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Best cities in Ukraine to order

Best cities in Ukraine to order  software development for iPhone, Android, BB etc

After the collapse of USSR and switch to market economy universities which previously had graduated personnel for state bodies for defense sector industries, have reoriented towards IT specialists; this was due to the fact that scientific and academic staff was at a very high professional level (math, physics etc).

Therefore the main centers of software development are nowadays located in those Ukrainian cities where there is electronic science-consuming industry, originating in USSR.

The first row of cities, being attractive in terms of establishing business for mobile software development, is as follows:

Kiev (capital), Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk.

There are a lot of universities with technical, math and physics faculties in these cities, which graduate every year a relatively substantial number of highly skilled programmers.

The second row of cities:

Odessa, Lvov, Sevastopol.

There are 3-4 big universities with strong technical departments in these cities. Besides, these cities possess an advantage from a life-quality perspective. Therefore, in light of staff deficit you can attain specialists from the “first row” cities, as well; many of them will gladly agree to move.

We also recommend businessmen who are interested in content, SEO and advertisement areas to pay attention to the following cities:

Nikolayev, Ilyichevsk, Chernigov, Chernovtsy.

There are branches of the strongest Ukrainian universities in these cities which graduate students mostly in humanitarian subjects.

In general, there is a high level of proficiency of programmers in Ukraine (thanks to strong traditions in math schools and universities), as well as improving knowledge of English language by managers and programmers so as to improve their competitiveness.
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Author:
Vitaliy Goncharuk,
Managing Partner, The VIactivity LLC
(iPhone/Android software development, production, marketing&PR)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vactivity