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Kyiv’s Museum of Microminiatures: The Biggest Collection of Tiny Things, – The Daily Beast

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"Hidden inside a Kiev religious complex lies the mind-blowing Museum of Microminiatures, which holds ships carved out of gold, books of poetry, and tiny...

Toughest Open-Air Gym in Europe

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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

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"The problem with this statement is that Ancient Rus was centred in Kyiv (Kiev in Russian), now the capital of Ukraine. Over the...

Duga-3 Over-the-Horizon Monster Radar near Chornobyl. The Russian Woodpecker

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"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...

Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian ones. It constructed...

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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...

Marble sarcophagus of King of Kyiv Rus Yaroslav the Wise and his wife Queen...

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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...

“Tunnel of Love” originally was used to conceal the transport of military hardware –...

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In the centuries-old city of Klevan, Ukraine, a railroad track cuts through the trees shaping a tunnel, appropriately named the Tunnel of Love...

Bees’ survival is crucial for humankind. This single invention by Ukrainian P. Prokopovych started...

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"We all depend on the survival of bees,” – states the United Nations explaining the reason for designating May 20 as World’s Bee Day....

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...