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| 1 | Genoa ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 44.4067 / 8.9333 | Genoa (; ; ; English, historically, and) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of (...) | |
| 2 | Moscow ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 148 Lat/Lng : 55.7525 / 37.6231 | Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limitshttp://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/population/demo/Popul2016.xls and 17 million within the urban area. Moscow is one of Russia's federal cities (...) | |
| 3 | FK Žalgiris ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 54.6686 / 25.2942 | Futbolo klubas Žalgiris, commonly known as FK Žalgiris, Žalgiris Vilnius or simply Žalgiris is a Lithuanian professional football club based in Vilnius. The club competes in the A lyga, the top flight of Lithuanian football. The club was founded as Dinamo in 1947 (...) | |
| 4 | Eurovision Song Contest 2017 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 48.4647 / 35.0462 | The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was the 62nd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Kiev, Ukraine, following Jamala's win at the in Stockholm, Sweden with the song "1944". This was the second time the contest took place in Kiev, after , as well as the fourth Eurovision (...) | |
| 5 | Uman ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 219 Lat/Lng : 48.75 / 30.2194 | Uman is a city located in Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine, to the east of Vinnytsia. Located in the historical region of the eastern Podolia, the city rests on the banks of the Umanka River at around (...) | |
| 6 | 2014 Ukrainian revolution ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 50.45 / 30.5242 | The Ukrainian revolution of 2014 (also known as the Euromaidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity; , Revoliutsiia hidnosti) took place in Ukraine in February 2014, when a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters in the capital, Kiev, culminated in the ousting (...) | |
| 7 | VTB United League ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 51.5333 / 46.0167 | VTB United League is an international professional men's club basketball league that was founded in 2008. It is made up of mostly Russian clubs, with some others from surrounding countries. Since 2013, it is the first tier of Russian professional club basketball (...) | |
| 8 | Ukrainian Ground Forces ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 50.6167 / 26.25 | The Ukrainian Ground Forces (ЗСУ (ZSU)) are the land force component of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They were formed from Soviet Ground Forces formations, units, and establishments, including three military districts (the Kiev, Carpathian, and Odessa Military Districts), that were on Ukrainian soil (...) | |
| 9 | Eurovision Song Contest 2005 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 194 Lat/Lng : 50.45 / 30.5167 | The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was the 50th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Kiev, Ukraine, following Ruslana's win at the 2004 Contest in Istanbul, Turkey with the song "Wild Dances" (...) | |
| 10 | Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 159 Lat/Lng : 50.45 / 30.5 | In February 2014, Russia made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory. After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Russian soldiers without insignias took control of strategic positions and infrastructure within the Ukrainian territory of Crimea (...) | |
| 11 | Mykolas Romeris University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 171 Lat/Lng : 54.7347 / 25.2542 | Mykolas Romeris University is one of Lithuania's largest universities, bearing the name of the Lithuanian legal scholar, judge and father of Lithuania's Constitutional Law Mykolas Römeris. Established after restoration of independence of the Republic of Lithuania in 1990, it became a state (...) | |
| 12 | Museum of Soviet Occupation, Kiev ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 150 Lat/Lng : 50.3938 / 30.5049 | The Museum of Soviet occupation (Muzei radianskoi okupatsii) in Kiev, Ukraine, is devoted to portraying the crimes of the Soviet regime in Ukraine from 1917 to 1991. It was established in November 2001 by the Vasyl Stus branch of Memorial Society as an exhibition "Not to be forgotten: The Chronicle (...) | |
| 13 | Roshen ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 50.4628 / 30.3937 | Roshen Confectionery Corporation is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group, controlled by Petro Poroshenko. The leading manufacturer of confectionery products in the country, it operates facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Vinnytsia and Kremenchuk, as well as in Budapest, Hungary and (...) | |
| 14 | MSU Faculty of Economics ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 195 Lat/Lng : 55.696 / 37.538 | MSU Faculty of Economics is a faculty of the Moscow State University. It is one of the main educational centres in Russian Federation, preparing qualified economists with broad university education. In 2005, the faculty included 350 teachers and research associates (...) | |
| 15 | Embassy of Ukraine, Tallinn ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 59.4398 / 24.784 | The Embassy of Ukraine in Tallinn is the diplomatic mission of Ukraine in Estonia. (...) | |
| 16 | Volodymyr Kedrowsky ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 40.5461 / -74.522 | Volodymyr Kedrowsky (; August 13, 1890Kedrowsky and Kuzych, 2003 – March 13, 1970Svoboda, vol. 77, no. 49, March 14, 1970) was a political activist, diplomat, writer, and a colonel in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) (...) | |