Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in 1654
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
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...
Ukrainian who created the best jet engines in the world: Arkhyp Lyulka was born...
In 1926, a young man from the Kyiv region entered Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The man's first name was Arkhyp, and his last name was...
Pablo Picasso in Ukrainian Embroidery Shirt/ Vyshyvanka
His first wife who was Ukrainian presented it to him. See other famous people in this traditional Ukrainian attire >
In Ukraine, These Stunning Floral Crowns Are In Style
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/ukraine/articles/in-ukraine-these-stunning-floral-crowns-are-in-style/
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
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...
Putin suffers Crimea blowback with Orthodox church schizm – Financial Times
When Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrated the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he claimed the disputed peninsula was “spiritually” inseparable from...
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...
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...














