Igor Sikorsky with his ‘Ilya Muromets’ plane in Kyiv in 1914

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"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 vs. Moscow a millennium ago

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"Gardariki, Ukraine" ebook shows how Moscow falsified historic documents, including Moscow founding by Yury Dolgoruky (the event that never happened), to steal Kyiv's legacy.

Kyiv Was Powerful Capital City in the 9th Century Already: Vikings came to serve...

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Soviet renowned Academician Borys Rybakov in his groundbreaking monograph the Handicrafts of Ancient Rus (1948), demonstrated the economic superiority of Kyiv Rus to contemporary...

Divine Origin of Kyiv Rus First Rulers: Descendants of Slavic God Dazhbog in The...

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“At the Kazan Archaeological Congress of 1877, one scholar, although not an unconditional supporter of the Norman theory, expressed, among other things, two objections...

Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival

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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’...

Monument to legendary founders of Kyiv

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"... There were three brothers, Kyi, Shchek, and Khoriv, and their sister was named Lybid. Kyi lived upon the hill where the Borichev trail...

Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...

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Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...

Kyiv Rus was Slavic, not Scandinavian by Origin: Anti-Normanists’ arguments

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Per Wikipedia, Anti-Normanism theory postulates that the people of Kyiv Rus emerged solely from autochthonous Slavic political development (known as the 'anti-Normanist theory'). Surprisingly, among the proponents...

Kyiv Radial Fibulae: Made by Rus people, not Goths

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Fibulae is a brooch or pin for fastening garments, typically at the right shoulder. The fibula developed in a variety of shapes... Unlike most...

Chornobyl firefighters at Kyiv clinic with their doctors

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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...