John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...
Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian ones. It constructed...
In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The pieces of pottery...
Ukrainian Bandura: Soul of the Nation
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...
St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv was created in the 11th century to rival Hagia...
"Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kyiv's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the 'new Constantinople', capital of the Christian principality of Kyiv, which was created...
Yin-Yang symbol originated in the area of present-day Ukraine
The earliest known depiction of Yin-Yang symbol belongs to the Trypillia culture and dates to 5200 B.C. The oldest preserved drawing of this symbol...
Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj
As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...
Ukraine celebrates anniversary of Kyiv Rus Christianization
New perspective on Volodymir's ancestry and why he chose to be baptized in one of the most dangerous places for him, - Tauric Chersonesus...
Historic Event – Holy Synod proceeds to the granting of Autocephaly to the Church...
4) To revoke the legal binding of the Synodal Letter of the year 1686, issued for the circumstances of that time, which granted the...
Ukrainian Premium Dish
The full story behind John Steinbeck's quote can be read here. Why borscht is a Ukrainian meal and not Russian is explained here. Borscht...
