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Dnieper River in the 5th century B.C. Description by Herodotus
The fourth river is the Borysthenes, which is the largest after the Ister , and in our opinion the most productive, not only of...
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...
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...
Name ‘Iran’ came to Near East from Europe together with Aryan...
According to Wikipedia, the term Iran derives from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a third-century A.D. inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam, with the accompanying...
Statue of Young Kanishka, King of Kushan Empire, Patron of Gandharan...
“If this child stays in the world, he will become a great all-wheeled king in the future, and if he goes home, he will...
Ukrainian Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison...
The man who would open space to humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 (30 Dec 1906 old calendar), in Zhitomir,...
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Term “Little Russia” and the beginning of occupation of Ukraine (Quotes...
Just last week a Ukrainian historian and politician stated that it has come a time to name the time after the October Revolution when...
How Moscow Became Capital in 1327 and what the Golden Horde...
Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book published almost 50 years ago, the way Moscow...
Scythians making human leather of their enemies described by Herodotus has...
Ancient nomads known as the Scythians did indeed use human skin for the containers that held their arrows—confirming the account of the ancient Greek...
Gold Decorations of Horse’s Harness from Alexandropol Royal Kurgan
According to archaeologists, at least 14 horse burials were discovered intact in Alexandropol Royal Kurgan. Near the central chamber, a fully harnessed horse was...
Voltaire described the effect of Muscovite Orthodox religion: Encouragement to Wickedness
Philip II of Moscow (1507 - 1569) Russian Orthodox monk, who became Metropolitan of Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He was one of a few Metropolitans who dared openly to contradict royal authority, and it is widely believed that the Tsar had him murdered on that account.
Trypillia Megasites: The first cities of humanity were not in Mesopotamia,...
6,000 years ago, people in the Eastern European forest-steppe built planned settlements with houses in concentric rings. Archaeologists argue about whether an egalitarian social...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...
‘Amazon in Battle’ scene on golden scabbard from Chertomlyk Royal Barrow...
The sheath was first described for international audience in the "Scythians and Greeks" book by E. Minns published in 1913. Below is a drawing...
Panteleimon Kulish, a 19th-century writer at the forefront of Ukrainian national...
Panteleimon Kulish’s 200th Birthday Doodle: "Today’s Doodle celebrates the renowned Ukrainian writer, historian, and translator Pateleimon Kulish, born on this day in 1819. Through...
Priestess in Golden Tiara with Maenads from Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan in...
"In the northern part into which the passage led lay a narrow board 2m. long with a hole to hold the bottom of the...
Ungrateful Russians forget how many times Americans saved them: Russian Povolzhye...
In The Russian Job, Douglas Smith’s account of the American Relief Administration’s effort to alleviate the catastrophic famine that afflicted Russia from 1921-23, Smith tells...
Movie about legendary Ukrainian-Canadian goalkeeper
His last name in Ukraine is pronounced as Savchouk (second vowel as in "hook" - ). His true first name was Taras. To the hockey world...