Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
In the Boiko country (Boikivshchina) the towns are little centers for the retail trade
and the lumber industry, as for instance, Turka on the Striy (11,000 pop.), Lisko
on the San, Stari Sambir on the Dniester, and Skole on the Opir (match manufacture).
The village of Smorze is noted for its cattle fairs, Sinevidsko for its fruit trade.
Along the Opir valley lie numerous summer resorts (Tukhla, Slavsko).
In the Hutzul country, too, there are many summer resorts, particularly in the valley
of the Prut (Dora, Yaremche, Mikulichin, Tatariv, Vorokhta). The Hutzuls make their purchases
in the little towns which lie at the exit of the main passes of the range—in Nadvirna
(saw-mills), Delatin (salt-works), in Kossiv, noted for its mild climate, its flourishing
home industry and fruit-culture and its salt-works, in Kuti, where tanning and furriery
flourish, and in Viznitza (saw-mills and lumber industrial school). In the center
of the Hutzul country lies the large Hutzulian village of Zabye. There are noted mineral
springs in Burkut and Pistin. On the southern [312]slope of the range lies the only city of the Hutzul country (21,000 pop.) and the
town of Hust (10,000 pop.), both important as trade centers of the Hungarian Hutzul
country.
In the southern sub-Carpathian zone the Ukrainian territory extends forward but a
slight distance. The economic conditions of the mountain range suddenly give way to
agriculture and vine-growing. All the cities of the region lie on the borders of the
Ukrainian territory at the points of exit of important railroad lines and highroads
out of the mountains. Such is the position of Uzhorod (17,000 pop.) and Mukachiv (17,000
pop.) where the products of the plain and the mountains are exchanged.
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