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Scythian Heraclean Bow: Stone Inscription of Archery Record Found in Ukraine
Ancient Flight-Archery Record Inscription In 1900, during excavations of ancient Pontic Olbia on the Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, archaeologists found a...
Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows
Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...
Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks
Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...
Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
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‘Poetic talent existed in my father’s Ukrainian family,’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s...
Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book 'Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter', originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...
Sword Hilts of Kyiv Rus: Ahead of Western Europe and Vikings...
"We have irrefutable evidence that at least the sword hilts were made in Rus cities. Regarding the peculiar hilts of the swords from...
Ukrainian Village Named The Hottest in the U.S. by the Redfin
It is "tranquil", - quotes the Chicagoist.com. "Just as typical Ukrainian spirit" - we would add
Treaty of Paris ending Crimean War was signed March 30, 1856....
Encyclopedia Britannica: Treaty of Paris, (1856), treaty signed on March 30, 1856, in Paris that ended the Crimean War. The treaty was signed between Russia on one side and France,...
Source of the centuries-long conflict and European wars: Ukraine-Russia Orthodox matter...
Quotes below are from "The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999" by Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing year should remove possible accusation...
Anatoly Dyatlov was pressured by Moscow to proceed with the Chornobyl...
In 2011, Fakty-Ukraine published an interview with Boris Gorbachev, a nuclear physicist from Kyiv. In it, he says the following: "I could not find...
Old Scythia of Herodotus. Where was it? How old could it...
"Old Scythia starts from the Ister and continues, facing the south and south wind, up to the city called Kerkinitis. From there, extending...
5th-Century Gold Fibulae Found in Austria in 1910: Made in Taurica/...
In January 1910, an ancient burial with gold jewellery was accidentally uncovered near the village of Untersiebenbrunn, to the north-east of Vienna, Austria. Unfortunately,...
Ukraine’s New Ballistic Rocket -GROM
It is Short-Range Ballistic Rocket (SRBM) GROM-2 (Thunder-2). Reported range - up to 280 km (to comply with the Missile Technology Control Regime, but can easily be increased to 500 km at...
Freestyle Skiing Jump that brought Olympic Gold to Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0XUWLIdp7o
Russian kids play
Someone dressed them up like that. Someone bought them the inventory - the toy gun. But where did they see an execution like that?...
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...