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Face of Original Iran ruler: Colossal statue of Sassanian King Shapur...
Per Wikipedia, the term Iran was first attested in a 3rd-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam. The inscription where the term Iran is mentioned for...
The World’s First Kidney Transplant by Ukrainian Dr. Yurii Voronyi in...
Yurii Voronyi (1895-1961) was the first doctor in the world to perform renal transplantation in the clinic. The operation was conducted in 1933 in...
Central WW2 Victory Parade should have always been held in Kyiv
In 1945, American war correspondent Edgar Snow visited Ukraine and wrote: “It was not until I went on a sobering journey into this twilight of...
FC Liverpool’s guide to Kiev for the Champions’ League Final
"With thousands of Liverpool supporters travelling to Kiev for the Champions League final against Real Madrid on Saturday, we've put together a handy guide...
Sport Illustrated’s 2018 Boxing Trainer of the Year: ‘Papachenko’
There’s one man who works with more fighters in the current wave of Eastern European boxing champions than any other. That’s Anatoliy Lomachenko,...
Cossack Mamai & Kobza-Bandura Music
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Muscovy-Russia on the map of the Mongolian Empire
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The ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ story describes Kyiv under Moscow’s occupation
The 'Fiddler on the Roof' can help one to get a sense of what it was like to live in the Pale of Settlement,...
Monuments to Igor Sikorsky in Kyiv opened by Mayor Vitaly Klitschko
Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and achieved world fame while still living in it. For example, he set the World Speed Record and...
Servile to superiors, haughty and cruel to their dependents – description...
The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire, when dismissed by...
Ditches around Scythian Kurgans
Famous Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky who excavated Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan and found the famous Golden Pectoral in it held the view that the ditches...
Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 113 km/h on...
In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "For my future work, I had to use experimental data obtained from the...
Russia is like a bloated toad ready to explode
A training center in Tambov, Russia, hung a banner showing a 'Russian empire' that included all of central and eastern Europe, a re-divided Germany,...
Ivan Puluj and long hair of one of his female students
One of Puluj's students, Katherine Stozitska, after asking permission from her parents, cut her very long hair that was almost touching the ground and...
Ukrainian language is likely the closest to original Proto-Indo-European language
British philologist William Jones in early 1786 voiced his famous "Phililoger Passage" which is considered the beginning of Indo-European studies. Here is what Jones...
Tauroscythian King Scilurus, founder of Scythian Neapolis in Taurica/Crimea: Facial reconstruction...
A powerful Scythian Kingdom existed in Northern Crimea/Taurica in the 2nd century BC. Its capital was Scythian Neapolis, near the modern city of Simferopol.Archaeological...
How Tzar of Moscovy Peter I displayed his barbarism in London
In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...
Ukrainian Folk-Dance Solo on a Canadian TV Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMZKyfuKtY