Kharkiv is a city in northeastern Ukraine in Slobozhanshchyna, the scientific center of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Kharkiv region. The second most populous city in Ukraine with a population of 1 million 421,125 inhabitants. The area of the city is 370 km2. Together with the surrounding cities and districts, it forms the Kharkiv agglomeration with a population of more than 2 million people.
From December 19, 1919 to June 24, 1934, Kharkiv was the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, hence the name "first capital".
