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Survey: Odesa residents have better standard of living than Kyiv residents
Feb 4, 2010 at 16:30 | Interfax-Ukraine"Odesa is the most comfortable, safe, and prosperous city for living, taking into account the living conditions of the population," Oleksandr Serhiyenko, the director of the Institute of City Analytical and Research Center said while presenting the results of the survey in Kyiv on Feb. 3.
According to him, Odesa became a leader in terms of the standard of living due to the effective work of City Mayor Eduard Hurvits and his team.
Other cities were ranked in the following order according to their standard of living: Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvy Rih, Lviv and Kharkiv. The cities with the lowest standards of living are Donetsk and Zaporizhia.
Member of the scientific and expert council of the Institute of the City Center, Doctor Vadym Berezovsky, in turn, said that Kyiv has the highest rate of illness, while Odesa has the lowest.
The survey compared 17 statistics for Ukrainian cities with populations exceeding 670,00 people (Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Kryvy Rih, Lviv, Odesa and Kharkiv).