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In 1860, Russians constituted in Kyiv region – 1%, in Kharkiv...
Theodore de Pauly, a member of the newly founded Imperial Russian Geographical Society (founded 1845), was the latest in a line of ethnographers, seeking...
Amazons Female Warriors Burials in Scythia [present-day Ukraine]
Dr. Olena E. Fialko of Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in her recently published work "Scythian Female Warriors in...
Kyiv Rus were Hyperborean Tauro-Scythians, – 12th-century Byzantine historian Niketas Choniates
Niketas Choniates was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning...
Mysterious inscription of the 10th century Rus. Possible similarity with Phoenician...
Ibn al-Nadim (died 995) was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer of Baghdad who compiled the encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist (The Book Catalogue). His work contains an interesting passage on the Rus in a...
‘Russia’ has the same relation to Kyiv Rus as the Guinea...
According to Wikipedia, "despite their common name, guinea pigs are not native to Guinea, nor are they closely related biologically to pigs, and the...
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St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Solokha Royal Scythian Kurgan
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Ukrainian Bandura: Soul of the Nation
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Voltaire – ‘Ukraine always aspired to Liberty’, Prince of Ukraine Mazeppa,...
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Water ice in the Korolev crater on Mars
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Oguz Scythian Royal Kurgan: Second Largest in Ukraine
With 20m in height, Oguz was the second-largest Scythian barrow situated in the lower Dnieper area. Alexandropol Kurgan was the first with 24m, Chertomlyk...