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Lyubech is currently a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located 200 kilometers north of Kyiv, and near the border with...

Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...

Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...

M. P. Kuchera (1922-1999) was a Ukrainian archaeologist of Czech origin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, and Leading...

Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...

Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...

In his book of wartime memoirs Eisenhower: Crusade in Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower recollects his conversation with Marshal Zhukov, which shocked him: “During our hours on...

Located in the Ukrainian forest steppe, the Bilsk archaeological complex is the largest archaeological site in the region, covering an area of about 5000...

Igor Sikorsky  was born in Kyiv and before immigrating to the United States and founding Sikorsky Aicraft Corporation there,  became famous by building world’s first four-engine...

Ancient nomads known as the Scythians did indeed use human skin for the containers that held their arrows—confirming the account of the ancient Greek...

Per Wikipedia, Anti-Normanism theory postulates that the people of Kyiv Rus emerged solely from autochthonous Slavic political development (known as the 'anti-Normanist theory'). Surprisingly, among the proponents...

Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to the Soviet Union...

Chunks of tender beets swim in brilliant red broth for a soup that's beloved in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe. Often topped with a...

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Napoleon's Letter to Alexander I of Russia: "Monsieur, my brother: Having been informed that the brother of your Imperial Majesty's Minister at Cassel was in...

"KIEV, Ukraine — Through years of political upheaval and economic turmoil, Ukraine’s capital city, Kiev, has remained a vibrant, engaging place to visit. For...

Katheryn Winnick - born in Etobicoke, Ontario, and is of Ukrainian descent. She spoke Ukrainian as her first language and did not begin speaking English until she was eight years old. She began...

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...