ukraine history
Germany finally left Ukraine in late November 1944; Ukraine’s seven million soldiers, industry, and strategic territory were crucial for the anti-Nazi coalition’s ultimate victory.
A complex DNA test reveals Trypillian genes still present in Ukrainians today – a powerful link connecting modern identity with ancient heritage and national history
In 2025, after five-year hiatus, the Kazimir Malevich Award for Ukrainian artists returns. This was announced to UP Culture by the Polish Institute in Kyiv, which is the organizer of the award. The organizers noted that this year’s award returns in a new format – a Council of Laureates has been created. It consists of previous award winners. This decision […]
Have you ever wondered: how did it happen that in a country with some of the most fertile land in the world, people are merely surviving, not living? I can feel it in my skin – someone out there hates us… Yrii Kischuk revelas. Why is a Ukrainian mother afraid to give birth, a Ukrainian grandfather living out his days […]
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law recognizing Ukrainians who were forcibly resettled from Poland between 1944 and 1951 as deportees. According to grunt.media, it concerns Ukrainians who were resettled from Lemkivshchyna, Nadsiannia, Liubachivshchyna, Kholmshchyna, Pidlyashshia, and Western Boykivshchyna to the USSR as part of the so-called population exchange between the Ukrainian SSR and the Polish People’s Republic. Now, […]
The history of Ukraine’s fundamental law dates back to the Cossack era. On Saturday, June 28, Ukraine celebrates Constitution Day. For the fourth year in a row, our country marks this holiday under martial law, imposed due to the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation. The Constitution of Ukraine is the foundation of the legal system and a guarantor of […]
Archaeologists have excavated the Opishlyanka burial mound, with the findings dated to the 6th–5th centuries BCE, Uspih in UA informs. The discoveries were announced by researchers from the Bilsk Historical and Cultural Reserve, according to zmist.pl.ua. The Opishlyanka mound is located near the village of Derevky in the Kotelva community. It had previously been explored by Ivan Zaretsky in the late 19th […]
In Kyiv, you can see a unique engraving dedicated to Ivan Mazepa, created in 1705. It is a complex symbolic composition with the Cossack leader himself as the central figure. This was reported by the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.” At the exhibition “Mazepa. The Strategy of a European Ukraine,” currently on display at the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra,” visitors can […]
On June 4, 1863, in the village of Sholudky in the Podolia Governorate, the renowned architect of Polish descent, known as the “Kyiv Gaudí,” Vladyslav Horodetskyi was born, Diaspora.ua reminds us. He is best known as the creator of unique architectural landmarks that have become symbols of Kyiv — the House with Chimaeras, St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral (the National […]
In the 9th–10th centuries, Kyiv became the capital of a powerful state — Rus. It would seem this is the beginning of Ukraine’s statehood. Official history claims that before that, there were only tribes here. Disunited, wild, unsettled. But this is not true. Or at least – it’s an incomplete truth. Because even a millennium before Kievan Rus’, states existed […]
The building located at 7 Kontraktova Square is officially considered the oldest residential building in Kyiv. To clarify — it is the oldest residential building that still serves its original purpose: housing. It was constructed in 1798 with funds from nobleman Leontiy Vyshnevsky (his father, Fedir, was the one who brought Oleksii Rozumovsky to the capital of the empire). Just […]
Muscovy takes the name “Rus,” but it never had what the true Rus possessed. In Kyiv, European kings were recepted, while in Moscow, they waited for a charter from the Khan. The daughters of our princes became queens of Europe: Anna Yaroslavna — Queen of France. Elizabeth — Queen of Norway and Denmark. Anastasia — Queen of Hungary. Agatha — […]