‘Poetic talent existed in my father’s Ukrainian family,’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s daughter. Lithuanian-Ukrainian roots...
Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book 'Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter', originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...
10th-century Rus’ Helmet from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Assyrian prototype?
“The "Gifts of the East," which appeared in large quantities in the Rus’ regions in the 7th and 8th centuries, are not limited to...
Giant abandoned space-age saucer: Kiev Bus Garage Number 7 – CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-abandoned-space-age-saucer
Igor Sikorsky assembled his first helicopters while still a student in his native Kyiv
In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries 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...
Kyiv Was Powerful Capital City in the 9th Century Already: Vikings came to serve...
Soviet renowned Academician Borys Rybakov in his groundbreaking monograph the Handicrafts of Ancient Rus (1948), demonstrated the economic superiority of Kyiv Rus to contemporary...
Ukraine Vyshyvanka/ Embroidery Shirt Day
In 2020, Google created a Doodle honoring the Ukrainian embroidered shirt in commemoration of International Vyshyvanka Day: "Held each year on the third Thursday of May, this...
Kyiv ‘bore the Crown of Empire’ in the times of Vladimir the Great, –...
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...
Kyiv in Snow
Learn of the new facts about Kyiv in Medieval history of Europe in the "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book. For example, how did the Vikings call...
Chornobyl firefighters at Kyiv clinic with their doctors
Yurii Shcherbak's first major literary work 'Chernobyl' was published in the USSR in 1986 already. Starting the following year, it was translated into many...
