Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Geography ya daɗe yana tasiri tattalin arzikin ƙasashen Ukraine. Yankin mai yalwar ƙasa (kamar yankunan chernozem) ya sanya yankin ya zama "kwandon burodi": ga tsohuwar Girka da kuma farkon Turai ta zamani. Kula da hanyoyin kasuwanci <unk> hanyar daga Varangians zuwa Girkawa da samun dama ta hanyar Straits zuwa duniyar Bahar Rum <unk> ya zama mai mahimmanci. Albarkatun ma'adinai sun karfafa masana'antu <unk> musamman a cikin Donbas <unk> daga karni na 19 zuwa gaba. Amma rashin tsaro a kan iyakoki yana nufin katsewar ci gaban tattalin arziki. 'Yan gudun hijirar Steppe da sauran masu cin nasara - Cumans, Mongols
, Tatars alal misali, wani lokacin suna ganin ganima ya fi muhimmanci fiye da haɓaka ci gaban tattalin arziki. A cikin ƙarni na 16 zuwa na 18, wuraren da ba su da kyau na Wild Fields sun bar yawancin Ukraine a matsayin yankin da aka yi amfani da makamai na soja kafin fadada ikon Rasha na tsarist a cikin yankin a ƙarni na 17 da 18.