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Ancient Lyubech in Ukraine: Ancestral home of Volodymyr the Great, Gateway...
Lyubech is currently a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located 200 kilometers north of Kyiv, and near the border with...
He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’...
Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...
Pereyaslavl, Volodymyr Monomakh’s native city: His decisive battles against Polovtsians
Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...
Pereyaslavl, Kyiv Rus’ Forpost Against Asiatic Nomads: Volodymyr the Great’s fortresses...
M. P. Kuchera (1922-1999) was a Ukrainian archaeologist of Czech origin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, and Leading...
Kyiv controlled the Kerch Strait in 11th century AD: Stone of...
Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
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Chornobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure...
Lelechenko is a beautiful Ukrainian last name because it derives from the Ukrainian word leleka which in English means stork. Unfortunately, many popular accounts of the Chornobyl...
Almost Antique Locomotive Operating in Ukraine
Fun to watch 66-year old train in such good shape and at such a speed!
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
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Targitaos-Heracles, ‘Ukrainian’ forefather of Scythian Nation
"According to the Scythians, theirs is the youngest of all nations, and it came into existence in the following way. The first man born...
Hague International Court names Russian Federation as aggressor and occupant in...
88. In 2016, the Office made public its assessment that the situation within the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol would amount to an international armed conflict...
World-famous painter Ilya Repin portrayed two nations – Ukrainians above, Russians...
The painter is Ukrainian (now officailly according to MetMuseum) Ilya Repin. The upper painting is the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Turkish Sultan,...
Grasshoppers on Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla
The ends of the lower zone of the Pectoral terminate in the hounds coursing hares and grasshoppers confronting each other. Already Boris Mozolevsky, the...
Anna Muzychuck, Ukrainian Chess Grandmaster, chose to lose her Two Titles...
Anna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been...
Proto-Indo-European homeland was in what is today Ukraine, – American Professor
"I believe with many others that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was located in the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas in what is...
Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival
Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...
‘Chernobyl’ miniseries got many things wrong, – Petro Shavrey
"At first, I thought it would be a documentary. I was asked to express my opinion after I watched that film. I watched it...
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...