1. Plan  2. Post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.  3. Social and economic development in 60- 80th.  4. Chornobyl.

2.  Four years of war had a harmful effect on the Ukrainian economy;  Reconstruction of the hard industry swallowed up 85 percent of all investments, but it was successful.  In 1950 Ukraine again became one from the leading industrial countries in Europe;  The life level of people improved very slowly;  The currency reform of 1947 devaluated karbovanets;

3. Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev Ceded Crimea from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. He was the first Soviet leader to visit the United States in a diplomatic capacity. Coping with housing crisis by quickly building millions of apartments according to simplified floor plans (khrushchovkas). Created a minimum wage in 1956.

4. The Khrushchev era saw increased construction of rapidly built, prefabricated apartment complexes.

5. Leonid Brezhnev

6. the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space

7. was one of the world's only two supersonic transport aircraft to enter civilian service, along with the Concorde, and was constructed under the direction of the Soviet Tupolev

8. was the only completed and operational space shuttle vehicle from the Soviet Buran program. The Buran spacecraft

9. was a secret Soviet rocket intended to send Soviet cosmonauts to the Moon. N1 Moon rocket

10. “ Dynamo Kyiv” -- the Cup Winners.

11. Oleh Blokhin -- the Best European player 1975.

12.  real income per man increased by 15 %.  intensive development of hard industry, building, transport field, agriculture and power industry. Actively developed airplane building and motor-car industry.  Ukraine became food donor for all the USSR.  Implementation of compulsory general secondary education  The field of functioning of the Ukrainian language greatly narrowed.

13. DneproGES hydro-electric power plant, one of the symbols of Soviet economic power

14. Soviet Soyuz rockets like the one pictured above were the first reliable means to transport objects into Earth orbit.

15.  On April 26, 1986 the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded at 01:23 AM.  a “cloud” of highly radioactive fallout was sent into the atmosphere.  Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.  Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation of over 336 000 people.

16.  The Soviet government hid the lists of victims and later forbade doctors to write “radiation” on deaths certificates.  The overall costs of the disaster is estimated at $200 billion. This places the Chornobyl disaster as the costliest disaster in modern history.  The Zone of Alienation is the 30km exclusion zone around the site of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor disaster.  Now Chornobyl is a home to more than 500 residents.

31. Memorial for firemen who offered their life fighting the catastrophe