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I’d like to tell you about my native city. Kharkiv is the second largest city and the capital of Kharkiv region. It is an important industrial, communications, scientific and cultural centre. More than a million people live in Kharkiv. There are a lot of beautiful large and high buildings, big shops, offices, museums, monuments, theatres, cinemas and hotels in the city. In the streets and squares of Kharkiv you can see many cars, buses, trolley-buses, trams and taxis. We have an underground in too. It is very quick. The streets and squares are green with trees and flowers. Sumskaya Street is very long. It is the main street in Kharkiv. You can see many hospitals, schools, institutes, universities, factories and bid plants in my city. Today there are over 2500 streets and 26 squares in the city. There are 110 parks, the largest being Corky Park, Shevchenko Garden with a zoo, Artem Park, the Forest Park, and some others. Kharkiv is one of the largest industrial cities in Ukraine with over 250 enterprises. Kharkiv is a major cultural and scientific centre of Ukraine, second only to Kiev. There are about 200 secondary schools and 40 post-secondary institutions, about 150 research and planning institutes. The city’s prominent scholarly institutions are the Kharkiv Astronomical Observatory, Mathematical Society, Scientific Library, Historical, Art and the Natural science Museums. The city supports a circus and six professional theatres. The public enjoys the use of 23 cinemas, 250 libraries, a sports palace, water sports palace and some parks of culture and recreation. I love my native city very much.