Central Ukraine is located in the central and northern part of
Ukraine. Political, transport and cultural center of the country.
Administratively, it includes Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv,
Poltava, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Khmelnytsky regions, most of the Sumy and
Rivne regions, as well as the northern regions of the Odessa region.
Kiev region - the political center of the country since princely
times
Podolia is a large region in the Dniester and Bug valleys,
which played an important role in the history of the Jewish population
of Ukraine
Poltava region is the heart of the historical left-bank
Ukraine
Ukrainian Polissya is a sparsely populated forested and
swampy region along the border with Belarus
Cherkasy region is a
historically border region between Slavic and Turkish territories, one
of the centers of formation of the Ukrainian Cossacks
Chernihiv
region - the oldest Slavic principalities in the north-east of the
country
Krivoy Rog
Vinnitsa
Kremenchug
Poltava
Uman
Cherkasy
Chigirin
The cities are heavily Russified, so the majority of the population communicates mainly in Russian. At the same time, a significant part of the population in the villages communicates in Ukrainian or Surzhik. In some northern regions (neighboring Russia and Belarus) they communicate mainly in Russian or Polish. In large cities (this applies more to Kyiv than to other cities), a significant part of young people can communicate in English at the elementary level. Almost no one knows and uses other languages. There are many foreigners from all over the world in Kyiv (especially in the center of Kyiv). Most of the foreigners speak English, some speak Russian.