of the Black Sea, and it is, next to Petrograd, the most F.uropean-like of all the towns of Russia. Both Odessa and Kharkov, the latter in an intermediary position between the Dnieper and the Don, are intellectual centers; they possess flourishing universities and many schools. Nicolayev is a naval station as well as a commercial harbor. Kherson, near the mouth of the Dnieper, although less important than Odessa or Nicolayev, is an active business town; it exports large quantities of wood, cereals, and hides. The movement to free Ukraine from the despotic control of Russian autocracy began long before the present war. The renaissance of the Ukrainian language and literature started in the early part of the last century and under the stimulus given to it by the great poet Shevchenko as well as by many other writers it made considerable headway when Russian authorities took alarm and passed in 1876 a decree forbidding the publication of works in the Ukrainian language. Those who protested against this drastic measure were thrown into prison or sent into exile. The result of the decree was the driving of the Ukrainian movement into Eastern Galicia, where it was welcomed by the Austrian as a weapon to be used against the Austrian Poles power of the Russian Empire. 1905, the use of the Ukrainian language once more permitted in Russia, but this concession did not satisfy the Ukra tionary aftermath left with a feeling of bitter disappointment; they had Petrograd, but they 6 • | |
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