Ukraine, the land and its people

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
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.
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The Ukraine is the land in which the Ukrainian nation dwells—a great solid national territory embracing all the southern part of Russia in Europe, besides East Galicia, Northwest Bukowina and Northeast Hungary.
This district is a definite geographic unit. A discussion of its exact boundaries shall be reserved for the anthropogeographical part of this book.