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Most unusual and possibly most ancient Scythian barrow near Kyiv: Perepyatykh...
E. Minns in the "Scythians and Greeks" book published in 1913: "An isolated example recalling this type is the barrow called Perepjatikha, in the...
Historic Event – Holy Synod proceeds to the granting of Autocephaly...
4) To revoke the legal binding of the Synodal Letter of the year 1686, issued for the circumstances of that time, which granted the...
Ivan Kozhedub, a Ukrainian, was the highest scoring Allied and Soviet...
Unfortunately, after World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during Soviet operations in...
Map of Ukraine of 1650 by French cartographer Beauplan
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French army engineer, architect, and cartographer. From 1630 to 1648 he was a captain in...
Lennox Lewis jokes in Kiev
"This guy must be pretty important to have bodyguards like this! - writes he on his FB page
Jack Palance, Oscar-winning Ukrainian-American cowboy was born Feb. 18, 1919
Jack Palance born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor of Ukrainian descent. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best...
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Women fought in the ranks of Sviatoslav the Brave’s army in...
John Skylitzes, a Byzantine historian of the 11th century described a notable event that took place on Bulgarian soil several decades before he was...
Unique Royal Hat of a Rus ruler from a barrow near...
The hat was discovered in 1877 by archaeologist Samokvasov in the same barrow as the shirt mentioned in the previous article. The hat is...
In 1905, Russia signed Truce with Japan only after several devastating...
On Feb. 6, 2025, during an exclusive interview with the New York Post US Special envoy to Ukraine General Kellog said the following: “You...
Ukraine reactivates unique S-300V1 strategic air defence system
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...
Catherine II brought German Mennonites to Ukraine. A century later they...
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the excommunicated Roman Catholic chaplain Menno Simons (1496–1561) from Friesland, part of the Holy Roman...
Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
Scythian golden gorytos found in Ukraine with the scenes of the...
The gorytos (bow-and-arrow holder) discovered in one of Scythian Royal Kurgans in Ukraine puzzled the scholars who analyzed it. Because although it dates to...
Sevastopol – the city of Ukrainian Valor: Crimean War of 1854
Both Russian historical science and propaganda present the slogan “Sevastopol is the city of Russian glory” as an undeniable truth. They linked it, first...
Georgy Voronoi: founder of the geometric theory of numbers, creator of...
Vorony, Heorhii b 28 April 1868 in Zhuravka, Pyriatyn county, Poltava gubernia, d 20 November 1908 in Warsaw. Mathematician; corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences from...
German-Soviet Joint Military Parade in Brest-Litovsk in 1939: Symbolic truce after...
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: "......
Voltaire depicted Muscovies-Russians of his time: born the slaves of masters...
Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire's best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken...
Almost Antique Locomotive Operating in Ukraine
Fun to watch 66-year old train in such good shape and at such a speed!