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Commercial Real Estate and Property in Ukraine for Rent – Ukrainian Office Space Data:

General:

Located in Eastern Europe, Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe and is in a location on the banks of the Black Sea. Ukrainian land also borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, the Black Sea to the south and to the west it shares borders with Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova and on the north west it shares borders with Poland. Ukraine’s borders total 4626 mls (7445 km) and the country is situated in an important location where Asia meets Europe. The capital of Ukraine is Kiev and is located in the north / central area of the country. The Ukraine is crossed by many rivers inc. the Dnieper, Southern Buh, Seversky Donets and Dniester which flow into the Sea of Azov or the larger Black Sea. The border with Romania is actually formed by the delta of the River Danube and the only mountains in the country are the Carpathian Mountains whose highest peak is the Hora Hoverla and the mountains on the Crimean peninsula. Commercial property and Ukrainian office space are becoming more and more popular as the country’s economy recovers from its rather tumultuous past and commerce becomes increasingly motivated to locate there.

20th Century History

Up until the early 1900’s, use of the Ukrainian language was prohibited in the Russian empire but in 1905 these restrictions were lifted and Ukrainian was freely spoken. In 1907, following the Russian revolution, the newly formed Ukrainian state, Ukrayinska Narodna Respublika, took writer and historian Mykhaylo Hrushevsky as its first president but the government’s powers were very limited and several attempts were made to conquer the country’s land by Russians and Germans until a treaty was eventually signed with Germany. The West-Ukrainian Republic and Ukrainian Republic unite following the annulment of the treaty with the Germans in 1919 in Brest, Belorussia where Germany then signed a treaty with the Russians. After the break-up of the Austrian empire, the recently established West-Ukrainian Republic was taken over by Romania and Czechoslovakia and in 1921, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine was formed.

In 1929 all Ukrainian farm land was divided into co-operative farms called Kolhosps. This state managed process was known as collectivization and anyone who resisted was arrested and murdered but eventually, between 1933 and 1934 the Ukraine experienced famine as a direct result of Stalin’s policy and as result at least three million people died. During World War 2, it is alleged that a secret treaty with the Nazi’s allowed Western Ukraine to be taken over by the Soviet Union and the formation of a Ukrainian division of the SS known as the Galizien, facts later denied by the Soviet Union. Towards the end of the war, Russians returned to Ukraine and a massive wave of immigration to the West began with many Ukrainians relocating to France, England, the United States of America and Canada. In the years following the war, the Ukrainian population of Poland experienced severe discrimination and many were murdered by the army and police and the fight for the liberation of the western regions of the Ukraine continued becoming an on ongoing struggle during which time lots of anti-communist literature appeared.

During the 1980’s “Rukh”, the National Movement for the liberation of Ukraine or the “National Movement for Perestroika” was formed, during which time the country experiences the worst ever nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat. During the 1990’s, the movement for independence gained pace and eventually Ukrainian sovereignty and independence was proclaimed, following which President Leonid Kravchuk became Head and Director of the new parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. In 1994 Ukraine officially signed a NATO treaty and in 1996 the Ukrainian constitution was proclaimed.

Commerce:

As Ukrainian independence has lead to the country’s economic growth, office space in the Ukraine has become to be something officebroker.com receives searches for from corporate organisations looking to expand their business into the area or local business concerns looking for headquarters. Office space in Odesa / Odessa, Ukraine for rent is available and executive office spaces range in size from just one single workstation up to open-plan suites that make an ideal hq. Essential services are often required inc. internet access, ideally broadband although this can be limited in the Ukraine; however broadband access is increasing at 20-30% per year. Other services can inc. reception facilities, switchboard facilities and flexible ad hoc meeting room suites. Transport systems in the country are getting better all the time and the Ukraine actually consumes twice the energy of Germany. Ukraine homes Europe’s largest nuclear power station, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and plans exist to increase its capacity by adding eleven new reactors to the existing six reactors by 2030. Recent accomplishments include the building of the Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine which was opened in August 2009 in the Lenin Comsomol Park near the centre of the city and it will host FC Shakhtar Donetsk matches whose best known rivals are Dynamo Kiev.

Major cities in the Ukraine include Chernivtsy which is situated on the river Prut, Dnepropetrovsk which is 592km from Kiev, Kherson which was originally a shipyard and city-fortress and sits at the mouth of the river Dnipro, Lviv which homes the country’s second major airport as well as the Lychakiv and Yanivsky Cemeteries, Odessa (spelled locally as “Odesa”) which is popular with international travellers and is often called “Little Paris”, Rivne which sits on the river Ustya, Ternopil which was built on the ruins of Sopilche which was a historic fortress destroyed by Khan Baty, Uzhgorod which features many peaceful parks and the University of Uzhhorod Botanical Garden, Zaporizhzhia which was known as Oleksandrivsk until 1921 and Zhytomir which was founded in 884.