Railway of Ukraine

1.Read and translate the text

Today the so called "Ukrzaliznitsya" consists of six main lines. (Donetska, Lvivska, Pivdenna, Pivdenno-Zahidna, Prudiprovska, Odeska) which unite all regions of Ukraine. About 40 thousand specialists operate 30300 km of railroad track. Every year half a million passengers in 8429 carriages leave from 1614 railway stations. Every year about 180 thousand freight carriages transport more then 300 mln tones of freight. The Railway of Ukraine takes the 4^th place after the railways of China, Russia and India. The railways of Ukraine interact with the railways of 7 neighboring countries. Though the territory of Ukraine there pass three international railway transport corridors.

1996 is the year when the Constitution of Ukraine was adopted in this year there was adopted the law about "The Railway Transport" of Ukraine.

The law determines main economic and financial principles, normative documents of the organization, working the cases of emergency, guarding of freights etc.

2.Give Ukrainian equivalents to the following:

Main lines

To unite

To operate

Freight carriages

To interact

Neighboring

Transport corridor

To determines

Normative documents

Cases of emergency

To guard of freight