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USA got an opportunity to purchase Alaska only because of Russia’s...
Alaska Purchase Wikipedia page tells that "having faced a catastrophic defeat in the Crimean War, Moscow began exploring the possibility of selling the state's Alaskan...
Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: A Pendant Earring
"Cradle of Civilizations" book has rare images of a similar set from a famous barrow near the Azov Sea. < PREVIOUS
St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv was created in the 11th century...
"Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kyiv's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the 'new Constantinople', capital of the Christian principality of Kyiv, which was created...
The Sea Peoples: Birds Followers?
In that short passage in the Iliad about the cranes flying from winter plains to the pigmies in the south there is so much...
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...
American humanitarian aid during Russian Famine of 1891‒92
In 1892, a prominent maritime painter of Armenian descent born in Crimea, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), made a gift to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington,...
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Around One million Russians fought for the German Nazis during WW2
Russian Liberation Army known as the Vlasov Army was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II. Since January 1945, the army...
Leo Tolstoy on how Russia tried to subdue the Caucasus. Quote.
"Sado, taking a pick-axe and spade, had gone with his relatives to dig a grave for his son. The old grandfather sat by the...
The Crimean War of 1854: Russia’s backwardness exposed, War gamble ends...
Professor of History at the University of London Orlando Figes in his book Crimea: The Last Crusade described the consequences of the Crimean War...
“Baida” in Ukrainian means…
"Baida" in Ukrainian means an easy-going, somewhat mischevious person. There are several Ukrainian folk songs devoted to baida. Like this one for xample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkcDElc8Nk&ab_channel=TarasZhytynsky And...
Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan....
The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...
Cromlech/ Stone Circle inside Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan
A cromlech is a megalithic circle made of large stones arranged vertically, often around a tomb or place of worship. (Stonehenge is the most famous example...
Yin-Yang symbol was created in more northern area than China?
The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...
Sanskrit is a branch of Ukrainian Language, – Polish linguist Krasusky...
The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the link...
Impromptu feeders for pets in Ukrainian ruined cities
Volunteers place impromptu feeders for pets in the destroyed blocks so cats and dogs don't starve to death
Unique burial of young Amazon female warrior in Kherson region of...
3 - Bronze mirror with iron handle; 4 - Wooden grinder; 5 - iron clasp; 6 - stones for sling; 7 - stone plate; 8 - iron knife with bone handle; 9 - iron handles; 10 - spike of an iron javelin; 11 - spike of an iron spear.
Vsevolod the Bui-Tur/ Fierce Bull, a main character of The Tale...
Vsevolod Sviatoslavych (Bui-Tur), (died 1196) was a Kyiv Rus’ prince. He took part in numerous battles against the Cumans, including the campaigns led by his brother, Igor Sviatoslavych,...
Ukrainian Cossacks, their Black Sea naval raids on Chaika long-boats in...
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of...