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Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages ​​(some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...

Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...

Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...

The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...

"We have irrefutable evidence that at least the sword hilts were made in Rus cities. Regarding the peculiar hilts of the swords from...

“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...

Sack of Baturyn was a seizure of Baturyn fortress during the Great Northern War (1700–1721), by Russian troops under the command of Alexander Menshikov. They captured and...

At Yalta resort in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of post-war Europe. Roosevelt misread Stalin—and proved...

Famous Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky who excavated Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan and found the famous Golden Pectoral in it held the view that the ditches...

"At first, I thought it would be a documentary. I was asked to express my opinion after I watched that film. I watched it...

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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...

National music instrument may tell a lot about the nation itself. About its soul expressed in melody of its songs for example. And it is...

"There was one more important test flight as well as demonstration left to be accomplished, namely a long journey across the country. Until then...

Philip II of Moscow (1507 - 1569) Russian Orthodox monk, who became Metropolitan of Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He was one of a few Metropolitans who dared openly to contradict royal authority, and it is widely believed that the Tsar had him murdered on that account.

Two years ago, in 2021, Google devoted a Doodle to the 150th anniversary of the world-famous wrestler Ivan Piddubny. The text of it is:...

 "April 22, 2003. Secret KGB archives released in Ukraine show that there were problems with the Chornobyl nuclear plant before the 1986 explosion -...

-  Antonov An-2 recently has been included in the Guiness Book of Records as the only plane that's been in production for 70 years!! Unfortunately, some countries like North...