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...
Ukraine disrupts the Russian church’s imperial vision – Eurasianet
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko scoffed at Putin’s claim. “Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv baptized not Russia, but Ukraine,” Poroshenko said on the eve of the...
John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm
"We moved on to a flowered meadow where there were hundreds of beehives, and a little tent where the beekeeper lived. The air was...
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...
Jim Morrison in Ukrainian embroidery shirt presented to him by Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942) and Julia (née Zavacká, 1892–1972), whose first child was born in their homeland and died...
Scythian Couple locked in loving embrace for 3,000 years found in burial in...
The burial of the Scythian pair, husband and wife was found in the Ternopil region in Ukraine. It dates to circa 1,000 B.C. Professor...
Bohdan Khmelnitsky’s Army and Cossack Government described by Paul of Aleppo in 1654
"Now these accounts of Akhmil and the Cossacks, which we have so distinctly commemorated, were collected with the utmost care; and noted by me...
10 Ukrainian Castles
"From the 13th century, the territory was widely contested and fought over between Lithuania, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. A Cossack...
In August of 1937, Moscow demolished 12th-century St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, but...
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...
