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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,...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk

OTD in 1999, the OSCE conference took place in Istanbul. Russia promised to remove its troops from Moldova & Georgia by end of 2002....

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Herodotus gave the most detailed description of Scythia in his work written about 480–420 BC. Most likely, the Greek historian made a visit to...

New Mexico Museum of Space History: "Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk (1897-1942). Born as Aleksandr Shargei, he took a new name to avoid persecution during the...

Ukrainian plane delivered a Boeing 777 engine from Zurich to Canadian Iqaluit where the Boeing was stuck with 233 passengers travelling to Los Angeles.  With the temperature being -30C, many specialists say...

The unique features of S-300V1 air defense system consist in that is the world’s only truly mobile Anti Ballistic Missile system. The S-300V...

The Amphora was found in 1863 in an impressive kurgan in the vicinity of Nikopol city in Ukraine and instantly taken to Hermitage. The...

Cicero: "Could the Scythian Anacharsis disregard money, and shall not our philosophers be able to do so? We are informed of an epistle of...

It's Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy this time with the book "The Gates of Europe: The History of Ukraine"   ("An indispensable guide to tragic history" - The Telegraph...

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...

The vessel has two hunting scenes in relief. In the first scene, two horseriders hunt a lion. The left horserider is shooting a bow,...