Kyiv Elite Warrior on 12th-century Fresco from St. Cyril’s Church: Possibly Vsevolod II Olgovich...

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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

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“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,...

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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...

Ukraine’s Pripyat River Is Like A Work of Art From Space

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American astronaut Tim Kopra while orbiting Earth as part of an expedition in 2016, made a picture of this amazingly beautiful image of Ukraine’s...

Why you should skip Paris and visit Kyiv, – Forbes

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..if you want to visit a city with great architecture, magnificent churches, bustling markets and charming cobblestone streets with significantly fewer tourists, you...

Kyiv among 10 of the world’s best city views, – Guardian

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Pastel-hued St Andrew’s Church, at the top of a steep hill in the historic Podil district of Kyiv, has wonderful baroque architecture. But what really...

55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]

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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...

Kyiv is the greenest capital city of Europe

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"Using a method that processes satellite imagery and detects pixel types, Gärtner has generated the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for 43 of Europe’s...

Go west to Lviv, visitor to Ukraine, – The Washington Post

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This quaint city (pronounced Liv-eev in Ukrainian) looks like an old-school European destination, complete with cobblestone streets, classical music festivals and its wild...