Kharkov

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city of Ukraine. Located in the north-east of the country, it is the largest city of the Slobozhanshchyna historical region.

The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv was the first city in Ukraine to be occupied by the Soviet Union in December 1917 and became the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic until January 1935, after which the capital was relocated to Kiev. Kharkiv is the administrative center of Kharkiv Oblast and the surrounding Kharkiv district.

Kharkov in The Hot War
On April 30, 1951, during World War III, the United States bombed Kharkov with conventional explosives.