Nasha bat′kivschyna

Na shyrokych ravnynach yuzhnoy chasty Vostochnoy Evropы k severu ot CHernoho morya y smezhnыch hornыch chrebtov, do samoho lesa Podlyash′e y bolota Poles′ya protyanulas′ choroshaya solnechnaya strana, slavnaya svoey heroycheskoy bыl′yu, plodorodyem y pryrodnыmy bohatstvamy. Эta krasyvaya zemlya - ​​эto nasha rodyna, kray, hde mы rodylys′ y zhyvem, zdes′ zhyly y rabotaly nashy predky, zdes′ zhyvut nashy rodnыe, druz′ya y tovaryschy y vse lyudy, hovoryaschye na takom zhe yazыke, kak y mы, poyut te zhe pesny, ymeyut takye zhe obыchay y obschee proshloe. Эty lyudy - эto ukrayntsы, a vse vmeste sozdaem odyn ukraynskyy narod. Zemly, na kotorыch zhyvet ukraynskyy narod, эto ukraynskaya natsyonal′naya yly эtnohrafycheskaya terrytoryya. Nauku, daet nam svedenyya o ukraynskye zemly, nazыvaem zemlevedenyya yly heohrafyey ukraynskych zemel′. V nashem posobyy podaem tol′ko vazhneyshye svedenyya po heohrafyy rodnыch zemel′. Obchodym mnohye dazhe vazhnыe veschy, odnako s toy nadezhdoy, chto chytatel′ pozabotytsya o rasprostranenyy y obohaschenyya predstavlennыch zdes′ svedenyy bud′ to cherez lychnoe poznanye kraya y lyudey, bud′ to cherez chtenye sootvetstvuyuschey lyteraturы, chtobы ponyat′ naybolee polnыy obraz svoeho kraya.