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Ancient Lyubech in Ukraine: Ancestral home of Volodymyr the Great, Gateway...
Lyubech is currently a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located 200 kilometers north of Kyiv, and near the border with...
He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’...
Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...
Pereyaslavl, Volodymyr Monomakh’s native city: His decisive battles against Polovtsians
Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...
Pereyaslavl, Kyiv Rus’ Forpost Against Asiatic Nomads: Volodymyr the Great’s fortresses...
M. P. Kuchera (1922-1999) was a Ukrainian archaeologist of Czech origin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, and Leading...
Kyiv controlled the Kerch Strait in 11th century AD: Stone of...
Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
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Ukrainian Borscht inscribed on the UNESCO List on Intangible Cultural Heritage
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Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian prominent sculptor inspired by Scythian Art
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The Crimean War of 1854: Russia’s backwardness exposed, War gamble ends...
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Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: Pre-Homeric route from Scythia to Africa
Homer in the Iliad: With shouts the Trojans, rushing from afar, Proclaim their motions, and provoke the war So when inclement winters vex the plain With piercing frosts, or...
Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan where Scythian Gold Pectoral was found
A large Scythian Royal Kurgan of the 4th century BC situated near Pokrova in the Dnipro oblast of Ukraine was excavated in 1971 by...
In rural Ukraine, an American rekindles a lost music tradition
Deep in rural Ukraine, a man from North Carolina has returned to his roots, moving to a village with a population of 500...
First known Scorched Earth method took place in the area of...
The Scorched earth Wikipedia page tells us that "the Scythians used scorched-earth methods against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, led by King Darius the Great, during his European Scythian campaign....
George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the...
George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...
Indo-Scythian King Kanishka and the First Crucible ‘Damascus Steel’ Sword
In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...
‘Clearly Europeoid’ Scythian Skull Found in Ukraine: Facial reconstruction by M....
Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...
Igor Sikorsky with his ‘Ilya Muromets’ plane in Kyiv in 1914
"Very few people had come to the field because our plane was not expected on that rainy morning. The Secretary of the Aeronautical Society...
Silver Finger-Ring from 12th century Kyiv in the British Museum
Finger-ring, Kyivan Rus' / Kyivan Rus', Ukraine, Street of the Three Saints | The British Museum Images Silver finger-ring; bezel a cast disc; nielloed foliate...

















