Probably every third tourist who has arrived to Ukraine wants to visit this well-known city. Odessa is famous for the seaside resorts, and in Odessa people are notable for mentality and unusual sense of humour.

It is possible boldly to say that Odessa is a country in a country, but not a city of Ukraine.  There are even anecdotes on the subject of Windows and Odessa:

When you open a new document it is named after: “Here’s to you”

When you call up the question-answering system it is always appeared instruction how to prepare stuffed fish.

After Windows loading it is appeared inscription: “Thank’s for God, I’ve loaded and during 15 minutes a melody “Seven forty” is playing, which cannot be neither stop nor cancel.

On the subject of humour, it is necessary to visit Odessa, and to see every

Did you notice how many English words entered to Ukrainian during the last years?The words «Sponsor, «Consensus», «Mentality» became frequently used in Ukrainian vocabulary.

Someone considers the «Mentality as the total of property of certain nation, others consider as the special determination of signs of nation which shows in periods of historical development. Certainly, every nation has own signs. During the centuries, they aren’t specially changed, as well as the mentality is not changeable.

The greatest sign of Ukrainian mentality development in a history of Ukraine is a period of Zaporizhian Sich, Cossacks, social spirit which is known in a world culture as Cossacks – Christian republic. We delight with heroism of Cossacks, but we can’t forget that Cossacks was peculiar not only heroism such as they are people, which had to live

in time of war

The ceremonies (traditions) are one of the main components of Culture of Ukraine.  They were always different for the originality and the fairy-tale reason. Nowadays some of them are followed. But they are followed in out of the way villages of Ukraine, where signs of civilization and modernization are lacking. Traditions of the Ukrainian people are mainly connected with holidays: New Year, Christmas.

I will tell you about the ceremonies of New Year and Christmas in Ukraine in this publication.

Special attention was paid to the supper at Christmas night, such as rich supper, the wide name of dishes accompanied to sufficiency and wealth of Ukrainian family. Festive supper was implied preparation of 12 dishes, 9 or 7 dishes, where Ukrainian carousing was the main. As the supper began from the peasant ceremonies (reading of prayer) but saved the feature of pagan culture of «fort