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...
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...
Marble sarcophagus of King of Kyiv Rus Yaroslav the Wise and his wife Queen...
Weighing 6 tons, it is located at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yaroslav the Wise married Ingegerd Olofsdotter, daughter of Olof Skötkonung, the king of Sweden...
Bees’ survival is crucial for humankind. This single invention by Ukrainian P. Prokopovych started...
"We all depend on the survival of bees,” – states the United Nations explaining the reason for designating May 20 as World’s Bee Day....
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...
Largest open-air museum in Europe
At the outskirt of Kyiv there is a unique Pyrohiv National Museum of Ukrainian Architecture & Culture which has examples of typical Ukrainian rural dwellings from...
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...
Best hikes in the world: Ukraine’s Carpatian mountains, – WiredForAdventure
"Stretching from central to eastern Europe and measuring a whopping 932 miles long, the Carpathian Mountain range is the second longest mountain chain on...
Lviv: The Hidden Coffee Capital – FINANCIAL TIMES
https://life.ft.com/videos/lviv/
Kyiv in unique old photos of New York Public Library
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