UDC 614.8(477)
ISBN 978-966-521-807-4
Scientific edition
Vyshnevskyi Victor
Kutsiy Andriy
"Emergency situations in Ukraine"
Information on emergency situations in Ukraine from ancient times to the present is presented. Considerable attention was paid to the most important of them, such as the Second World War, the Chornobyl disaster, the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war. Emergency situations related to the natural environment are described: earthquakes, storms, floods, etc. The charac- teristics of man-made emergencies are given, including various accidents and disasters: in construction, transport, communal services, as well as in the armed forces. The course of social upheavals is covered. Unwelcome incidents that can occur in tourist travel are described. Recommendations are given to minimize the negative impact of emergency situations.
The book is illustrated with a large number of maps, photos, and satellite images.
Recommended for specialists in the field of life and health protection, environmental and urban management, civil servants, teachers and students of the relevant profession, tourists and a wider range of readers.
CONTENTS
Foreword
1. The essence of emergency situations
1.1. Basic concepts
1.2. Information and research methodology used
2. Natural hazards and emergency situations
2.1. Lithosphere related hazards
2.2. Atmospheric hazards and emergencies
2.3. Hydrospheric hazards and emergencies
2.3.1. Hazards events on rivers
2.3.2. Phenomena at sea
3.1.1. Radiation and nuclear energy
2.4. Biotic hazards and emergency situations
2.5. Wildfires
3. Technogenic emergency situations
3.1. The Chernobyl disaster
3.1.2. The accident in its course
3.1.3. Countermeasures to mitigate consequences
3.2. Other technogenic situations
3.2.1. Nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes
3.2.2. Accidents at mines
3.2.3. Breakdown of tailings dam in Stebnyk
3.2.4. Accidents on transport
3.2.5. Emergency situations at construction
3.2.6. Emergency situations in communal services
3.2.7. Emergency situations in armed forces
3.2.8. Emergency situations in the information space
3.2.9. Fires
4. Emergency situations in society
4.1. Social upheavals in the distant past
4.2. The famine of 1921-1923
4.3. Famine and Holodomor of 1932-1933
4.4. Political repressions of the second half of the 1930s
4.5. Mass deportation of the population
4.6. The famine of 1946-1947
4.7. Assassinations and assassination attempts
4.8. Strange demise of famous people
4.9. Conflict over Kosa Tuzla Island
4.10. The Orange Revolution
4.11. The Revolution of Dignity
4.12. Socio-economic emergencies
5. Wars of the past
5.1. Wars of historical age
5.1.1. Mongol invasion
5.1.2. Conquest of Ukraine by the Lithuanian and Polish former states
5.1.3. Wars in the Cossack era
5.1.4. Russo-Turkish wars
5.2. World War I
5.3. Ukraine's struggle for independence in 1917-1921
5.4. Second World War
5.4.1. Soviet annexation of western Ukrainian lands
5.4.2. German invasion
5.4.3. Tragic outcomes of the war on the territory of Ukraine
6. The russian-ukrainian war
6.1. On the eve
6.2. Initial stage
6.2.1. Annexation of Crimea
6.2.2. Riots in Kharkiv
6.2.3. Events in Donbas
6.2.4. Events at Kulykove Pole square in Odesa on May 2, 2014
6.2.5. Battles for Donetsk airport
6.2.6. Capture of Luhansk
6.2.7. The downing of the Malaysian Boeing 777
6.2.8. Ilovaisk tragedy
6.2.9. Other events
6.3. Large-scale invasion
6.3.1. The situation on the eve
6.3.2. Brief chronology
6.3.3. The most important events
6.3.4. Destruction of the Kakhovka HPP and its consequences
6.4. Social consequences
7. Combined hazards and emergency situations
7.1. Epidemics
7.2. The Covid-19 pandemic
7.2.1. Spread of the disease
7.2.2. Countermeasures and consequences of the pandemic
7.3. Dangers and emergencies while in travel
7.4. Other combined hazards and emergency situations
Conclusions
Appendix
Chronology of emergency situations
Bibliography
