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The article is devoted to modern Ukrainian language teaching problems. It discusses two books for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in Kharkiv National University of W. Karazin (Ukrainian language for foreigners (2008) and Read about Ukraine in Ukrainian, Russian, English (2011)). The most significant point in issued books is that they represent specific features of culture throughout Ukraine - this is not just a promotion of Kharkiv or, for example, the East of Ukraine.