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Khokhol Crest Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase
Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...
Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian
Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...
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Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and...
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Steve Wozniak visits Kyiv. Says one of his 4 life long...
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Novgorod the Great was a ‘Ukrainian’ city founded by Kyiv a...
Per Wikipedia, Valentin Yanin (1929 - 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles whose expertise was especially Novgorod the Great, where he...
Death Match with Nazis, Three Best Players of the World, Top-10...
Dynamo Kiev is not just the best and most titled football team in the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe - the British Football Magazine 4-4-2 ranks...
Stalin re-established the Russian Orthodox Church in September 1943. Why?
After the Bolshevik Coup of 1917, the Russian Orthodox church was forbidden and many cathedrals were ruined. But for some reason, almost a quarter...
Ukrainian Chumaks, Ox-Wagon Drivers, in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings
Future world-renowned outstanding marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) (1817-1900) was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. But Aivazovsky's...
Stalin planned to deport ALL Ukrainians to Siberia after WW2, Khrushchev...
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Valery Khodemchuk: the first victim of Chornobyl disaster and for whom...
Valery Khodemchuk was born on 24 March 1951 in the village of Kropyvnia which is almost exactly halfway between Kyiv and Chornobyl. With the...
Igor Sikorsky with his ‘Ilya Muromets’ plane in Kyiv in 1914
"Very few people had come to the field because our plane was not expected on that rainy morning. The Secretary of the Aeronautical Society...
John Steinbeck describes post-WW2 Ukraine. (1947 Kyiv trip)
Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to the Soviet Union...
‘Ukrainian’ Bohachevsky Function, Apollo-11 Moon Landing and Return to Orbit
One of the most popular posts on Reddit recently with over 50,000 likes was the one in the 'Today I Learned' section with the...