Toughest Open-Air Gym in Europe
It is situated right in the center of Kyiv, on the island amidst Dnieper river which divides Kyiv on two almost equal parts - "left bank Kyiv" and "right...
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...
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...
Kyiv Elite Warrior on 12th-century Fresco from St. Cyril’s Church: Possibly Vsevolod II Olgovich...
According to Wikipedia, St. Cyril’s Church was founded in 1140 by Vsevolod Olgovich, the Kniaz' (prince) of Chernigiv, in the Dorohozhychi neighbourhood of Kyiv...
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...
Honoré de Balzac in Ukraine: the Kingdom of Wheat, the Prairies of Fennimore Cooper,...
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a well-known French writer who produced an enormous number of novels and short stories depicting the French society of...
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...
“Tunnel of Love” originally was used to conceal the transport of military hardware –...
In the centuries-old city of Klevan, Ukraine, a railroad track cuts through the trees shaping a tunnel, appropriately named the Tunnel of Love...
Why you should skip Paris and visit Kyiv, – Forbes
..if you want to visit a city with great architecture, magnificent churches, bustling markets and charming cobblestone streets with significantly fewer tourists, you...
