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...
Re-Imagining Galicia | Metropole
A center of eastern European culture, it was established as a crown land by the Habsburgs in 1772, combining parts of western Ukraine...
Who really owns borsch – BBC
"The problem with this statement is that Ancient Rus was centred in Kyiv (Kiev in Russian), now the capital of Ukraine. Over the...
Largest Aviation Museum in Eastern Europe
CNN ranked it as # 6 in the WORLD actually. Ahead are only Aviation museums in France (1), UK (1) and the USA (3). "This museum houses one of the world's...
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...
55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]
https://youtu.be/A7szL7wiBuY Discovery On June 21, 1971, while working inside the Scythian Kurgan, the head of the expedition, Borys Mozolevsky, began clearing the dromos, where a large...
Tunnel of Love, Ukraine
Just outside the city of Klevan in the Rivne oblast in Western Ukraine, a nearly two-mile stretch of private railway has turned the surrounding...
Zaporozhian Rapids were flooded by the Hydroelectric Station projected by the American engineers
The DniproHES project used the experience gained from the construction of the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations at Niagara Falls, Ontario, the Hydroelectric...
Duga-3 Over-the-Horizon Monster Radar near Chornobyl. The Russian Woodpecker
"you are in the middle of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and your tour guide asks, with just a hint of guile, if you would like...
Battle Axes of Kyiv Rus: Nearly perfect efficiency ahead of time
“Ancient Rus’ blacksmiths of the 10th-13th centuries fully mastered all the basic technical techniques of iron processing and determined the technical level of village...
